aclJohn's Functional Skills Finds

A Free online resource, from Nationwide, for learners, practitioners and parents, improving knowledge and life skills about...

• Financial Capability;
• Sustainable Living; and
  
• Safety.

Features...

• resources for use on interactive whiteboards and PCs;
• Interactive games and storybooks,
• Downloadable fact and worksheets;
• Activity ideas;
• Hints and tips;
• Tailored programmes for 4 to 18+ (For younger learners the resources are linked to the National Curricular.

Visit http://www.nationwideeducation.co.u...

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The Early Childhood Education Network's Literacy Center (Centre) provides learners with online learning activities in four languages.

The Literacy Centre provides tutorials and games in...

• English,
• Spanish,
• German, and
• French.

The tutorials and games are designed to teach learners...

• the alphabet,
• writing the alphabet,
• numbers,
• shapes,
• colours,
• phonics, and
• basic spelling.

Each section begins with a tutorial before moving on to ask learners to apply their new knowledge to an activity...

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Time for Time is a website for anyone that teaches learners how to tell time.

The online games are easy for learners to access. And, if there are not enough computers for all learners to play the games at once, users can take advantage of the offline game suggestions in the teacher section of Time for Time.

Visit http://www.time-for-time.com/ to find out more.

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The Embedded Learning Portal contains online versions of the Skills for Life Materials for Embedded Learning. These embedded teaching and learning materials are designed for use by practitioners: vocational practitioners and trainers, Skills for Life (Functional Skills) practitioners, practitioners working in community, employability and health settings and employability programmes.

Skills for Life Materials for Embedded Learning aim to help learners to improve the...

• literacy,
• language or...

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Although The Plasma Screen & Whiteboard Room is a free website for practitioners in special schools it has many resources that can be used with all learners. It's a place for practitioners to share resources .There are a good range of resources that can be used in functional skills courses, some in Smart board format but many in PowerPoint.

Other subject areas included are...

• Science
• Geography
• History
• RE
• PMLD
• Art & Design
• Design & Technology and
• PSHE

Find out more by visiting http://www.whiteboardr...
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Niceletter is a free letter wizard that will enable learners to construct a letter which complies with writing rules, simply by filling in text fields.

No word editor is needed as the layout is handled automatically. In addition, many sample letters are available such as...

• cover letters,

• thank-you letters,

• complaint letters and

• business letters.

Practitioners can use these templates to discuss letter structure, content etc., with learners.

Find out more at http://www.niceletter.com...

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Ofqual, along with its regulatory partners in Wales and Northern Ireland, has published the criteria for Functional Skills assessments in English, mathematics and ICT.

Awarding organisations wishing to offer Functional Skills qualifications will need to submit proposals to Ofqual for approval and demonstrate how they comply with these criteria. Only those organisations and qualifications that are fully compliant with the criteria will be approved at this time, ready for first teaching in Se...

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LinkUp is a resource which requires learners to link words to categories. The resource works particularly well on an interactive white board (IWB) as the links can be dragged around the screen.

Triptico have added a feature which allows practitioners to save the activities they create.

How does it work?

Each game requires...

• two categories,
• each with six linked words.

Once a game is created, users can save the information for future use and/or share it with others.

The aim is to drag...

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Twurdy comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?".

Twurdy, a search engine based on Google, was created to provide users with access to search results that suit their own readability level.

Twurdy...

• uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results;
• gives each page a readability level;
• shows the readability level of the page along with a colour coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.

Twurdy's goal...

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"Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is."

The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S.A. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"

Note: All weights and measurements are U.S.A. standards, not metric.

If you and...

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