Skills For Life Network

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Skills for Life Network (SFLN) is a website you should register asap. It keeps you up to date with what is going on in the Skills For Life (SFL) area. You will get e-news every fortnight direct to your inbox, all the SFL news, developments, events, jobs and resources. The SFLN brings together need-to-know information from a wide range of sources that saves you precious time!

The membership is FREE. SFLN covers the full range of SFL specialisms and related areas, such as Literacy, Numeracy, ESOL, Key Skills, Functional Skills, Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficuties, Learning Disabilities, ICT, E-learning, SFL Teacher Training, Research and Strategy.

Don’t miss this! Let us know your thoughts and if you need any further help or info.

NLN – National Learning Network

The National Learning Network (NLN) is a national partnership programme designed to increase the uptake of information and learning technology (ILT) across post 16 education as well as Adult and Community Learning (ACL) funded by the Learning and Skills Council.

The NLN has gathered loads of interactive materials designed to be used in further education and are also made available to ACL providers. WAES has access to all their online materials. All you need to do is to register. You will also need WAES password  that you can get from David or your E Guides, just drop us an email.

Interactive Materials on NLN

This is really useful for everyone. The materials cover Art/Craft, Basik Skills, Business, ICT, Communications, ESOL, Flower Arranging, Food, Gardening, Hair/Personal Care, Health and Safety, Interior Design, Music, Performing Arts, Sports/Fitness, Technology, etc

You can add these materials to Ezone easily. Once you’ve selected the resource, you will have to copy the Learner URL, log-in Moodle, click on “Add a resource”, select “Link to a file or web site”, enter a name, paste the Learner URL to the “Location” box, save and return to course. This resource will be available to your students in your learning environment.

Learner URL

You can also download the collections that contain all the learning objects you wish to use. Once you have selected the collection, dowload the zip file, then go to Moodle, click on “Add a resource”, choose “SCORM/AICC” and upload the zip file as you normally do with your files.

Let us know if you need a hand uploading the NLN materials to your Moodle course.

Smartscreen for everyone

Smartscreen

Smartscreen.co.uk is a huge e-learning portal, set up by City & Guilds, to provide dedicated online support to learners, tutors and assessors.

Smartscreen provides unit-specific support materials created by subject matter, offering a complement to the entire teaching and learning experience. It has more than 36,000 pages including downloadable documents and interactive activities.

WAES gained unlimited access to all the support for all levels of all qualifications and has full admin rights to issue as many tutor and learner logins as we wish. If you would like to subscribe Smart screen, just drop the E Learning department an email and we will send you login details, confirmation of qualifications purchased and simple instructions on how to take advantage of unlimited tutor and learner access.

This is a real time saver! Don’t miss it!

Creating a Time Line

Time line

Xtimeline is a free web-based time line. You can create and share your own time lines with pictures and videos or explore public ones.

A time line of the history of a topic, somebody or a place is very good for teaching History or English or any other subject area where you would want to use a time line.

You can have your students creating their time lines, adding pictures, videos or other important links.

There is the facility of creating your own group, where only members can visualise the time lines created. These members can also edit the time lines.

Sharing the time lines is also very easy. You can email them to your students or you can embed them on to your course on Ezone.

Let me know if you need a help getting yourself around the website.

Learn a language with Podcasts

Radio Lingua Network

By using an iPod or another mp3 player you can take your learning with you – learning with podcasts allows you to learn a language on the move.

Just download free podcasts to your computer or mp3 player, or listen online. You or your students will be using the language with confidence in no time.

These podcasts from Radio Lingua Network help learners to master basic or tricky aspects of more than 15 different languages, such as English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Mandarin etc…

 

 

 

The Radio Lingua Network

 

 

 

This is all about learning at any time wherever the learner wants to. It is aimed to anyone from tourists to business people or school students. You can find one minute lessons, pick-up working knowledge, in-depth courses, and insights into using idiomatic expressions.

Learn and Practice Typing

Typing Tutors

This is a tip for the typing course tutors and students. Or everyone interested in improving their typing skills.

It is a great site packed with links to the best shareware and freeware typing tutors.

http://typingsoft.com/

Most of the online typing tutors and typing speed tests are free. They are designed to accommodate both beginners and more experienced typists who are looking to gain speed and accuracy.

Create a Fancy Quiz

This is really eye-catching!Looks nice on Moodle and the students love it!

This site allows you to create quizzes enhanced with pictures, audio or video and post them to your Moodle course on ezone.

MyStudio is an interesting web-based quiz making software that lets you create multimedia quizzes and also tracks reader submissions.

You only have to register a free account at MyStudio, name your quiz and then just start adding questions, you can add as many questions as you like and may even supplement quiz questions with hyperlinks, images or YouTube videos.

 

 

  

Speech Bubbles

Pizap.com

This is a great website to use with your class! And it’s free!

For example: Practicing writing and telling stories.

Students can use their own pictures or they can save a few images from gettyimages, flickr or istockphoto and then add on speech bubbles, images, titles and drawings.

At the end they can show their edited pictures to the rest of the class and tell a story.

It is easy to use:

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Choose the photos from your files and to edit the picture just drag and drop the speech bubbles or pictures to your image. Save it and show it.

Share with us the outcomes of using the website. We would all like to know!

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