1. Breathing Earth
CO2 emissions, birth and death rates by country, simulated real-time
A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.
2. compfight
Creative commons images for presentations. Find images for comps, inspiration or research.
3. DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
The service aims to cover all subjects and languages.
4. Education and School resources
An educational resource site for the community.
5. Edutopia - What Works in Public Education
Thousands of articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources highlight success stories in high school education.
Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment.
6. ELESIG
ELESIG is an international community of researchers and practitioners involved in investigations and evaluations of learners' experiences of e-learning.
7. imJack
imJack is the ideal solution for communication and collaboration in education, allowing learners, parents and teachers to interact, share ideas and communicate in an enclosed and private environment.
imJack enables teachers and parents to guide their children’s collaborative network through the advantages of Web 2.0 applications while removing the many dangers of unregulated public sites.
8. LIFE
LIFE represents the most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web.
With over 10 million photos from the legendary archives of LIFE magazine and thousands more added every day.
9. Memory4Teachers
Memory4Teachers is a major ICT initiative which involves the FREE provision of USB memory sticks for all Head Teachers, Teachers, School Business Managers and all support staff. The memory sticks feature full password security, virus protection and encryption software.
Memory4Teachers (memory4teachers) on Twitter
10. Nationwide Education
Nationwide Education is a free educational website for 4-16 year olds, parents and teachers.
All the resources are linked to the National Curricula and feature interactive games, stories and quizzes designed for specific age groups.
The Financial Capability, Sustainable Living and Road Safety Programmes, help build life and skills for the future.
11. Nikon Universcale
A captivating interactive website from Nikon called Universcale, which is made for an interactive whiteboard.
12. Open Research Online
Open Research Online is the Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs.
It is an Open Access resource that can be searched and browsed freely by members of the public.
13. Open University Platform
Open University Platform is the new Open University "virtual campus" open to anyone with an interest in learning and teaching.
14. OpenLearn
OpenLearn is an award-winning web portal which makes large quantities of Open University materials under a Creative Commons licence.
Since its launch over 4.5 million learners worldwide have accessed the 5,800-plus hours of free learning materials.
15. OUseful Homepage
Exploring the potential of Web 2.0 techniques and applications in higher and distance education, informal and lifelong learning.
16. Outline Maps
Paper outline maps. Elementary educational resources for teachers, students, and parents.
17. PTLLS training
Get Licensed offers teachers training course City and Guilds 7303 PTLLS award also known as Preparing to teach in the life long learning sector.
18. Qwizdom
Qwizdom is a hand-held voting system, like the ask-the-audience handset used in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which lets the whole class respond to questions, with their answers shown on a graph on an interactive Microsoft PowerPoint Slide.
19. Small Blue Printer - design your own house plan
SmallBluePrinter is a simple plan creator that lets users quickly and easily draw plans online.
20. Study Guides and Strategies
Study guides, strategies, skills, tips and habits for learners and students in 30 languages.
21. TeacherNet
The education site for teachers and school managers.
The government standard for UK teachers and schools-related professions.
TeacherNet has been developed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families as a resource to support the education profession.
22. Teacher Training Resource Bank
The Teacher Training Resource Bank provides access to the research and evidence base underpinning teacher education, and a range of other relevant materials.
23. Teachers TV
Teachers TV is a specialist digital channel for everyone who works in schools - from teaching assistants to headteachers.
There are thousands of programmes that cover every subject in the curriculum, each key stage and all aspects professional career paths. An invaluable resource for every education professional.
The channel can be viewed using digital, cable and satellite technology and programmes are also available free and on-demand from the Teachers TV website.
Teachers TV is funded by the department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF), Teachers TV is operated by Education Digital, an independent consortium consisting of Brook Lapping Productions and ITN, working with a group of regionally-based independent TV and web production companies.
Tags: Teacher Training, Video Sharing Websites
Follow Teachers TV (TeachersTV) on Twitter
24. TESSA
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
25. The Car Maintenance Bibles
A comprehensive auto maintenance guide.
Everything you need to know about basic car maintenance, wheels, tyres or tires, engine oil or motor oil, suspension (including springs and shock absorbers), brakes (disc brakes and drum brakes), gearboxes, transmissions, engines, motors, petrol, gasoline and general car maintenance.
26. The FlashMeeting Project
FlashMeeting is an easy-to-use, online video meeting system developed by The Open University's Knowledge Media institute.
It allows up to 50 users anywhere in the world to conduct a virtual meeting using live video and audio text chat and shared whiteboards and records everything.
27. The Open University on iTunes U
Open University course material is available on Apples iTunes U service, to download to your iPod, iPhone or laptop.
28. The TES Resources Bank
The leading UK website for teachers and education professionals. Share your teaching resources and lesson plans with the biggest online education community.
The TES Resources Bank is the social networking site where teachers can share their best ideas and materials. It enables them to find free teaching resources quickly and easily. Every day, teachers add resources and every five seconds a resource is downloaded.
Social networking underpins the web 2.0 revolution and relies upon its users to generate content that can be freely shared. The resource bank has adapted this model to make it suitable for teachers to share the extensive supply of resources that they create for their class every day.
The bank contains more than 25,000 resources, including lesson plans, activities, interactive resources, articles and reviews of educational publications aimed at pupils aged from three to 16-plus.
29. Tutor Hunt
The Tutor Hunt network helps both tutors and students find each other.
Search by level, subject and location, the service is completely free for both tutors and students.
30. Twiddla
Twiddla is a free, no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics and photos or start brainstorming on a blank canvas.
Voice and Text chat too! Browse the web with your students or make that conference call more productive than ever.
No plug-ins, downloads or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
31. UNESCO Open Training Platform
UNESCO have a brilliant platform for sharing course materials that is really worth looking at. It is called the Open Training Platform.
For teaching if you click on the education section, there are loads of resources in there for you to use.
32. Wired Teachers
Wired Teachers is the online community for teachers who believe in the transformational power of ICT in learning.
A lot of Further Education sector teachers in the UK have joined Wired Teachers in 2009.
33. YouTube - The Open University Channel
The Open University has its own YouTube channel, ouView.
The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning.
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