What have you discovered over the past few weeks… here you can find five new resources that I’ve found over my summer break!
Shared Search – crowd sources search engines for different topics
Tom Barrett has started a new collaborative project called ‘Shared Search‘… the aim is create a set of search engines related to specific topics, where the results have been contributed by educators. Tom has started the first one, which is linked to the topic of sealife. You can find out how to add sites to [...]
Searching Online
Searching online is a valuable skill for children to develop. However, there are potential dangers associated with allowing children to search the Internet freely. Here are details of three search tools which might be useful for the classroom: 1) Gemsta Homework is a multi-search tool which allows you to search a selection of sites in one [...]
BBC search for an inspirational teacher
Do you know a teacher who’s gone the extra mile and really changed lives? The BBC is looking for an inspirational teacher, an unsung hero who has somehow made a real difference, someone whose story deserves to be told. Perhaps they have brought new and innovative methods to the classroom, with outstanding results. Maybe they [...]







