Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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I’ve said before how impressed I am with Edublogs. Perhaps I should have been a little less fulsome because James called me to put my money where my mouth is when he outgrew his old server. The result of that conversation is that Chalkface is now the proud sponsor of Edublogs. James has slightly jumped…
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When we first introduced the Avatar template in Yacapaca, we only had one avatar, Bobo. Since then, he’s been joined by 14 friends – some human, some not, some … indeterminate. Bobo, having a head start, was the most popular – until yesterday. Now we have a new number one! It can be exclusively revealed…
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In a previous career, I used to write quizzes for teenage magazines, so when Valentine’s day came around, I couldn’t resist doing an online one. It’s in the Freebies section if you’ve not already seen it. Miranda claims it’s trashy, and she’s probably right. But it’s fun. Writing for magazines, I never knew how my…
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Here are the Urban Dictionary’s definitions of “loved up”. For the record, I was unaware of the drug-use connotation when I wrote my last email. Exactly what I did mean, I leave to your imagination. Which, judging by the feedback to the email, is vivid. Click to enlarge
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Some very well-informed discussion of VLE issues going on over at Zacker’s blog at the moment. If you are trying to gen up on VLEs generally, read the comments on his Sakai vs. Moodle post. Never mind that it’s about Sakai, which is virtually unknown in the UK. What’s really useful in the debate is…