Useful video using Windows Movie Maker and Audacity

 Hat-tip Joe Dale.

Alternate viewpoint…

The TES gets a new website on the 21st of August. I had a quick play with the Beta version, there are some new features which will hopefully encourage sharing of resources and practice.

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

A range of videos that might be useful to colleagues. Which ones would you add? Thanks to Kelly for bringing to his my attention.

I read Oliver James’s book Aflluenza quite a while ago, there is a great section on education, just came across his talk at the RSA from 2006.

Animoto have updated their education programme allowing easier use for students. We had a play with this last term, brilliant tool.

Thanks to Pauline for sharing this resource, a great number of images related to a range of curriculum areas.

A useful list of ideas here for beginning and experienced teachers. Hat-tip Patricia.

Just speaking aloud.

Currently thinking about this as I’m half way through Guy Claxton’s book. He uses this quote by Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Not in a negative way; after the pressure of exams have disappeared, the knowledge and skills left behind are representative of the education that the child has had. He talks about an epistemic apprenticeship, one based upon how knowledge is created and how it can be challenged. He also discusses a ‘character building curriculum’, character in terms of the qualities needed for life-long learning, curiosity, imagination, resilience …

Interesting discussions about the successful student and the successful learner, the successful student not necessarily being the most successful learner and vice versa…