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Category: Yacapaca
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Publishing a book the traditional way is a team effort. The Chalkface system involves an author, an editor, an illustrator, a proof-reader and a co-ordinator as a minimum. Each of these roles requires an entirely different skill-set, and excellence in each skill is predicated on having a particular personality. This is one reason that traditional…
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After much nagging from members, we’ve finally introduced messaging into Yacapaca. An unaticipated consequence is that my productivity has fallen almost to zero. Watching users’ posts tick in is hypnotically addictive. It doesn’t help that I can overview, list , sort and select them using the site admin tools. Info junkie that I am, I’m…
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Martin Molloy from St. Paul’s School in Milton Keynes has been authoring nice stuff for a while. Here’s his latest; a couple of nice little quizzes for assessing students’ knowledge of Flowol. Incidentally, quite a few people have authored Flowol resources in Yacapaca. If you have something you think merits inclusion in the public space…
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We are starting to see competition hotting up to become the main Spanish authoring group. There are now seven groups. All are set as ‘public’, meaning any teacher can join them. Two have no questions or tasks, so they don’t appear in the author group list yet. As you can see, it’s very early days…
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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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