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Oulipo flyer screenshot, by Terry Freedman

Oulipo flyer screenshot, by Terry Freedman

I used Claude to help me write a blurb for my course

May 28, 2026

In a couple of weeks’ time I shall be teaching a course called Creative Writing Using Constraints, at the City Lit in London. I felt that the blurb on the City Lit’s website was a bit mundane. So I got AI to write a better one.

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In AI, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags course, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Oulipo
Feedback, by Terry Freedman

Feedback, by Terry Freedman

Feedback on my recent blogging course

August 4, 2025

Only one person left a comment. Still, quality not quantity, that’s what I say.

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In Professional development Tags course, course evaluations, feedback

The 60 MInute Writer

December 2, 2024

My course at the City Lit.

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In News & views Tags creative writing, course

Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Blogging is not dead!

October 28, 2024

There is still a great interest in writing blogs. One of the reasons I know this is that my course on blogging currently has twelve sign-ups. That may not sound a lot, but many courses at the City Lit have far fewer.

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In Professional development Tags course, blogging
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Terry teaching

Converting an online course to an offline one

June 24, 2022

Having run a couple of very successful courses online, I’d like to convert one of them to a course in a physical classroom, having launched it as an online course right from the outset.

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In Tips for teachers Tags course, online learning, teaching online, offline teaching

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Converting an offline course to an online one (Updated)

June 20, 2022

In 2019 I taught an introductory course on blogging, for adults. I was invited to teach it again. Then a small event called a pandemic intervened, so I was told that the course would be moved from a physical classroom to an online one. My reaction? Excellent.

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In Tips for teachers Tags blogging, course, online learning, teaching online
Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman

Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman

Converting an offline course to an online one

May 6, 2021

In 2019 I taught an introductory course on blogging, for adults. I was invited to teach it again. Then a small event called a pandemic intervened, so I was told that the course would be moved from a physical classroom to an online one. My reaction? Excellent.

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Tips for teachers, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags blogging, course, online learning, teaching online

Course: Writing for blogs: a taster

November 6, 2020

What is MVT, and why have I adopted the MVT approach?

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In News & views, Professional development Tags course, blogging taster, MVT
Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Blogging taster course

June 12, 2020

A forthcoming course should help you decide whether or not blogging is for you.

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In M-learning, Professional development, Audio Tags blogging, course, blogging taster, audio
Blogger, by Terry Freedman

Blogger, by Terry Freedman

New blogging course

September 15, 2019

If you’ve thought about starting your own blog, but are not sure what to write about or what keeping a blog entails, then a course I’m teaching in December 2019 might be of interest.

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In News & views, Professional development Tags blogging, course, CPD, professional development
Recent book reviews
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Two reviews in one: Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals -- art and history

One for your colleagues, perhaps: art, art history, ploitics with a small ‘p’.

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Two reviews in one: State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature -- politics, history, English

One for your colleagues, perhaps. Sperrin has provided a wealth of information that can be used to provide a rich experience for students of politics, history and English literature.

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Two reviews in one: A Little History of Mathematics

I submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review below is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote! In substantive terms there is little difference between the two, but you may find it interesting to see what the editor altered.

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Review: The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms

This is a great book for dipping into in order to read about different teaching and assessment strategies, backed up by research.

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Review: Outstanding Formative Assessment: Culture and Practice

This book contains numerous assessment for learning techniques.

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Review: New Media in the Classroom: Rethinking Primary Literacy

This provides a great deal of information about the different aspects of "literacy” and how digital tools can be brought into the service of literacy in the primary school.

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Review: Designing the internet of things

This book takes you through the process of designing connected devices from prototyping to launching.

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Quick look: (Un)educated: My Life as a Teacher, and Why You Should Never Become One

“Some of it is laugh-out loud funny, but some of it, about his reference being spiked, made me angry …”

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A Heads-up: Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad

This is about the invention of linotype, and its consequences.

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Are we in, or entering, a post-literate society?

I know that there are people who think that Tik-Tok videos and other (very) short-form content is a kind of literacy that’s on a par with reading, but I have my doubts.

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