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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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A well-known consultant* and I have been corresponding about the approaching train-wreck that is English schools’ generally panicked attempts to embrace VLEs ahead of the government deadline. He said: It occurred to me that Yacapaca could do a great VLE lookalike if you could upload (as SCORM compliant zips) into a Course structure… It is…
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Sketchcast has just launched, and in my view it is the most intuitive web tool for teachers ever created. It works just like a markerboard. You write or draw, and talk. It is all recorded and can be played back at any time. The service is still pretty basic, and I suspect it will take…
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It has been quite a chuffing weekend, numbers-wise. On Friday, Yacapaca hit the half-million member milestone. That’s up from 150,000 last September, and 10,000 the September before. Then this morning, a single assessment (the ICT Baselines) passed one million tests served. The actual numbers this evening are 1,016,037 tests completed by 165,559 students – just…
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I still hate podcasts, but I admit they are far more palatable when they are about my baby.
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I’ve given a talk a few times on the why of Yacapaca, but it seems a bit daft with all this technology at our disposal to go running round the country just to give a didactic presentation. So, today I finally got around to converting the ePortfolio I was using as a slideshow to a…
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