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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:20:23AM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 12:55, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:26:54 +0000 > > Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/aboutks3/strategygui > > >de/ Lots of pdf files > > > Surely they could have a web page with a course/stage matrix table with > clickable links to the course requirements (and all the specious metadata) > The course requirements should then be in small bite sized blocks of simple > HTML that a teacher or parent can then copy and expand on to create 'lessons' > and tests that could then be published (shared) on a WIKI (or similar) by > registered teachers and accessed by parents/carers. > > I could then, after a few clicks find out what my kids are meant to be > learning rather than finding out how (if the teachers could even control the > kids) well meaning the whole thing is and how we go forward and all that > pathetic setting of boundaries etc is done. > > Sometimes you cant see the wood for the trees - this time you cant see the > wood for the sawdust.... Why do people use pdf when they should use html: - pdf is slower to read, - pdf is harder to extract information, - pdf is slower to download (especially if there are heavy graphics) Yes pdf is very useful in its place but... Finally the other point is that with a modicum of planning a wiki could be set up with teaching plans that worked and plans that didn't: thus reducing the amount of time spent planning a lesson -- Henry Fri Feb 8 09:48:13 GMT 2008
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