Educate, engage, and inspire your students with video!

Fancy like using YouTube in your school, but either don;t have access or don't want to let your children gain access to the not so nice videos.  Then YouTube for Schools is for you, it provides schools access to hundreds of thousands of free educational videos from YouTube EDU.

These videos come from from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED as well as from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy,Steve Spangler Science and Numberphile.

Visit http://www.youtube.com/schools to get started today.

Store, sync, and share your documents with Dropbox instead of USB Pen Drives

Dropbox is an online file service which gives you 2GB free online storage to store, sync and share any type of file, across many different PC's. You can also decide to share files or folders with other Teachers, for example reports for each pupil that have to be filled out by more than one class Teacher.

All you do is install Dropbox on each PC you use, for example your home PC and your Classroom Laptop, Syncing happens in the background over the internet, and basically anything you put in your Dropbox folder on each PC will appear on all your other PC's automatically.

You can also share whole folders or individual files with other users of Dropbox, meaning any files you place in those folders instantly transfers to those user' folders on all their PC's. any edits they make are reflected on your PC's too.

Dropbox's no nonsence approach means you get a very clean and usable interface both with their desktop application and via the website. You will never need your USB Pen Drive again. You get 2GB free, but if this is not enough, you can upgrade to 50GB for $99 a year, the software works with Windwos, Mac and Linux.

To get a 2.25GB Dropbox (thats an extra 0.25GB) visit this link https://www.dropbox.com and download it to get started.

Teaching Ideas

Find hundreds of free teaching ideas, lesson plans, and primary resources which can be used in the classroom.
Free to download and no login required either.  Visit www.teachingideas.co.uk to get started.

Try the Times Education Online website for free Resources

I've been using this now for some time and found it to be a wealth of resources for teaching.  You need a login, but it's free and once logged in you have access to a wealth of resources.  Visit TES Online at www.tes.co.uk to get started.

Search your Science Topics such as Forces in Motion on Coxhoe Durham

This website belonging to Coxhoe Durham Primary School is a great place for both Teachers and Children to find resources for the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculum.  Visit www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk to have a look around.

Google Image Search now has Clip Art option

You can now search Google Images for just clip art images. This filters out all the photographs and logos that you would normally find when doing an image search.

This is perfect for finding images for your Smartboard presentations or you PowerPoint slides. Don't forget to get the full size image you have to click on it in the search results, this will view the image on the source website in its full glory. Always make sure you have permission to use it tho.

You simple just perform your normal image search here http://images.google.co.uk, and along the top there is a drop down selection box which allows you to select Clip Art.

Key Stage KS1 and KS2 SATs Bite Size Revision by the BBC

On the BBC website you can find lots of fun and interactive games to help children at KS1 and KS2 with literacy, numeracy and science. The Bitesize websites that the BBC maintain form a great part of your children's revision ready for the SATs.

This used to be called BBC ReviseWise.  Visit the webiste now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision.