Welford and Wickham School
Links Page
We like to use Digital's impressive ALTA VISTA WEB INDEX to search the Internet. To date this database has stored more than 10 billion words from 22 million Web pages taking up a massive 33 Gigabytes of disc space (it runs on a Digital server 8400 with 10 CPUs, 6 GBytes of Ram and 210 GBytes of disc space).
New Places We've Found
Since 1994, KIDLINK children and KIDLEADERs from all over the world have been developing a Multi-Cultural Calendar as a valuable resource for classrooms around the world.
BONUS.COM is a great safe environment
for children to explore.
The Royal Ulster
Constabulary have fun interactive pages for children, encouraging
citizenship. Also the London Metropolitan Police
'Streetwise' tips
give good suggestions on how to stay safe.
The CIA World
Fact Book gives tons of information you've always wanted to know about
any country in the world.
An interactive experience for anybody with an interest in
Early Medieval Europe in general
and Anglo-Saxon and Viking England in particular.
The Wonderful
World of Insects at Exeter University is a fun, creepy-crawly place to
visit. You can even join their Bug
Club.
The Nine Planets described as - a Multimedia tour of the Solar System
with pictures, text, sound and references to other Net resources about the
solar system.
Bob Riddle's sky chart. As Director of the Kansas City Planetarium
Bob Riddle makes viewing the
night sky more fun by showing us where the planets are each month and gives
an outline of any special event that can be viewed in the sky.
The Space
Calendar from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Labs lists details of space-related
activities and anniversaries for the coming year from Meteor Showers to rocket
launches.
Midlink is an monthly online magazine for children. Why not submit some
of your own work, stories, drawings and even jokes for them to publish.
Visit another Wickham in Australia
Some of our Friends
Don't miss Patti Weeg's
Global
Classroom and see some of the wonderful
online projects her children have done. While you are there send her some
greetings in your own language or dialect.
A Few Favourites
One of the finest web resources is
The Yahoo Web Index started
by a couple of students at Stanford University and makes a great place to
start exploring from. Yahoo presents a list of categories linked to
sub-categories of subjects to search for.
The Web Crawler database is compiled by
WEB-EXPLORING ROBOTS and contains information on over 100,000
different documents on the World Wide Web. The tables of all known, unvisited
documents, contains data on over 900,000 different documents. You can enter
a search word or phrase in a box and it quickly returns the address of relevant
documents.
Kidsweb is a World Wide Web
digital library for schoolkids.
Websters
Dictionary returns definitions of any word in the English language with
links to related words.
Pathways
for Education is a categorised list of educational sites.
And for the Teachers
UK Educational
Information including links to the UK National Curriculum guidelines.
Useful links to current BBC educational
programmes.
Scholastic's Internet centre where
you can visit and search their 'Learning Libraries' and 'Education Store'.
Read 'Press Return', their on-line magazine written by students, and take
part in projects.
The B&R Samizdat Express makes
available a large selection of public domain electronic texts. You can also
send an email asking to be sent their free monthly
Internet-on-a-Disk newsletter.
Educom is a consortium of leading colleges
and universities based in Washington, D.C. and has been integrating information
technology into classrooms for more than 25 years. Although dealing mainly
with higher education they are a great resource for developing the use of
IT. Check out their free email publication
Edupage that you can subscribe
to and receive three times a week. It is not very long and makes interesting
reading.
Would you like to find out about other schools with WWW pages? A lot are
registered with the
Web66: WWW
School Registry. and the
RM Eduweb
Directory
More links to places we like to visit.
Links to the pages of people who have linked to us.
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