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Category: ePortfolio
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I’ve given a talk a few times on the why of Yacapaca, but it seems a bit daft with all this technology at our disposal to go running round the country just to give a didactic presentation. So, today I finally got around to converting the ePortfolio I was using as a slideshow to a…
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Getting your students to write blogs is becoming increasingly popular, and the most eloquent exponent of the form is undoubtedly Konrad Glogowski. I recently challenged Konrad to lay out his ‘utopian vision’ student blogging. Here’s part of his reply: I know that blogging is about conversations and building networks. So far, my students have been…
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I can’t say I’m convinced ‘Controlled Assessment’ is really a step forward. Is it really the job of teachers to prevent children from learning when and where they want to? But, ours not to question why. At least with a Yacapaca ePortfolio you can switch student access on and off using the ‘hide’ feature in…
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Update 2013: the I Am Clever materials have now been permanently retired. Thanks for your interest. Back in 1999 we thought it would be a pretty cool experiment to add an online component to Chalkface packs. Students could do homeworks or extension activities online, and have them emailed back to the teacher. So…
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Last week’s list of question types went down so well that I got motivated to do you another list, this time of ‘task’ types. ‘Task’ is Yacapaca-speak for what is also known as Subjective Asessment, or free-text. I have covered the principles of these already; this is a handy list of the actual settings for…
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