Resources

Online Dictionaries

Online Dictionaries

A look at a range of online dictionaries including: Cambridge, Lingro, Memidex and Shahi.

Level: Cross-phase

  • Ks2
  • Ks4
  • Ks3
  • Dictionary
We Tell Stories: Digital Story Telling

We Tell Stories: Digital Story Telling

We Tell Stories is Penguin UK's most ambitious digital writing project to date. In collaboration with fêted alternate reality game designers Six to Start, Penguin has challenged some ...

Level: Cross-phase

  • Ks2
  • Digital literacy
  • Ks4
  • Ks3
  • Stories
Tap into the minds of everyone!

Tap into the minds of everyone!

Evaluate your students learning and opinions throughout your lesson with Poll Everywhere. This easy to use website allows students to poll in their responses and offers a picture of minute by ...

Level: Cross-phase

Free online chats with coral experts

Free online chats with coral experts

Book an online chat with an expert in Corals, through the Digital Explorer...

Level: Cross-phase

  • Skype
  • Resources
  • Oceans
  • Marine environments
  • Marine biology
  • Coral
How to start Year 7 Geography  with a bang

How to start Year 7 Geography with a bang

An excellent blog post by Paul Berry about the way that he introduced his new 'Amazing Places' unit in Year 7. 

Level: Secondary

  • Geography
  • Digital geography
  • Models
  • Narrative
  • Landscape
  • Mystery
Free tools for engaging learners: get your discussions moving via blogging!

Free tools for engaging learners: get your discussions moving via blogging!

Try out a new tool to encourage communication and discussion: Edublogs, the ideal tool to get started with blogging!

Level: Cross-phase

  • Blogging
Inanimate Alice: A digital Novel

Inanimate Alice: A digital Novel

Inanimate Alice is Transmedia - designed as a story that unfolds over time and on multiple platforms, the episodes are available on devices capable of running Flash Player. Alice connects ...

Level: Cross-phase

  • Multimodal
  • Ks2
  • Ks3
  • Novel
  • Digital
Working with HTML

Working with HTML

A basic guide to simple html tags to help improve your formatting when posting online. Includes a brief overview of working with textfixer to automate the process.

Level: Cross-phase

  • Html
  • Web tools
Celestia

Celestia

Celestia is your one-stop-shop software for all things spacey. Fly around the solar system at break neck speeds, view the Milky Way from outside the galaxy and return home to earth on the ...

Level: Secondary

  • Science
  • Ks4
  • Ks3
  • Space
  • Solar system
  • Planet
  • Star
  • Galaxy
Using AnswerGarden in the classroom

Using AnswerGarden in the classroom

AnswerGarden is a feedback tool. It provides an easy and powerful way to get feedback from a group. Use it in the classroom as an online voting system, for tests or as a creative brainstorming ...

Level: Cross-phase