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  • Beautiful illustrations

    Today I have been working on Activities and Puzzles to Improve Thinking Skills, which is the free mini-pack for June.  It’s a long time since I last worked on this pack, and I had quite forgotten how good it was. It’s tempting to think that a freebie will have been produced on the cheap, but…

  • Drugs education: science vs. orthodoxy

    When Galileo challenged religious orthodoxy with science, he was shown the rack. When Prof. David Nutt did it, he was merely shown the door. So that’s progress then. I don’t normally use this blog to promote Chalkface products, but I think I might be permitted a small boast on this occasion. We have by policy…

  • We lost against Phorm

    You probably already know that Phorm is a nasty, sneaky way for ISPs (including mine, Virgin) to voyeuristically peek into everything you do online. A while ago I (and 21,402 others) signed a petition to the Prime Minister asking him to prevent this gross invasion of privacy. Here is his full reply, but to save…

  • Textbook Mode competition winner

    Congratulations to Katharine Wright of Colonel Frank Seely School in Nottinghamshire on winning our Textbook Mode Authoring Competition with Au Café. Katharine, your bright red iPod is already on its way to you. This is the introduction to the task: for best effect snap it to full-screen and play it on your whiteboard before setting…

  • Data Protection Issues

    Over on the TES R.E. Forum, user fpno asked Are there any data protection issues with inserting the names of our students into [Yacapaca]? It’s a question that (quite rightly) comes up regularly, so I thought it worthwhile to reflect here the answer I gave in the forum: Under the Data Protection Act, you have…