Mandy Barrow has done it yet again with the production of this amazing 'Month-by-Month' Pictorial Calendar. In her 'Project Britain'series (to be found on the Woodlands School Site), Mandy is in the process of building a pictorial calendar that could well be the inspiration behind many 'speaking and listening' sessions during the coming year. Chapeau to another great resource!
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Update - December 22
PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for UK primary schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. Web 2.0 application, well worth a long look.
If you have ever played Samorost and liked it then try out http://machinarium.net/demo/
If you have ever played Samorost and liked it then try out http://machinarium.net/demo/
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Friday, 4 December 2009
Update - December 4
Flockdraw
This is what they say about themselves:
When you start development on a project, all you have are a few ideas and a long road ahead. As time progresses, you get to watch the concept become reality. Little steps contribute to the bigger picture.
Through the course of development, you hit roadblocks and stumble. Unseen problems become evident. You must adapt.
But you don't give up. You innovate. You conquer. You continue forward and exceed your own expectations.
We've put a lot of love into this, and we're proud to release it to the world.
We hope you enjoy it. This one's for you.
This is what they say about themselves:
When you start development on a project, all you have are a few ideas and a long road ahead. As time progresses, you get to watch the concept become reality. Little steps contribute to the bigger picture.
Through the course of development, you hit roadblocks and stumble. Unseen problems become evident. You must adapt.
But you don't give up. You innovate. You conquer. You continue forward and exceed your own expectations.
We've put a lot of love into this, and we're proud to release it to the world.
We hope you enjoy it. This one's for you.
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Update - December 3
BBC Pinball - PINBALL is here to help you kick start new ideas, to get your thoughts flowing freely, and to develop your creative talents. Bounce your ideas around by using these fun and simple tools, and who knows what ideas might pop up.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Update - December 2
HighlightsKids has more content than you can shake a stick at ... the science stories are particularly good ....
Update - December 1
Teachr.co.uk could be ( as they say) ... the perfect place to find the latest news, ideas and resources on a range of education sites.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Update - November 11
The Get Set website for the 2012 Olympics is now up and running ( no pun intended)
Friday, 6 November 2009
Update- November 6
Online Advent Calendar from the Woodlands Junior School site.
Online Talking Stories from the Woodlands Junior School site.
Google Earth Maths Activity - 25 Measure activities based in Madrid
Online Talking Stories from the Woodlands Junior School site.
Google Earth Maths Activity - 25 Measure activities based in Madrid
Friday, 30 October 2009
Update - October 31
OOo4KIds
The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified.
The BBC have produced a new, exciting History site for Primary History
It includes sections on Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Children in Victorian Britain and Children of World War 2
The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified.
The BBC have produced a new, exciting History site for Primary History
It includes sections on Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Children in Victorian Britain and Children of World War 2
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Update - October 11
A visit to Lascaux in France was always exciting and stimulating opening up the incredible creativity of our ancestors. This site is remarkable ... virtual visit technology at its best ... La Grotte de Lascaux.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Update - September 15
Two sites have come to hand to educate about micro-organisms, hygiene and antibiotic use.
The first is e-Bug ... e-Bug is a free educational resource for classroom use which provides activities and lesson plans covering micro organisms, the spread, prevention and treatment of infection.
The second is a Routes game called Sneeze. In the game you are a virus infecting humans. Survive by making your human host sneeze and infect other humans. Infect the target percentage of the population to reach the next round.
The first is e-Bug ... e-Bug is a free educational resource for classroom use which provides activities and lesson plans covering micro organisms, the spread, prevention and treatment of infection.
The second is a Routes game called Sneeze. In the game you are a virus infecting humans. Survive by making your human host sneeze and infect other humans. Infect the target percentage of the population to reach the next round.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Update - September 10
Searching the Internet isn't just about Google ... this presentation takes you through some very interesting applications and ideas that should spark off other ideas ...
Thirty Four Interesting Ways to Use Search Engines in the Classroom
My favourites are: ' Boolify -Boolean Search made Easy' and 'Quintura for Kids' - the full grown version of Quintura is well worth a look too - and finally 'Soungle - search engine for sound'
Thirty Four Interesting Ways to Use Search Engines in the Classroom
My favourites are: ' Boolify -Boolean Search made Easy' and 'Quintura for Kids' - the full grown version of Quintura is well worth a look too - and finally 'Soungle - search engine for sound'
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Update - September 9
Wordsift
This is what the developers say about it:
WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!
WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
This is what the developers say about it:
WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!
WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Update- August 15
Hunkin's Experiments
Not rocket science but enormously engaging and fun. These are the sort of experiments that should/could start children thinking about making up their own ideas. There are over over 200 of them ... here .
This is what the site says:
Welcome to Hunkin's Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. Now also available as a book
Not rocket science but enormously engaging and fun. These are the sort of experiments that should/could start children thinking about making up their own ideas. There are over over 200 of them ... here .
This is what the site says:
Welcome to Hunkin's Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!! Hundreds of cartoon experiments from cartoonist, broadcaster and engineer Tim Hunkin. Now also available as a book
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Update - August 11
Rockford continues to Rock !
New Read Along Section on the Rockford's Rock Opera website. So you can now, literally, Read Along with the whole story!
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Update - June 28th
Tinychat
Easy to use, free to use.
With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, MySpace, personal site and many other portals. And, you can invite people through simple mail notification and twitterings. Try it, you’ll like it.
Anithings
Anithings is a brand new children's creativity tool. It enables animated stories to be created simply and quickly, allowing children's creativity to run wild.
