Having been invited to read to a class of students for reading week, I looked for a chance to work with a group of older students who I have not taught in two years. The Y11 group I wanted to work with stuck in my …
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Hard Lesson #11: Guns are not glorious
iGCSE ICT Resource List
In order to encourage my new iGCSE ICT students to delve deeper into the subject, I am recommending the following list of optional reading and viewing materials. The content and concepts contained in these materials go well beyond the scope of the course, and will …
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Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/Project Gutenberg is an online repository of books that are out of copyright, and thus freely available for anyone to use. With over 30,000 books currently available, this site provides a great source for gratis reading material. However, more important than this, it provides …
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Library Thing
For all the book lovers our there (of which I am one), I have recently been playing with a great online tool. It is called Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com) and it can be used to catalog the books you own, have read and want …
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Wordle
Wordle allows the easy creation of beautiful word clouds from any text. Word clouds are a means of displaying text is a visual manner, where the frequency of use of a word determines its visual prominence. A great way to use word clouds is …
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