| This list of links has been compiled just to indicate the wealth of information
available. Obviously the list could become virtually infinite! These links refer to sources of information of interest to children,
parents and teachers alike. They will be of interest, not just to parents
of 'primary' children, but will give information of interest to any parent/teacher
interested in the wider sphere of teaching and learning.
Government
 NGfL National
Grid for Learning
 East
Riding of Yorkshire Council
East
Riding Intranet for Learning
New
Opportunities Fund - from Spring 1999 ICT Training for
Teachers, School Librarians and Librarians, and Digitisation
of Learning Materials - £300 million (£230 million will be
available to fund ICT training for teachers and school librarians, £20
million for librarians and £50 million for digitisation )
The BBC
Education Service provides many useful links
The
official Kingston-upon-Hull
City Council site gives links to City information, Libraries,
Museums, Festival City, A-Z of Council Services, Economic and
Business Information and much more.
The OFSTED
Site is extensive.
Companies
BECTA British
Educational Communications and Technology agency - lead agency for
NGfL
LEGO
Mindstorms Lego Pictures Robotic Invention System
Maths
software that talks!
BESA Information
and Communications Technology in Schools, BESA, November 1998
SIMS Capita
Education Services Ltd
Tiny
Computers
Anytime
Anywhere Learning
BT
in Education BT Education & Training
BETT BETT
educational technology exhibition London
School sites
Thomas
Telford School
European
Schoolnet
Ambleside
Primary School - an excellent site with many ideas for teachers
and children
www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/manorlh/index.html
Primary
Gareth
Pitchford's Primary Resources
Parents
Parents
Information Network helping teachers and parents
Teachers
English
at KS2 BESA - British Educational Suppliers
Video
clips of model lessons A DfEE standards site
Disney books Some
Disney sites
Standards
site: Get advice on National Literacy Strategy
Northern
Island Network for Education
Scottish
Virtual Teachers' Centre
Virtual
Teachers' Centre Cymru Information & Resources for teachers
in the Welsh school sector in Welsh & English
KeyBytes Hands
on interactive course in ICT
GCSE
Answers a GCSE Revision site run by teachers
Parents
Information Network helping teachers and parents
Whiteboard
exercises
Hot
Potatoes sites
Teacher's sites mentioned in TES
http://freespace.virgin.net/lara.savory
www.teacherslibrary.org.uk Resources
Teachers'
Library of Resources
GCSE
Answers is a limited company formed by teachers and academics
General links for teachers and educators using the Internet:
YAHOOLIGANS
TEACHERS GUIDE - lots of information for teachers using this
superb resource.
BUILDING
websiteS FOR KIDS - check out these excellent reference
pages for ideas.
SURFING
THE WEB WITH CHILDREN - issues and ideas (American - but
good)
MIRANDANET -
ideas and links more suited to KS3 and above
Archives/Free stuff
FREE-GRAPHICS -
another great collection of icons, GIFS and backgrounds.
PRODRAW -
free pictures, buttons and graphics for your pages.
SNAP-SHOT -
an archive of photographs from around the world
ANIMATED
GIF FACTORY - excellent source of animated pictures and icons.
Bells
'n' Whistles - another good collection of bits and pieces.
FREEGFX -
another huge set of graphics to download.
ICON
BANK - searchable archive of free icons - excellent!
ZDNet
SHAREWARE LIBRARY - free/shareware programs!
TUCOWS -
another vast collection of free/shareware programs to download.
THE
FILEFARM - great software source.
THE
FREE SITE - tonnes of links to tonnes of free stuff!
Getting started on the Internet:
Internet
safety
WEB-NOVICE -
a useful resource
HOW
A WEB PAGE WORKS - a section from the incredible
How
stuff works site. This is a site worth visiting by anyone!
It has animated diagrams which show how all sorts of things work
- from steam engines to diesel engines, refrigerators to . .
. . .
BBC
EDUCATION GUIDE TO THE INTERNET - essential viewing!
DEVELOPING
SCHOOL WEBPAGES
Handicapped
National
Library for the Blind's Fiction Cafe - with voice synthesis and
Braille displays
Marie
Stopes International
Discalculia
For children in hospital
www.sickchildren.org.uk Present
- formerly the National Association for the Education of Sick Children
A
WWW site for the left-hander!
