All the Great Operas in 10 Minutes

Here is an interesting clip that showcases some famous operas in under 10 minutes. This may be useful for educators wishing to introduce elements of this historic and important form of music to students that may be resistant to this particular genre. Have a look and see what you think. From Youtube: ” What is [...]

Facebook Database Schema (Class Diagram)

I found this when looking for information about the Facebook database. Will make interesting discussion with my students.

Values Exchange – A place for ethical discourse

Late last year I was introduced to the potential of this great online resource. Values Exchange (VX) has been created as an online tool for the discussion of issues that explore ethics and personal value sets. When I first saw this I recognised great potential for use in the classroom, as a pastoral care tool [...]

Elements & Principles of Design

One for the resource list: Elements & Principles of Design By: Zaiba Mustafa more about “Elements & Principles of Design“, posted with vodpod  

Online resource for Google SketchUp

Whilst searching for ideas and resources I came across this website, 3DVINCI.net, that has a detailed and useful teachers guide to using Sketchup. There are projects listed under the categories of Design, Maths and Other. These are in-turn seperated into different grade levels. I have found the detail of their projects excellent and have had [...]

More links and link maintenance

I have added quite a few links and re-organised all pages of links with each group by alphabetical order.  I hope this makes them easier to access and read.

More links added

I have continued to add and describe the links.  I have attempted to organise the links by content area, eg. educational technologies, future pedagogy and leadership, pastoral and academic care and professional groups.  The updating of the links will be continual so keep checking for new additions. Tim

Updates to links

I have made some changes and additions to the links sections.  They are still in development so still have to add a lot of descriptions of each.

Let’s mark the beginning

Well after much messing around today is the first time I have started to add content to this blog.  Content so far is in the form of links to some of the place I use for different reasons.  I have attempted to break these up into particular areas of interest.  Hopefully some of these links [...]