A Glog of school library links

Now and then I take a squizz at the blog stats, and look at the ways people find Skerricks - via Google, or Google Reader, or Twitter, or Bing, or Unknown...

And a little while ago I came across this source:




Which gives you a whole bunch of useful school library links. Thanks for including my name (and thus Skerricks!).  If the above doesn't work for some reason, here is the original link:
http://edu.glogster.com/glog.php?glog_id=14697435&scale=100

Cheers

Ruth

Class, I want this done in four minutes, thirty seconds and counting...

...and then you get distracted by George, don't do that*, and it becomes an elastic four minutes, thirty seconds....unless you deploy a handy little online countdown tool like E.gg Timer.

Put in your own set time (three minutes and twenty seconds, five minutes, whatever)  on your own laptop/teacher PC and when time's up, it pings.  Whether or not you were distracted by George... and it's objective, so difficult to argue against.

Or you could get kids to open a new window on their machine and set individual timers.  Although that could have a cacophony effect...

Cheers

Ruth

* as referenced here.  Including a link to Joyce Grenfell's original monologue, lovely (and all-too-accurate) observational comedy.

The Periodic Table made real

From the wonderful resource that is the SLAV blog, Bright Ideas (over there in my bloglist too, so check them out anytime you are visiting Skerricks to see their latest entry), comes the link to this resource, which not only shows the periodic table:

but also shows you what these elements are used for.  Bismuth, anyone?

It's one of the free resources offered by BP - they have a browsable catalogue of secondary level resources here with a focus on Business, Geography and Science (and aligned to UK curricula).  Maybe one to send on to your teachers in those areas?  If you want a site with more specific technical detail on elements, ChemiCool has some ads, but also comprehensive data.

A Science teacher pal who reads Skerricks and has more than once pointedly pointed out that I'm a bit light on in the Science-y stuff, should be happy as a pig in mud now!  Look!! Authentic real Science-y entry, right here!

Cheers

Ruth

PS.  Couldn't help myself....  ;-)

Image source

Graffiti Artist by Abrakadoodle.com

This amuses me - and it has school possibilities, as you can print the results of your (or your students') work. From Widgetbox. And there are other widgets over there you might like. Go look. (No, I'm not paid to say that).

I've always liked the canny simplicity of Keith Haring's work. Apart from Visual Arts, how much fun could you have with this devising library signage? Just drag an image up into the white space, or click left/right to see what other colours/images you can play with.