Vancouver 2010 Photographs

I love Canada, I love the Olympics, and I love The Big Picture website. So when you get all three combined, it’s just fantastic
The Big Picture have produced 45 excellent photographs from week 1 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Some of these would be excellent to use in Science lessons to illustrate forces [...]

Promethean Flipchart Search Tool

Just a quick post. You may not be aware that it’s now possible to use the power of Google to search only for Promethean flipcharts using this custom search engine:

A similar feature exists for Smartboard users if you want to find Smart Notebook resources.

10 Secondary Science Resources for your Whiteboard

As a companion post to 10 Primary Science ideas for your Whiteboard, here are 10 secondary school Science websites you might enjoy:
Absorb Learning from Yenka : Hundreds of free IWB animations for KS4/KS5 Chemistry and Physics.
ARKive :  thousands of free wildlife videos and photographs, including great Darwin resources.
FreezeRay : large bank of interactive Science animations [...]

10 More Cool Teaching Resources for Your Whiteboard

Here’s another guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online degree programs for OnlineDegreePrograms.org. She wrote the very popular guest post: 20 Interactive Whiteboard Resources last summer.

Engaging students in some classroom topics can be difficult. But with the help of your interactive whiteboard [...]

Incredibox

Here’s a fun little website for a Sunday morning. Incredibox allows you to create music using what is best described as a virtual human beatbox. You have to really try it to get the idea. Very simple to use, just drag the different sound icons onto each person to play each loop. Easy to use [...]

Primary French Resources from Orangery Education

With languages set to become a statutory requirement from 2011, Orangery Education Ltd has produced a bank of resources for the whole of  the Primary QCA MFL schemes of work. Key features include all vocabulary recorded by native speakers, video clips of French children speaking and singing songs, and all the authentic photographs you need, [...]

Brain Pop UK

Brain Pop UK is an excellent website that contains simple animations that explain lots of different topics. They are great for use on an IWB to introduce a topic or as a lesson starter.
Here’s Tim and Moby explaining all about Brain Pop UK.

The site is a subscription site, but some resources are free. You can [...]

Teaching Videos

Teaching Videos is a great new free website from Mark Warner – you may know him from other educational websites such as Ideas to Inspire, Display Photos, and Teaching Ideas.
Teaching Videos is intended to be a place where teachers and view and share educational videos that can be used in the classroom. Whilst you can [...]

Promethean Canada Resource Pack

With the 2010 Winter Olympics taking place in Vancouver/Whistler in a few weeks time, the eyes of the world will turn to Canada. With that in mind, Promethean have produced a great resource pack to teach your students all about Canada. This pack is for Activ Inspire only.

This resource pack contains 140 resources on the [...]

Make your own on-screen jigsaw puzzles

Thanks to Peter Bryenton for his comment on my Big Huge Labs post yesterday for pointing me towards this website that allows you to turn any of your images into a drag and drop jigsaw.

You can embed the code into your blog/VLE or just link direct to the page.
Try it out with one of your [...]

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