5.+Searching+for+Resources

=Search Engines= Use a search engine to look for specific information.Saving website addresses into your bookmarks/favourites means you can go straight to a website without having to search for them. There are many to choose from including [|http://kids.yahoo.com/] [|AskJeeves for Kids] [] KidZui is a free Web Browser, search engine and online playgroud for kids 3-12 [|Kid-Safe Search] [|How to Research] [|National Geographic for kids]

Copyright
It's important for teachers to model good practice when it comes to using the intellectual property of others.  Students will not respect copyright laws if their teachers do not. Video that explains copyright can be found at [] The websites below all provide Creative Commons images, music and videos for use in projects. Always remember to attribute when used. Click here to find out more about a Creative Commons licence []  [|Creative Commons Search Engine] -images, video and music  [|Comfight] Image Search Engine. Select Creative Commons to model good practice  [|MAGIC Studio.ie] Magicstudio, which directly links to the Irish curriculum, contains over 8.000 free resources for teachers and students to use.( Currently running as a pilot,)

[|Scoilnet.ie] ** Teacher home access to online encyclopaedias ** In 2009, all schools were provided with access to Worldbook Online and the online Encyclopaedia Britannica through the school’s broadband network. For videos on how to use these resources see: [] [] It is now possible for teachers to access these resources from home and other locations outside their school. For more information see: [] There is also a login button on the Scoilnet homepage [|www.scoilnet.ie].

**Please try it from home before you finish the course to ensure that you are able to gain access.**

[|WatchKnow] A large directory o educational videos for children

List of Copyright Free Music

[|SW Grid for Learning] Pictures, Sounds and Videos [|Free Animation Libra]

**Clipart**
[|DK Clipart] [|Philip Martin] [|Edu Pics] [|WPClipart] [] []

=**[|SMART] Resources**=

of downloadable activities and lessons including many as Gaeilge. These are notebook files intended for use with Smart boards.
====The international Smart website also contains downloadable files for use with Smartboards. ( copied from the[| Scoilnet.ie] site)====

Search facility for Notebook Files [|http://smarttech.com/notebookfiles/]

=Tasks= Find lesson and adapt one UK [] USA [|http://www.exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0] [|Literacy SMARTnotebook] [|Longwood Smartboard] Lessons [|Problems and Investigations Involving Number] Smart and Promethean Files [|Fife Notebook Download Section]

**Senteo Response Resources**
Under File Types you will find a link to Smart Response Question Sets Using the Senteo interactive response system to test student knowledge of volcanoes [] Use the Senteo interactive response system to learn about antonyms.

=**[|Promethean Planet] Resources**= Promethean Planet is an international site and requires registration (free). Thousands of downloadable lessons and activities. Downloads are predominantly specific to Promethean IWBs. The “Partner Resources” area includes links to other free educational IWB resources, including ones from Mary Immaculate, Oxfam, Texaco and RSPCA, all of which have relevance to the Irish primary curriculum. Resource Packs

Interactive Teaching Programmes ITPs

[] Tick off the apps you want from the list on the site, hit the go button and it downloads all the programs you have selected, without you having to chase all over the web to source them.

**SWF Files / Flash Games** [|PrioryWoodResources] [|Games for Smartboards]

 [|ThinkBank Flash Games]

[|Audio Matching Game]

[|Kent ICT Resources]

[|iBoard]

[|TesConnect]