22 March - Beauty Quizzes

I have added today to the Quizzes page a short series of Beauty Quizzes. These are aimed purely at Beauty Therapy Level 2 students who are having difficulty with names of muscles and arteries (anatomy). A few more may follow.

New on Site - March 9 2007

Added today:

• Link to dyslexics.org on the Dyslexia Information Page - an interesting, sober view on dyslexia and how it should be addressed in Primary School.
• A link to a wiki I am building on Underpinning Skills for Numeracy Level 1 and 2
• Updated word lists in Spellsheets

More details on the Skills for Life Blog

New on February 23rd 2007

I have added today:

• (On the Elearning page) links to a YouTube maths video group (and some selected videos). The list is maintained by Rebecca Newburn and I have added some of her sites.
  
• (On the Dyslexia Information page) a link to Dyslexia Scotland - it's a beautifully designed site.
  

Additions 20 February 2007

There seem to be very few new usable Skills for Life links recently. One I have added today:

• Think Metric has a range of ideas aimed at the general public about all sorts of metrification issues; it also includes a neat quiz you could use as an icebreaker. The main link is in Learn Maths, the quiz is also in Activities Maths
  

I have added some of the Canterbury Cross quizzes to Activities Maths. As these are exe files they may cause loading problems on some servers and with some browsers.

I have added a section to the Elearning page, with details of wikis, blogs, podcasts etc with even the vaguest relevance to Skills for Life. Hopefully this list will develop into a page in time.

I have also corrected answers to Subtraction with Words in response to an email. I'm always happy to correct wrong answers in the quizzes.

More details on the Skills for Life Blog.

New Additions Jan 25th 2007

New links include:

• New Mnemonic link on Topics - a class list from Wiltshire College from The Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre
  
• 2 links for listening materials using podcasts on Interactive English - Breaking News and Podcards
• a Niace hosted portal for Skills for Life for Offender Learning
• Some runnable or downloadable exe files for Numeracy activities from Canterbury Cross Primary School
  

Further thoughts on some of these on Skills for Life Blog.

New links - 9 January 2007

Just 2 links:

• Firstly for Keith Burnett's blog for his GCSE Maths students - GCSE Maths Help. More on Skills for Life Blog.
• Secondly a very interesting paper on M-Learning which gives an overview with direct relevance for Skills for Life. I found this direct link through a search for something else; I cannot find a link from the site.

New Additions December 19th

I have added some new quizzes for mental arithmetic to Activities Maths. I have tried to tie these in with other Level 1 things like mean and area.

I have also added a link for the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics to Background. The NCETM claims to be a one stop portal for maths teaching from primary to FE, but there is not much for post 16 numeracy.

More information here on my blog.