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Walking Bus - World Record attempt
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Edinburgh Street Features
Picture Resources
A selection of images for use in road safety activities. |
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One Book - One Edinburgh
Edinburgh's very first citywide reading campaign is gearing up to take place in February 2007 at venues all across the city. Twenty-five thousand free copies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped will be distributed, tied in with a month-long series of events.
Find out more about this here.
Find out more about the special programmne for schools here |
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A Reading database for pupils and staff , compiled by the reading groups of Information and Learning Resources. |
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The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative practices in America's schools. They do this through the creation of media -- from films, books, and newsletters, to CD-ROMS. Their web site contains all the multimedia content published since 1997. |
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Interactive Body
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This is an important new development. A free web application that produces MS Office compatible documents, spreadsheets and presentations and stores them online with the ability to collaborate, share and publish. The programme downloads the parts you need , as you need them onto any computer, Windows, Mac or Linux.
http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo |
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Imagination
sponsored by General Electric is a free online electronic whiteboard. You can write on it and invite your friends to collaborate on a board. Then you can save it, print it or email it. Lots of fun for interclass collaboration. It can be found at -http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage |
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Radio Juniper Green
Class P7A at Juniper Green Primary School have produced their first Podcast. It can be found on their school website, www.junipergreen.edin.sch.uk, or by clicking here |
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| ArtisanCam is an interactive website, commissioned by the Culture Online initiative, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It gives an insight into the lives of contemporary visual artists and their work, and is aimed primarily at pupils aged 10-14 and their teachers. Users can watch artists live in their studios or working on location, with video recordings of past sessions. Pupils and teachers can also learn by trying a classroom workshop led by an artist or an online activity. The website is at http://www.artisancam.org.uk |
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Arts and Learning
A new website for Arts and Learning in the department, created by Mary Walters, has been launched. It features many of the projects undertaken and shows examples of some of the work undertaken. It can be found here>>> |
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Problem Solving and Enquiry: 5 - 14
This website is part of the LT Scotland sites and covers all aspects of using problem Solving and Enquiry as a tool in learning and teaching. There are many video clips illustrating points being made, plus a challenge to work out the length of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover!
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
The address is http://earth.google.com/
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Teachers' TV
Teachers' TV, the TV channel for everyone who works in schools, launched on 8th February 2005 along with its full website. It is running on Telewest Ch. 240, Sky Ch.592 and repeated overnight on Frreview Ch. 47. You can find out more at www.teachers.tv
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Update to Inspiration 7.6
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SSPCA Education Website
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Holocaust Memorial Day
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Sound and Light Animations.
A set of animations to support learning in sound and light at levels D - F in the Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines for Science. They were created in a project funded by an ICT Enhancement Award from LT Scotland. The team was led by Robert Brice in the Physics Dept. at James Gillespies High School. |
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A site for Science/Biology teachers with interactive activities for 4 areas of the body - the Brain, the Skeleton, the heart and the Digestive Tract. |
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Yahooligans Teachers Guide.
You have probably heard of Yahooligans, the Yahoo site for children, but did you know it also has a teacher's section with an enormous library of links to resources on the Web arranged by subject. Scroll down to Yahooligans Categories and pick your subject from the list! Its another site which is American focused but still has a great deal of very useful resources for teachers here. |
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The National Priorities in Education
This site is being regularly added to and developed. One area of interest to Teachers is a library of video and audio clips of colleagues demonstrating and discussing how they have tackled aspects of the 5 priorities in their classrooms and schools. There are contributions from some Edinburgh schools. |
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Improving
Science Education 5-14
A site aimed mainly at Science teachers, but it does have the Revised 5-14 guidelines for all the Environmental Studies subjects in web format. |
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| Today’s kids are different than kids were 15 years ago. They learn differently and as a result feel disconnected from schools that were designed for another time. This article, with audio and video clips from teachers and students involved, explores some of the new possibilities to adapt teaching and learning in the 21st century. |
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Although focussed towards the American system, it is nevertheless a superb source for teachers here as well. The fact that it is updated almost daily makes it worth revisiting frequently.
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