Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Ten minutes ago we signed up our 500th teacher to Yacapaca. Assuming every signed-up teacher is in a UK secondary school, and only one teacher per school has subscribed, then we are 10% of the way to our target to be in every secondary school in the UK. Woohoo!
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We’re getting asked for eportfolios by early DiDA adopters. For those unfamiliar with the term, an eportfolio is an online repository of a student’s work. Eportfolios are the new new thing in elearning. There’s an eportfolio conference right here in Cambridge at the end of this month and I suppose I really ought to go,…
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I asked Mark Leighton, author of Online Assessment in ICT for feedback on our new ‘avatar’ template. He said: I like the colours and overall style, and I like the clock feature – it is somehow less imposing than a line symbol. Yes I think this is well adapted to KS3, although we must be…
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Ian Sands from St. Edmunds School in Portsmouth is both a customer for our Applied ICT GCSE online course and long-standing friend of Chalkface. Recently he asked us for a complete list of all sites linked to from within the course. There are hundreds, and it’s a list we actively maintain so it changes over…
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When you are writing portfolio work, there is one golden rule to remember: save your work every 10 minutes! When you are just typing into the computer, the school network does not know you are there. Neither does the Paperless School server. One or the other of them will log you out eventually. By saving…
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