Hello everyone! This blog is aimed mainly at teachers and LSA’s in primary schools who wish to enhance their ICT skills and use new technologies in their teaching. Feel free to comment on every post. You can say if the post or website was useful to you or if you encountered any difficulties in accessing a particular link. If you know of a website that could be useful to other teachers and you wish to share it, kindly send me a comment including the URL (website address) and I’ll  include it in this blog. Below, you can find the latest posts, sorted by date and on the right-hand side, you can find all the posts sorted by category.

These are some games that help kids learn how to protect their privacy while they are surfing the internet. Click to play:

Activity 1: Privacy Playground 

Activity 2: Safety Land

Activity 3: Disney Online –Web Mania Game

Mathsframe.co.uk was created by a primary school teacher who thought it ridiculous that he spent most of his Sunday evenings searching for resources to use on his interactive whiteboard.

Our aim is to provide simple, high quality maths resources for interactive whiteboards. To make resources that allow for effective differentiation and progression, and to make planning easier (and less time consuming) for teachers.

All our actvities are clear and simple to use and understand. They are designed as tools for teachers to use to teach. All activities are linked to a key objective/objectives from the Primary Framework. They are ideal for reinforcing and practicing the key mathematical skills and concepts.

This site contains links to other websites that can be used with interactive whiteboards in Maths lessons.

 

FlexiMusic Kids Composer is a fun, easy way for kids to learn the basics of music-making and recording.  FlexiMusic Kids Composer software can be used at home for furthering your child’s musical experiences, or by schools for exploring the fundamental basics behind music creation. FlexiMusic Kids Composer software is packed with many “Tunes”. Kids can record live vocals, and e-mail songs to friends and family. Wake up your child’s creative talents by giving them FlexiMusic Kids Composer.

The Skola portal offers teaching staff the opportunity to share resources. The notes below will help to download any material you need but more important, they will help you to upload your work to be shared with your colleagues. Let’s make eachother’s life easier by sharing our resources!

Click here to download the notes: Sharing Resources Notes

Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet.

WELCOME…we’re glad YOU’RE HERE! So what’s the dilly-o? In a nutshell, we believe that music can play a special role in our lives…and this is especially true for children. Parents seem to intuitively know this…and for this reason you’ll find them encouraging their kids to learn music…not only through teaching them singalong songs when they are young, but encouraging them to take music lessons on an instrument, or by joining a school or church choir. And, of course…one of the things that inspires children to learn music is for them to fall in love with great music…even at an early age.

For this reason, we’ve gotten together a bunch of quality children’s music artists to share some of their great music for free. These are complete songs, not edited versions. And they are high quality…not poor quality versions designed to “tease” into buying an album. All the music downloads for kids you’ll find on this site are FREE: listen, download, play them on your computer, or burn them to a personal CD for boombox or car listening (of course, you can’t copy and re-sell them to others…).

WHY is this wonderful kids music FREE? While you generally will not find Disney, Veggie Tales or Sesame Street music here, what you will find is well-crafted music from talented, fiercely-independent children’s music artists who do what they do because they believe kids are important. They post some free music downloads here to introduce you to their music. After all, if you like what you hear here, you might want them to come sing in your community or even buy an album or two! Once again…just to be clear…unlike the MP3 theft you’re hearing about on the news…these are LEGAL, FREE MP3 music downloads. Download…listen…share them with your friends!

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

KIDiddles has free songs and nursery rhymes to listen to and download. Hundreds of free printable lyric sheets, activity sheets and sheet music. Free CHRISTMAS songbook-28 favorite Christmas songs.

LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English. Find games, songs, stories and lots of activities – and learn English too.