www.toufee.com
This site lets you make flash movies to use on blog or websites. If you don’t have one of your own you can just enter the url which will have been given to you when you completed the file. To see my first attempt (which took about 5 mins once I found the images I wanted), click on the url below: http://flash-movies.toufee.com/mov/145521185889051
Annotator tool
About this tool:
The Annotator can help you look closely at any piece of text created by authors in your classroom or around the world. You can use virtual markers to highlight important passages, questions, thoughts, or other ideas, and add comments that explain what the lines mean to you.
http://annotator.thinkport.org/
More sites with graphic organisers
The following links all came from http://www.bayworld.net/ferlazzo/index.html on the “Teachers page” there are links to all sort of things – take a look.
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
This next site is subscription only, but at $20 a year it seems like pretty good value to me – or just use the designs as a basis for making your own! http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/cycle/
This site lets you design your organiser on line, adding titles etc and then you can save and print them out http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=graphicorganizers
This site has over 20 organisers to download in either pdf or word format http://www.thinkport.org/Technology/template.tp
Powerpoint Games
Here are a number of powerpoint games – they are all blank templates and so can be adapted for any module of work, or indeed, any subject!
An Introduction to Higher Order Thinking Skills
An Introduction to Higher Order Thinking Skills: An exploration of aspects of learning and thinking and how ICT can be used to support these processes written by Don Passey of Lancaster University. Includes infomation about Bloom’s Taxonomy, Learning Styles, National Curriculum, De Bono and using ICT. This is a pdf document.
“200 tips for RS Subject Leaders” from Gloucestershire LEA
This looks interesting http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/utilities/action/act_download.cfm?mediaid=16531
Graphic Organizers that Support Specific Thinking Skills
http://www.teacherxpress.com/f.php?gid=16&id=51
Another self evaluation form for RS
http://www.train.stockton.gov.uk/_FileSystem/getFile.asp?bid=44100
RS Starters from the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning
http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/re/ks3/documents/re_starteractivities.doc
Articles to download
http://www.mantleoftheexpert.com/studying/articles.php
Whilst most of the articles on this site deal with the “mantle of expert” theory of teaching, there are also other articles here, including one on questioning and one by Paul Black on assessment. Worth a browse.
“THe Teacher’s Domain” site – multi-media resources
This site is brilliant for resources connected with evolution. However, there are other resurces too. There is a whole host of stuff on civil rights, including interviews with Rosa Parks. Also, there is an interesting section on oral traditions and another on art.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/tdhome.html
Some research graphic organisers to download
http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/research_center.jsp
You will be asked to fill in a form, but it takes only seconds.
Podcasts on wearing the veil in Islam and also intelligent design v evolution
This iste is designed for gifted and talanted students. There are several podcasts, but 3 seem of interest for RS. I haven’t yet listened tot he podcasts and so cannot comment on the level or indeed the relevance.
http://www.nagty.ac.uk/student_academy/podcasts/index.aspx#veil1
Online slideshow of different pictures of Jesus
http://ks3.reonline.org.uk/nframe.php?http://www.rejesus.co.uk/the_story/
OFSTED Document on Assessment in RE
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=pubs.summary&id=3217
