Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Resources

While recently presenting a breakout session at the Closing the Gap conference I was asked why I did not have a blog or wiki to share the Internet resources that I have been collecting. So here we go....


My primary focus of this blog will be to discuss free web based resources for all. While focusing on special education students for the past 20 some years I have come to realize that the tools that work for our students with special needs are some of the same tools that work for all learners. Go figure - why did it take me 20 years?


The first web tool I will share is http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ . This site includes over 142 interactive educational resources for elementary grades. Activities are sorted by Key stages


Early Years/Foundation Stage for 4 to 5 year olds.
Key Stage 1 for 6 to 7 year olds.
Key Stage 2 for 8 to 11 year olds. v


17600 visitors to crickweb in one day!