Just a quick entry to add to the millions of resources that are available for you to use with your children, your students, your colleagues or on yourself.

Firstly http://www.prezi.com a tool for creating animated moving, zooming presentations that are visually powerful and create presentations that really take you on a journey. Free and very easy to create, it uses a large canvas as the metaphor and you basically plonk items on the canvas and create a linking roadmap between the nuggets of information. Thanks Monica for putting me onto this.

Secondly http://www.lumosity.com/  a cognitive brain training site for kids and adults. Very nice layout and you can record your scores on a whole range of puzzles and games. Thanks to Irena for identifying this site.

It is free and I think I understand the business model but I think it best to possibly use a test email account in case your results are being analysed and sold. I don't think that is the case - but I think it is a startup company that has secured venture capital and even Facebook made a few privacy mistakes during its startup period.

Finally, http://www.moppetgames.com contains a limited, but useable set of games like hangman for about grade 1 - 4. Ideal for the end of class reward.

What is great is that by me starting this blog, I am now receiving links to really useful locations from readers of the blog, contributing far more to this site than I can alone. Thank you.

 

 

 

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