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A collection of blogging permission forms, while these are a bit older, they do give you a start.

This site has a growing collection of free printables for many areas of the curriculum. Find maths, English and other PDF resources to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Here are more free printable resources. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm

There are many who don't understand this one point. I used to have someone who required me to have beautiful lesson plans. They were detailed. I spent more than an hour a day on them. So much time so that sometimes I felt unprepared when the kids actually walked in the door. When those detailed plans were removed and I was allowed to focus on the content created for the students to use and then keep a grid (I keep links, etc. to what I'm doing) - THAT Was when real innovation happened in my classroom. Things like wikis, blogs, etc. happened after those super-restrictive requirements were taken off my shoulders. I had the wrong audience when I had those detailed lesson plans - my audience was the principal at the time. Now, I still have plans but I keep it in a grid in a book and then keep copies of what I use with students in dropbox and other places. I do far more now than then because my focus is the students. Lesson plans aren't bad. However, if you spend your time making the LESSON PLAN itself pretty and perfect then likely you're not spending your actual time PLANNING, printing, collecting, and creating what you'll be doing with your students. Also, when you do things like #geniushour and 20% time projects, you no longer have a lesson plan but a project plan which is an entirely different thing altogether. Don't fault teachers for this.  Teaching is the hardest job everybody thinks they can do and few really can.

A stunning collection of aerial 360 degree images from famous locations from around the world. Peer down at the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong harbour or the tranquil scenery of Fiordland in New Zealand. Each HD image can be rotated and you can zoom in to see the details in finer clarity. You can even embed a rotating image on to your site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

A superb collection of coastal erosion & other resources from the University of Sussex.

We are a happy and stable staff, and my colleagues are a fabulous group of people who look after each other and genuinely care about one another. We have an experienced leadership team, and always aim to take account of how people are feeling and the pressure they are under when trying  new approaches and changes to practice. Even so, it has become more and more clear that workload is becoming untenable and wellbeing is suffering a result. I feel that we have felt obligated at times to put policies in place that seem to be there to collect evidence for Ofsted rather than solely to improve the learning of the children in our care. We want to change this.

"This is a lovely collection of inspirational and motivating classroom posters. Download them as a PDF to print."

A good collection of biology, chemistry and physics videos for GCSE level students. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A superb collection of downloadable PDF files of puzzles, Sudoku, crosswords, mazes and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database." Via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/history-engine-explore-stories-of.html

A fun logic game where players must roll and bounce balls to collect the same coloured tokens. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games

A superb collection of cross curricular games, activities and other resources for younger children, including a great set of maths and English language games. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

A superb collaborative image collecting site. Just drag the image into the box and share the link. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

A site where budding artist post their work. For us educators, the site offers a huge collection of great artwork to use in class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design

A nice collection of maths games and other resources to teach students about money. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A great collection of play scripts for children. Browse 100s of plays on a range on topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A great pinball English word game. Collect the letters using your pinball skills developed from your misspent youth and guess the meaning of the word. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

There are many great teachers to follow on pinterest. Here is a board that collects anchor charts. Those of you who teach english or composition will love the ideas here.

Search a vast collection of photos for every occasion, including photos for commercial use. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images

A great collection of Internet Safety resources