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Category: Commentary
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Having sworn blind I’d never attend another BETT, I couldn’t resist going to TeachMeet 08 there on Friday. And what a treat it was. Short presentations from lots of people knew of, or knew online, but had never met. My favourite presentation was Doug Dickinson promoting the free ICT support from IctOpus. Ignoring all the…
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A well-known consultant* and I have been corresponding about the approaching train-wreck that is English schools’ generally panicked attempts to embrace VLEs ahead of the government deadline. He said: It occurred to me that Yacapaca could do a great VLE lookalike if you could upload (as SCORM compliant zips) into a Course structure… It is…
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Sketchcast has just launched, and in my view it is the most intuitive web tool for teachers ever created. It works just like a markerboard. You write or draw, and talk. It is all recorded and can be played back at any time. The service is still pretty basic, and I suspect it will take…
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Publishing a book the traditional way is a team effort. The Chalkface system involves an author, an editor, an illustrator, a proof-reader and a co-ordinator as a minimum. Each of these roles requires an entirely different skill-set, and excellence in each skill is predicated on having a particular personality. This is one reason that traditional…
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Apple’s sexy new iPhone launches in America today, though it won’t be over here for some time. When I blogged its announcement in January, I drew a storm of (largely critical) commentary. That notwithstanding, I am now more convinced than ever that kids will get the point of a truly pocketable, always-connected computer. The price…
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