Finally catching up.

The Guardian    They will persist on calling it  ‘the basics’. Why this separation of learning? ‘Learning for Life’ Implies continuum. Surely.   sad really.   Damned at 11. Still! Everyone’s got to be ready for 11, even if they are not.  Why?  Perhaps the ‘rest of the curriculum’ needs to be made accessible  not vice versa.  [...]

Information Rveolution

Spell with Flicker

Spell with Flicker. Type in the word and watch the Flicker version appear. Spell with Flicker Education

StrategicDirections

Interesting Podcast to listen to.   Doug Dickinson Podcast from David Noble’s Site.    

“Preoccupied with testing”

An independent enquiry into Primary Education

Clay Animation Anyone?

A free program for stop motion animation and a whole site full of help. Stop Motion Animator Clay Animator Website

OnLIne Art

Brilliant Interactive Art from the National Gallery in Washington DC. National Gallery of Art – Washington DC

Create your own start page.

There are a number of companies offering services to create your own start page. Simply put, rather than having one home page, you can have many pages feeding to one or more aggregated pages. On your home page you can choose to have a mixture of LINKS, RSS FEEDS, FLICKR PHOTOS, WEATHER MAPS, CLOCKS etc. [...]

miniLegends Mentoring Programme

A whole class of Yr 3s in South Australia being mentored by people around the world. Check it out!   Al Upton and the miniLegends   

PhotoFiltre

A free graphics program to experiment with filters.    PhotoFiltre