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Resource Focus: Guardian Eyewitness, Reuters Pictures, Snag-It & Teaching with Angst
21st September 2010
Evidence of deforestation in Sumatra, 20th August – source Guardian Eyewitness - hat tip to Ian Goff for spotting this one
Colleagues looking for images for use in their teaching and in helping to meet the needs of visual learners may want to tap into these resources
Guardian Eyewitness
Reuters Pictures
Brilliant screen capture for every subject: Snag-It is a superb image/screen capture programme – easily one of the most intuitive to use and with some tremendous editing options for teachers who want to add fresh content from the web into their teaching resources. Snag-It can be found here
iPads in the Classroom: Several colleagues are now using iPads and thinking of ways in which they might be used in teaching. Corey Angst at Notre Dame is experimenting with iPads in his teaching year and “Teaching with Angst” is an interesting blog on his experiences and feedback from his students. Teaching with Angst
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.