Join HFW's FishFight!

I have never felt so dumbfounded than when I saw HFW's first Fishfight programme, watching as so many perfectly good fish are discarded into the sea because the quota says NO! Nonsensical rules that lead to the unnecessary killing of unbelievable amounts of excellent food when there's so much hunger in the world!
Join Hugh's fishfight, make it your own by buying accordingly and lobbying your MPs, asking your chip shop and cafe owners so demand changes supply in a positive way!

Welcome back and a happy new year

Well, I hope you've all had a good Christmas break and had a good start to the new year! I have been very busy writing web content on using all sorts of ICT to support assessment and have found lots of new resources that I will be sharing with you. I've found some new or re-freshed Microsoft tools, some free some come as part of the Office package and lots of free web 2.0 tools.
I'll be sharing these as I get to it over the next few weeks.

Have a successful, happy, hea;thy and peaceful new e-year!

Volker

Excellent collection of e-Safety resources

I've just stumbled upon this excellent collection of e-safety resources on the brilliant www.shambles.net site:
- An Internet Safety Plan Blueprint with schemes of work and lesson plans, activities and hyperlinks to interesting resources.
- A series of connected videos on YouTube "Choose what happens next" where the viewer makes choices on e-safety issues to progress to the next consequence and so on.
- Smokescreen Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online. We all use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with our mates - and we've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you? check it out...
And lots more - a truly amazing and comprehensive collection of accessible and engaging resources! Thank you to the guys behind Shambles.net for putting this together!

How audiobooks can support slow readers

My son decided to take AS level English Literature despite his dyslexia as he's into drama and exploring and analysing stories. He finds reading long books with unknown vocab quite a challenge so we decided to download the audiobook of "Wuthering Heights" and he listened to it on his ipod while reading along - and that's the important part: he didn't want to be lazy about it, he just wanted a way of personalised support that would allow him to read at a decent pace with unusual words being managed for him without having to ask someone every couple of minutes. He was in charge, he could pause, play, go back as he liked, he could listen and read when and where he wanted, and, quite significantly, he had a precise idea of how long it would take to read a chapter (as the timings appear in the MP3 track info) which made the whole thing less daunting and more manageable for him. A PERFECT solution for a motivated student with a particular difficulty!
Here is a great FREE source for audiobooks: http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ but there are more of course.

What makes an engaging lesson?

What makes an engaging lesson?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

What is your favourite Web 2.0 tool?

What is your favourite web 2.0 tool?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

The Web 2.0 classroom community

Just stumbled upon this gem of a community while doing some research on networks. Classroom 2.0 seems a thriving community of professionals interested in making the best use of what tools Web2.0 offers.
Check it out here: http://www.classroom20.com/ !

Go on, it's really worth it!

Volker