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Heritage Explorer www.heritageexplorer.org.uk Heritage Explorer provides classroom resources and accessible information to create a one-stop shop for teachers seeking to inspire classes at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. All the information can be downloaded and...
"A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video ...
In Kent, we have many schools eager to use the computer game 'Myst', after being inspired by Tim Rylands at our recent ICT Conference. January 2009 is the official launch of Kent's writing project using the computer game Myst, when we will...
From 31 July 2008 the national contract which provides the British Pathe film archive to schools at zero cost will end. Schools may continue to use downloaded film material to the end of August 2009. After that date such material will have to be deleted...
19 January - a whole day workshop for 200 Kent teachers. Contact mandy.barrow@kent.gov.uk for further details After Tim's inspirational afternoon presentation at the EIS ICT Conference , we are inviting Tim down to Kent for the last two weeks of January...
“ Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information.” View photos of a country, listen to the native language of that area, learn more about transportation, education, religion, people, etc...
The Kented website has been moved onto the Kent servers and we are presently experiencing problems editing pages. So ..... Please find below our website of the week for this week: Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write...
Taggalaxy is one of many online tools that that is a search engine for Flickr. ( Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload and share their photos. http://taggalaxy.de/ The way it works is that you type in your key word...
We first had You Tube, then Teacher Tube and now we have Schools Tube. http://www.schoolstube.com/ (Hopefully the site is not blocked) I have been watching the Vikings this morning and also a stream in Ashford!
With thanks to Helen Knight, from St George's CE Primary School in Wrotham, for kindly providing the following notes from the Malling Cluster's multimedia day. Thumbnail Searchengine http://www.pagebull.com/ Excellent site. Like a google search, but thumbnails...
"Here, you'll find both 100% free content as well as premium-quality for-purchase products, courtesy of CrystalGraphics, all designed to make professional-looking websites, PowerPoint presentations and other office documents. Products include an impressive...
Mike Trodd, at Cecil Road Primary school, has written an easy to use guide on how to download YouTube videos using Realplayer. Videos need to be downloaded at home because YouTube is blocked at school. They can then be put onto pen drives and either re...
http://www.filmstreet.co.uk/ FilmStreet is a partnership between CBBC, British Film Institute and other publicly-funded organisations. It contains resources to support the use of media in the renewed Literacy Framework. The site aims to promote three...
Flickr is a place on the internet where many people are uploading and storing their photographs. Some people very kindly allow their photographs to be used using the Creative Commons Licence . This means that these photographs can be used in the classroom...
We have highlighted www.geograph.org.uk before but it is worth mentioning again. It has grown into a huge resource of pictures freely available under the Creative Commons Licence . (Many Flickr users have also chosen to offer their work under a Creative...
Microsoft's free PhotoStory has been around for sometime now. It enables the user to produce creative and informative presentations using still images as the starting point. As the software is simple to use pupils are motivated and able to produce excellent...
What type of students do you have? Do you know any ducks, eagles, bears, zebras, kangaroos, fish, squirrels, or bees? "Once upon a time the animals had a school. They had to create curriculum that would satisfy everyone so they chose four subjects…running...
Heather Pettitt writes: There is a new and exciting history videoconferencing workshop on offer from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. It is a session on the Romans (KS2) and is running on Wednesdays this term and next. Please see our web site...
Dear All, I have been working with EIS for nearly a year now making "Starters for Study" based on various Pathe Films. Some, though not all of my work can be found at http://www.segfl.org.uk/projects/view.php?id=175 Some is also available on ClusterWeb...
www.beyondpathe.org.uk WMNet (West Midlands education broadband consortium) have launched a pilot project to help schools make use of the huge British Pathe film archive. The focus has been on World War II. Pathe is of course free to all KCN schools,...
http://www.arkiveeducation.org/ K . Brooker at York Road Juniors recommends this site as a rich source of information about different species. It's linked to Arkive, a source of copyright-free images dedicated to the preservation of endangered species...
I've needed to do this for pupils' Clicker5 video books! Drag a video, then a still picture from the video, into a cell, so that children can see which video is going to be played. Otherwise the cell is blank until clicked to play the video. You can do...
Maths TV has some fascinating Flash movies dealing with maths problems. It is deal for the IWB or for students to work through on their own. http://www.actionmath.com/index.html The maths problems are posed; then students follow along as a virtual instructor...
All KCN broadband schools can access British Pathe and Audio Network - but note that you have to be in school! This is because free entry is granted on recognition of your school's IP address. James Blomfield at Capel-le-Ferne Primary has been using British...
http://www.geograph.org.uk/ I found this quite by chance. The project opened a year ago with the aim of publishing a photograph to represent every square kilometre of the UK. 25% is already covered, and there's a clickable map to give easy access. There...
http://jam.bbc.co.uk The BBC Digital Curriculum has been launched. It's totally free, and safe, with no external links other than into the main BBC site - and you don't see these within the activities. It covers Years 1 to 11. Creating a log on - it assumes...