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Category: Students' News
News for students using Paperless School
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I’m very happy today because for once I have an easy-to-explain new feature to introduce: self-set targets. The mechanism is very simple. Students set themselves a percentage target at the beginning of each test. At the end, the target is re-shown together with the result. The reward (in the example below, the avatar’s victory dance)…
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When we first introduced the Avatar template in Yacapaca, we only had one avatar, Bobo. Since then, he’s been joined by 14 friends – some human, some not, some … indeterminate. Bobo, having a head start, was the most popular – until yesterday. Now we have a new number one! It can be exclusively revealed…
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When you are writing portfolio work, there is one golden rule to remember: save your work every 10 minutes! When you are just typing into the computer, the school network does not know you are there. Neither does the Paperless School server. One or the other of them will log you out eventually. By saving…
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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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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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