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Thank you to all those who entered our competition to win a £1000 prize for Most Creative resource and Best Junior science (KS2) resource.

The entries closed at the end of January, but we are waiting another week before the results are announced – just to give time for a few outstanding contributors to publish their work.

In the meantime, here are a few already shortlisted for the two categories:

Most Creative Resource

• KS3 Physics Revision (Science)
• NMR Spectra (Science)
• Superbugs (Science)
• Atom Economy (Science)
• Introduction to pH (Science)
• Guide to word processing (ICT)
• Of Mice and Men Characters (English)
• A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (English)

Best Junior Science

• Harry Potter and the Variable Traits
• Quizzes for teaching compounds
• Science investigation starters
• Frankie’s Science Lab
• Describing Habitats
• Science Lab introduction

As someone who has filled in countless internet forms I accept my email address is probably known to half the world’s spammers, and so I’m used to dubious emails turning up from across the globe. But nothing could prepare me for the missive this morning from a budding Indian entrepreneur.

“i am komal prasadplease inves ment in this enterprises 009310336633 in india read this file stevi product”

Now i’m sorry, but if I get a link request to a new educational website with an errant apostrophe I generally judge them unworthy. To get an appeal for serious investment from someone who’s never heard of punctuation is more than laughable. I love the spirit of someone trying to start a Stevia (natural sweetener) cultivation by appealing to Western wallets, but it took me three reads to work out that the sentence had meaning at all. So no, Komal, I can’t investment in your enterprises.

But then he has got my attention..

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We have always believed that a wide variety of quality reviews on Teachable was the key to a better service for teachers.

Over the last couple of months we have been changing that process to encourage more reviews for members, and to make it faster for regular contributors to get their ideas live.  This involves an On Trial step where a small number of members can download the files for free in order to review.

The other big change is that contributors now have the power to decide whether to publish files in the light of feedback from the community.  We realise not everyone is confident their idea will be a winner, and may want to get some feedback before it goes on to become chargeable.

Once a contributor has proved their ability by having more than 5 resources approved on the system, we can skip the ‘Pending’ stage so their files go live quicker.

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