Child Speak ICT Levels for ICT Suite or self-assessment
5/7/09 - Nice and simple.
BBC - Schools - Primary History
5/7/09 - Great site for colourful, interactive history resources.
BBC NEWS | Education | Is it time to trust the teachers?
5/7/09 - Unequivocally, YES!
Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English
28/6/09 - American site with thousands of videos, many of which are pertinent to primary teaching.
Science experiments and lesson plans with Captain Curiosity: Experiment List
28/6/09 - Excellent site for science experiments and ideas for developing children's scientific knowledge.
18/6/09 - Introduction to podcasting and links to free resources to help you produce your own podcasts.
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
18/6/09 - Great way of showing links between word groups and synonyms. Fully interactive and colourful.
iPrimary.co.uk | ICT Tutorials for Teachers
11/6/09 - "Tutorials
The following video tutorials cover software and hardware that can be used within the classroom to improve teaching and learning, or can be used to support every day administration tasks. Use the search box on the right to find a specific tutorial.
007 - Video conferencing with FlashMeeting
Learn how to use FlashMeeting, a free web-based video conferencing tool intended for education.
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006 - Using Harvest Sounds to play audio files during dramas and radio shows
Find out how to use Harvest Sounds, a piece of software used for playing audio files on the fly.
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005 - Using SpellingCity.com to support the learning of spellings
Find out how to use SpellingCity.com, a free website, to support the learning of spellings.
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004 - ActivPrimary 3 - A basic introduction
Find out the basics of how to use ActivPrimary 3, from Promethean.
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003 - Adding a soundtrack with Windows Movie Maker
Find out how to add music to a video using Windows Movie Maker.
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002 - Creating word clouds with Wordle
Find out how to display word lists in attractive word clouds.
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001 - How to download movies from Youtube
In this tutorial you'll learn how to download movies from Youtube for use at a later date within the classroom."
Welcome to the Web: A beginner's guide.
11/6/09 - "Thank you for visiting 'Welcome to the Web'. By working your way through this web site and taking part in the exciting challenges and activities, you will learn all about the Internet. Good luck!" This is very well put together, and a great starting point for introducing the web to primary-aged children
Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick
11/6/09 - This is a fantastic idea for collaborating. "Wallwisher is an online notice board maker...! ...it is ideal for making announcements, wishing people, keeping notes, and anything you can do with Post-its"
"Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs
11/6/09 - Learn new vocabulary in an appealing, visual way. The pictures are - in the main - of particularly high quality.
Most Dangerous Bridges In The World
15/5/09 - High-quality images of rickety bridges in a range of different places around the world. I will use this page of over 20 pages for describing settings in narrative.
10/5/09 - Mostly amusing, provided that you like this kind of thing!
Fossweb.com | FOSS 3-6 Modules
10/5/09 - Superb, colourful and interactive interactive whiteboard resources addressing virtually every aspect of science at KS2.
Fossweb.com | FOSS K-2 Modules
10/5/09 - Superb, colourful and interactive interactive whiteboard resources addressing almost every aspect of science at KS1.
compfight + a flickr™ search tool
Searches Flickr and Creative Commons for images.
Dozens of Smart Technology Sites
26/4/09 - A must-visit site for any teacher with a Smartboard. Links to plans, resources and activities, videos on using different aspects of the IWB.
Tips/Back-to-School/First Days of School Activities
22/4/09 - Looks good. Plenty of ideas, keep for summer holidays.
22/4/09 - Very simple, very effective way of demonstrating common denominators and equivalent fractions. Uses a mixture of fraction notation and colourful pictographs.
19/4/09 - "Photorealistic zoo". Make your own new animals, play animal games and puzzles. Learn about animals. Build animal habitats. Superb site for habitats or as a writing stimulus. The site even offers lesson plans.
earth album alpha - a slicker google maps + flickr mash-up
19/4/09 - "earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Note-- since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!" Superb resource, just add keyword/sunset after the URL to see amazing sunsets from around the world.
Figures of Speech - Teach a Kid to Argue
19/4/09 - "How to Teach a Child to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony." This could have great application in P4C / thinking skills, or just conflict resolution. Essentially, it focuses on arguments/persuasive rhetoric founded in logic, reputation and emotion. This could also provide the basis for an interesting speaking and listening or persuasive writing lesson.
Free Movie Fonts Collection (TTF)
18/4/09 - Free fonts similar to Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean, Enemy of the State, Frankenstein, Harry Potter, The "Hollywood" hills sign, Monsters Inc, Scooby Doo, Walt Disney, 28 Days Later, Addams Family, Austin Powers, Flubber, Jurassic Park, Shrek, Sleepy Hollow, Willy Wonka and more.
18/4/09 - As it says!
A Solar System Scale Model Meta Page
18/4/09 - General background information, scale-models of the solar system, plus plenty of teaching ideas and resources.
Shangrala's Animated Gallery - Over 2200 Free Animated Gifs
13/4/09 - Ronseal. Easily searchable GIFs site with many of interest for teachers or children.
Spelling List Generator - BrendenisTeaching.com
29/3/09 - "Using a database of UK words, produce spelling lists and/or flashcards based on the criteria you set. The 'search' set of search types will take your search term and use the filter you select. The other search types are pre-selected words, which you can limit in size and categorise into groups."
