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  • Turn quizzes into complete lessons using embeds

    If you fancy extending your authoring skills over the holiday, check out Yacapaca’s list of permitted embeds, which I have just updated. Author Kevin O’Driscoll has produced some great exemplar material combining video with quizzes. Try his course AIMS practice: Strand 1: Number Sense to get

  • We need your help to complete the transition to reporting all test results as grades

    Next time you log into Yacapaca, I’m going to ask you to do a little extra work. It’s worth it, I promise. I’m going to ask you to enter the grade scheme and average grade of each of your student sets. Why? Lots of teachers have told us that getting marks just as percentage is…

  • Testing to the Teach: how to give your students the itch to keep learning despite themselves

    In a traditional test, one does not give feedback at all. This is a result of the limitations of the medium; give feedback on paper and you also give the game away. Working online, you can give extended feedback as soon as the question is answered, but how do you do it for maximum effect?…

  • New York’s School of One: good or evil?

    I met Christina Jenkins at a Futurelab event last week, and she pointed me to the School of One pilot project:  School of One encapsulates a lot of the stuff I’ve been ranting about for years – freeing teachers up to actually teach, breaking out of the class-of-30 mindset, using computers to do what…

  • Beautiful Economics animation

    I absolutely love the work of Cognitive Media. This is their latest: an explanation of the financial crisis produced for the RSA. I would love for someone to build some Yacapaca quizzes around this reinforce the learning. Anyone know if there is a copy of this hosted on a site not normally blocked in schools?