I’ve created lots of resources in the past but the problem is forget about the vast majority of them. As a history teacher I rarely use textbooks because they are either text heavy, too complex or too simple. As result of this, I’ve spent copious amounts of time and energy creating stuff. Today I stumbled upon my slideshare account. I used this to upload several GCSE revision powerpoints and used the site to embed them into a wiki that I created for students.
I strongly advise teachers to spend time rediscovering the material that they have created. If you’re anything like me, you’ll want to build upon them by making them even better. Upload resources to places where other teachers can share or download them. A key aim for 2012 is for me to work smarter by sharing more resources and collaborating with others. Time is too precious for constantly reinventing the wheel so please feel free to use what I’ve created.
Below is something that I uploaded to slideshare 4 years ago. I’d totally forgotten all about it but to my surprise its been viewed a whopping 27,500 times. Its not amazing, but if just 1% of that figure was made up of teachers that have used it in a lesson it means that 275 teachers have used it – better than nowt!