StoryTop Story Maker -- The Online tool for storytelling
29/3/09 - "create multi-page stories, drag and drop clip art to illustrate your story, add text in dialogue boxes, create storytelling clubs with your friends, share your stories with others" Free, for the moment at least.
29/3/09 - All the educational YouTube videos and clips organised in one easily-searchable portal.
29/3/09 - "Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information."
Lee County Schools » SmartBoard
29/3/09 - Beginner's guide to using a Smartboard. Packed with ideas and resources, there is definitely something new for all but the most advanced users.
29/3/09 - "A Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside of the Box...Challenges will be posted weekly".
29/3/09 - Thinking Skills: word, number and logic games.
Top 10 Time-Lapse Videos Show Nature at Work | Wired Science from Wired.com
29/3/09 - This will be particularly useful for discussion of life cycles and as a writing stimulus. Clips include: snowstorm, eclipse, corn growing, caterpillars turning into butterflies, earth rise, a rotting apple, a thunder storm, the Northern Lights, and a firestorm.
22/3/09 - The description in the title is pretty much accurate - videos explain everything; well worth a look.
22/3/09 - Science lesson activities and ideas, sorted by QCA topic. Some available for free, some are subscription-only.
educational-origami » Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
17/3/09 - Huge amounts of information on Bloom's Taxonomy and other aspects of thinking skills.
17/3/09 - A wealth of writing resources for primary and secondary teachers. Helps with finding story ideas, developing plot and finishing the narrative. Highly recommended. Also includes writing warm up games / warm-up / starter activities.
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
17/3/09 - Up to 8 users can collaborate on a document in real time. This free-to-use website could be fantastic for shared writing, brainstorming or ICT Club.
E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timer
15/3/09 - Can be configured to any time you want. Fills the screen width - but not height - with text and is clean / distraction-free.
Indispensible ICT tools for teachers
15/3/09 - Very comprehensive A-Z list, from 2Simple to Zamzar and Zoho.
22/2/09 - "Hot on the heels of Sudoku comes Kakuro. Think of them as the mathematical equivalent of crosswords. Also known as Cross Sums or Kakro in Japan they have recently come to the UK featuring in The Guardian newspaper.
A Kakuro consists of a playing area of filled and empty cells similar to a crossword puzzle. Some black cells contain a diagonal slash from top left to bottom right with numbers in them, called "the clues". A number in the top right corner relates to an "across" clue and one in the bottom left a "down" clue.
The object of a Kakuro is to insert digits from 1-9 into the white cells to total the clue associated with it. However no digit can be duplicated in an entry. For example the total 6 you could have 1 & 5, 2 & 4 but not 3 & 3. Sound simple? Be warned it gets hard and is as addictive as Sudoku."
20/2/09 - "'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of fantastic teachers around the world.Choose a presentation to begin..."
20/2/09 - The University of West England designed these science comics which provide a colourful introduction to several SC3 and SC1 topics, including: dissolving, cooling, gases and air resistance. This link goes directly to the Teachers' page.
Illuminations: Mathematics Lesson Plans and Resources
8/2/09 - over 100 activities, more than 500 lesson plans, plus web links to support teaching across the full mathematics curriculum.
Random Teaching Idea Generator
24/1/09 - Now I wish I had invented this myself! Click the button for another of the 2,500 teaching ideas, methods and activities. Very highly recommended.
17/1/09 - integrating ICT across the curriculum
Mind42.com: Stuff that's useful to teachers
17/1/09 - list of technology / websites for teachers, including podcasting guide.
Up to 15 teachers a day call in sick… « Teachinglinks.co.uk
3/1/09 - My response to the Independent article bookmarked today.
Up to 15,000 teachers a day phone in sick - Education News, Education - The Independent
3/1/09 - See also my response at http://teachinglinks.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/up-to-15-teachers-a-day-call-in-sick/ - bookmarked separately
40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark
1/1/2009 - All kinds of web tools and distractions.
BBC NEWS | Education | Academies 'not school cure-all'
27/12/2008 - Sutton Trust survey and discussion.
BBC NEWS | Education | Bad parents 'widen ability gap'
27/12/2008 - Ronseal, UK/USA
Math Goodies - Interactive help since 1998.
30/11/08 - "Welcome to Math Goodies, your free math help portal featuring interactive lessons, worksheets, and homework help. A pioneer of interactive help, our site has been reviewed on television and radio! Today, we have over 500 pages of activities for students, educators and parents." A new favourite.
St Thomas Tean - Numeracy Links
25/11/08 - What a great find! Hundreds of links ordered by strand and operation. Well worth a look.
2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection : Subject Index :
10/11/08 - Something for every subject. This offshoot of Wikipedia has been edited for school use and can actually be downloaded in entirety, although - at 3.5 GB - you might want to send off for the free DVD instead...
DeadDog » 100 Weird Facts About the Human Body
9/11/08 - With a small amount of editing, this will be a very interesting addition to lessons on the human body or non-chronological reports / explanation texts.
Using Google to find MP3 music
3/11/08 - This works pretty well but, as advised on the site, should not be used for illegal downloading.
