[DaveStacey]

As the contents of this thread are a wee bit out of date (including my own site which no longer exists!) the list of useful, teacher run sites can npw be found at

http://groups.diigo....story/bookmark.

Yours not there? Add it!



This idea has been mooted a few times before, but I though I'd try and get it sorted for once and for all!

Many forum members have excellent websites, some of which are linked from the top of the page and some of which aren't. What would be really helpful is if we could compile a list of teacher run websites WITH (and this is the important bit!) a brief description of what was there. I was thinking of something along the lines of

URL: www.coolhistory.co.uk
RUN BY: Dave Stacey
AIMED AT: KS3 and 4 pupils and History Teachers
CONTAINS:

• Links, games and activities for year 8 and 9 pupils
  
• Resources and notes to support WJEC GCSE (Germany 1919-45; USA 1929-90; China 1949-76)
  
• Resources and lesson plans for teachers, including a materials for teaching Curriculum Cymraeg

Once we've got the details, I'll compile a list in a similar way to the excellent Visual and Audio Sources Links. It may well be that there are other (better?) ways to present this information. Any comments on this are most welcome.

So - if you've got a website (or several), then could you add your details below.

Thanks!

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Edited to add hyperlink to the URL.

This post has been edited by DaveStacey: 04 June 2008 - 09:01 PM

[Nichola Boughey]

Ok - here goes...

URL: www.weatherheadhistory.ik.org
RUN BY: Nichola Boughey
AIMED AT: KS3 and GCSE students as well as History teachers.

CONTAINS:

- Worksheets and resources for staff and students at KS3 and GCSE level.
- Useful links to History websites.
- A selection of clip art that people can use.
- An 'Ask a Teacher' section.

As a sideline I also have:

URL: www.readytorevise.blogspot.com
RUN BY: Nichola Boughey
AIMED AT: GCSE Sociologists and A-Level Historians.

CONTAINS:

- Blogs on revision topics.
- Debates for students to revise key threads and historical discussions.
- The chance for GCSE students to access 'dry' material in a more hi tech way.
- The chance for other teachers to chip in with a point of view.

Hope that this helps Dave.

This post has been edited by Nichola Boughey: 22 April 2006 - 10:04 PM

[Andrew Field]

I think this is a good idea - when you've got more I'll put it as a linked page within the forum. The is a modification I can add to make this happen. We can the update the logos at the top too.

I'll do mine when I have a little more time

Do add the http:// before your site though as then people can follow the link.

[DAJ Belshaw]

OK, here goes...

URL: http://www.mrbelshaw.co.uk (soon to be http://learning.mrbelshaw.co.uk!)
RUN BY: Doug Belshaw
AIMED AT: KS3/GCSE pupils for revision and homework purposes
CONTAINS:

* Links related to modules taken by Years 7-11
* Games for Years 7-11


URL: http://www.mrbelshaw.co.uk/shareforum
RUN BY: Doug Belshaw
AIMED AT: History teachers
CONTAINS:

* User-uploaded resources for History teaching


URL: http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
RUN BY: Doug Belshaw
AIMED AT: The education community
CONTAINS:

* A daily blog giving news, resources and ideas for teachers (tends to focus on ICT in education quite a bit)


URL: http://contribute.mrbelshaw.co.uk
RUN BY: Doug Belshaw
AIMED AT: The education community
CONTAINS:

* A bliki (cross between a blog and wiki) giving useful links and resources to do with education-related things. Can be edited by anyone who logs in (registration is free and open to anyone!)


URL: http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/forum
RUN BY: Andrew Field & Doug Belshaw
AIMED AT: Teachers
CONTAINS:

* A forum divided into 'pedagogy' and 'practice' sections aimed at promoting and helping with the diffusion of ICT in education.


Doug

[Chris Wilde]

Does this mean I might finally get some links? Worth a try!!!

URL: www.walksonthewildeside.co.uk
Run By: Chris Wilde
Aimed at: KS3 Year 8.
Contains: An entire Scheme of work for the Industrial Revolution based on a local study of Industrial Newcastle. All lessons are interactive, and can be ran via a data projector or in a computer suite. Each lesson has pupil worksheets and lesson plans, and the site contains discussion forums for pupils and teachers.

