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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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I’m very happy today because for once I have an easy-to-explain new feature to introduce: self-set targets. The mechanism is very simple. Students set themselves a percentage target at the beginning of each test. At the end, the target is re-shown together with the result. The reward (in the example below, the avatar’s victory dance)…
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A lost-confirmation complaint prompted me to research how good different ISPs are at delivering email. I looked at the number of failed signups to Yacapaca, and compared them against successful signups. Here are the results for the big ISPs: AOL.com 33% Yahoo.co.uk 24% Hotmail.com 23% Tiscali.co.uk 20% Yahoo.com 17% BTinternet.com 17% Hotmail.co.uk 10% So, what’s…
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Just after half term I had great pleasure of visiting three schools in the South West. Ostensibly, I was escorting my colleague Victoria Yegorenkova during her induction training, but it was a great excuse to get in some classroom observation and meet several teachers I knew previously only by reputation. First up was Horndean TC.…
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Doing classroom observation last week (of which more later), I noticed that Year 11s fall into three groups: those who have have effective revision plans those who are revising, but are not doing so effectively those who are still in denial As it happens, my colleage Mike has been working on a resource aimed precisely…
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If you are one of the (many) teachers who has told us “Each student in my school has many teachers, but should only have one Yacapaca login”, then I have good news. Over Easter, we added just this feature. Here’s how it works. Suppose Mr. Smith wants to set assessments for a class who have…
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