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Martin Burrett

24 hours in pictures - 0 views

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    The Guardian newspaper produces a set of photos from around the world for each day. Many are from the news, while others show far off places and interesting things. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Ihering Alcoforado

Resources | Cosas que encuentro para clase - 3 views

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    Resources On this page you will find links to resources, activities, etc. ONLINE TOOLS ■Storybird, create your own books using original illustrations. ■Tagxedo, create word clouds with different shapes. ■Online Convert, online tool to convert different kinds of files. ■Dragontape, crop and mix youtube videos, and embed the result. ■Vocaroo, record your voice online and send it to a friend, post it on the web with a link or a html code. ■Brainshark, add audio to your pictures or slideshow presentations. ■Dictationsonline, dictations for different levels. ■Only2Clicks: The 101 most useful websites READY MADE MATERIAL AND UNITS ■English Language Lab Asturias (ELLA) ■ESL-Library ■British Council Teaching Resources ■English Lessons Online ■News English Lessons ■EL gazette ■Mosaic, specific materials for low levels. ■Efl-resource.com, materials classified according to levels and topics. ■Film-English, lesson plans from films in English. WRITING ■Flo-Joe ■Busuu SPEAKING ■Busuu ■The Mixxer: Language Exchange Community for Everyone ■Verbling READING ■BritLit (British Council) DICTIONARIES ■SHAHI: Diccionario visual que combina contenido del Wiktionary con imágenes de Flick. ■Wordreference, Assorted Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries and links to other Dictionaries. ■Merriam-Webster Online, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical Dictionary and Spanish-English Dictionary ■Cambridge Dictionary, Dictionary, Idioms and Phrasal Verbs ■Collins Dictionary, Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries ■Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus ■Visual Dictionary ■Pronunciation Dictionary ■Oxford Dictionary ■The Free Dictionary, Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Legal Dictionary, Medical Dictionary, Dictionaries in other Languages. ■Free Medical Dictionary Online ■Linguee, Dictionary created by internet users with real examp
Graham Atttwell

Fear of youth is worse than ever, says says psychologist and TV presenter Tanya Byron |... - 0 views

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    We live in an increasingly risk-averse culture, where many children's behaviour is constrained. We raise them and educate them "in captivity" because of our anxieties.
Teachers Without Borders

Parents to be shown how to protect children online | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Her report, treading a delicate line between tighter regulation and better coordinated parental education, will argue that industry and government must do more to provide information to parents on how to set timers on computers, video games and console games. She will propose:
  • She will also concede that academic research on the impact of the net on children and their lifestyles is inadequate.
  • · New codes of practice to regulate social networking sites, such as Bebo and Facebook, including clear standards on privacy and harmful content;· A gold standard for the use of console games, including clear set-up guidance for parents on issues such as pin codes and locks;· Better information for parents on how to block children accessing some websites. Byron has been struck that the technology exists to impose timers and filters, but there has been little take-up, knowledge or development of the technology;
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  • Her research has shown that parents are most worried by predators and children are most concerned by cyberbullying.
Graham Atttwell

Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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    British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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    Newspaper report of useful UK based study on young peoples use of social networking sites.
Graham Atttwell

Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus? | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 10 views

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    BBC trailer - sad that for all of you outside the UK you cant get the full programme. "Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans? Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?"
Graham Atttwell

'Worthless qualifications' give false hope to state pupils, says Harrow head | Educatio... - 4 views

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    "The Tories are planning a return to more academically driven schooling, including setting by ability and traditional subject-based classes, if elected this year"
Jennifer Garcia

Children's books | Books | guardian.co.uk - 16 views

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    Macmillan children's books audio, reviews, quizzes and videos. Worth checking out.
cristina costa

Teaching styles in HE: to inform or enlighten? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Pr... - 11 views

  • When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom.
  • learning communities: places where people came together to learn lessons that were as much about how to live as they were about how to perform a task?
  • highly resistant to new forms of scientific and technological knowledge
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  • tension between education as information and education as enlightenment is not just a feature of 19th-century university politics. It remains fundamental to all higher education today
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    "When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom. "
Jennifer Garcia

Authors experiment with Twitterfiction | Books | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Authors experimenting with writing fiction using Twitter
hallmarkschool

Top School in Panchkula - 0 views

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    Hallmark one of the Top 10 Schools in Panchkula, guarantee that our understudies turn out to be completely mindful of the significance of keeping themselves perfect and clean. As the understudies invest a large portion of their energy with instructors and associates at school, and with their folks and family at home, we work in organization with the guardians to teach propensities for cleanliness among the understudies.
hallmarkschool

Great Ideas For Healthy LunchBox | Best 10 schools in Tricity - 0 views

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    As guardians and educators, we realize that lunch box is something extremely imperative for the school going children. The lunch box that a student takes to the school isn't only some other box - It's a pack brimming with affection, wellbeing, taste and a considerable measure of astounding recollections, making it one of the most prized possessions of a student's backpack! At the point when the lunch box is so imperative for the kids, it needs to have something uncommon in it consistently! Children frequently gripe of eating same old and exhausting stuff each day in the meal break. It's essential to break the dreariness of the tiffin now and again, and pack it up with some new and energizing nourishment! Here are a couple of crisp thoughts from Hallmark Public School - (the best school in Panchkula) for tiffin-accommodating nourishment for the school students.
Martin Burrett

Video: The 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf story - 0 views

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    "Alternative and contemporary version of the Three Little Pigs from the Guardian newspaper. The story slowly unfolds as new information is produced. Use in lessons to focus on evidence and plot twists."
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