Useful Sites
E - Safety
Cyber Bullying - Supporting School Staff
The DCSF have published a document to support school staff when dealing with cyber bullying. The guidance is supported by the Local Government employers.
Download the document here
Lambeth Council have been asked by the DCSF to pass on the following information on Family Internet Safety to all schools and Children's Centres:
One of the actions from the Byron e-safety review Action Plan was to provide guidance for parents new to the web and therefore particularly lacking in confidence.
A simple interactive course and quiz on Family Internet Safety has now been launched on the myguide service. It covers many of the top parental concerns about the internet, from phishing and spam to online rogue traders and extremist websites, from chat rooms to music file-sharing, and from stealth marketing to safety filters. And when parents are confident in how the internet can be used safely, myguide shows them how to realise its many benefits, from saving money to jobsearch, and using public services to getting involved in their children’s learning.
Schools, Sure Start Children’s Centres and local authorities can help by encouraging parents to try out myguide at their local UK online centre (post code search at ukonlinecentres.com or phone 0800 77 1234) or to ask a friend or family member to get them started on the myguide website, www.myguide.gov.uk
Report abuse to CEOP
To report abuse to The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre please follow the link below.
http://www.ceop.gov.uk/reportabuse/index.asp
Lambeth @ LGFL
Lambeth.lgfl.net
http://cms.lambeth.lgfl.net
A wide range of ICT resources and information for Lambeth schools provided by Lambeth Children and Young People's
Service.
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Whiteboards
Smart Technology
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-GB/Ed+Resource/
Smart Technology's own site contains the latest (free) updates, plus useful resources for lessons and tutorials.
Social Networking, blogging & bookmarking
Classroom 2.0
http://www.classroom20.com/
For general discussions of Web 2.0 in the classroom.
Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us
del.icio.us is social bookmarking website to store a collection of favourites. Its primary function is to store bookmarks online. it can be used to:
- Keep links to favourite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes and more, and access them from any computer on the web
- Share favourites with friends, family, co-workers, and the del.icio.us community
- Discover new things
Have a look at Lambeth CLC's favourite sites: http://del.icio.us/LambethCLC
Edublog
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/
Blogs about social participative media, education and the future.
Ning in education
http://education.ning.com/
A social networking platform for those in education.
Online tutorials
Lambeth CLC works in partnership with Atomic Learning www.atomiclearning.co.uk, providers of thousands of tutorials in educational and industry-standard programs for both Windows and Apple Mac. Teachers and students at the centre can use the CLC to access any of these tutorials.
Useful FREE resources for teachers
Animoto
http://animoto.com
Web based software that allows you to create slideshow presentations in minutes, using still images, text, and music. Animoto can automatically edit your presentation to match the rhythm of your music.
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a simple audio editor which enables you to record, edit & manipulate sound. Create soundscapes, capture class performances and make your own class radio programmes. All recordings can be imported into other programmes eg powerpoint, word.
Exploratree
www.exploratree.org.uk
A free web resource (currently in beta version) which can be used for downloading, using and making interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can be useful for supporting independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry.
FOSSweb
http://www.fossweb.com/index.php
Activities for science
Google Picasa
http://picasa.google.com
Google's photo and still image manipulation software. Picasa has some of the features of Photoshop, but is much easier to use.
GPS Mission
http://www.gpsmission.com
Website that allows you to create interactive GPS tours and games, which can be downloaded onto a GPS enabled mobile device. Requires GPS and 3G enabled mobile phone.
Inkscape
www.inkscape.org
Inkscape is a drawing programme similar to illustrator. It allows you to create pictures using multiple drawing schools and pre-set shapes and objects. It can be used as a resource within visual art but also useful for maths eg symmetry/shape/ratio/patterns etc.
Interactive panoramas from National Geographic
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/index.html
Monkeyjam
www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam
Simple animation software.
National Gallery Collection
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/collection-overview/
Philharmonia Orchestra
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/sound_samples/
Thousands of free, downloadable sound samples specially recorded by Philharmonia Orchestra players. These samples are suitable for creating any kind of music and can easily be imported into Audacity (see above). From piccolo to double bass there are single notes, phrases and whole orchestra samples to choose from.
Pivot
www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure
Pivot is a very simple animating software enabling pupils to create and manipulate simple stickfigures. The software allows students to design their own multiple figures & create objects from lines/circles. The software is a simple introduction to animation.
Power League
www.powerleague.org.uk
Power League is a free web resource for exploring any topic, through sampling group opinions and provoking group discussions. Create your own online leagues or use our existing ones. Can be used right across the curriculum with all age groups.
Primary Resources
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/
Scrapblog
www.scrapblog.com
This website allows pupils to create an online scrapbook of photos/text etc which is simple to use and can be uploaded to the web for public display - useful for presenting & assessing work.
Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu
Education friendly games design software developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scratch uses a colour coded graphical interface to make computer programming and games design easy and accessible.
SlideShare
www.slideshare.net/
This more sophisticated animation programme allows you to capture images from camcorder or scanner & assemble/edit them to create animations. SlideShare is a way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately.
TES
http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resources.aspx?start=browse&typeId=11
1000s of free resources including a large section specifically for whiteboards.
Tutput
http://tutput.com
Online maths games designed for schools. Tutput allows teachers to set up a user account which will monitor pupil's progress.
We will continue to add to this list. Please email info@lambethclc.org.uk with details of any sites you have found useful.