As part of our teaching and learning development, we have been building a new professional development resource, books recommended by colleagues. It is basically a reference for those wishing to develop certain areas of their practice or just as resource for inspiration. I’ve now added an Amazon store to the blog, so that readers can see the type of books we are using. Feel free to offer other titles.

The consultation for the new Ofsted inspection regime, due to begin in 2009, has started.

I think Photo Soup is a nice little application. You choose a key term, in this case Bangladesh, and it generates a crossword based on the tags associated with Bangladesh photos in Flickr.  Sadly embedding messes up the blog template.

Just finished Affluenza by Oliver James, which explores the links between capitalism and happiness, an interesting section on education.

As in the title, might be useful …

Hat tip - K.Cooper.