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A little background reading for this post: First, a quick Wikipedia definition of MOOC: ‘A massive open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such...

I have decided that, when school resumes in January, I will give my students an assignment in which I will ask them to analyse the IB’s 10-year rule and determine if they think that it...

HAPPY 2018! It’s the New Year! If you are in your second year as a DP visual arts student, and are in a ‘May session’ school in the Northern Hemisphere, now would be a great...

(Don’t you love acronyms?) I lead DP visual arts workshops, both online and face-to-face, and just before Christmas finished my last visual arts workshop of 2017. It was a category 1 and these are invariable...

I’ve been poring over some materials I’ve used in workshops on ‘Literature in Translation,’ and thought it might be useful to share some of these resources and add in a frequent question about the Written...

[latexpage] Happy New Year everybody! At this time last year I suggested some new year resolutions to help you in your studies. They are of course valid at all times, and if you didn’t see...

Here’s an interesting set of recommendations about improving your writing through ‘conscious syntax’ that gets to the issue through a pair of basic sentences.  I like it and maybe you will, too: 10 Varieties of...

How do you teach about the halogens? I am in the middle of teaching about them and thought it was worth telling you how I introduce the topic. I do like this topic as it...

The festive season is traditionally a time dedicated to the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and the Christian message of love and peace between all men and all nations. This period of self-collected...

I want to share an interesting research report with you, which I learned about from IB ÜberLibrarian John Royce‘s blog, Honesty, honestly… in a post titled WHYs before the event, posted on 6 November 2017. Royce introduces us...

Plato regards the descent of political regimes into tyranny as a gradual process in which each type of government is transformed into an even more unjust or imperfect state. The oligarchic man is the son...

The concept of superacids was a new on to me until the other day when I read about a chemistry competition that had been held in Moscow earlier this summer. You may have been in...