General education links

(British Educational and Communications Technology Agency)

BECTa say of their site:-

"The Becta Web site provides information, advice and dialogue relating to ICT in education for the schools and FE sectors. From case studies and examples of good practice to practical guidance on using ICT within the curriculum and for administration, the Becta web site can help keep you up to date."

Bolton Curriculum ICT Centre (link updated)

Award-winning site.

Breakfast Clubs

A web site "devoted to providing the information you need to set up and run a successful before-school breakfast club." From Kellog's

Clickteaching

An online resource database for primary education with free worksheets, lesson plans and activity ideas for schools and teachers.

Recommended

Count On (http://www.counton.org/)

Count On is the new DfES popular maths project, continuing the mission of Maths Year 2000. Count On has been funded for two years initially, and is based at the University of York.

Very worth a look

Digitalbrain.com

Very comprehensive online resource. There's not much this service doesn't do.

Highly recommended.

Dorset Literacy Site (Link updated)

Dorset (UK) literacy site with examples of good practice. (New site not as good as original????)

Education Unlimited

The Guardian's Education site.

Recommended

Edulinks

This site, from Stuart Fawbert in North Yorkshire, says it

"was created to help teachers, children, parents and education staff find useful information without having to spend hours trawling the net."

. . . and it goes a long way to meeting this aim. Worth a look.

Educational Psychologist

This Educational Psychologist site says that visitors may,

"Work with an educational psychologist via e-mail advice and joint problem solving, or locate an educational psychologist who will make an assessment of your child. Problems with reading, writing, spelling, specific learning difficulties/dyslexia, behavior, ADD and ADHD, general learning difficulties, language delay and disorder, physical difficulties, Autistic spectrum disorders, other disorders and syndromes."

The site says that advice via email is free. It is also possible to arrange a face-to-face meeting for a fee. Refreshingly different is their copyright statement:-

"You may take anything you want from this site without fear of infringing copyright."

ERIC (Link updated)

US-based Educational Resources Information Centre. ERIC is claimed to be the largest education-related database in the world, containing more than 1,000,000 records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.

Recommended

Freedman's Information & Communication Technology

Practical ICT in education resources and ideas. Winner of several awards.

Recommended

Geoff Dellow's Flash Maths

Multimedia educational materials in Flash. Brilliant educational use of Flash. If you visit the site and want to know more, contact Geoff.

Recommended

Human Biology Guide

Useful "A"-level Human Biology site from a student at St Andrew's University.

In2Edu

An incredibly comprehensive education site from New Zealand. Lots and lots of quality links AND resources with a focus on the integration of ICT into lessons.

Very worth spending some time exploring.

Lancashire's NGfL Literacy site

Literacy resources and activities. But contacting them isn't easy. They don't reply to emails . . . .

Learn.co.uk

Lessons and learning materials from The Guardian.
Was a great site with lots of good, useful and free resources. Now they charge . . . . .Sad.

LifeBytes

LifeBytes "is a joint initiative between the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment. LifeBytes aims to provide young people between the ages of 11-14 with relevant and appropriate health information, as well as linking to a range of accurate, clear and credible websites on a variety of health issues."

It is a colourful and attractive site.

Mathsphere

The site provides lots of maths resources which can be viewed and printed out. A CD of resources is also available. Some free resources.

MAPE (ICT in Primary Education)

MAPE supports the use of ICT across the primary curriculum - and has been since the days of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s.

What does the acronym stand for? Originally, Micros and Primary Education. Now the "M" is Multimedia.

Sadly, now (2004) part of NAACE. More professional but less useful???

MAPE section of site still recommended

Mind, Body and Soul

Health issues for KS4. Mind, Body & Soul is a joint initiative between the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment. The site claims to,

"provide information throughout the website on:

the Healthy Schools Programme and the National Healthy School Standard;
the law regarding the health, safety and welfare of young people in school, and;
news and ideas from young people about their schools."

Attractive, colourful, youth-orientated site.

MirandaNet

"MirandaNet is a non profit making international fellowship of teachers, teacher educators, advisors, government agents, university education researchers, librarians and industry representatives. Their aim is to enrich lifelong learning using electronic multimedia across national, cultural, commercial and political divides."

NALDIC

Provides a professional forum for raising the achievement of ethnic minority learners.

Primary School Science

A new website to to support teachers of science in primary schools. he materials on the site "concentrate on scaffolding students' learning and the choices available to teachers will, ultimately, lead to a curriculum that teachers can tailor to the specific needs of their students."

schooldoctor.co.uk

Medical advice for parents, children and teenagers from a school doctor working in Scotland.

TeachingExpertise.com

This new site (2007) says, "Our mission is to provide teachers and everyone else who works in education with a place to learn, share and find inspiration."

Looks useful.

TeacherNet

An online community from the U.S. for K8 educators, which claims to offer "an exciting array of features and resources for the dedicated teaching professional."

Not to be confused with the UK's Teachernet, which was created after the U.S. version.

Teaching K-8 IdeaSite

A teaching pre-K-8 ideas site from the U.S.

Teaching Times

On-line educational news and views from Questions Publishing.

TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Multimedia)

Evaluations of educational multi-media by teachers for teachers.

The Centre for Literacy of Quebec

The Centre for Literacy of Quebec says that it is,

"committed to supporting and improving literacy practices in schools, community and workplace."

Wired for Health

Good teachers' reference site on health matters, from the UK Government.

Outdoor Education Research &�Evaluation Centre

This site provides resources about outdoor and experiential education
programs. Topics focus on philosophy, theory, research, &�evaluation of outdoor educational and adventure-based programs. �Includes free, full-text access to academic articles, examples, and games and activities.