Discover five new and exciting resources which teachers can use to support their work.
Creative Topics and Summer Activities
Simon Haughton has set up a number of collaborative documents which are building into very useful resources. The first is a collection of ideas for creative curriculum topics which are perfect for schools who are planning for the next academic year. http://bit.ly/curriculumtopics The second is a list of activities that children can try online during [...]
apps4class – Web 2.0 Educational Ideas
apps4class is a new wiki from Jan Webb and Julian Wood, offering a place to group together the various web 2.0 sites and share ways of using them in the classroom. http://apps4class.wikispaces.com/ The wiki is growing on a regular basis and has links to a wide range of online tools, including animation sites, games to [...]
Manga High
Mangahigh.com is a games-based learning site focussing on maths for secondary school students, although some of the games could be useful for upper KS2 children too. The site features commercial quality gameplay, rewarding students with achievements that celebrate their progress. I had lots of fun playing ‘Ice Ice Baby’ which challenged my estimation and approximation [...]
Living Life Online
When I think about it, I spend quite a considerable proportion of my day online… whether that be checking email or RSS feeds on my phone in the morning, using web-based resources in the classroom, or general browsing and other work on my computer at home at other times. I’m becoming increasing reliant upon web [...]






