Friday, 16 November 2012

Videosift

This is a very large collection of videos, sorted by newness or popularity. In addition, there are playlists and channels of similar themes, including Art (5940), Cinema (9000), Controversy (5160), Documentaries (3980), Education (260), Equality (1440), French (500), Health (1260), History (3220), Kid (friendly) (3300), Philosophy (1460), Religion (4080), Science (5440), Short films (2220), Teens (1180), World Affairs (4360). US bias but good for starters or plenaries. See here for details.

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Lessons for Next Year

Need content for next year's topics? Not sure how to fill 5 lessons a week? Then use a specialised Google search to see what others have done on the topic.  Click HERE to enter advanced search, enter your chosen topic at the top and find 'filetype' to narrow your search by. This will allow you to choose only PowerPoint files, and this will let you browse existing presentations on your topic. The results will inspire your own lessons, either as a new PowerPoint based on several others, or by using some of the content you can use as the basis for your own chalk and talk. You can do exactly the same for pdf, Excel, Word and Flash files.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Pete's PowerPoint Station

In a hurry to come up a lesson? Pete's PowerPoint Station is a site that collects together a comprehensive selection of presentation links, with a detailed index page. Although there is US bias, a 1800+ topics should cover most things, especially for KS3 . See HERE for the full topic list.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Culture 24 and Show Me

The Arts Council, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council & the DoE have together come up with Culture 24 and Show Me, two related sites that cover 15,263 UK museum related items, plus 9,500+ archived. Culture 24 is for secondary, and Show Me for primary resources, and both have teacher sections to relate content to curriculum. The secondary content is biased towards Arts, History and Science/Nature.