Sheldon Staff Resources

This site would be excellent for students researching countries of the world. Thanks Neil!

A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles.

Looks very useful for teaching literature.

It's like a YouTube for PowerPoint presentations. You'll never make another PowerPoint again!

THE best presentation creation tool I've ever seen. Once you get used to it you can create awesome presentations and the free access section gives you quite a bit of storage. You create them online and then download them as a package to play anywhere. Very cool!

Should develop into a useful tool for teachers.

You can sign up for a Google Teacher newsletter here as well as access different services useful for teaching.

You can sign up for a free trial; the database looks useful for high school-level student research and lessons.

Lesson plans database

Maps created by people :) 

This could be an excellent resource for making graphic organisers. 

Looks very useful for creating charts. 

The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.

This is an excellent place to get resources for the Australian Curriculum. It will be really helpful in semester 2.

Series of links to sites on note-taking techniques. 

A useful portal site to many issues relating to education.

The Conference 2.0 Wiki. Designed to enable new collaborative events to occur at and around conferences. Specifially designed around educational technology.

The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.

We believe that a child who graduates from high school without an understanding of culture, the arts, history, literature, civics, and language has in fact been left behind. So to improve education in America, we're promoting programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.