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Category: Yacapaca
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Margaret Williams from Lakers School has produced some really great lesson starters from the question bank in her Learn your Tables authoring group (requires login). They are so fast that I got really flustered the first time I tried one, and muffed it completely. They are a great aid to getting the times tables wired…
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Flickr is my role-model of how to build a successful collaborative community. This is from an interview with Stewart Butterfield, one of the co-founders (via Citizen Agency): CNN: Whats the key to making online communities work? Butterfield: Im not sure I have a universal answer to that. Take the people working on Flickr, including myself,…
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There are now 15,000 individual questions in Yacapaca, compiled into just under 2,000 quizzes. That’s a huge resource teaching material! You probably would not know it is there, though, because much of it is hidden away in authoring groups which you have to join before you can use it. So, to give you an idea…
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We’re still piloting our free ePortfolio system, but I thought you might like to see some of the work students are doing on it at the moment. These three examples, each from a different school, make great illustrations of the range of possibilities in the system. They are produced by students of different attainment levels,…
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