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It should be noted that the inclusion of these web links does not in any way represent endorsement by North Lanarkshire Education computer Centre. We are not responsible for the content of these external websites or for any subsequent links.

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September 2010

Comic Life in Education

Making comics is fun for everyone, and Comic Life makes it easy. Teachers and students will find Comic Life a very useful software tool, and now it's available to all north Lanarkshire schools as we have a county wide license.

Technology not only changes how we write, but it also changes what writing is. Education will need to re-evaluate which writing skills teachers should pass to their students. Digital graphic writing is one genre students need to be fluent. Comic Life is the "word processor" of digital graphic writing.

Lots of information on comic life and its use in teaching & learning. Examples, sources for images and more.

March 2010

tutpup - play, compete, learn

Tutpup consists of some pretty straightforward drill and practise maths and spelling exercises so far, although they seem to be interested in increasing the range of games. What makes tutpup different is the fact that you play the games against other members of the community live. While playing they can see the progress of their opponent who is identified by a user name and a flag for their country, in my class this generated a lot of excitement. From a safety point of view tutpup is great, the help for parents and privacy policy are clear. Each child is identified by a colour-animal-number user name only, the site does not collect data from the children, teachers and parents need an email address and to give permission to the children. The setup for a class is slick and simple, teachers set a class code which pupils use to join a class. There is even some simple recording of scores.

February 2010

Enterprise in Education

The Enterprise team have got this website up and running. Information and news will be displayed on the website and the Enterprise team will use it as their main source of getting information to everyone, so please visit the website as often as possible so you don't miss out on anything. Check out all of the other sections of the website to see what other schools in North Lanarkshire are getting up to. Some of the pages are currently still under construction or they are awaiting information and pictures from schools. Every effort is being made to get them populated as soon as possible, so please be patient.

If you have any enterprise news, stories, events or pictures please send them in to Michelle and David. Their contact details are on the site.

January 2010

edte.ch

The blog of Tom Barrett a vey inspiring site which looks at how Tom has encorporated ICT into his teaching and learning in all sorts of way. Cutting edge ideas with great details of how he has carried out the work. Home to the Interesting Ways a collection of presentations on how to uses all sorts of ICT in interesting ways, for example 'Forty-Four Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard' or 'Twenty six Interesting Ways to Use Audio in your Classroom'.

Each presentation has been collaborativly created by teachers from all around the world. Tom starts with one slide, one idea and asks for contributions.

December

Christmans Links

A ton of christmas links for schools, includes links to other collections of Christmas links including: Kent NGfL Christmas Links and links in various categories: religious, crafts, activities and lots more.

November

October

BBC - Wildlife Finder - Homepage

Wildlife Finder gives you access to an ever growing catalogue of BBC natural history programmes, with video clips from series such as: Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Life on Earth, Natural World, the Nature of Britain and many more.

September 2009

Show Me

The site is packed with games and resources generated by the UK's museum, gallery and heritage sector.

Interactive educational games and resources are organised by topic and listed in the scrollable menu to the right.

All content is targeted at the primary sector.

Topics (with various titles) include Art and Design, Science and Technology, Prehistory, Ancient Civilisations, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Romans, Tudors, Victorians, 20th century Britain, Natural World, Dinosaurs and a topic called Everything Else!

June 2009

Ideas to Inspire

'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world."

The presentations have been created with Google presentations on google docs and teachers from around the world asked to join in and add their ideas on slides in the presentations.

The presentations are organised into Curriculum ideas, Interesting ways to use ICT in your classroom and other collaborative presentations.