Evidence-based Study Tips

Useful at a number of levels--for your students and even yourselves--and with links to follow up to sources.

A new network for PCE colleagues--please join.

Go look at and register with http://www.pcet.net/. It's a brilliant non-profit voluntary initiative to get us all exchanging ideas. Web 2.0/social networking for the PCE community--and of course the more you put in, the more you get out.

More on classroom management from TES

Including Sue Cowley. The linked articles are of course school-focused, but good ideas are good ideas.

Government response to the Wolf Report

Just getting down to work on your submission?

You might be interested in this new tool I review on my own blog here: http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-next-step-beyond-wikipedia.html

Useful tools

For once, I have posted something potentially useful on my other blog (follow heading link)--it may particularly be of interest to those of you thinking of preparing your submissions. On the other hand, it may lead to hours of time-wasting...

A different take on resource design

This is the other side of the coin (although from a different angle) from this post.

Do you make your handouts and slides clearly legible and easy to read? This article argues (inclusivity considerations aside) that you may be doing your students a disservice.

Up to a point, perhaps... But it's always interesting to entertain a counter-intuitive angle.