Welcome to today’s edition of the Daily Digest(ive) where I endeavour to bring together some of the more interesting goings on in the educational blogosphere to save you the hassle of trawling through it all. Please send me links that you think our colleagues will find of interest either by commenting on this post, emailing creativeeducationltd@gmail.com or tweeting me @CreativeEdu
Here are today’s highlights:
Post of the Day: The Rise of Hitler – a music video by students which might engage your history classes but well worth a watch by all in my humble opinion. It’s a pop video about Hitler.. by students… what more can you ask for?
More Bullying Resources for Anti Bullying Week:
- Dealing with Sexual Bullying – A Resources List
- What is Cyber-Bullying?
- Anti-Bullying Video for KS1-2
- Former Boxer Tells of School Bully Fear
- Too Many Teachers Still Turn a Blind Eye on Homophobic Bullying
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- Educators Need Learning Advocacy, Not Technology Advocacy – utterly thought provoking
- Changes Planned to Link Teachers’ Pay to Performance
- Government Announces End of Complex School Financial Reporting Tool
- Penny Counting is a Waste of Schools’ Time
- Getting Started with Blogging in the Secondary Classroom
- 5 Ideas for English
- Twitter to the Rescue – Improve Student Engagement
- Qwiki – A great new search engine for the Classroom
- Things a New Exams Officer Should Know
- On Creativity –thoughts from teachers, creative practitioners and LA staff
- How to Organise a Successful Fundraising Drive – raise money and teach key skills in one hit
- School Based Enquiry: Google Docs and AFL
- Empower children to make safe online decisions with the Safe Certificate
If there is anything you’d like to see in tomorrow’s Daily Digest please send me a link either by commenting on this post, emailing creativeeducationltd@gmail.com or tweeting me @CreativeEdu
Many thanks to the following who either wrote the blog posts above or pointed me in their direction:
@SexEdUKation @GingerPatti @janeyk419 @ICTEvangelist @dmchugh675 @Bucks_NUT @SchoolDuggery @timesed @louisehutch @teachertoolkit @examsmgr
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