Just+Lying+Around

Just Lying Around  This page is a follow up to our Education Forum (29/3) on resources that are 'just lying around'. Your are invited to add any online links or comments to help us bump into great practice or question our own.

IB Links
I just had to add this as the first stop on looking at how we teach and learn at IICS

[|The Online Curriculum Centre] - a one stop site for resources, IB documentation and discussion forums on a huge range of topics

[|PYP Threads] - Greta mentioned this and it is a great site for interacting with PYP teachers and seeing what is happening in the IB community - you can even create your own NING!

PODCASTS This is a new section on our Wiki, inspired by the searching efforts of Marius in Grade 3, he gives us our first links 6/3/2011 - [|Radiolab] - They have some fun podcast learning about cities and a lot of different things

6/4/2011-http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/id278981407-they talk about the brain and other things

Webinars
Add any you find, I will try to remove the out of date ones

Online Educational Organizations
 Here is a chance to add ones you may find. Often these groups send out newsletters containing up to date articles.

13/5/2011 - [|Skype in the Classroom] - you can start a project or join one and meet up with educators around the world!

This is amazing stuff http://www.khanacademy.org/

 To start here is one I use a lot www.ascd.org

Edutopia is funded by George 'Star Wars' Lucas and has a lot of teaching resources and articles []

This one comes from Dr. Ned Hallowell, who spoke at CEESA the other year and you can subscribe to receive his 'crazy busy' tips <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">http://www.drhallowell.com

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">T.H.E Journal is a good one for online learning - here is the link to subscribe to their newsletter <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This is an Australian link with a lot of content and discussions, you can sign up for a newsletter and receive regular updates of education developements []

This is another Australia organization focusing on Curriculum Leadership - great for short articles and research abstracts http://www.curriculum.edu.au/leader/

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Social Bookmarking
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">We created a Delicious account for teachers three years ago to log in good websites for teaching and learning, here is the link <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> [] 27/5/2011 - how to add a delicious extension on Safari [|Safari Delicious Extension]

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Video Resources
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Everyone is using youtube, but there are other niche video resources out there for you to tap into

16/5/2011 - https://www.eduvision.tv/index.html A solid collection of videos, not as inspiring a choice as youtube, but great range of topics

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">If you want to add online resources to this site - send me an email and I will add it