BableWith.Me
Communicate with anyone, anywhere in up to 45 languages. BabelWith.me is a simple, free group chat that automatically translates your conversation as you type.
The Big Picture
Just amazing picture to talk about ...
Photopeach
Create delicious slideshows and share them with hungry viewers. Like Photostory3 but online
Easy to use, free to use.
With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, MySpace, personal site and many other portals. And, you can invite people through simple mail notification and twitterings. Try it, you’ll like it.
Anithings
Anithings is a brand new children's creativity tool. It enables animated stories to be created simply and quickly, allowing children's creativity to run wild.
BableWith.Me
Communicate with anyone, anywhere in up to 45 languages. BabelWith.me is a simple, free group chat that automatically translates your conversation as you type.
The Big Picture
Just amazing picture to talk about ...
Photopeach
Create delicious slideshows and share them with hungry viewers. Like Photostory3 but online
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
Update - May 19th
Virtual Village ... My thanks to Mandy Barrow for this link
This is what they say for themselves:
The Virtual Village v1.2 is an internet-based feature that lets you build your own 3D model village, whilst signalling trains through the station. Based on Bekonscot, the structures are of 1930s English appearance, and the trains are exact replicas of the real ones!
This is what they say for themselves:
The Virtual Village v1.2 is an internet-based feature that lets you build your own 3D model village, whilst signalling trains through the station. Based on Bekonscot, the structures are of 1930s English appearance, and the trains are exact replicas of the real ones!
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Update -17th May
Learn about new stuff - This is an interesting compendium web site that could help to keep you up-to-date. Check out the curriculum links down the right hand side !
This is what they say about themselves:
All this stuff is there for you to use, whether in school with your pupils or for you and your pupils to use at home.
Posterous ... This is what they say about themselves ... it is very easy to use:
Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.
We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way.
That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do.
This is what they say about themselves:
All this stuff is there for you to use, whether in school with your pupils or for you and your pupils to use at home.
Posterous ... This is what they say about themselves ... it is very easy to use:
Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.
We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way.
That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do.
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Update - May 16th
At a Teachmeet last evening I was introduced to the Posterous site ... very slick and quick
This is what they say about themselves:
Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.
We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way.
That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do.
This is what they say about themselves:
Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.
We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way.
That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do.
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Update 7th March 2009
Breathing Earth ... realtime simulation
Mindmeister ... build your mindmaps online and share them as you will
Mind42 ... collaborative mindmapping
Deep Zoom ... it will blow you away HardRock Cafe zoom
Mindmeister ... build your mindmaps online and share them as you will
Mind42 ... collaborative mindmapping
Deep Zoom ... it will blow you away HardRock Cafe zoom
Monday, 23 February 2009
Curriculum and other Blog Links
Copyright
Control
Science - Life Processes and Living Things
Science - materials
Science - Electricity, sound, light and shadows
Science - Physical Processes
Science - Earth in Space
Science - term plan
Doug Muses
Hitcham School, Suffolk, ... Foundations Stage ICT
Sebastian the Swan
Boowa & Kwala
Red, Yellow, Blue
Boohbah
Sebran
Poisson Rouge
Control
Science - Life Processes and Living Things
Science - materials
Science - Electricity, sound, light and shadows
Science - Physical Processes
Science - Earth in Space
Science - term plan
Doug Muses
Hitcham School, Suffolk, ... Foundations Stage ICT
Sebastian the Swan
Boowa & Kwala
Red, Yellow, Blue
Boohbah
Sebran
Poisson Rouge
Site Update 23 Feb 2009
Its a Darwin year ... the oratorio is wonderful but the Flash Evolutionary Timeline is so, so good. ... Education - Change.org
What fun with evolution ... Devolve me
Build Yourself Wild
Visual music from YouTube
Stuff4Teaching
e-Safety ... the Cybernuts - who wnts 2 no
Fun 4 the Brain
Infrared Zoo Gallery
Hero Factory
Fridge Magnet Poetry
Kideoplayer ... love it or hate it?
Radio Lingua - MFL in podcast form
Is anything really free? This site boasts 30 Free image sites for you to choose from ...
Science Comics ... Selinia
London from above ... and at night!
NGfL Cwmru
My Floor Planner
Anagrams, anagrams, anagrams ... here
Bembozoo
You don't need me to explain this ... just be creative ... Bomomo
Visual Wikipedia ... now known as Viswiki
Word Games
Simple Science Songs for learning
Mrs Pancake
Stories to listen to ... Storynory
Cbeebies stories
Spelling Bee from visual thesaurus
Elastoplast Stories
Reasons for writing ... a Million
Futures
Super Action Comic Maker ... WOW !!
What fun with evolution ... Devolve me
Build Yourself Wild
Visual music from YouTube
Stuff4Teaching
e-Safety ... the Cybernuts - who wnts 2 no
Fun 4 the Brain
Infrared Zoo Gallery
Hero Factory
Fridge Magnet Poetry
Kideoplayer ... love it or hate it?
Radio Lingua - MFL in podcast form
Is anything really free? This site boasts 30 Free image sites for you to choose from ...
Science Comics ... Selinia
London from above ... and at night!
NGfL Cwmru
My Floor Planner
Anagrams, anagrams, anagrams ... here
Bembozoo
You don't need me to explain this ... just be creative ... Bomomo
Visual Wikipedia ... now known as Viswiki
Word Games
Simple Science Songs for learning
Mrs Pancake
Stories to listen to ... Storynory
Cbeebies stories
Spelling Bee from visual thesaurus
Elastoplast Stories
Reasons for writing ... a Million
Futures
Super Action Comic Maker ... WOW !!
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