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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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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

Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman

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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Review: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.

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Review: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Finding Fibonacci is a memoir of the authors’ quest to find out about Fibonacci.

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Quick look: The Teachers' Standards in Primary Schools

This is very well set out. It takes each standard, and gives you ideas on how to achieve it, and what success in this context looks like.

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Quick look: How Computer Games Help Children learn

When I was teaching Econnures I realised that I could have taught quite a chunk of the synabus if I'd been able to run Sim City on the school network.

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Quick look: Reinventing Project-Based Learning

I can verify from first hand experience that PBL kept students highly engaged, and helped them to develop skills such as working with others and independent research.

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Quick look: The Human Touch

Although this book is published by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the focus is not on IT at all.

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Quick look: Better Living through science

I have often thought that I would have been much more interested in science at school, and been much more successful at it, had the teachers taught us anything of practical value.

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Quick look: Tubes: Behind the scenes at the internet

We are all so accustomed to using the internet, searching the world wide web — "going online" — that most of us most of the time probably do not stop to consider the question: yes, but where exactly is it?

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Quick look: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) do leaders make a difference?

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.

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Review: Power Up, by Matthew Lane

This book looks at the maths concepts — and, to some extent, the physics concepts — hidden in popular video games.

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