Write Comics

Ever fancied creating a comic strip? Write Comics is an easy to use site that enables you to create your own comic strip. A fun way to get a message over to your students.

Educaplay

Educaplay enables you to create Multimedia Teaching Activities You can create lots of different teaching activities (riddles, crosswords, wordsearch, jumbled sentences, matching, quizzes and more) and does not need any specific software apart from a web browser with flash plugin.

Evernote

I confess that I have not visited and updated this blog for a while and one of the reasons for this is my discovery of Evernote. This is a tool that can be used to store any information and group related ideas in notebooks or relate adn search for them using tags. Whatebver you want to record, you can do it using this tool. Evernote can be downloaded to a PC onto a smartphone or used on the web. This makes it even more useful - you can access your work wherever you are. You can even share your notebooks with interested others if you want.

Science Learning Centres - Christmas related Science

Since it is almost Christmas, I would like to offer a link to some seasonal fun from Science Learning Centres who have blogged 12 Christmas activities in the science classroom on 5th December 2011.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Careers

If you are interested in careers in hospitality, leisure, travel or tourism it is worth having a look at www.uksp.co.uk . This website produced by People First offers information and guidance on career options within these industries. This includes online tools and interactive activities covering: information about careers choices, employers, training opportunities, career routes and progression and skills and personality tests (coming soon).

Copyright permission for use of our Royalty Free Pictures and Royalty Free Photographs

The copyright-free-pictures website offers a wide selection of free pictures for non-commercial internet use. The website clearly lays out the terms and conditions to their use such as a maximum of three to be used on any one URL or website and there must be a link back to the copyrigh-free-pictures page.

A new view of the world - Cartograms

The Worldmapper website provides almost 700 density-equalising maps realting to different topics. These cartograms re-size the territories according to the variable being mapped. So if you want to compare areas by transport, tourism, production, disease or many other categories, these maps can show you relative densities and provide a poster summarising the data. The site offers a range of variables to compare the countries.