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Are you getting the most out of your Yacapaca subscription? I do my best to highlight good practice in this blog, but there is a limit to what can be done in text, or even video. More powerful by far is to invest a couple of hours in directly observing what other schools are doing with the system. With our new Pathfinder schools, it becomes easy to do just that.At your regional Pathfinder, you can
- join the school’s own Yacapaca CPD events, usually at no or nominal cost.
- talk one-to-one with a colleague who has (more…)
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And here it is. Patents are written in a language that is absolutely mind-numbing to the rest of us so I’ll forgive you for not reading it. Basically what it covers is our Thurstone Ranking approach to peer assessment system, which is absolutely unique in the world.
We applied for this patent four years ago so it has been a long slog to get it granted. You can imagine that corks are popping at Yacapaca HQ tonight.
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In conversations with teachers, the two sites I hear Yacapaca most frequently compared to are SAM Learning and Boardworks Doddle. The three sites are very different in both function and ethos and most schools probably use at least two out of the three. However, to the extent that a student who is using Yacapaca is not at that moment using either of the others, we can be said to be competitors.
So how do we stack up? In the following chart I have used as far as possible data published by the companies concerned and up to date as of June 2015 (prices to April 2016).
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I will be at the CAA Conference in Zeist on Monday and (presenting on) Tuesday. If you are there too, give me a shout.
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