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
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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