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Weather
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BBC
Weather Centre The latest weather forecast and background information on weather forecasting |
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Dundee Satellite
Receiving station Images from the Meteosat weather satellite |
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Nottingham
University Meteosat site Images from the Meteosat weather satellite |
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Nottingham
University Meteosat site - most recent image The latest Meteosat satellite image of the UK & Northern Europe |
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Reading University
Department of Meteorology Weather data - useful for contrasts with other localities |
| Hazelrigg
Weather Station Detailed weather data from a Meteorological Office weather station |
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| Painting
the Weather An online exhibition of weather pictures from 50 UK galleries and museums. |
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Running Water An educational site about water resources for 8-13 year olds from South West Water |
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The Met Office |
QuickTime VR
| Free QuickTime
Download To view QuickTime VR movies you will need the free QuickTime Player and browser plug-in from Apple. Available for MacOS and Windows. |
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Cubic VR Gallery The latest "cubic" VRs from Apple |
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International QuickTime
VR Association Links to a range of sites containing QTVR panoramas |
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panoramas.dk Directory or worldwide VR Websites |
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| VRWay "Travel to 5 European countries and visit the cities in the VR Way project. With just one click you step inside a real-world scene, walk around, listen in and explore. Zoom in on anything that catches your eye and travel on to connected environments" |
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Wrinkle
in Time Vast resource of QTVR movies from around the world - including Wrinkle 2000 |
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Hand-made VR A collection of my QTVR movies |
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Galvinized.com A US site containing several impressive panoramas, including movies showing "Ground Zero" in New York 10 days after "9/11" - use with care |
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Panoramiques sphériques avec QuickTime VR Cubic Web site featuring an eight-panorama virtual trip up the Eiffel Tower |
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| Metis Catalog
Extensive VR tour of Greece and its history |
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QTVR Tour of Florence, Italy A movie with three linked views and an accompanying map |
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| Eden Project - Virtual Tour
Part of the Eden Project Web site |
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Piccadilly Circus A Web page from the Armchair Travel Company featuring 3 QTVR movies |
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| Virtual Cromarty
QTVR tour of a town in the Scottish Highlands |
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Blackpool Includes a Quicktime VR panorama of the view from the top of Blackpool Tower |
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Virtual Rotherham Virtual reality tour of Rotherham town centre |
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QuickTime
VR in primary geography |
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View
from the summit of Mount Everest From the Nova Web site, part of the US Public Broadcasting System's Web presence |
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... and finally, not a geographical Web link, but an interesting use of VR technology: The Beatles - recording session |
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Teachers' Resources |
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Education for
sustainable development (ESD) "This website has been designed to help teachers, curriculum coordinators, school managers and governors to develop approaches to education for sustainable development" - from QCA |
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| Education for Sustainability "E4S provides teachers with lesson planning materials on the sustainable use of water, textiles and timber resources and issues surrounding waste management." |
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| Intercultural E-Mail
Classroom Connections Organisation, based in the US, for facilitating email links between schools around the world. |
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| ePALS This is the world's largest online classroom community, connecting over three million students and teachers. |
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| IPFS - The International Pen Friend Service The aim of the IPFS is to create friendships through pen pal links between middle-school students from different countries, especially through their teaching staff and, more particularly, their foreign language teachers. |
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| Langoo This site allows e-mails to be sent and received in a variety of languages with no need for special fonts to be installed. Languages catered for include Hindi, Telegu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Russian. |
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| Projects Using Information and Communications Technology (PICT) This site has some practical advice on using e-mail in school projects. |
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| SEEN The Chester Sustainable Environmental Education Network aims to involve local school children in the processes of planning, regeneration and design which will shape the future of their own communities. See also Chester for Teachers |
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| Learning through
Landscapes Charity which focuses on the environmental improvement and development of school grounds |
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| Urbis Museum exploring life in world cities - a Manchester Millenium project |
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| Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) | |
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to Farms This site contains an on-line database of farms throughout the UK which schools can visit, with details of the types of activities on offer at each farm. |
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The Geographical Association
The Virtual Teacher Centre - read the Web site review
TES Online - read the Web site review
ICT Support Network Website of the Week 12/7/01 and 14/08/02
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