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18/6/09 - Great way of showing links between word groups and synonyms. Fully interactive and colourful.
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more fromwww.visuwords.com
15/5/09 - High-quality images of rickety bridges in a range of different places around the world. I will use this page of over 20 pages for describing settings in narrative.
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more fromwww.dirjournal.com
19/4/09 - "Photorealistic zoo". Make your own new animals, play animal games and puzzles. Learn about animals. Build animal habitats. Superb site for habitats or as a writing stimulus. The site even offers lesson plans.
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more fromswitchzoo.com
19/4/09 - "How to Teach a Child to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony." This could have great application in P4C / thinking skills, or just conflict resolution. Essentially, it focuses on arguments/persuasive rhetoric founded in logic, reputation and emotion. This could also provide the basis for an interesting speaking and listening or persuasive writing lesson.
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more fromwww.figarospeech.com
29/3/09 - This will be particularly useful for discussion of life cycles and as a writing stimulus. Clips include: snowstorm, eclipse, corn growing, caterpillars turning into butterflies, earth rise, a rotting apple, a thunder storm, the Northern Lights, and a firestorm.
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more fromblog.wired.com
17/3/09 - A wealth of writing resources for primary and secondary teachers. Helps with finding story ideas, developing plot and finishing the narrative. Highly recommended. Also includes writing warm up games / warm-up / starter activities.
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more fromwww.lightningbug.com.au
17/3/09 - Up to 8 users can collaborate on a document in real time. This free-to-use website could be fantastic for shared writing, brainstorming or ICT Club.
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more frometherpad.com
9/11/08 - With a small amount of editing, this will be a very interesting addition to lessons on the human body or non-chronological reports / explanation texts.
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more fromwww.deaddog.com
1/11/08 - Creative writing starter ideas; some may not be appropriate for unfiltered use in the classroom. Worth looking at though...
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more fromwww.creativity-portal.com
10/10/08 - Written by one of the major contributors to the TES staff forum and a "Big Writing" expert, this blog has plenty of ideas for improving writing.
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more fromvcopteacher.blogspot.com
30/7/08 - An entertaining and informative website which answers the above question and many others. I will use modified versions of these when teaching explanation and information texts.
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more fromwww.why-is-the-sky-blue.tv
20/7/08 - "Dial 1 for Settings / Dial 2 for Characters / Dial 3 for Dramatic Entrances / Dial 4 for Dialogue / Dial 5 to Commiserate / Dial 6 for Verbs / Dial 7 for Calisthenics / Dial 8 to Kill a Character / Dial 9 for Endings" Many of these ideas could be used in school, but I would be wary of using the actual website, as I haven't seen every possible idea. My class will be creating their own when we look at narrative writing in September.
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more fromwww.webook.com
31/5/08 - Diary, discussion, autobiography, letters, narrative and short story.
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more fromwww.guitarsounds.co.uk
30/5/08 - "Wild Sanctuary is home to the largest private archive of natural sound, anywhere! Our worldwide collection represents over 3,500 hours of wild soundscapes and nearly 15,000 species." Great for Geography, Science and as writing stimulus.
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more fromwww.wildsanctuary.com
Great document for looking at non-chronological reports Year 4 upwards.
more fromwww.kirklees-ednet.org.uk
26/3/08 - Useful collection of links to online texts that can be used to support persuasion, recount, explanation, reports, narrative and poetry.
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more fromwww.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk
20/4/08 - Gives randomised charcters and events for creative writing stimulus. I won't use this with children because some of the scenarios might elicit too many awkward questions. I will probably collate the more relevant and appropriate ones at home. Looks good though!
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more fromwww.archetypewriting.com
20/4/08 - Free, high quality tool for creating magazines. You can also view examples made by other people/groups.
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more fromwww2.edu.fi
2/3/08 - Creative inspiration, writing games, sentence games and creating creative games from stories.
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more fromwww.everybodywrites.org.uk
25/3/08 - Glossy look and plenty of features to create your own magazine. As it says "a free tool for teachers and students to make their own web-magazines"
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more fromwww.edu.fi
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