What you may have missed in the pre-Christmas Digital Education newsletter, and what's coming up in the next one.
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My best and worst IT lessons #3: Internet training
"An incomprehensible error message scared the living daylights out of the teachers on the training course, all of whom thought it was their fault."
What I learnt about running a succesful course for teachers.
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Books for teachers of Computing and ICT
News about the ever-expanding Books Recommendations page on the ICT & Computing in Education website. This complements the book reviews that I publish fairly regluarly.
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My best and worst IT lessons #2: The history lesson
What were the elements that made a history lesson (in a computer lab) about JFK so good?
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My best and worst IT lessons #1: VBA conundrum
In this new series I look at some of my best and worst lessons in ICT and Computing, and analyse what caused them to work -- or not.
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From The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (c) S. Padua
Win a copy of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Enter for a really easy competition to win one of three copies of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Entries close on 10th January 2016.
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You could let Grammarly take some of the strain of proofreading. Photo by Pink Sherbert Photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/
Review of Grammarly -- and a competition
Read about a proofreading tool that works on the web -- and maybe win a free subscription.
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Ada's Algorithm
Review of Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Ada's Algorithm goes into minute detail about Ada Lovelace's life, and her influence on the development of Computer Science.
Read More25 useful resources for teachers
This article contains details of 20 websites for creating free cartoons and comics, plus Scratch, educational blogging, creating games, old sounds, and the international space station.
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