URL: www.wildelearning.co.uk
Run By: Chris Wilde
Aimed at: KS3/4
Contains: links to various web projects created by Chris Wilde. The main focus of the site is "Paperless Preps" which is a plan for a totally paperless system for homeworks covering KS3/4. The system is currently under trial at Chris' school and is seeing an increase in quality of homworks and a figure of 95% of pupils meeting deadlines. It also contains links to other sites created by Chris including "The past in the Pictures" A site giving guidance to using video in the classroom, and "On the Button", an interactive scheme of work for the Cold War which is due to be released later this year.

Proper links would be greatly appreciated, but we'll wait and see eh???

This post has been edited by Chris Wilde: 23 April 2006 - 12:49 PM

[DaveStacey]

Just giving this a bump!

If you run a website and you're not already on the list, it would be great if you could add your details here, in the format above.

Thanks again!

[Ed Podesta]

DaveStacey, on May 2 2006, 07:20 PM, said:

Just giving this a bump!

If you run a website and you're not already on the list, it would be great if you could add your details here, in the format above.

Thanks again!

http://www.podesta.org.uk - personal reflection and research blog

http://www.podesta.org.uk/coldwar - class blog for year 13s

http://mrpodesta.blogspot.com - class blog for year 8s.

http://wiki.onedamnthing.org.uk/ - wiki for history teaching.

http://blog.onedamnthing.org.uk - blog for announcements about the wiki

http://www.onedamnthing.org.uk/biblio - bibliography (new and growing) about teaching and learning history.

ed

This post has been edited by Ed Podesta: 02 May 2006 - 06:01 PM

[Simon Ross]

www.ilovehistory.co.uk - This site contains a GCSE Modern World History revision podcast with follow up activities. There are also resources for students at KS3 and 5.

[Gidz]

URL: www.gidz.co.uk
RUN BY: Gideon Leventhall-Airley
AIMED AT: KS4-5
CONTAINS: PDF notes

[Danno44]

I have just started (at last) a website for my department. Its only a bare shell at the moment.

It only has one 'pathway' through it that is complete so far.....

Once on the site click on HISTORY logo > Year 8 > Who was Jack the Ripper (no homework or student work yet)

http://www.mrbrownin...20mainpage1.htm

Any feedback on the structure would be great.

Thanks

Dan

[chris clayton]

First post here. Spent summer updating and improving my website. It's new address is www.askwinston.net it was originally intended as a modern world revision site but I have begun to add pages for key stage 3. Not all the links work yet. It's very much a work in progress but there is a large range of interactive revision exercises using hot potatoes.

[Chris Higgins]

www.igshistoryonline.co.uk
Run by: Chris Higgins, teacher of history at Invicta Grammar School, Maidstone
Resources: Presentations, task sheets, web quests, ready-made templates, ideas for history workshops, exemplar materials of student work including A level essays, politics resources and comprehensive interactive zone with Content Generator and Hot Potatoes games and activities. and web links with reviews to hundreds of history sites
Also includes: student discussion forum and soon to include micro-sites generated by members of the Invicta History website

This post has been edited by Chris Higgins: 27 October 2006 - 09:07 PM

[Tina McQuillan]

After reading this topic it spured me to create my own blog,

http://mcquillan.edublogs.org/

It is still very much a work in progress!

[Neil DeMarco]

URL:www.forwardtothepast.co.uk
RUN BY: Neil DeMarco
AIMED AT: KS3, KS4 (Edexcel Modern World syllabus), and AS/A2 Level students
CONTAINS: Assortment of Word, PowerPoint and Excel pages used in lessons; exam technique advice.

Also

URL: www.cheshamatwar.com
RUN BY: Neil DeMarco
AIMED AT: People interested in the impact of the Second World War on Chesham
CONTAINS: Interviews with local residents in Chesham during the war and extracts from the local paper.

This post has been edited by Neil DeMarco: 14 December 2006 - 04:40 PM

[John Buehler]

Always looking for contributors at my site:

URL: http://www.10minutelessons.com
RUN BY: John Buehler
AIMED AT: Just about everyone with many series by teachers.

CONTAINS:

- Short audio lessons and fun facts on a wide variety of topics.
- A growing community of experts and list of topics
- An 'Ask a Expert' section by email or internet voice mail.

Experts are wanted in all fields - you can sign up to create your own series of lessons.