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"We are delighted to announce the start of a series of webinar sessions, designed at supporting teachers develop skills, knowledge and resources for daily classroom practice. Through 2019, we will be releasing webinar series on a variety of essential topics for educators worldwide, and although the webinar sessions will be live, registered participants will be able to watch the replay at any time."

A super quick YouTube video showing you how to use Twitter's new bookmarks.

"When you mention Artificial Intelligence (AI), you're likely to get a variety of responses ranging from the fear that robots will take over our jobs - and our lives - to the conviction that it will transform our future for the better. Now that AI is becoming an integral part of organisations such as NASA, the NHS and even your local council, is it time for education to embrace the power of AI? I believe that it is. While algorithms will never be a substitute for a good teacher, there are some exciting new ways that AI can help schools to spot patterns of progress, or identify pupils who are having difficulties with their learning."

Track physical activity and earn points for you and your class.

"Over the last few years, I have spent time trying to work out ways to engage our teachers. We, at Schools' Library Service, have introduced an information literacy framework, created lesson ideas and spent hours talking to teachers about how school librarians can support teaching and learning. I even wrote a blog about 'How to make an information literacy framework work for you", but still some teachers are just too busy to listen."

Lesson idea video [Length: 1 minute]

JoeZoo express can help you grade and edit your student work faster. Here are some tutorials and information on using JoeZoo by Richard Byrne.

Create education game widgets free of charge for embedding

Create free educational games and tools in flash

Love this website - one of my favorits for use with wikis. There is a new telescopic topic generator that is very cool. Everything is embeddable.

A Collection of really interesting math games and other games to use with kids. Especially useful for smartboards. I tried the pizza fraction game and it lookd really good. Plus the site has taken the ads off to make it better educationally.

"It is a beacon many professionals aspire towards, and the notion of being labelled as 'outstanding', or not, by others can make or break schools, teachers, and students. There are times where the label 'outstanding' is made by subjective criteria, or judgements are made based on data sets. Either way, aspiring to be outstanding remains high on the agenda for many within education - but what, exactly, is outstanding?"

"A superb science podcast design for primary age pupils. Each week a new topic is discussed."