Ideas for revision

A couple of readings about revision and exam tips:

• Using Class Consultants so that students can learn from each other
• Highlighting is a Waste of Time (best and worst learning tips)
• A Handy Guide to Surviving Exams (thanks Renee)
• This website also looks like it offers support for revision. I haven't had time to have a proper explore yet but it is free and appears to let teachers and students create mindmaps, flashcards, quizzes etc. Could be very useful!!

How to use google to filter online resources for reading level

At times it may be necessary to refine google searches by reading level. This is both a useful thing for us, when we have a range of reading levels in our classes, and to teach our students.

This google page outlines how to modify your search results by reading level and how reading levels are determined. There is also a video for those visual learners amongst us.

Teach Thought also has an entry "How To Google Search By Reading Level" which is a step by step guide of how to refine your google results by reading level as well as other criteria (country, posting date, file-type e.g., pdf, doc, etc.).