National Centre for Technology in Education (Ireland)

The NCTE has been set up in Ireland to provide advice, support and information on the use of ICT in education.

It has developed a number of educational portals and websites, often in conjunction with other partners. Go HERE for details and links to sites, including Scoilnet, a portal for links in secondary subjects (see HERE), several Internet safety sites, images for education, French and German teaching sites with links, plus ones for Geography and History, and basic Science resources.

Teachers TV - New links

The Department for Education (DfE) has signed agreements with at least 7 organisations, so that the 3,500 plus Teachers TV video archive remains available to all. Teachers TV was a government-funded service that broadcast on UK television and online from 2005 to 2011. See here for details of the new sites.
Some of the 7 include other material from sites no longer available in their previous form, such as the National Strategies, QCDA and Becta sites.

Wisconsin Online Digital Library

Wisconsin Technical College System hosts a collection of 2310 learning objects as a digital library, many animated, known as WISC-Online. The subjects range from business, science, english and maths, plus some items relevant to teachers under Professional Development. Go here and register to use.

Education Scotland

A previous post in 2008 referred to LTS, a Scottish resource bank based on their curriculum. This has now changed to Education Scotland, and the subject homepage is to be found here.

Adobe Resources

Adobe have opened a site for sharing resources, and currently have 2,213 listed via nearly 28,000 members. They are listed across 3 regions, UK, USA & Canada, and Australia & NZ, and can be searched via grade, relevant Adobe product, resource type and subject. Registration is required to browse all resources here.

Vital resources

Vital is an professional development organisation, whose resources are delivered by the Open University and funded by DfE. They show how ICT can be used better in the classroom, and have developed resources for many secondary subjects, from Art to Science. See the details HERE via their secondary portal.

Teacher's TV closes and reopens

The Teachers TV website closed on April 29th, along with 3,500+ relevant videos for schools. But all is not lost - A group of UK teachers has succeeded in downloading all the videos and materials to share with other teachers online via Google Docs.
In addition, Teachers TV programmes will be available free for anyone to view from 11 May, when operator Ten Alps is relaunching the channel as online service SchoolsWorld.

GCSE Revision

As the new term nears, Year 11 are on the home stretch to their GCSE exams. Previously I posted revision sites HERE, and here are a few more ideas:

Quizlet is a massive flash card site, with 5 million plus sets covering many subjects, and is a good way to revise, as long as the set is relevant and detailed enough. See HERE for more details. You can build a specific set for pupils, and tweak it as it gets used.

Birmingham Grid for Learning has a good collection of revision links, from 73 online resources across all subjects, or via 11 subject choices, plus 24 revision skills links. There’s also a simple revision grid to give pupils ideas of sites to visit by subject. Look HERE for links and ideas.

O2 Learn

O₂ Learn is a new UK based site for Secondary revision videos by subject, from Art to Vocational. There are also tips to help you make your own videos, but in the meantime there are 359 videos to watch. See here for details.

Guardian Teacher Network

From 15.02.11, the Guardian newspaper gives free access to 70,000 pages of lesson plans and modern interactive teaching materials. Previously part of the paysite learn.co.uk, the resources are arraged by subject and age, and are made to download and adapt in the classroom.
33,000 individual lesson assets are supplemented by a flexible bank of more than 20,000 secondary questions that you can use to build custom tests online or on paper, plus numerous video, whiteboard and game style content. Register here for access or to upload your own resources and add to the library.

Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) resources

Promethean Planet is 'the World's Largest Interactive Whiteboard Community'. 26,464 Resources are organized into categories, and sorted by resource type, age and subject. There is also a decent search engine, some paid for resources are included, and the site is UK based.

Smart Exchange is US based, but you can select England by changing the country. 33,522 Resources are held by subject, US grade and filetype, and some paid for resources are included.