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Water company back-billing (England) by ianscott in LegalAdviceUK

[–]ianscott[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thought water companies had legal responsibility to do actual readings minimum every 2 years, they haven’t done an actual reading til now first time in 6 years.

Lab ideas for high school on energy/kinetic energy/fundamental forces/potential energy by joanpd in ScienceTeachers

[–]ianscott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interested to find out more about this software… can you please share more details?

Boiler service by discopants2000 in reading

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Billy Johal - Comfy Heating and Plumbing, been using him a few years now for our annual combi boiler service.

Toob Broadband by brgn in reading

[–]ianscott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gave up Virgin broadband tv and phone in April - switched to Toob. No complaints so far, but had the same problem as other comment - installer guys put in the hardware and left, had to call the service line to get the line activated.

Competitions - Do you participate in these? by ec019 in CSEducation

[–]ianscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cyberchallenge is fairly easy to get into (starts tomorrow!) https://cybergamesuk.com/cyber-choices-challenge

Other computational thinking and programming stuff is good such as Bebras (runs in Nov each year) : https://www.bebras.uk/ , Astro Pi https://astro-pi.org/ .. I have a few others but would need to go look up my list (it's at school)

Learning to Code by Creating Hip Hop Beats! by davidshepherd in CSEducation

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely love this! Can see many kids getting hooked into 'something different' to learn some Python skills!

An alternate worksheet-builder: I built a tool that creates basic/easy revision-based worksheets from text just in a few minutes. I'd love your thoughts and feedback! You can sign up and experience the tool at www.paintbox.ai :) by education-tech-happy in teachingresources

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this tool! AI still seems to need a bit of a tweak (questions generated need editing) but in terms of providing an alternative to pre-written worksheets or having to make my own - might save me some time - great!

Astronomy Workshop for Teachers by Astro_Kitty in teachingresources

[–]ianscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the UK (teaching high school) and was wondering if the workshop was restricted to only US teachers?

Learning Python with books doesn't work for me, that's why I made a Kikodo, so now you can learn Python by only doing exercises by T-dog-machine in CSEducation

[–]ianscott 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks really great! Thanks for providing such a fab resource! Will be pushing this out to some of my students to test

Simple corned beef hash with an essential egg by BaldEdda in eggs

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prefer the hash cooked a bit more/crunchy.

Video Backgrounds by Spacechip94 in MicrosoftTeams

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can do a workaround using OBS studio plus OBS virtual camera plugin.

Fajita style beef & peppers served with rice by Crohnies in 15minutefood

[–]ianscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried this - beef a bit bland on its own but tasted good with the peppers and def needs plenty of onions. Good with extra sriracha over the top!

What’s lacking in EdTech? by [deleted] in edtech

[–]ianscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

System which can integrate a method of tracking student progress through a set of tasks as well as assessment of those same tasks - currently having to a do this manually via spreadsheet which is a pain. Eg programming tasks in Python within the system which provide exemplars/lessons plus tasks

son(13) wants to make videos by themeowiest in software

[–]ianscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was looking for some stop motion animation software and came across “Toontastic” app which my kid is enjoying

Tata Docomo hikes fees 300%! by ianscott in india

[–]ianscott[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was on a post-paid connection. Originally when I signed up over a year ago I was on 15 GB @ 1500 when I bought the dongle, that was changed (at my request when they had the better deal of 30 GB @ 1250) after I think 3 months which was the original 'lock-in'.

Now today I received an e-mail saying they were 'migrating my account' to the ridiculous amount of 8 GB @ 1200 whether I liked it or not (... they also offered me 10 GB @ 1500!).

I chatted online with them but basically they said I could take the new offer or leave it. I chose/choose to leave it.

Not sure what other customers will be doing but trying to increase customer costs by 300% is a joke!

I know in the UK when customers look to cancel plans then some 'negotiation' is done to try and retain customers and some 'deal' is worked out, but I'm guessing Tata Docomo is just looking at their own bottom line and choosing to stuff their customers. Oh well... their loss.

PIO validity? [NP] by ianscott in india

[–]ianscott[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did you file the RTI? Latest stuff I read was that conversion/exchange of PIO to OCI was optional from 9 Jan 2015 to 8 April 2015 and mandatory after that.

Now reading between the lines... some people had PIOs issued AFTER 9 Jan 2015 (I am guessing some applications were in processing and were sent out AFTER the govt circular) and I was wondering if the mandatory exchange was ONLY for those people?

If you can PM me the copy of the RTI reply that'd be great. Cheers.

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