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  • Good, bad and downright ugly ways to introduce VLEs into schools

    I hear many stories of how Digital Brain, Fronter, MS Class Server etc have been introduced into schools by the LEA or RBC, then after some initial training, left to rot. Why is this? A lot of thought, and money, has gone into making these systems suitable for school use. Surely they can’t be that…

  • Yacapaca slips past 2500 and I fail to notice

    Yacapaca passed the 2500 registered teachers mark mid-last week – in fact as I write we have 2681 teacher members. A quick sample of the data suggests that approx 75% are from UK secondary school, and that each school has an average of 1.5 teachers registered. That would indicate that 1340 UK Secondary Schools now…

  • Comments at last

    James was ribbing me a few weeks back, about not having comments on this blog. So….comments there are! But more than that. Nataly (who programs this site) has applied the same structure to the resource records in the main site, and extended the reviews section so that you can add your own review. There’s even…

  • Too cool for school

    How would you teach, if you had one of these?

  • Another Yacapaca milestone

    It wasn’t that long ago that we would celebrate in the Chalkface office if a real teacher had been on Yacapaca that day. It felt hugely validating that someone had wanted to use our litte system to run some tests with a class of perhaps 30 students. Recently it’s been a bit busier. A good…