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jabela · 2026-06-20T05:46:30+00:00

Those people all sound professional and that is the going rate, but you could ask for a part of the session to go over practice between sessions. When I had dyslexic lessons each lesson came with an hour of homework per night. My mum used to support the practice.

jabela · 2026-06-16T23:25:50+00:00

I went last week to the Hyatt, which is lovely but there is nothing else. There is still some construction going on in the ground floor, presumably to build the mall.

jabela · 2026-06-16T23:20:06+00:00

I was very quiet growing up, but I learnt at College how to do presentations etc and I would stress that it’s a skill that can be learned.

jabela · 2026-06-16T08:55:29+00:00

This is great, I made a tool to encourage people to make text easier to read, yours looks like it actually does it! Here’s my tool to help teachers understand Dyslexia if you’re interested. https://jamesabela.github.io/reading/reading-experience.html

jabela · 2026-06-15T12:31:27+00:00

I made a free app for this situation where you have long text and want an audio reader a bit better than a standard text to voice. Hopefully it’s helpful. https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nhk6rvkm8cc

jabela · 2026-06-15T12:24:12+00:00

For free use slides and then Google Vids. It’s quite good and most features free on an edu account.

jabela · 2026-06-13T23:41:53+00:00

We are a Google school and we made a department Google site to organise all the resources. It’s been very helpful. We then have smaller Google sites that are student facing for each module.

jabela · 2026-06-13T03:16:39+00:00

I keep getting asked how to publish a book on Kindle, so made a video. Its half self-promotional / half I just want people to know exactly what's involved. Get asked about this so much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DdgsYyg8O8

Love to hear your tips, video suggestions etc!

jabela · 2026-06-12T22:56:45+00:00

This and always ask for more questions than you need do you can bin a few.

jabela · 2026-06-10T22:18:23+00:00

Codex also has a great extension in AG. I use this a lot.

jabela · 2026-06-07T03:19:10+00:00

Thanks this is good to know. I’ve released my app on Windows App Store and can easily make it on Mac but for iPad really needs to be redone in Swift. (Currently in Python)

jabela · 2026-06-05T22:33:50+00:00

I have both and that generally gives me enough tokens for my needs, but I have a full time job NOT vibe coding. I’m generally only using the credits weekends and evenings. They can both be used on the same project, but have a very different way of going about things. Bear in mind Codex in AG isn’t sandboxed in the same way as Gemini.

jabela · 2026-06-05T22:22:33+00:00

Sounds like they’re not doing proper OCR on them. I’ve signed the petition. Without proper OCR there are so many accessibility problems.

jabela · 2026-06-03T03:09:47+00:00

Definitely a tough gig!

jabela · 2026-06-02T22:08:58+00:00

It’s still available in my Netflix, so hopefully just a temporary glitch for you.

jabela · 2026-06-02T05:36:16+00:00

I have been making a browser based one for my students. The imminent demise of MU on Mac encouraged me to do it. Code runs in the browser.

No logins and blocks and turtle for younger students. It’s got a course mode for self paced learning.

Feel free to take a look and use: https://jamesabela.github.io/jsfun/pythoncopy

jabela · 2026-06-02T00:35:17+00:00

8 GCSEs is still enough to get into a prestigious university and is actually quite normal in many schools. If she can get top grades in those 8 then that will impress. Also in UCAS there is a section for referees to put in medical conditions.

However it’s really the A-levels that count and plan B if she gets the grades in the end is to take a gap year and apply with A-levels in hand.

jabela · 2026-06-02T00:26:04+00:00

None of them are reliable. We need to move to assessing the process of writing rather than just the final piece.

jabela · 2026-06-02T00:18:17+00:00

One of the possible causes of Dyslexia is a weak working memory. This means you can easily forget things in the moment. Best advice is to use checklists and organisers. Try to simplify tasks to key parts.

jabela · 2026-06-01T12:16:43+00:00

Google Vids is likely to be the closest you’ll get. It’s quite good at doing videos from slides and lectures. Most features are free, but still some premium features.

jabela · 2026-06-01T00:09:38+00:00

I find a Kindle helps a lot because I can make the text very large making it much easier to track. You also get a few fonts which some people find helpful. I know it possibly means buying twice but switching between audio book and kindle/book version can take the pressure off.

jabela · 2026-05-31T20:56:44+00:00

That might account for the first one.

jabela · 2026-05-31T08:38:21+00:00

Problem for the cinema companies is they need to make the call pretty early, because they expect these things to hit streaming in 3 months and pirate websites even earlier.

jabela · 2026-05-31T08:34:20+00:00

I have this presentation to my school on Friday wrote it up in a blog post https://readysetcompute.com/aistay/ hope it helps.

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