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)
  

More details for some of these on Skills for Life Blog

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• I have started correcting some out of date and dead links.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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New Links (24 May)

I've added the following links:

• direct links for City and Guilds format practice end tests on the End Tests page
• links for new embedded schemes from Totally Skilled on Embedded page

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