Top Health and Safety Myths Revealed!!!

The Health and Safety Executive  has a dedicated ‘Myth of the Month’ page, which helps to reveal the truth behind all the recent stories in the news like children being banned from playing conkers if they don’t have goggles and chrsitmas decorations being too dangerous for the workplace!

Personal and Social Education - IB/WBQ Online

***New Audio-Visual Resources***

Boozeville - AV613.81 EDU 

Online access via Novell Screen/Health & Care/Boozeville Alcohol Education Toolkit 

This resource doesn’t just provide information about alcohol, but also explores reasons why people drink, hosts an alcohol encyclopaedia, holds quizzes for each of the five sections,  has tailored lesson plans and all with over one hour of original animation. Enables tutors to confidently tackle alcohol education in the classroom, extend the CD-ROM activities through customisable lesson plans and  monitor students’ progress through a password protected section.

 

Contraception : The Computer Game - AV 613.9 HAS

Online access via Novell Screen/Health & Care/Contraception the Computer Game

This resource offers 1-6 players or teams a chance to test out their knowledge, risk assessment and decision making skills in relation to sexual issues. An engaging and non-threatening way of addressing a difficult subject area. This has laso been recommended for use by other Llandrillo tutors.

 

Mental Health DVD - AV362.2 4VE - 7 Day Loan

Contains 3 programmes about mental health (Winning the Mind Game, Losing It and Without You) covering eating disorders, depression, OCD and exam stress . These support developing confidence and responsibility, a healthy, safe lifestyle, good relationships, to reflect on and access strengths, the causes, symptoms and treatments for stress & depression, self-awareness and  emotional health.

Has been recommended by the Department of Education and other Llandrillo tutors.

 

Hairdressing Training Online - FREE for Llandrillo Students

***NEW***

 

• Step by step guides for ladies and mens cuts
• Text and picture instructions
• Powerpoint presentation tutorials
• Test Questions for each topic
• PDF notes to download

                                                  

• Equipment glossary, including cutting tools and styling products  
• Lessons on hair analysis, perming and dressing long hair

Have you applied for your ATHENS account yet?

This gives you free access to all the on-line library resources on the college network and at home  - ask in the library for details or download a form in Moodle.

Creature Discomforts - Change Your View of (Dis)Ability

Aardman Site                           Creature Discomforts Site

Leonard Cheshire Homes

Ouch Internet Magazine - see life from a different point of view

Llandrillo Equality & Diversity Schemes

Conwy Council Equality Schemes 

Disability Challengers

National Youth Agency

 English Federation of Disability Sport

Aidis Trust

 

 

 

Free Online Tutorials

Want to improve your online research skills in your own time? The Intute Virtual Training Suite can help you do just that.

  

This site is free, simple to use, accessible from home and updated by subject professionals. They have recently added 9 new tutorials for Science and Engineering, with 8 more for the Arts, Humanities and Health. Tutorials now available include:

• Internet for Construction
• Internet for Earth Science
• Internet for Engineering (FE)
• Internet for Health and Safety
• Internet for Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Internet for Mechanical Engineering   

And also:

• Internet for Art and Design
• Internet for Media and Communication
• Internet for English
• Internet for Fashion and Beauty
• Internet for Learning Languages
• Internet for Music