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Wikipedia to e-book

Kristian Still 18 Sep ’12 18 Sep ’12

This is a great mash for iBooks, wikipedia and epub formats. So, basically, you can now export a selection of Wikipedia pages as EPUBs which is a much better format for reading offline, on the go, on mobile phones, ebook readers …

Wiki Slice

Kristian Still 17 Jun ’09 9 Apr ’11

This week we launched Hamble Wiki, a Wikipedia slice selection for schools targeted around the UK National Curriculum. This slice includes about 5500 articles and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). …

I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …
No rescuing3 Nov ’24
“Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves,” is a teaching sentiment that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “not rescuing,” our learner / children / colleagues and modelling, as a teacher or experienced learner, what …
Teams – Day 3 (part 2)2 Nov ’24
Prioritising time to write has not made it to the top of the priorities list until today (the end of half-term). That is a failing on my part. With hindsight, I should have planned and scheduled less. I am not comfortable accepting that “writing, thinking …
Yuimaru – ‘a circle of people’26 Oct ’24
It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …