Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 6/2026: The work of becoming unnecessary. Capacity ✅, resilience ✅. Now the freedom to ride off into the sunset?
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 6/2026: The work of becoming unnecessary. Capacity ✅, resilience ✅. Now the freedom to ride off into the sunset?
As we're getting into that last term before the GCSE exam, I'm making our programming tasks simpler and reminding students about the programming revision booklet I made - it's aimed at OCR, but I'm sure you could tweak it for other boards. #TeamCompSci
www.advanced-ict.info/examples/Pyt...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 5/2026: Growing pains that need new pathways. Learning that some spaces you have to build yourself open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 4/2026: Spaces That Hold. Quiet work and long echoes open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 3/2026: Kinder, Clearer Information. Deciding what information earns its place open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent: Weeknote 2/2026 - Kinder, Clearer Systems. Leadership lessons from snow drifts, death cleaning, and deliberate networking csteach.substack.com/p/weeknote-2...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 1/2026: Good Riddance, But Now What? open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 51+52/2025: Making Space open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 49+50/2025: Exploring and applying Schwartz's Values Wheel open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 47+48/2025: My tribe open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
An illustrated teacher with red hair points at a chalkboard that says “Make a Test.” Below the text is a pencil icon. To the side, there’s a paper airplane and a stack of books with an apple on top. The background is bright blue.
Make a Test by Alice Keeler lets you turn a Google Doc into a Google Form quiz by pulling your questions straight from the doc and creating the form for you so test building feels much faster.
🔗 workspace.google.com/marketplace/...
#EduSky #GoogleEDU #GoogleWorkspace
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Really interesting to see @metoffice.gov.uk starting to quantify and boundary some of their forecast probabilities, and how they are showing that graphically for reports (www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...).
Love the depth of information, and the clarity of the explanation - really interesting!
Results could be emailed right now tbh
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 43+44/2025: A fortnight of wows open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Fully agree. It's like once you raise a call, you have to live in their basement.
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 41+42/2025: open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
And teachers. #NoScotlandNoParty #WorldCup2026
Caffeine Tangent: Stop gatekeeping, I'm just trying to read open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
I'm deep in the October break, we head back on Monday 27th! Enjoy your holiday when it comes! #TeamCompSci
If you dig back in this blog you will see that one way or another I have been blogging since the turn of the century. It's never without its challenges but for me it is a key part of open practice. It is a positive way of moving things forward. There was a sudden... https://wp.me/p3Wm7X-n3a
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 39+40/2025: I would have gotten away with it too open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 38/2025: The Mentorship Web open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 36+37/2025: Ethics in the age of algorithms open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 35/2025: The view from the coffee shop open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.
My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask is 27 cm in height (about 10.5 inches). There’s a spout at the top with a small handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with writhing tentacles covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Each of the eight writhing arms are lined with suckers. Between the tentacles are motifs representing the seabed, such as sea urchins, tritons and small rocks with seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is dated c. 1500-1450 BC, the Late Minoan IB ceramic period. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum. NB it is currently out on loan.
Happy weekend!
Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍
From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 33+34/2025: Death of an illusion open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 31+32/2025: Turning off autopilot, learning how to live a little more in the present open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
