Six ideas links

Here is a list of links with brief annotation, as described in my recent Six ideas publicity material; many of the sites require user registration which is usually free and all have been checked for access via Lincolnshire LA filters (if a site is blocked it is important to contact the Helpline and request unblocking- generally this will happen within 24 hours). The emphasis here is on new often small sites that contain stimulating material or inspiration to support learning in new ways.

In no particular order and all working in July 2008:

Great and highly motivating challenges to support Maths and Spelling:

http://tutpup.com/

Blog focused on Whiteboards:

http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/

Main Scratch site with links to downloads, support etc:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Brilliant Scratch support materials:

http://learnscratch.org/

Simple brainstorming application:

http://www.bubbl.us/

Exciting new venture focused on living things, with some excellent photographs:

http://www.eol.org/

Voicethread: Amazing utility supporting oracy and the entire curriculum:

http://voicethread.com/

Article pleading with us to review how we use PowerPoint with children:

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/06/why-would-you-u.html

A new utility to create a tag cloud with the words in your text:

http://tagcrowd.com/

Word clouds as a lovely picture (great for children to use):

http://wordle.net/

Tool to create visually appealing relationships between ideas:

http://vue.tufts.edu/

Link to support page for visual learning in John Medina’s great new book “Brain Rules. He makes a great case for thinking about how we use images in school:

http://www.brainrules.net/vision

Flickr! We owe it to the children to get them skilfully able to search for images and teach them about copyright. The advanced search allows searches for Creative Commons licensed content only (at the time of writing not banned by the LA filters):

http://www.flickr.com/

The National Learning Network’s resources page:

http://www.nen.gov.uk/tandl