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BBC Weather Centre The latest weather forecast and background information on weather forecasting |
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Online Latest weather around the world plus an archive of daily weather back to 1996. Climate graphs provide information on temperature and precipitation for a range of world locations. |
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Dundee
Satellite Receiving station Images from the Meteosat weather satellite |
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Nottingham University Meteosat site A statement on the Web site reads, as follows: "We regret to announce the suspension of the meteosat service from the University of Nottingham. The image collecting equipment is no longer functional, and we do not have any plans to restore the service. A few images have been retained on this site in case they are of interest." |
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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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QuickTime VR
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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 VR Photography Association
(IVRPA) Links to a range of sites containing QTVR panoramas |
| 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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| World Heritage — a world
wide Quicktime VR panorama shoot on June 19-21, 2004 On the Solstice weekend, June 19-21, more than 110 photographers in 32 countries around the world created VR panoramas with the common theme of World Heritage. This site showcases the results of their efforts. |
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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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| Eden Project -
Virtual Tour Part of the Eden Project Web site |
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| Milton Keynes QTVR panoramas of Milton Keynes and its vicinity |
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| Virtual Cromarty QTVR tour of a town in the Scottish Highlands |
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| Virtual 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 |
| 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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Teachers' Resources |
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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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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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| Global
Gateway "The Global Gateway is an international website funded by the Department for Education and Skills and managed by the British Council, enabling those involved in education across the world to engage in creative partnerships. It is a one-stop shop, providing quick access to comprehensive information on how to develop an international dimension to education." |
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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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| 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) | |
| Access 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
Links updated and checked March 2006
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