LITERACY
Grammar Bytes
Handouts, exercises, web pages and Powerpoint presentations on a wide range of grammar terms and usages (US English).

SOCIAL MEDIA
Edmodo
A 140-character-limited message and sharing system which may be more useful than Twitter in classroom situations as the user has control over who can sign up.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Scratch
Scratch currently appears to be the most popular free way to introduce coding (ie, programming) to young students.
App teaches kids computer coding, news.com.au, 2 Sep 2014

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Teaching Kids to Code

Edsurge's guide to introducing computer programming to young people. Includes comments on 50 coding tools, many of them free.

THINKING
Teaching higher-order thinking
This article by Robyn Collins sums up the relevant literature on higher-order thinking and suggests how today's teachers can enable their students to acquire such skills.

STUDENT HEALTH
Critics' Choice anti-tobacco competition
Quit's Critics' Choice anti-tobacco competition CONCLUDES ON TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2014.

STUDENT HEALTH
OxyGen

Entertaining and interesting anti-smoking materials for students.

ONLINE GAMES
ABCya.com

Huge number of online literacy, numeracy and other educational games and activities for primary school students, grouped by grade.

ONLINE GAMES
Learn4Good

Lists of online educational and other games, categorised by topic or skill.

COMPUTER SKILLS
5 Technology Skills for Children to Take Up

Suggests that in order to encourage creativity with computers, children be encouraged to take up tools to master making cartoons and comic strips, mindmapping, collaborative writing, making short films, and designing computer games.

WINDOWS
15 Useful Windows Commands

As well as the 15 useful CMD commands (to use at the Windows command line prompt) there are further suggestions in the comments section that follows the article.

TRENDS IN EDUCATION
Horizon Report for Schools 2014 [pdf preview]
The Horizon Report on key areas of changing technology that will impact on teaching has identified a number of trends:
- trends ACCELERATING adoption of technology, such as intuitive technology, deep learning, hybrid learning
- IMPEDING trends or challenges such as privacy concerns and the need for authentic learning opportunities
- IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS such as BYOD, cloud computing, learning analytics, the Internet of Things and wearable technology.
Horizon Report Preview [pdf]
Horizon Report [pdf]
Horizon Report website

SPORT
Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014
Official website: Glasgow 2014

For classroom activities, see:
Commonwealth Games 2014 (Activity Village)
Commonwealth Games Activity Booklets (Studyladder Resources)
Commonwealth Games Teaching Resources Glasgow 2014 (Primary Treasure Chest)
Commonwealth Class (British Council)
Commonwealth Games 2014 (Pinterest)
Messy Church - Commonwealth Games (Pinterest)
Commonwealth Games (Pinterest)
Commonwealth Games (Pinterest)