teachinglinks.co.uk

Comprehensible and useful information on grammar/sentence structure.

An amazing links site - 100s of well-ordered links to choose from covering the entire curriculum and many whole-school issues. There is a fantastic section with 100s more links suitable for children and ordered by category.

A fun way of learning about maps. Good quality too, as it's from the Ordnance Survey.

Does what it says on the tin: a teacher, who rants, in blog format.

An entertaining and cynical look at the place of teaching in society.

A site designed for educators to share experiences of working with digital video.

Track down books, authors, illustrators, publishers and reviews.

Author information and weblinks - a great start to researching authors.

An interesting look at promoting better thinking. Although some of the ideas are unorthodox they are all useful and/or thought provoking.

26/2/08 - Highly recommended for powering websites and blogs as well as plain old bookmarking.

27/2/08 - "Rememble is a 'washing line' for your digital bits and pieces. Thread together texts, photos, videos, sounds, scribbles, scans, notes, tweets... so they're not drifting in a digital wasteland...
1. Sign up. It takes less than a minute (honest), and save Rememble's mobile number on your phone.
2. Add texts, pics, vids, and audio clips from your PC or phone - as easy as sending to a friend.
3. Share as much or as little as you like with friends, make group timelines and generate your own communities for new things you want to do.

27/2/08 - Great stuff!  Useful to 1) teach children about different features of newspapers and 2) create one online.

27/2/08 - "This site is aimed at Primary School teachers who are interested introducing a multilingual dimension into their lessons."  Identifying languages, comparing languages, languages as codes, how languages work, learning languages and links.

27/2/08 - "Welcome to Sun|trek. Take a journey into space and find out more about the star on your doorstep, the place it holds in our universe and how it plays an important part in our lives."  Possible uses in English as well.

27/2/08 - Possible uses for Art, Science, ICT (DTP or graphics) and English

29/2/08 - A narrowing of the curriculum has led to a decrease in the quality of English primary schooling, says a report. "High stakes" testing of pupils has led to a system "focused on literacy and numeracy at the expense of the broader curriculum", it suggests.

29/2/08 - School admissions and parental choice are fuelling segregation, says the man in charge of England's admissions.

1/3/08 - type in the meaning / defintion and it tells you the word you're thinking of.

You can also get it to generate lists (e.g. large birds) and explore related concepts (e.g. football).

1/3/08 "Over 9,000 free font downloads for the everyday geek!"