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February 24th, 2009Lazy Bee Scripts
February 23rd, 2009
With one-act-plays, plays for schools and children’s theatre groups and panto scripts all on line. Pick a pantomime script or a play script from the shelf – you get to browse the script before you choose whether to buy it or not. (Like a bookstore, you can’t take away the script unless you buy it, but you can sit in a quiet corner and read.)
Myths and Legends from E2BN
January 22nd, 2009“This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable. more…
Hardcore History
December 11th, 2008In “Hardcore History” Dan Carlin takes his “Martian”, outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge.
24 shows available to date covering the Black Death, World War 2, The Great Depression, 1066, Assyrian empire. Great for pupils who learn by listening.
This is a high quality free of charge podcast.
Wikis in Plain English
June 13th, 2008We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or create the next Wikipedia.
National Year of Reading
February 5th, 2008
2008 is the National Year of Reading.
Whether it’s film scripts or manga, sci fi or song lyrics, we want to get everyone reading more.
BBC Learning Zone Broadband Clip Library
January 30th, 2008
The Learning Zone provides rich audio-visual material for use in primary and secondary schools and colleges. These short videos have been selected to match the curriculum; they can be used in many ways, from the stimulation and engagement of students to the delivery of very specific learning points. Try searching by subject and topic or by keyword. Link
Making the News
January 30th, 2008
Making the News is a free online publishing system for education that enables news to be published, broadcast and accessed over the World Wide Web. Text, images, animation, video and audio can be easily submitted to the MTN website via a simple-to-use submission form.
MTN is very simple to use. Upload video, text, images, podcasts etc through a single clean submission form. Pupils and Teachers will master the process in minutes.
Each school can have its own home page and account and it is all FREE.
 
YHGfL Blogs
January 30th, 2008Students and teachers have a new way of communicating with the world – by using blogs! After requests for a safe environment from a number of schools and Local Authorities for blogging, YHGfL are piloting their newly created Classblog. See http://shareit.yhgfl.net Specially designed and created to appeal to children and teenagers, the facility allows all students and teachers to safely write a blog from within their school/college – via a username and password.
The blogs will be fully moderated, can be accessed globally and once written, the text cannot be altered by other users. YHGfL have added in the ability to videocast/podcast so that users can download entries to a variety of devices, e.g. mp3 and mp4 players.
Currently, the project is being piloted by Wakefield and Calderdale and it is then to be rolled out across the region.
Audio Networks
January 30th, 2008Free music downloads are available to all YHGfL member schools, thanks to a unique service via the National Education NetworkThrough the project, teachers and students have access to literally thousands of music tracks of original composition, performances and recordings.
Audio Network provides schools and colleges with free access to rights-cleared, industry-standard, audio files for editing and re-use in school. It can be used for a whole range of creative activities in any subject area and at any Key Stage – but, says YHGfL’s Collaborative Technologies Manager, Andrew Lickley, it is particularly useful for pupils making soundtracks. Audio Networks
