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SiteSpace

I just read this post http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/2010/02/smartboards-and-advertisement-in-education.html It talked about how good resource sites are overtaken by ads- and rendered unusable for the IWB or for a child. It’s either too busy or the ads make it too complicated for the user to use the resources. 4 Click if You Like This Post!

WordsLike….

Neat ‘search engine’. Type in a word or phrase and a list of related words WITH their definitions will come up. Nice little thesaurus. http://www.wordslike.net/ Posted via web from Reading Teachers Online Arsenal 0 Click if You Like This Post!

Footnote- for Historical Documents

Find and share historical documents using Footnote. Using their unique partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions they are able to bring documents, not previously available to the public, online. Here’s their blog and twitter. Here’s the buzz from other users about Footnote. There is 2 options for signing up

Science for Kids

This science site for takes you the way back to 1665. That’s 350 years of scientific innovation! Professor Michael Thompson FRS put this interactive journey through science together. Of course he had help from different scientists, science communicators and historians- in order to commemorate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary in 2010. There’s 60 historical scientific

New IWB Resources (mostly)

New Resources for IWB (mostly) 2 Click if You Like This Post!