Studyladder

Awarded 2012 Best Website for Teaching and Learning, Studyladder provides free school access to thousands of teaching resources for kids age 4-12, A wide range of subjects are covered, from mathematics to literacy, science, music, art, language, culture, health, safety, and even citizenship

Studyladder offers a sequential learning program built by teachers with videos, interactive activities, worksheets and assessments for reporting to teachers and to parents. 

Premium access and free home or school use.

http://www.studyladder.com/

Explore and Act for Human Rights (in English)

Education plays an essential role in the promotion of democracy and human rights as well as in the prevention of human rights violations. 

This project initially intended to enable European secondary school students to become familiar with the key principles of European law relating to human rights. It also aimed to develop the teachers’ role and responsibilities as key actors in ensuring an effective implementation of the principles of the European human rights system.

The project includes: 

Guides for teachers relating to education for human rights and a selection of teaching resources prepared by the Council of Europe.

Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights (EDC/HRE) "Living democracy" (downloadable) manuals for teachers.

http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/Resources/Resources_for_teachers_en.asp

A compendium of good practice (101 exemplary practices of human rights education, education for democratic citizenship, and education for mutual respect and understanding):

www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/Source/Resources/HRECOMPENDIUMGOODPRACTICES_rev251109_en.pdf

Visit:

http://explorehumanrights.coe.int/about-the-program/?lang=en

TitanPad. Free tool for collaborative writing

TitanPad is a free and simple to use Web 2.0 tool that lets a group of people (up to 8 authors) come together to easily create and edit documents. It does not require a user account.

You can import other text documents into your pad and they can be downloaded as PDF, DOC, HTML or text.

TitanPad has many possibilities for classroom use. For example, it allows teachers to create their own working space. Students can access the document at the same time or individually at any time. In this case, each person, who is color-coded, can see the changes that others are making.

https://titanpad.com/

Nathan Hall's video guide:

Map Maker Interactive

Amazing resource created and maintained by National Geographic Education & Children's Media. By using Map Maker Interactive you can create and share your maps. Tools to overlay different themes (water, land, climate, population, political system...) and to draw and place a variety of different markers are provided.

You can save them as an XML or PNG file, share with others via link and modify and use the maps in any way, subject to the following conditions:

- You charge no fee for anyone to view or use any item that includes or is based on this map image or screen shot.

- You include the following credit or attribution in the same visual field as any use: "Map from National Geographic's MapMaker Interactive; data from [insert data sources here]". Data sources include the attribution from the base map, included on the lower right corner of the map, and for any map layers visible on the map. To see the data source of any map layer activated on your map, click the information icon in the legend. Some map layers have additional restrictions and cannot be used in screenshots, and this will be noted in the information text accessed from the legend.

http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/?ar_a=1&b=1&ls=000000000000#/

Analyze My Writing

Analyze My Writing is an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste a text into the homepage and it will generate information about your writing:

- word, sentence, and character count
- word and sentence lengths
- readability scores based on several measures
- customizable graphs for Fry and Raygor readability measures
- punctuation marks
- most frequently used words (with word cloud)
-most common word pairs.

This is a very easy to use tool as there is no registration and analysis of your text is completely free. You may analyze as many texts as you like, and the texts you analyze can be as long as your browser and system can handle.

http://www.analyzemywriting.com/index.html

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Analyze-My-Writing/1395470224096033

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/analyzemywritin

On Pinterest:

https://es.pinterest.com/analyzemywritin/

On Google+:

https://plus.google.com/+Analyzemywritingdotcom

(Source: http://www.analyzemywriting.com/about_us.html) 

Community Values Primary Competition (Go Digital with Oxford)

Oxford University Press is giving you the opportunity to win an iPad Air; 16 GB for you and each of your students.

You will need to create a video (no more than 2 minutes long). It should explain what the class has done, what they have learnt and how they have helped their community. The whole video must be entirely in English.

For inspiration and ideas:

http://online.oupe.es/ELT/OxfordCompetitions/primary-competition/index.html?utm_source=Art-primary&utm_medium=campanas&utm_campaign=OxfordCompetition

You must have completed and uploaded your video to YouTube before registering on:

http://dotmailer-surveys.com/961mvuac-0816dc0f

All the videos will be uploaded to a special page on Monday 18th May where anyone can vote for their favourite video. The voting closes on Sunday 24th May. Oxford University Press España will decide the winner out of the 8 videos with the most votes. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 26th May.

Follow the competition on Facebook and Twitter:
https://www.facebook.com/oupeltglobal
https://twitter.com/oupeltspain #GoDigitalOxford

ESL Games Plus

ESL Games Plus (from the same team that brought us ESL Games World) provides interesting ESL games and fun activities for teaching and practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills for both teachers and learners.  

The site features these ESL Activities Online: ESL Classroom Games, Memory Games, Spelling Games, Sentence Games, Interactive Board Games, Hangman Games, Jeopardy, Wheel Games, Concentration Games, Matching Games, Car Racing Games, Pirate Games, Crocodile Games, Word Recognition Games, Mobile Games for iPad, iPhones and Android devices. 

Visit http://www.eslgamesplus.com/ 

Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESLGamesPlus

Crash Course

Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by Hank and John Green, two brothers who provide some excellent video explanations and tutorials on a variety of topics related to World and US History, Biology, Literature, Ecology and Chemistry. 

Crash Course launched a preview on December 2, 2011. As of January 25, 2015, the channel has earned over 2.6 million subscribers and over 200 million video views. 

(Source: Wikipedia)

 

World Library of Science

The World Library of Science (WLoS) is a free online resource developed as a partnership between UNESCO and Macmillan Science and Education. It offers quality Nature Education content in short eBooks and articles, serving a mission to equalize access to high quality resources for science education for all communities across the globe. All offerings are digital. 

WLoS is for teachers, students and any curious person. As the content is all free, anyone can access the library or create a classroom or discussion space. Teaching faculty (or anyone) can create online reading lists to share with their students, and students (or anyone) can browse the Library resources or search for others in the WLoS social network who share their interests. 

Registration is free but requires an email address. 

Future plans involve expansoion of life and physical science subjects, as well as a translation of resources into multiple languages.

Visit: http://www.nature.com/wls