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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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We’re still piloting our free ePortfolio system, but I thought you might like to see some of the work students are doing on it at the moment. These three examples, each from a different school, make great illustrations of the range of possibilities in the system. They are produced by students of different attainment levels,…
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When I decided last August to stop charging for Yacapaca, I knew I was taking a big risk. It was already making a good income and growing strongly, but I wanted the growth rate to speed up, and this seemed the best way to do it. I reasoned that as a school starts to use…
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In a comment on my previous baby post I jokingly promised that we’d ramp up production. Little did I know…not only have we ramped it up; we’ve even outsourced some to Ukraine! I am therefore delighted to celebrate the arrival of Maria Skokova (top in photo). Igor, her father, built the Yacapaca ePortfolio pilot which…
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Around the end of last term I came across Mike Highfield’s excellent SPB Helper for DiDA (here’s his demo). I was so impressed with the quality of Mike’s screencasts that I immediately approached him to produce a short series of screencasts explaining Yacapaca. The original plan was that these would simply be freebies would help…
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It’s true, Chalkface also makes babies. OK, it’s not true. Chalkface-associated people do though. And here are two to prove it. Organisational genius Sonia’s daugher Mollie-Rae, and top Yacapaca author Mark Bedding’s son Joshua. Photos attached. Click to enlarge
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