My Resource Cloud

Well worth keeping an eye on ….

My Resource Cloud is an interactive WEB2.0 education support site for educators and learners. The site consists of two main areas: My Events and My Resources. Both sections contain free (complimentary) and paid for (premium) resources. These resources can include blogs, downloadable resources, images, videos, news-feeds, templates, quizzes and educational games.

TESiboard interactive resources

TESiboard is a growing collection of highly visual, open-ended, interactive resources. The activities cover KS1 objectives, with KS2 resources currently in development.

You need to have a TES Connect login before you can get to the resources … this is a free login

SWGfL Resources

There are some great resources available on the SWGfL Merlin site that can be used even if you are not a subscriber. Special mentions from me go to ‘Word Detective‘ and ‘Word Wizard‘

Ideas to Inspire

Mark Warner of Teaching Ideas has created this set of resources based on the fantastic work of Tom Barrett – ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

The presentations are grouped into different sections:
Curriculum Ideas Providing ideas and resources, linked to specific curriculum areas.
Interesting ways to use ICT in your classroom These presentations focus on one particular ICT hardware tool and suggest ways of using that tool in your classroom.
Interesting ways to use ICT in your classroom Another set of ‘Interesting Ways’ presentations which share classroom uses for a range of software and online tools.
Other Collaborative presentations Techy Tips for non-techy teachers This section contains even more collaborative presentations, covering a range of topics.. Techy Tips, Inspiring Youtube videos, Games to support learning and more…

New Science Resources

Danny Nicholson , Educator, Science teacher, ICT Consultant, PGCE lecturer, Author and Web2.0 / SMART Masters/ Interactive Whiteboard Trainer. Also general tech geek has posted these excellent science resource sites on Twitter.

Crickweb Science for KS2

UK Safari – check out the copyright bit … important !

BBC Parents – support your child’s education

Noticed today on the BBC Parents site a search engine for educational games and resources. Could be useful to build home/school bridges.

Media Generator

ACMI – the Australian Centre for the Moving Image – has released, amongst other things, its ‘storyboard generator’.
Also worth a look at on the site are the resources in the ‘Free Media Library’. In the ‘Production Resources’ section there is a good description concerning Copyright and Ethics in creating digital resources.

More resources for the new term

Simon Widdowson rightly tweets about this excellent site – a great starter collection to bounce from … From Pearcedale Primary School in Australia

Teachr.co.uk

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.

Christmas activities from Northumberland NGfL

Liz from Northumberland draws my attention to this great collection of  resources – Christmas Activities and Links.

There are also many, many useful and exciting resourse for other times of the year to be found on their NGfL site.