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"Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them." Some of these are essential for every classroom. 

As games, particularly virtual worlds, become increasingly popular and as they begin to approximate large scale social systems in size and nature, they have also become spaces where play and learning have merged in fundamental ways. More important is the idea that the kind of learning that happens in the spaces of these massively multiplayer online games is fundamentally different than what we have come to consider as standard pedagogical practice. The distinction the authors make is that traditional paradigms of instruction have addressed learning as "learning about," while these new forms of learning deal with knowledge through the dynamic of "learning to be." It is the authors' contention that the experiences offered within virtual worlds provide a fundamentally different way of thinking about

Smart Board Activities for all grades

Nettlesworth Primary School, Front Street, Nettlesworth, Co. Durham , DH2 3PF . E-mail our head teacher, Mrs. Lee Roberts on: l.roberts100@durhamlearning.net If you are looking for our previous site click here to access it.

For the advanced maths group. But if you are interested in knowing about certain mathematical terms check this out. The graph is funky!

great overview of different approaches to integrated  Curriculum

Wow some amazing resources here for English. This worth a look when planning for the week or term ahead

Another great literacy site, particularly for early years.

cool for early years counting by 2s

Maths activities and lessons for upper primary...especially extension activities!!!

FANTASTIC interactive site with loads of free stuff in ALL curriculum areas. A must-use for all teachers

Interactive games for p-2

List of 10 maths websites that are great for students, teachers and parents!

Transmedia is it the new way to teach storytelling/writing? This idea could fit nicely into our students multi platformed online lives and communities. Interesting. 

Yay Verbs! Prezi style. 

Doing shape and or tessellation in Maths??? This blog post could come in handy. Some interesting discussion on tessellation in real life. So the next question is why do we teach tessellation in maths? Shouldn't we just get rid of this aspect of maths and create a new subject called design??

Here is the website Linda R just emailed us. Check it out!

Why do we bother... What I mean by this is... Dah!

I need to be reminded sometimes... I'm a softy ;) Oh, they forgot one of the most important aspects re classroom management. Learning and engagement. 

Some amazing ideas for whole staff day PD. Lot of creativity being stimulated here. Incubation, incubation, incubation.