Internet Technology and Schools

Useful Websites

(All URLs correct as of March1999)

Cross-Platform Windows/Macintosh

http://www.apexxtech.com/html/maclan – using Macs for local area networks

http://www.macwindows.com/tutorial#tutorialtop – Lots of resources and technical information on cross-platform Mac Windows networking including tutorials.

Curriculum Gateways

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/today/

http://www.gsn.org/

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/uk-schools/

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/– Support site for K12 projects

http://www.bized.ac.uk/

http://www.anglia.co.uk/education/mathsnet/

http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/

http://www.ase.org.uk/–association for science education

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

http://re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk/schools/main.html – religious education exchange service

Emulation Software

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~james/BBCMicro/Emulators – A list of BBC Emulators under development with links.

http://www.emulation.net/bbcmicro/index – Horizon 1.0b BBC Micro emulator for the Macintosh download available together with the BBC ROMs necessary to run Horizon.

http://www.classicgaming.com/caprice/downloads – downloadable Amstrad emulators and utilities.

Europe

http://www.eun.org/ – the European Schoolnet.

http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/internet/actplan.html – EU document on Internet security with a particular emphasis on education and protecting students from inappropriate material.

Filtering and Labelling

There is a useful list of Internet Filter Software vendors available at Yahoo.

http://www.sciam.com/039/issue/039/resnick.html – Good introductory article by Paul Resnick on filtering and labels.

http://www.urlabs.com/public/ – various white papers

http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/pubs/tech4kids/ – A categorisation of the tools available to parents and schools. Pictograms are used to illustrate the six actions of suggest, search, inform, monitor, warn, and block.

http://www.wizguard.com/wizweb32.htm – a proxy server using a rules based filtering system

http://www.contentadvisor.com/products/how/how.html – a description of how Content Advisor works

http://demo.globalchalk.com/safety/safety.htm – BASCOM® Guide to Child Safety on the Internet.

http://www.n2h2.com/bess.html – White paper on Bess, a filter system launched on the UK school market at BETT’99

http://www.eff.org/policies/filtration_policy.html – Discussion draft dated 9/12/97 expressing concern about possible censorship and curtailing of freedom of speech.

http://www.w3.org/PICS – Introduction to PICS and labelling with links and FAQ

Legacy Hardware

http://www.acorn.com/acorn/products/support/appnotes/beeb – An archive of informative papers on BBC computers, including BBC B, BBC micro, and BBC master. Various issues are addressed including networking. Most papers, as might be anticipated, have their origins prior to 1995.

http://www.acorn.com/acorn/products/support/appnotes/archie – An archive of informative papers on early Acorn computers.

Miscellaneous Links

http://www.naace.org – National Association for Advisers for Computers in Education

http://www.acitt.org.uk – National Association for Co-ordinators and teachers of IT

http://www.apple.com.au/edu/news.html – Apple computers Australian education home page

http://www2.echo.lu/telematics/education/en/news/archive.html – an archive of back issues of Education and Training Telematics News

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcdir/edirect/– Education Direct

School Sites

http://Schools.sys.uea.ac.uk/schoolnet/ – includes links to an index of UK schools with home pages

http://www.schulweb.de/– searchable index of schools with web sites in German speaking countries

http://www.giralangps.act.edu.au/ – Giralang Primary School, Canberra

http://www.saltus.bm/ – Saltus School, Bermuda

UK Government

http://www.dfee.gov.uk/grid/consult/index.htm – ‘Connecting the Learning Society’, consultation paper on the NGfL

http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/reference/edsi/index.html – EDSI Home Page with downloadable copies of the Education Department's Superhighways Initiative reports

http://www.dfee.gov.uk/grid/challenge/index.htm – challenge to industry and commerce to support the NGfL

http://www.ngfl.gov.uk – National Grid for Learning home page

http://www.becta.org.uk/index.html – BECTa home page

Virtual Teacher Centres – not UK Government

http://www.timeplan.com/timevtc/default.htm – site maintained by timeplan – an education recruitment agency

http://www.vtcentre.com/ – site maintained by Microsoft, RM and BT

Wireless networks

http://www.ednet.lancs.sc.uk/tech/ – Lancaster EDNET is a wireless based radio network connecting together schools and colleges in the Lancaster district and providing an Internet connection.

http://www.espresso.co.uk/ – includes details of the schools involved in the 1999 Espresso/Artes3 satellite broadcasting trial, and the educational content being supplied to schools in the trial.

http://www.jolt.co.il/ – home page of Jolt, a major supplier of wireless network equipment, and developer of laser connectivity for internetworking.

http://www.radiolan.com/ – much useful information about wireless networking. The company is developing a 10Mbps wireless LAN and the site includes technical information and downloadable white papers about standards in wireless data communications.

http://www.skillsware.co.uk/space/home.htm – Space Academy is a major new programme developed in conjunction with the British National Space Centre with the objectives to explore the use of satellite equipment in the educational field.

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