Present Express
Link Up Surfing from the sick bed
Special Educational Needs
SEN
software from SCET KS1 and KS2
Autism UK
The
British Dyslexia Association
The
Dyslexia Homepage
The
Dyslexia Institute
Inclusive
Technology
Learning
Difficulties Online
The
National Academy for Child Development.
The
National Association for Gifted Children
The
National Association for Special Educational Needs
Picture manipulation - suppliers
Adobe Photoshop & PhotoDeluxe
PhotoSuite
II and PhotoSuite 8
PaintShop
Pro
Satori
XL
Office
XP Microsoft Office XP Interactive demo
Online tutorials - (PaintShop Pro - graphics)
TEXT
EFFECTS
DIGITAL
STUDIO - from the makers of PaintShop Pro.
PAINTSHOP
TUTORIALS - basic to advanced
PAINTSHOP
PRO FOUNDRY -another big site
General Interest
Fred
Dibnah on the Industrial Age (BBC TV)
BBC
Education site
Health
Education Authority
The
London Marathon website
A
site concerned with Anne Frank Educational Trust
The
site operated by tagish Ltd affords
access to the UK National Inventory Project, ETHOS (the European
Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service, a European Information
area, Local Government information, etc.
Global
Rock Challenge introduces the website owned by the organisers
and initiators of the Drugs' Awareness Competition held annually.
Newspapers
The
Hub Further Education
TES Times
Educational Supplement
The
Independent
The
Sunday Times
The
Telegraph
The
Guardian
Subject specific
Languages
from the BBC
The Web
Museum is a fantastic link to museums and sources of art
all over the world.
History websites
The
Historical Association
Institute
of War and Peace Reporting
A
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation website
Great
Buildings Online
London
Transport Museum
SchoolNet
Emancipation
of Women
European
Virtual School
Investigating
the Vietnam War
The
Historical Association
BBC
Education Web Guide
BUBL Information
Service - The United Kingdom home page: a directory of UK organisations
and institutions
Spartacus
National Curriculum website guide
History
Today
Channel
4 Schools
The
Scout Report
Indiana
Teaching Centre
Encyclopaedia
of British History: 1700 - 1950
The
Textiles Industry
Factory
children simulation lesson plans
Hyperhistory -
a developing site which has attracted over 150,000 visitors so
far!
Ask
Jeeves for Kids a search engine especially for children
Maths
Enrichment University of Cambridge ON-LINE Maths Club
+ Plus www.pass.maths.org.uk
e-mail addresses
ncr@qca.org.uk The
National Curriculum Review Division
teachers@teachersbs.co.uk Teachers'
Building Society
Advanced Internet / Website technology links:
BUILDER.COM - for
serious programmers - check out their "cool tools" section
- features a quiz generator!
WEB-UTILITIES -
lots of useful tips and software.
JAVASCRIPT
SOURCE - free "cut and paste" code for adding interactivity
to your site.
WEB
MONKEY - good source of technical information.
THE
JAVABOUTIQUE - awesome technical site - loads of free JAVA
scripts and tonnes of ideas.
WEBMASTER-RESOURCES.COM -
all the info you need about making websites - Useful!
JAVASCRIPT
WORLD - another excellent source of info and code for your
pages.
Tesco
Schoolnet 2000 Bett '99 winner Educational Website
IT
in Primary Literacy Bett '99 winner IT Support Publication
IT
Learning Exchange Bett '99 winner Support Service
Supreme
simulations
ADfilter Software
that blocks out advertising!
Revision sites
Revision
Bites to brush up your skills
Virtual
School
Maths
help
Science
revision
Geography
revision
History
revision
Music
Software
SCET
Net Key Secondary titles for software
Clicker Clicker
can be described as a very special talking word processor supported
by a Clicker Grid. Crick Software for SEN Bett '99 winner
Longman logo/logotron
software for the whole curriculum
Textease
Multimedia Bett '99 winner Primary Software
Roamer Bett
'99 winner Primary Equipment
The GifWizard
site can be used to improve the compression of images used
in Web pages. This is an important topic as images which must
be downloaded are much longer than the textual content of most
pages.
Universities
This
area could be developed to include universities of interest or links
to lists of universities. Naturally, our local universities, the University
of Hull and the University of Humberside are of importance.
UK
University links
School link sites
The
UK Schools Internet Directory
A
very interesting (and quite long!) list of sites of interest
to schools. This list would appear to be another mine of information
maintained by David Riddle of
Goldsmiths College, London.
The
Web guide for kids!
Search
UK Plus is a European based
search facility.
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revised:
10 October, 2004
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