General+teaching+resources



Cool Tools is a wiki that links to thousands of resources, many free, some aimed at teachers, some just productivity tools.

Came across this by chance - but lots of useful video clips - especially the road runner ones... [|http://www.videodouble.com/video/eureka!-episode-9---kinetic-energy-84539/] I've left it as the link to the kinetic energy vid, but you should be able to see lots of the others down the side of the screen...

Hey gang, I was at another course the other day (I hardly ever seem to be at school these days, ha!) and came across what could be some useful tools (I'll put a link to posterous here too, but Luke gets the credit for it). Craig

primarypad.com A kind of note pad where lots of people can get on at once and write things wallwisher.com Sticky notes that people in a group can add too - useful for classroom questions? [|posterous.com] Web pages created with your stuff for easy access to anyone

Whilst trying to avoid marking mock papers, found this via schoolscience.co.uk from my alma mater - some of the videos may send classes into a deep sleep, but quite interesting nevertheless..[].

If you're a fan of Twitter, @alomshaha is well worth a follow. This tweet today: FREE science demonstration videos for teachers, made by me (@alomshaha) and @[|jjsanderson] with Physics textbook legend David Sang @http://t.co/EHTuNMG

Critical thinking: a couple of decent articles, one that is a good introduction to the topic for students, the second may help you to take the correct line with a critical enquiry in your assignments.