u/TomdeHaan

Hopefully someone here has the expertise to help me with these questions. I know CCTV was around in the early 90s, but I don't know the technical details.

1. Recording: did the CCTV footage record onto film, video tape, cassette tape, DVD, or something else?
2. Did the cameras run on batteries, or would they stop working in a power cut?

3.If a time-lapse CCTV was being used, would that be more expensive, or the cheaper option?

Thank you!

Edited to add - thank you everyone for this information - it's exactly what I needed and very useful.

Does the Ministry of Education make available, anywhere, examplars for achievements at levels 1, 2, 3, and both low 4 (80-89) and high 4 (90-100) in Grade 12 English? And for other subjects?

I have combed the internet but cannot find them. Thanks.

Am I right in thinking that Gemini can generate text directly in google docs and that this won't leave a trail in the version history or the process report - it will look as if the author (or "author") wrote it entirely themselves?

If this is the case, I need to know, because I have an alternative word processing app that I can get my students to use which doesn't allow for AI. I still couldn't stop them generate text off-site, then cutting and pasting, but it would leave a trail.

Am I right in thinking that Gemini can generate text directly in google docs and that this won't leave a trail in the version history or the process report - it will look as if the author (or "author") wrote it entirely themselves?

If this is the case, I need to know, because I have an alternative word processing app that I can get my students to use which doesn't allow for AI. I still couldn't stop them generate text off-site, then cutting and pasting, but it would leave a trail.

A student wrote the line, "I looked behind myself."

I know the correct grammar is, "I looked behind me."

What I don't know is how to explain to the student why their original version is wrong. My guts feels that there's something more abstract, intangible or existential about, "I looked behind myself", and that it might work in a sentence like, "I looked behind myself to consider the currents in the broad sweep of history that had brought us all to this place", whereas "I looked behind me" just means the character is looking over their physical shoulder.

If anyone here can explain, I'd really like to know.

If it's well done, I often don't even notice it.

But if it's not well done, it can read like stage directions.

Recently I've noticed my students changing the pronouns in quotations to make the quotation align with their text.

Example

If the quotation is "I thought you were going to see Dad?"

The student's text might be, 'The plot of the novel takes a major turning point when Melvin confronts Susan with, "[He] thought [she] was going to see [their] Dad." '

Does anyone know where this comes from? It feels both nonsensical and unnecessary. My students tell me their previous English teachers told them to integrate quotations in this way, but why would any English teacher say this? Isn't 'never alter the author's word choice' the cardinal rule? Neither APA nor MLA recommend it, and MLA actually says not to do it.