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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Three cheers to James for setting up Edublogs, completely free blogging for all those involved in education. Connoisseurs should note that it’s built with WordPress, one of the sweetest blogging semantic personal publishing (their words!) platforms around. James says http://edublogs.org is an totally unique project aimed at teachers, researchers, writers and educators the world over.…
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With more schools thinking of installing VLEs next year, it is instructive to look at the experience of the HE sector. They are about three years ahead of us, and starting to see the cracks… Is the brave new world of e-learning envisaged pre-dotcom / UKEU collapse now in danger of degrading into a prosaic…
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In the wake of the recent London bombings, the ICE idea was widely circulated by email ICE stands for In Case of Emergency: its what the emergency services will look for if youre involved in an accident and have your mobile phone with you. This straightforward idea was developed by the East Anglian Ambulance Trust…
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How much did the DfES just spend on a Microsoft Office clone to use in the KS3 ICT SATs? Here’s an open-source spreadsheet that works in the browser. Major kudos to Steve Yen and the TrimPath community, and thanks Nat for the link.
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The authoring module of Yacapaca is now in ‘Beta’. If you fancy playing around with a really leading-edge elearning system over the Summer, let me know. To the best of my knowledge, Yacapaca is the only system that lets you create, set, mark and monitor your own tests and assessments, all online, completely without charge.…
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