New Activities (Jan 17th)

New activities added recently include:

• 2 quizzes to Grammar, linked to Level 1 End Tests style questions, also on End Tests and English Activities
• A new quiz for E3 calculations to Maths quizzes and Maths Activities - hopefully more to follow
• 4 Data Handling activities for Maths Activities, from the Gold Dust Resources aimed at teachers but useful demonstrations for Level 2 learners as well
• The Free Rice vocabulary game to English Resources
  

More details for some on Skills for Life Blog

New Links (Dec 18th)

New links added today or recently include:

• MindMeister - free online mindmapping (to Elearning)
• Inspiration Lane - daily updates of ESOL teaching ideas - great and inspiring for any teacher (to Elearning)
• Visual Dictionary links pictures to meanings (to Learn English)
  
• Blogs from Rash Kath from India starting from Mathematics Learning (look for Videos as well) (to Elearning)
• English Page - EFL site with Tense Work found useful by one of our dyslexia teachers (to Interactive English)
  

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Word Sorting Activity, Peter Symonds (Sept 26th)

Today:

• I have added a link for a series of Word Sorting activities from the Houghton Mifflin site to the Interactive English page.
• I have updated all links for Peter Symonds College interactive activities and added a link to a general index of many of these activities. The old links are now on a protected intranet.
• I have started correcting some out of date and dead links.

Some more details on Skills for Life Blog.

Skillswise at E3 (August 24)

I have added links for the new Skillswise Entry 3 modules to the relevant pages (Interactive Sites: General, English, Maths.)

I will add specific module links to the English and Maths Activities pages as soon as time and access to a network point allow.

More details on Skills for Life Blog.

Gordons, Basic Skills Agency (July 11)

I have added more links for:

• Gordons on Maths Activities

I have updated links for:

• The Basic Skills Agency on Background
  

Further details on Skills for Life Blog

Being Dyslexic, Maths Quizzes (June 14)

I have added the following today:

• a link for Being Dyslexic to the Dyslexia Information Sites page. This is a general UK Dyslexia support site which features forums, where you can "ask the expert", amongst many other things
• 3 new simple quizzes on Number Bonds to Maths Quizzes; recent quizzes also added to Maths Activities page
  

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More Mental Maths Quizzes (June 12th)

I have added 3 more quizzes to encourage mental maths at approximately L1 or L2 to the Maths Quizzes page. Two look at multiplication techniques and one at division.

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