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
Edutopia is funded by George 'Star Wars' Lucas and has a lot of teaching resources and articles http://www.edutopia.org/
This one comes from Dr. Ned Hallowell, who spoke at CEESA the other year and you can subscribe to receive his 'crazy busy' tips http://www.drhallowell.com
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 http://www.acsso.org.au/
This is another Australia organization focusing on Curriculum Leadership - great for short articles and research abstracts http://www.curriculum.edu.au/leader/
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 IICSThe 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Add any you find, I will try to remove the out of date onesOnline Educational Organizations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
http://www.edutopia.org/
This one comes from Dr. Ned Hallowell, who spoke at CEESA the other year and you can subscribe to receive his 'crazy busy' tips
http://www.drhallowell.com
T.H.E Journal is a good one for online learning - here is the link to subscribe to their newsletter
https://newsletters.1105pubs.com/nl/THE.do?NL=5481&PC=12NLF
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
http://www.acsso.org.au/
This is another Australia organization focusing on Curriculum Leadership - great for short articles and research abstracts
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/leader/
Social Bookmarking
We created a Delicious account for teachers three years ago to log in good websites for teaching and learning, here is the linkhttp://www.delicious.com/IICSteachers
27/5/2011 - how to add a delicious extension on Safari
Safari Delicious Extension
Video Resources
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
If you want to add online resources to this site - send me an email and I will add it