General Secondary Curriculum

E-learning - Online Tools and Applications Web Application Index. 

Plagiarism in the information age is not always a cut and dry issue. Read on to find answers for frequently asked questions about plagiarism and its consequences.

Fun facts and interesting history of languages. The Technology Development Group (TDG) is proud to present a one-stop information website dedicated to the world's most important and populous languages.

A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators Every day, you see how cyberbullying hurts students, disrupts classrooms, and impacts your school's culture. So how should you handle it? What are the right things to do and say? What can you do today that will help your students avoid this pitfall of our digital world? We created this free toolkit to help you take on those questions and take an effective stand against cyberbullying. So start here. Use it now. Rely on it to start your year off right.

"Here is where you can explore a wide range of Google Search features. You can find different categories, such as Research or Fast Facts, to find new ways to search for information and get answers. Go ahead and start exploring. "

Use our free online library of thinking guides Print them out or fill in and complete your project on the exploratree website Build up a personal portfolio of useful thinking guides Change or customise them using images, text and shapes

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."

"This site is a resource for educators everywhere to learn how to use YouTube as an educational tool. There are lesson plan suggestions, highlights of great educational content on YouTube, and training on how to film your own educational videos. This site was written by teachers for teachers, and we want to continue that spirit of community-involvement. We're creating a new YouTube newsletter for teachers (sign up above!) and are asking teachers to submit their favorite YouTube playlists for us to highlight on YouTube EDU. "

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Online Homework Help for Research Kids are back to school. Now's the time to arm yourself with helpful places for them to go online if those research assignments prove to be too challenging -- even for you. Check out Common Sense Media's favorite online homework tools."

Great slideshow by Steve Wheeler on the future of learning

"This list was compiled by ABFFE from media resources as well as reports from those affected by the challenges. If you have any questions about any of the books listed, please feel free to contact Amy Long, ABFFE Program Assistant, at (212) 587-4025, ext 12, amyl@abffe.com. For the ALA list of last year's documented challenges, please click here. To read a report of recent book challenge incidents from the Kids' Right to Read Project, a collaborative project of ABFFE and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), please click here."

"Other TeachersFirst Special Topics Collections Modeling and helping students learn about Internet safety is the responsibility of every adult in our students' lives, including teachers in all subject areas and parents at home. As adults learn more about wise online behavior and build awareness of our own digital footprints, we must continue to share and openly discuss these issues with the young people in our classrooms and homes. Use these resources to stay up to date on the pros and cons of technology's capabilities. Build awareness instead of fear as you and your students discover how the power of the Internet can be harnessed for safe learning and communication. Be sure also to visit the TeachersFirst Edge for teacher-friendly tips on using today's web tools safely and within school policies. "

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Welcome to the new DIGIZEN website The Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people's online experiences and behaviours.

The goal of this website is to share resources for interactive whiteboards with classroom educators. This website does not recommend one interactive whiteboard (IWB) over the other.

"Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). "

"browseable media programs, sign-up required"

"browseable media programs, sign-up required"

"browseable media programs, sign-up required"