Building the Curriculum

I have really enjoyed teaching the Year 8 curriculum so far. Our focus has been history and we have looked at Victorian crime and Pirates. Coming up is coasts...

Richard Allaway has provided some excellent resources, but with one downfall - they are all ICT based and require unfettered ICT access. With this in mind I have done a rewrite (and offered Richard the revised unit back as we should share and share alike!).

Imagine delivering Richard's unit to a class of 28 as is. It is perfect. Alas I have problems resourcing it for 14. Hats off the Richard for the sheer scope of his unit, and resources permitting many activities are very doable. I just want access to 15 pcs to let my kids take advantage.

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Terribly Delicious

I am an avid delicious user. I stalk people online, steal their best stuff and then forget it.

Hence my title. I am a terrible delicious user. I am close to 400 beautifully tagged bookmarks. Great, but I wouldn't have a clue what each one was unless I actually saw the page.

The big thing is the notes field. It would let me know exactly what I was looking at before I clicked - that great French listening about weather, the amazing presentation about right angles. The problem is it is a free text field, and I tend to wibble...

I really don't want to add yet more tags (they seem to grow 2-3 a week) so I need to think about how to fill in the notes field. Any ideas? Perhaps Year, Term, Topic? Input appreciated.

Competition Maths

I found tutpup.com through Ewan McIntosh. I thought I'd give it a try, see how it went. I launched it Friday, and out of 40 students I already have 13 signed up and playing! I look forward to my students having better maths recall and may even set a test to see the effect!

Now to find who greyturtle23 is....