I’ve been a user of Memiary for a long time now. I use the site to record five things that I’ve done / achieved / want to remember each day. I also use the tool in my classroom… as a class, we spend a few minutes at the end of each day recording five things [...]
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iPhone and iPod apps for Schools
I recently decided to investigate other apps that might be useful for teachers and schools. As well as finding some wonderful new applications, I also found lots of really useful iPhone+education related sites: Educate 2.0 is an application for teachers, giving them access to timetables, student data, teaching strategies and elearning tools. Find out more [...]
Health and Safety in schools
The Health and Safety Executive is running a new campaign to reduce slips, trips and falls in the workplace. Throughout 2008-2009, across the Education sector in the UK, there were 948 major injuries and a further 1865 that resulted in workers having to take more than three days off work as a result of slips, trips and falls – [...]
Cyberkidz
Cyberkidz is a Dutch ‘edutainment’ site with lots of educational games, covering Maths, Literacy, Geography, Art, Music and more. The games are sorted by subject and age range, suitable for children aged 4-11. www.cyberkidz.net The site has recently been translated into English, so even more children are now able to take advantage of these resources.
My Money – Free Secondary Resources
My Money is a £10 million investment by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to deliver joined up lessons on personal finance in schools until 2011. As you may be aware, one of the key outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda is for young people to achieve Economic Wellbeing. A major contributor to [...]
New Primary Curriculum Online
The new primary curriculum, which becomes statutory from September 2011, is now online. Its aims are to enable all young people to become: successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve, confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives, responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society. http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/new-primary-curriculum/ Through [...]
explore.org
explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Their library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. explore features a wide range of topics—from animal rights, health and human services, and poverty to the environment, education, and spirituality. [...]
Teaching Videos
Over the Christmas break, I created a new website to add to my collection(!). The new site is called Teaching Videos and is a place to find and share educational videos that can be used in the classroom. Each video comes with a selection of teaching ideas, showing how it might be used in the [...]
We Are The People… – Education Documentary
A new independent documentary film about education is being released soon. The makers of the film, titled ‘We Are The People We’ve Been Waiting For’, explain that it “was inspired and guided by Lord Puttnam and Sir Michael Barber and explores the education system in the UK and asks whether the current system provides young people [...]
Technology and Education – Box of Tricks
José Picardo, the Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Nottingham High School, has created a wonderful list of the best free internet resources for education. They are posted on his fantastic blog, Box of Tricks. www.boxoftricks.net How many of these resources have you used in your classrooms?
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