Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Twenty years ago, I decided to learn to touch type. Struggling with conventional classes, I looked for an alternative and discovered that the psychologist Robert Dilts had just invented a computer program that could teach me. No Google in those days; it was fortuitous that I already knew Robert, having trained under him. So I…
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I’ve found an absolutely wonderful multimedia company in Hubei (where the Three Gorges Dam is) to create avatars for Yacapaca. They are quick, accurate, and very, very technically competent. Seeking to turn cultural difference to advantage, I asked them to suggest an initial set of characters, and back came the complete cast of The Monkey…
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It was Ted who named our company, when he coined the term ‘Chalkface’ in his TES column in 1989. We felt that our values as publishers were closely aligned to his as an educator, and wanted to make that link visible. It stood us in good stead over the years. Thanks Ted, you will be…
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Alastair Wells is one of those guys you should stay away from if you want an easy life, but unfortunately he teaches just up the road from me at The Netherhall School which makes him pretty hard to avoid. He has this bad habit, you see, of telling you how wonderful [insert elearning product here]…
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37,000 students 100,000 assessments taken, marked, analysed, returned to their teacher. This really crept up on us – those numbers are not reported in our admin pages so I only found out because Sergej thought on to tell me. I’m gobsmacked, frankly. I hadn’t realised how fast it is growing. (Sorry for the bad quality…
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