15/05/10 - "Fly your imagination around the world with inspirational stories to watch, hear, read and tell" - search by genre, age or country of recommended age-group. Plus ideas for using stories at school and home - possibly useful for parental newsletters or other home-school communication.
11/05/10 - "FOSSWeb is the official site for the inquiry-based FOSS
(FULL OPTION SCIENCE SYSTEM) science curriculum. A place for support, resources, and fun activities."
11/05/10 - Great site! Packed full of videos for all aspects of ICT at KS1 and KS2. Ideal for classroom demonstrations, independent use by the children or staff information.
09/05/2010 - "The Curriculum Catalyst
Creating curriculum ideas together.
An opportunity to contribute and vote for the most interesting or relevant curriculum topic ideas. These will then be the focus of development by the wider education community.
After a period of voting we will focus on the top topic and crowd-source an ideas map. This will be a collection of subject related ideas in a simple format that could be a catalyst for further more detailed topic planning.
Two things you can do:
1) Contribute a curriculum topic idea + description
2) Vote for you favourite, most interesting or most relevant topic idea"
09/05/2010 - "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
24/04/10 - Scratch tutorials - if you've never heard of Scratch, it's a fun and easy way of programming suitable for upper KS2 (although I have seen advanced Year 4 children use it).
24/04/10 - Well worth a look for humanities in particular, although other subjects are well-represented. Search by Subject or topic for videos to use on the IWB.