National Digital Resource Bank

NRDB is a swapshop for teachers to exchange resources for VLEs. Launched for the new school year, it has 1100 resources so far. You can search by subject, key stage, learning time and even learner type, and use keywords. Local Authorities opt to fund it via a small change from Oct 2009, so passwords require membership first. See www.ndrb.org.uk for more details.

TES - The place to swap resources

You should already be familiar with TES if you have ever looked for a post in Education in the UK, but the site has two other reasons for a visit.
TES has a membership of 829,000+ teachers, who contribute to lively debates about their subjects, and any other educational topics, via forums. It is simply the best way to keep up to date with what matters now in your subject(s).
In addition, there is a fantastic collection of 39,000+ resources which are available to share, with comments from some who have downloaded them. Resources can be searched by keyword, subject, type and Key Stage.

Anyone who is serious about finding excellent resources, as used by real teachers in the classroom, should see www.tes.co.uk. You need to register to download, but it's a small price to pay for what you can get in return.

Learn ICT (and other subjects)

The learn ICT site is based in Swansea, and has weblink resources for many Secondary subjects, from Art to www searching, not just ICT itself.
The list of links by subject is also annotated with information about the chosen site.

See www.learn-ict.org.uk/links/curr_links.asp for details.

Edublogs and Larry Ferlazzo

Edublogs has been set up to allow teachers and pupils to create and manage their own blogs, and in itself offers potential in many subjects (see http://edublogs.org), even just as a source of links and resources.

Larry Ferlazzo has an Edublog that was originally written for English language learners in the USA, but has grown to now cover other subjects via his Best of series, and Websites of the Year and Month. Alternatively, a search by category reveals links for Geography, Grammar, Health, Educational games, Music & Art, Reading, Technology, Science and Writing, plus many other resource links.
Take your time to explore http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org carefully, and http://larryferlazzo.com/index.html for more links about English, Maths and Social Studies (History & Geography).

Teachers Resource Exchange

The TRE offers a range of more than 8,000 resources, indexed by Key Stage, year, subject, resource type (incl whiteboard, assessment, planning and weblinks) and other criteria. See http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ for details.

Schrock tactics

Kathy Schrock has a wonderful website as part of Dicovery Channel Education (US). There are links to all school subjects, sites of the school days (web 2.0 ideas), and even awards for excellent web sources for schools. Always up to date and fast changing.

See http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide for details.

Bling my Grade

North Tyneside Learning Platform has come up with a wonderfully pupil-friendly site, covering maths, english, science and PE, plus exam and revision tips. Rapping animated characters will help pupils remember facts in an unusual way. See www.blingmygrade.org.uk for details.

Vital Knowledge?

This US site includes links for many subjects, and you can search for Middle, High or Middle/High grades. Many have been chosen to include lesson plans or webquests. See www.vitalknowledge.com/teachers/resources/home.asp for details.

TTRB Site Update

The TTRB site I mentioned last July has had a redesign, and now supports the saving and rating of resources and better searching. See www.ttrb.ac.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?contentId=12086 for a look.

Yahoo Groups Education

Yahoo Groups has an Education Resources group, compiled in Australia, with almost 900 links, many topical. You may find resources by alphabetical topic, from abbreviations to zoology, with brand new items at the top.
You have to have a Yahoo account, and become a member of the group itself first, but neither are complicated. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Education_Resources/links for details by topic, or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Education_Resources/messages to enable you to search for text in titles or descriptions.

Librarians' Internet Index & Internet Public Library

LII is a 20,000+ weblink collection maintained by California's librarians, organised under 14 headings. Each is reviewed, and placed into one or more of 300 topic headings. The LII will be merging with the Internet Public Library (IPL) from October 2008.

See www.lii.org for details, and www.ipl.org/div/subject for the IPL.

Open Educational Resources

OER includes 6,000+ secondary resources with abstract summaries, and these may be selected via a filter, user tags, subject areas or type of resource.
See www.oercommons.org/oer for details. Primary and Post-Secondary resources are also offered.

Curriki shared resources

Curriki contains more than 19,000 resources submitted by users under 11 categories. Although it has a US bias, it is designed specifically for educational use.
See www.curriki.org for the homepage and ww.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Browse for the subject search, which can filter by type of resource, level and file type.
Some resources have been reviewed for quality, having been selected as excellent by users. Resource titles are often not helpful, but rest your mouse on them and a full description should appear.

Oracle Education Library

Oracle, a database software company, have backed an educational library of 7000 suitable websites for education, arranged by subject and topic, with a review of each. See www.thinkquest.org/library for details.

Poetry corner

A large range of poets reading their own work, from Tennyson to Heaney, plus background interviews. You can search by theme or form. A children's section includes Spike Milligan and Roald Dahl reading their own poems.
See www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive for details and lesson ideas for English and History teachers.

An excellent general English site is www.universalteacher.org.uk. It covers KS3 and 4, and has a section on poets from different cultures (www.universalteacher.org.uk/anthology/differentcultures.htm)

BBC Resources

You should all know BBC Bitesize by now, especially at revision time, or when you want some quick GCSE class ideas. The huge BBC site has many other relevant links for secondary teachers, however.

Try www.bbc.co.uk/schools for details, then follow the links for your subject, and don't forget www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips for short films from TV arranged by subject. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16 shows the complete range of pages for 11-16s.

Inclusion resources

Inclusion, an offshoot of the Becta website, enables browsing of resources by subject. You can choose just free or free and commercial sites in your results. Access to search results is via the gold 'View site' box, and hits can be limited by resource type, including publications, software, equipment and online information.

See http://inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk for details, and http://inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk/index.php?brsSect=2&i=113 for the subject search.

Learning & Teaching Scotland resources

Scotland has revised the secondary curriculum around 8 core subjects - expressive arts, health & wellbeing, languages, maths, religious & moral education, sciences, social sciences and technologies.

Support for these are found at www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/secondary/index.asp.

Subject Resource Networks

TTRB, the teacher training resource bank, has links to a number of sites to help Initial Teacher Training courses show trainees how to learn their craft. See www.ttrb.ac.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?contentId=12086 for details.

ISTE resources

ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, has a range of resources on their site, including lesson plans.
See www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Lesson_Plans&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=23&ContentID=3359 for plans, and www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=K_121&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=38&ContentID=3827 for general resources. US based.