Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Teaching News

Teaching News

Resource Site of the Week: Topmarks

Posted: 12 Nov 2012 09:00 AM PST

Topmarks is our latest Resource Site of the Week. Have you discovered any great resources on the other sites featured in this series?

Topmarks was first created in 1998 by Sue Spolton, a former primary school teacher. She continues to run the site today, assisted by a small team. The site aims to help teachers, children and parents find quality educational resources on the internet through their educational search engine. All sites that they feature are hand-picked and are constantly being checked, with new sites added or removed if there are adverse changes. There are no sponsored links in the search engine, so the site can maintain independence and link to only the best educational resources.

Topmarks

Two of the most popular areas of the site are the interactive whiteboard and educational games sections where users can browse by subject, age group and topic. Over the years they have also produced their own primary content on topics such as Christmas, Chinese New Year, Spring and Easter.

Sue and the team are currently excited about new content that they are planning, to take Topmarks on to even greater things. You can stay up to date by following Topmarks on Twitter!