BwD E Learning Service

The BBC have released nearly 80 video/audio clips covering iconic news stories and events of the last 50 years. These include the fall of the Berlin wall, poll tax riots, the miners’ strike, the Piper Alpha fire, protesters in Tainanmen Square – and much more.
The items can be viewed alphabetically, by topic by location or [...]

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Two index documents to the Becta – Direct2U resources have been added to the planning section on our website.
Index by year group
 
 
Index by subject

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BT’s Internet Radio Kit for Schools provides you with everything you need to know about making an internet radio programme (podcast) as a class project. It includes worksheets, lesson ideas, video tutorials – and – not surprisingly, some audio files. The help sheets are all based on using the free downloadable program Audacity.

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The outline pages for each unit have been online for over a month now. We have now added some of the detailed plans (nor all by any means) and additional help and ideas for the units involving spreadsheets. 
Please send any comment or feedback to katie.john@blackburn.gov.uk.
See the planning > Primary [...]

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Would you like to view the earth from the surface of another planet? See a total eclipse without worrying about cloud cover, or travel? Watch the relative movement of the earth, moon and other planets? There is an application which allows you to do all this (virtually) – and much more. Download the FREE application [...]

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For those who missed Ann and Catherine Bennett’s presentation at the Reaching Teaching Exhibition at the Bolton Reebok Stadium on 29th November – this link will take you to a copy of their presentation in Activ flipchart format (for those who don’t have Activ software – click here for a PowerPoint version). 
We have created a [...]

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A collection of computer based activities from NACCE primary (formerly MAPE), with something suitable for children in all primary classrooms. 
Don’t forget our own Christmas offering, an adventure game in which players have to rescue Santa who has been kidnapped by naughty gnomes! (teachers’ notes)

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If you listened to any news on 30th November – you can’t have failed to hear the announcement launching the National Poetry Archive website – an on-line resource which allows you to hear poets from Ahlberg to Yeats reading extracts from their work. 
Highlights include Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” There is even [...]

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Welcome to our new service. We have been placing News items on our website (http://elearningbwd.net) for over 12 months, but wonder how often items are read! If you use a service such as http://www.bloglines.com/   it is possible to visit just one site and see at a glance new items on any number of websites.

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