Some Edublogs (educational blogs) worth reading

Tom Barrett http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/

Tim Rylands http://www.timrylands.com/blog/

Doug Belshaw http://www.mrbelshaw.co.uk/teaching/

I'd love to hear from anyone who knows or has a good education-oriented blog.

My other blog Periodic Fable is about elearning in a variety of educational contexts and may also be of interest to teachers using ICT.

JISC collections for schools: online subscription respources

This JISC project launched in April 2008 and offers "The highest quality online subscription resources at the lowest ever prices."

For the first time, schools can benefit from nationally-negotiated terms for a range of specially-selected and high quality online subscription services - from newspaper archives and image databanks to catalogue of invaluable resources covering history, science, art and music, modern languages and much, much more.

Some of the benefits include:

• the discounted pricing on offer enables schools to offer cost-effective, 24x7 access to trusted and regularly updated online resources - already widely available in further education colleges - in many cases for the first time.
• remote access is available, so teachers and learners at subscribing schools can access the resources from wherever they are.
• there is no limit on the number of teachers or learners who can access a resource simultaneously.

Links for teachers - inspiration in education

Here are some interesting links for teachers - truly inspiring individuals (sorry they're all American - I'll find some European or others soon!)

Lucy Gray's blog A Teacher's Life. Lucy is an Apple Distinguished Educator, teacher and teacher educator.

She's a contributor to The Infinite Thinking Machine "designed to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century" with a blog and video podcast.

Wesley Fryer describes himself as a "catalyst for creative educational engagement." His blog, "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" won 2006 "Best Learning Theory Blog" from eSchoolnews and Discovery Education.

Watch this space!

Kids on the Net and the eTeachers' Portal have some great plans for the autumn term.

We will be reopening Dragonsville and initiating some new projects to celebrate our TENTH birthday - quite amazingly old for an internet venture :)

Watch this space for more information.