Comic Strip Maker

Another site for you to make comic strips http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php

Whiteboard files - how to use them

These are instructional files for different whiteboards

http://www.nwnet.org.uk./pages/software_guidance/interactive_whiteboards.html

Photo resources

This website has lots of links to phot sites etc

Video clips connected with the Holocaust

This site has several archival video clips (all very short) as well as survivor accounts.

The National Geographic

There are over 5000 references for religion on this site. Including lesson plans, articles (some very interesting ones on science v religion), photographs and maps

On line puzzlemaker

Using the http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/, you can make different types of puzzles including:

Some of these would make good starters or plenaries

Intel Education Initiative

The Intel Education Initiative website has thinking skills teaching tools available, including:

There are also various teaching resources, although none are specifically for Religious Studies

Worth a look

Graphic Organisers

There are a few graphic organisers on this site. Whilst most of them are for histor, they could be very easily adapted to use in RS http://www.byrdmiddle.org/links/tag/graphic_organizer

 Another site here http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html

You must take a look at this!!

Many thanks to Julian at Medagogy for writing about this site.

Animoto takes your images and music and turns them into a slick and exciting video - a bit like the trailers at the cinema. I can see loads of ways of using this and at all levels

 I’m off to play with it now!

http://animoto.com/

Copyright free pictures

Wikimedia has thousands of free to use pictures - the following link is for the “Religion” category

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religion

100+ ideas for blogging, rss and more

This file has over 100 ideas for using blogs, rss feeds, emails and lots else. If you have any interest in Web 2.0 educational resources download it here:                 http://www.teachinghacks.com/files//100ideasWeb2educators.pdf

Accelerated learning

For anyone interested in Accelerated Learning, here is the archive of newsletters from Alistar Smith’s Alite site

http://www.alite.co.uk/newsletters/index.htm

On the same page you will also be able to subscribe to the newsletter

Some interesting articles to read about thinking, motivating students etc

The following readings have all come from Alistar Smith’s Accelerated Learning site which is well worth a browse. There were other readings on the site - these are just the ones that looked most interesting to me

All you need to know about motivation by Alistar Smith

Some ideas for motivating students by Robert Harris

Forget the marking - start talking

From thinking skills to thinking classrooms by Carol McGuiness

Thinking for learning by Alistar Smith

Are you the real McCoy yet? by David Spendlove

“Pick a brain” - Gardner’s multiple intelligences

The truth about boys and girls by Jerry Gabriel

Inside the Black Box - raising standards throuh classroom assessement by Dylan William and Paul Black

Theories of learning by Ian Harris

On screen anagram maker

Ever wanted to make anagrams as a quick starter? Well this site will do it for you - did you know there are over 4000 anagrams from the letters of my full name!

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

 You could use it in conjunction with the smartboard anagram file (see under interactive whiteboards)

Getting the most from your interactive whiteboard

This guide from Becta is aimed at managers and teachers in secondary school and includes practical examples and case studies. Whilst it isn’t specifically for RS, there are ideas here that can be adapted. Download it from http://publications.becta.org.uk/download.cfm?resID=25835

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