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Ian S
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Principal Teacher of Computing & Digital Learning | Substack Author | Ex-Google for Education Champion | #VIA20 | #EdTech50 | #Edpuzzle Trainer | Views my own, posts ephemeral
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Ian S @csteach.uk · May 8
go.bsky.app/F7s6AyK #TeamCompSci starter pack by @mracolley.bsky.social
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 51+52/2025: Making Space open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 49+50/2025: Exploring and applying Schwartz's Values Wheel open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
December 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 47+48/2025: My tribe open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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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
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.
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 45+46/2025: The stops worth making
When work and weather derail your journey
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December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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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!
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 43+44/2025: A fortnight of wows open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 41+42/2025: open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Caffeine Tangent: Stop gatekeeping, I'm just trying to read open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 39+40/2025: I would have gotten away with it too open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 38/2025: The Mentorship Web open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
September 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 36+37/2025: Ethics in the age of algorithms open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
September 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 35/2025: The view from the coffee shop open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
August 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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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.
August 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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
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.
August 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 33+34/2025: Death of an illusion open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 33+34/2025: Death of an illusion
When workplaces promise family
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August 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 31+32/2025: Turning off autopilot, learning how to live a little more in the present open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 31+32/2025
Hello! I think it’s a good time to address one of the reasons I began this Substack two years ago and highlight some (frankly quite obvious) warning signs that you are focusing on the wrong life…
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August 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 29+30/2025: 1460 Weeks Later open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...

Finite time, generational cycles and the tension between living in the moment and planning for the future
Weeknote 29+30/2025: 1460 Weeks Later
Finite time, generational cycles and the tension between living in the moment and planning for the future
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August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 27+28/2025: Small Wins, Big Summer open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
Weeknote 27+28/2025: Small Wins, Big Summer
From pickleball courts to kitchen experiments
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July 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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An edited clip of my ‘Paper Cup Fish’ project, the latest of my making ideas. The full clip is on my YouTube channel and will be on the website ‘news’ link later. Just search for my name, you’ll find me, I’m the only one. 😁
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July 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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One week until our free online workshop for teachers hosted by the British Council! All are welcome 😊 Sign up here 👉 forms.office.com/pages/respon... @microbit.org #teamcompsci
July 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Caffeine Tangent - Weeknote 25+26/2025: My Travelling Companions on the Road to Character open.substack.com/pub/csteach/...
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Ooh! According to my lesson on cybercrime (based on information from the police), the average investigation takes two years, and the average age of people arrested is 17, so this has been quick, but the suspects are old! #TeamCompSci
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Four arrested in connection with M&S and Co-op cyber attacks
Three men and one woman - aged between 17 and 20 - have been arrested in London and the Midlands.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM