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Category: Yacapaca

  • Yacapaca on Prezi

    Thanks Andria Johnson for this fun interactive introduction. After pressing the “>” button, give it a minute to load; it’s well worth the wait. more about "Yacapaca on Prezi", posted with vodpod

  • We’ve been censored

    A teacher I’d better not name just told me that Yacapaca was blocked in his school because a student submitted an assignment about internet safety that included the phrase “child porn”. The student solved the problem by editing his assignment on his iPhone and resubmitting it. Score 1 for mobile technology and -5000 for misguided…

  • Maximising your students’ motivation

    How come the PE department can get students to turn out on a cold, wet Saturday afternoon to do their subject, when you find it hard to get them to even turn in their homework on time? Part of the answer is that the PE department have harnessed the power of

  • The Yacapaca philosophy (in 3 lines)

    Teachers’ time is too valuable to be wasted grading assignments… …so let computers do the mundane work, and just give you the results. Students’ time is too valuable to be wasted on summative assessments… …so turn every assessment into a formative learning experience as well. Let’s all work together… …so anything one person does will…

  • Video: I need my teacher to learn

    With news coming in of Yacapaca being blocked in Lancashire (it’s subversive, you know), I thought this video was apposite. If you cannot see the video from school, chalk one up to irony and check it from home. Thanks Jeff Utecht for spotting it.