h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Computers in schools. - A768305
Author: cubix - U196427

A brief discussion (1500 words) on the effects of cumputers in schools and their fundamentality in pupil success.
I think its good.

As with your other entry you need to go back and replace all instances of & with

&

That should help!



Bels

youll have to expand. i dont understand.

Hi Cubix,

I see you are quite new here and keen to put something back - great!

Now, Don't Panic! but I would suggest you have a look at a few other entries in PR to get a feel for the way good ones work.

You may also benefit from following some of the PR threads (conversations) to see what kind of comments are made.

In the case of your piece on comps in schools, I was a little put off by the block text. the guide allows, indeed encourages, a certain amount of formatting such as headers and subheaders. I think this piece would benefit enormously from a little 'make-up'.

Do you know much about mark-up languages? HTML? If so, you will be able to use Guide ML very easily. If not, Don't Panic! It's *very* easy to do the little formatting stuff you need here.

There's more than one way to learn about Guide ML. The fast track is here A662384. But the full *official* [] guide to GML is also very useful when you are an absolute beginner or if you need to find the answer to a specific question. A187229

Sorry not to say more about your piece itself, hopefully some time soon.

anyway, best of luck with this and future writings
spiff

OK. It's just a minor technical glitch.

Here's what I mean. In the third line of the bibliography you have:

http://top.ngfl.gov.uk/content.php3?content=content/b971699325.html&f=0

The fourth character from the end is an ampersand - the character &

Immediately after this '&' you need to add the three letters a m p and a semi-colon, so the end of that url should be

/b971699325.html&f=0

I think you need to do this five times in all in this entry, and once in the other entry.

Good luck!

Oops, I'll try again

OK. It's just a minor technical glitch.

Here's what I mean. In the third line of the bibliography you have:

http://top.ngfl.gov.uk/content.php3?content=content/b971699325.html&f=0

The fourth character from the end is an ampersand - the character &

Immediately after this '&' you need to add the three letters a m p and a semi-colon, so the end of that url should be

/b971699325.html&f=0

I think you need to do this five times in all in this entry, and once in the other entry.

Good luck!

Thanks for the advice.
I will make the amendments as soon as I get some free time (which shuold be soon I hope)
cubix.

Thanks for the advice.
I will make the amendments as soon as I get some free time (which shuold be soon I hope)
cubix.

nice entry, but from the title I expected it to be more about the technology, and the motivation, rather than current policy and a small amount of practice.

perhaps a slightly different title is required?

You entry starts with "The National Curriculum which all schools follow". This is a very parochial view. This is the Guide to Earth. There are plenty of schools on earth which don't follow "The National Curriculum". Remember that while most readers are based in the UK, many, including myself, live in other countries and will not be familiar with things like the "National Curriculum".

Not even all schools in Britain follow it.

Hi, cubix

Unfortunately I ran into problems very quickly with this because I don't know what 'ICT' means, and you don't say! I saw other terms such as 'Becta' and 'Dfee' and 'GCSE', which a lot of readers won't understand either.

The ICT I know of is the old British 80-column punched card computer people, the firm that became ICL and then, I think, Fujitsu!

terminology summary:

ICT - integrated computer technology
becta - I assume it is some educational organisation
dfee - department for education
GCSE - general certificate for secondary education, an exam.

ICT in schools stands for Information and Communication Technology. Well, it does at my son's school.

ICT in schools stands for Information and Communication Technology. Well, it does at my son's school.

ICT in schools stands for Information and Communication Technology. Well, it does at my son's school.

ICT in schools stands for Information and Communication Technology. Well, it does at my son's school.

ICT in schools stands for Information and Communication Technology. Well, it does at my son's school.

I'm sorry about that, my pc kept telling me that the connection had been closed.

Well, since ICT crops up several times in the entry, the author needs to state _in_the_entry_ a) what it stands for, and b) briefly, what it means.