Ictopus

Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free web-based support service for primary education. Our key services, accessed from the tabs at the top of this page, are:

Sharing Good Practice (SGP)

– a fortnightly, six-page, printable magazine for teachers about using ICT effectively in primary education.

lessons2go

– lesson plans for the use of ICT across the primary key stages and curriculum – indexed for key stages, subjects or year groups.

newsblog

– a regular bulletin to keep you up-to-date with all developments in the educational use of ICT.

ictopus@home

– a fortnightly, four-page magazine for families offering advice to parents and carers on ways of using ICT effectively to support education.

Other services include:

Pictopus
– a collection of copyright free images for use in your teaching – the slideshow on the right shows a selection from the tools gallery in the artefacts collection
Activities – educational activities for children.
Can You Help? – a help and advice column.
Website of the Week/Top Tips – see this week’s new WOTW.
Big Books – on-screen books, for use in your teaching, in the form of pdf documents which can be run in the browser.
http://www.ictopus.org.uk/