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Aug
26/11
The work-life balance starts here
Last Updated on Friday, 26 August 2011 04:47
Written by Issac Greaves
Friday, August 26th, 2011

The beginning of the holidays saw me preparing the classroom in which I will be predominantly teaching in and moving my department cupboard to another part of the school.  My school was kind enough to employ me through supply from the 6th June as I am introducing Spanish from scratch and that will become the school’s sole language in place of French.  However, the end of term was far too hectic for me to try and get it done in the fights for trollies etc.  My classroom is getting there so if you want a nosey you can have a looksy here.

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Aug
23/11
Anki
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 10:15
Written by Issac Greaves
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Anki, as described on the developers’s website is a programme, “Which makes remembering things easy” Therefore it comes as no surprise that Aki is Japanese for memorisation.

The programme is flashcard based, you can create your own decks of flashcards containing the information you wish to learn, or you can download already existing decks.  The information on the flashcards though is not restricted to one type of content as it supports audio, images, and scientific markup (whatever that is).

The video below gives an initial demonstration of how Anki works, there are more useful tutorials on the developers website cited above.

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