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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

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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
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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: Teach Fast

The book contains some interesting ideas.

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A question of leadership

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference. I think my views can be classified as macro and micro.

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Review: Making Good Progress?

Daisy Christodoulou carefully picks apart the pitfalls of various kinds of assessment, drawing on different subject areas to do so.

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Review: Principles and Practices of Assessment

There is plenty in this book to like.

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Review: Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice

Although this is a few years old now (2018), it has stood the test of time.

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Review: One for maths teachers

This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace and a host of other areas and people.

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Reviews: Two for History teachers

Two books on the Nazi era.

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Review: One for English teachers

No book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?

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Review: The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age

If you’re of a mathematical bent this could be just the book to delve into.

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Review: How to lie with statistics

Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.

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