It’s true, Chalkface also makes babies. OK, it’s not true. Chalkface-associated people do though. And here are two to prove it. Organisational genius Sonia’s daugher Mollie-Rae, and top Yacapaca author Mark Bedding’s son Joshua. Photos attached. Click to enlarge

Most teachers regularly write resources for their classes, but very few make the leap unaided to producing resources that colleagues in other schools will use. The difference is that, with a resource you wrote yourself, you completely understand the original intention and can teach over the gaps where the resource fails to deliver. Traditionally, this…

I’ve mentioned Danah Boyd before as one of the people I turn to when I want to understand how young people perceive the online world. Here she is (video, needs broadband) talking off-the-cuff to a group of students. Most interesting to me is the home truths she has to tell about the historical function of…

Like most publishing companies, Chalkface has long been nurtured by a diaspora of authors, editors and illustrators whom we rarely if ever actually meet. Over the past few years, we steadily extended this principle, until only two members of staff were working permanently from our office in Milton Keynes. What kept them there was the…

Sometime over the weekend Yacapaca passed 150,000 registered students. I’ve got my fingers crossed for quarter of a million by the end of term. Time to buy some more servers, I think!