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ALL French online: Share your best French Resources-Thursday 3rd May, 8.30-9.30 http://t.co/htZCxyFu

Funny Bones 2.13 www.littlebitsmultimedia.com Have fun learning about the animal skeletal systems. 9 different skeletal systems in all, plus a fun and friendly tutorial and quizzes. Color coded bones ...children will quickly learn the similarities and patterns found in all vertebrate skeletal systems. Funny Bones 2 contains puzzles that will help you learn about the bones and skeletal systems of : * people * cats * horses * frogs * birds * dinosaurs * fish

19/4/08 - Satire on current attitudes in education. This is US-orientated, but the sentiments definitely apply. Take, for example, the introductory paragraph: "All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable."

29/6/08 - "Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all), but an exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks."

30/9/07 - Handy!

If you've ever tried to design a website or blog, you've probably felt the need to add images to your creation. It can be easy to see the Internet as a free-for-all, but images belong to the people who created them. Staying legal means you'll have to either create your own images or buy them from stock sites. Fortunately, there are a number of sources for free images, and we've collected them here. So read on for 100 sources where you can find free stock images: and don't worry - they're all legal! Most Popular These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you're looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try.

The Visible Body Features * Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model * Detailed models of all body systems * Dynamic search capability * Easy-to-use, 3D controls * Seamless compatibility with all the most popular web browsers

22/08/2011 - 1. Shortest Street in the World , Ebenezer Place - Scotland photo source Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland, is credited by the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in). In 2006 it surpassed the previous record (5.2 m, 17 ft) set by Elgin Street, Bacup, Lancashire. The street has only one address: the front door of No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel. Shortest Street in the World photo source The street originated in 1883, when Ebenezer Place was constructed; the owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887. 2. The Narrowest Street in the World (Spreuerhofstraße) - Germany photo source Spreuerhofstraße is the world's narrowest street, found in the city of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It ranges from 31 centimetres (12.2 in) at its narrowest to 50 centimetres (19.7 in) at its widest. photo source The lane was built in 1727 during the reconstruction efforts after the area was completely destroyed in the massive city-wide fire of 1726 and is officially listed in the Land-Registry Office as City Street Number 77. 3. Most Complicated Interchange in US, Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange - Los Angeles, USA photo source The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is situated in Los Angeles, CA and is one of the most complicated interchanges in the country. It permits entry and exit in all directions between the I-105 and the I-110. It's a stack interchange with layers of bridges making a complicated network of roads allowing smooth flow of traffic though both the interstate highways. This interchange was opened in 1993. It is a 4 level interchange with a restricted access lane that can be used by high-occupancy vehicles. 4. Most Crooked Street in US, Lombard St - San Francisco, USA photo source The street is famous for a small section near the top of Russian Hill, betwe

The mother of all IWB sites! Collates the best links and resources from all around the web in an easy to use menu structure.

We are a small but diverse team. Together we have many years of experience in teaching Mathematics at different levels and in different countries. Some of us are teachers - others are or have been involved in other aspects of education. Together we bring a wealth of expertise and illusion that we want to share with you all with this website.

We have introduced a new way of accessing i-board materials - the 'i-board player'. We are allowing open access to all the materials on the player for a short time (for evaluation purposes).

1/1/2009 - All kinds of web tools and distractions.

The Signs for Success programme improves behaviour, enhances communication skills and raises literacy levels of all babies and children.

23/4/08 - Yahoo-powered Search Engine that buys two trees for every 1,000 searches. They offset the carbon whilst providing Yahoo search results - not bad at all.

Welcome to the Teaching and Learning Resources Website! Whether you are a teacher or a pupil, from the UK or overseas, I am sure you will find something of interest here. The purpose of this site is to provide stimulating, interactive resources for children in Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 11) of Primary School. LEARNING In the Learning section, you will find specially created interactive resources written to support learning in Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum for England and Wales. All the resources in this section have been written by myself, a fully-qualified teacher with over 17 years' experience in the classroom teaching pupils aged 7 to 13. Resources include crosswords, multiple choice exercises, cloze procedure, wordsearches, web quests, games and more.

11/5/08 - This is a charming story of a Kindergarten teacher in the USA. Much of what he suggests is directly applicable or adaptable all the way up to Y6.

Some resources look relevant for primary too.

Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16. All resources are produced by elearning multimedia specialists in collaboration with every day teaching staff as a direct solution to their classroom requirements.

20/8/08 - from the Lifehacker site, click YouTube Hacks to access. Simply put, this guide assists you in: 1. Downloading YouTube videos 2. Watching YouTube videos on a TV screen 3. Creating podcasts using YouTube RSS update feeds 4. Recording audio from videos 5. [best of all] pasting videos together to create your own compilation Great stuff!

24/8/08 - This seems to be very good! It creates a Google custom search of your del.icio.us bookmarks and, crucially, all the sites you've bookmarked.

Downloadable resources for Smart and Promethean IWB's Resources for all subjects

This is a tutorial in grammar for teachers of English at KS3 - the UK terminology for ages 12-14, i.e. Years 7, 8 and 9. It explains all technical ideas and terms, and makes some suggestions for using them in teaching, and especially in the teaching of writing. It doesn't try to cover the whole of English grammar, but presents enough grammar to satisfy the DfES requirements for teaching English at KS3. The topics covered include those required at KS2, as well as a few others; similarly, the terminology is completely compatible with the official KS2 glossary for literacy as well as with the official glossary for MFL at KS3, but includes a few extra terms.