Chalkface Blog
The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Fantastic chat with Andrew Field (he of SchoolHistory fame) last night. We’ve been corresponding for ages, but only just now got to speak. I am a huge admirer of SchoolHistory, and it was that more than anything that persuaded me that Yacapaca tests should be delivered in Flash. Andrew has not used Yacapaca before, so…
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Last year my Best Site of the Summer award went to Nobody Here. This year it’s the utterly addictive Flickr Colr Pickr.
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Are you convinced about podcasting? I’m not personally, but then I never was much of a radio listener either. How about video-casting (pleeeeease don’t call it ‘vodcasting’)? There are a couple of RSS aggregators for video now, and they are both free if you want to play. DTV (Mac only) FireANT (Mac/PC) I played with…
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Every newspaper editor knows the middle of August as “silly season” and I think we bloggers should follow suit. So without further ado I bring you Googlefight! If you really must have an educational excuse for playing, it’s this: Googlefight is a great tool for learning how to use advanced search terms. Compare, for example,…
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Quite by accident, last week I fell into re-reading William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer. I’d chanced across a pirate online edition of it on Project Cyberpunk and before I had time to make a conscious decision, was too far into it to escape before the end. I actually have a paper copy of it, but…
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