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What is ictopus?

Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free support service for primary education. Our main services are our extensive collection of lessons2go (l2g) and our two magazines: Sharing Good Practice (SGP) for teachers and ictopus@home (i@h) for parents.
New users, register free now (using the login/register button on the right) to access all our services.

Pictopus gallery

The Pictopus gallery has hundreds of copyright free images to use for teaching and learning. The slideshow on the right shows a selection from the flowers gallery in the plants collection.

Species of the Day

As part of the International Year of Biodiversity, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched the Red List Species of the Day. Every day in 2010, a different threatened species is being profiled on the IUCN Red List website. Ictopus is pleased to support this initiative - just click the button below for today's endangered organism.

Educational definition of the week: T

teaching method: n. any one of numerous sets of procedures adopted by teachers in the hope of inducing learning, of which some do not work at all and none work with all children or in the hands of all teachers: skill in teaching resides in tirelessly trying them all to see which serves whom best

This definition comes from the devils dictionary of education by a dear friend, Tyrrell Burgess, who died last year. The dictionary was published in 2002 by Continuum. There will be a new definition here each week.