General – Design/innovation

Listed below are some websites that look at designing or innovation/inventing.

BBC Learning
This site has now taken over from the BBC Education site. Many interesting articles to peruse.

www.bbc.co.uk/learning

Bad Designs

A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they are not well designed – a fascinating collection.

http://www.baddesigns.com/

British Airways: Concorde

Use this site to find out the history of the aircraft, its aerodynamic design and powerful engines and view video clips of its last ever flight.

http://www.britishairways.com/concorde/index.html

Design Awards

The Australian Design Awards [ADA] is Australia's only national design awards program. The aims of the ADA are to present to the Australian public and the world the best examples of Australian design and innovation and the high quality of design expertise available to manufacturers in Australia and overseas. Browse the site for lots of innovative ideas and design insights.

http://www.designawards.com.au/

The Design and Technology Association

The Design and Technology Association is the national professional organisation for design & technology teachers.

www.data.org.uk/

Invention Dimersion

A site celebrating those inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. Includes an Inventors Handbook and Games and Trivia.

http://www.tep.org.uk/index2.html

Parents

Check out this DfES guide for Parents of preschool children. Useful for "What would the scissors say on screen?"

www.parentcentre.gov.uk

Shambles

This website is designed to support the international school communities (teachers, support staff, administrators, students and families) in 17 countries in South East Asia … although it seems that lots of schools worldwide are now finding Shambles a useful resource. It’s worth signing up for their newsletter.

Freepatentsonline
This site allows free patent searching, free PDF downloading, free alerts and more. It is a good resource for intellectual property attorneys, patent searchers, scientists and students.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/