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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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After much nagging from members, we’ve finally introduced messaging into Yacapaca. An unaticipated consequence is that my productivity has fallen almost to zero. Watching users’ posts tick in is hypnotically addictive. It doesn’t help that I can overview, list , sort and select them using the site admin tools. Info junkie that I am, I’m…
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Want a really easy lesson at the end of term? Fire up the data projector, whack the browser into full-screen mode and click here. Then sit back, and watch your whole class go into trance. By Krazydad
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Apple’s sexy new iPhone launches in America today, though it won’t be over here for some time. When I blogged its announcement in January, I drew a storm of (largely critical) commentary. That notwithstanding, I am now more convinced than ever that kids will get the point of a truly pocketable, always-connected computer. The price…
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So Gordon’s in post at long last, and we are all wondering what he is going to do to for education. So far, his grand contribution is to rename the DFES to DCSF. If everything he does is that inspired, we are in for reasonably quiet time. In fact, as I posted in January, we…
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Martin Molloy from St. Paul’s School in Milton Keynes has been authoring nice stuff for a while. Here’s his latest; a couple of nice little quizzes for assessing students’ knowledge of Flowol. Incidentally, quite a few people have authored Flowol resources in Yacapaca. If you have something you think merits inclusion in the public space…
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