 | NY Perspectives
 | Overhead photographs and maps of the whole of North Yorkshire, a searchable gazetteer and access to all files for download and use in UKP Viewer |
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| Google Resources
 | Google Maps:View maps, get driving directions, and search for local businesses and services. |
 | Google Moon:In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, Google heve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbour. Happy lunar surfing - and zoom in close to see what the moon is really made of :-) |
 | Google Earth: puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locations. Try the Tour, go also to the Forbidden City and 'fly-through' the Grand Canyon - phenomenal |
 | Picasa 2: a free software download from Google that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC |
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| The Creative Archive Licence
 | The Creative Archive is a BBC led initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives in such a way as to allow the British public to find, share, watch, listen and re-use the archive as a fuel for their own creative endeavours. |
 | Download FREE video from the BBC archive: For the first time in our history the BBC is opening its video archives to the UK public. Download nearly 100 clips especially chosen with VJs in mind. We've scoured the archives for skylines, sunsets, seascapes, wildlife, time-lapse photography & retro gadgets. We will be adding new clips/programmes and launching a major VJ based competition over the next few months so keep coming back for the latest updates. |
| British Film Institute: Welcome to the British Film Institute's pilot site featuring video clips made available for free download to users in the United Kingdom under the innovative Creative Archive Licence, to stimulate creative re-use for non-commercial purposes. |
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| Domesday Project
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- In 1086 King William I of England published the Domesday Book, hand written on vellum and now on display at The National Archives in London.
- In 1986 the BBC published its Domesday Project on a pair of twelve inch laser discs with a laserdisc player and microcomputer.
- In 2003 LongLife Data, supported by The National Archives, BBC and ATSF, created a Windows version of the 1986 Domesday Community data which is available to use at The National Archives.
- In 2004 LongLife Data created this web version.
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| Sense of Place
Photographic archives of Yorkshire images held by the library archives in the region and digitised as part of the "Sense of Place" Yorkshire and Humberside consortium of NOF funded projects
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| The very best web sites as selected by the YHGfL Content Group
 | The content group of our broadband consortium, the Yorkshire and Humberside Grid for Learning Foundation (YHGfL),is now established to help identify suitable content for use in schools. Although some content is only available to broadband users, much is generally available - but much more easily accessible over broadband connections. | |
| North Yorkshire Schools WebMail information
 | The new NYCC Network mail-server enables schools and individuals to manage their own email and set up multiple mailboxes
using a web page based system. Schools should now go to the new WebMail site at http://mail.n-yorks.net
to view individual mailboxes and to http://schoolmail.n-yorks.net
to set up new mailboxes. Click here to see the Guidance Notes
NOTE: now includes correction to Outlook Express configuration guidance. | |
| School Library Service
| Link to the Schools Library Service site which includes details of services to primary, secondary and special schools and a section where you can read reviews of books written by other children, or write your own book review. | |
| Tuned-in : music resources for schools
 | North Yorkshire schools have full access to these on-line music resources from Cumbria. The resources are designed to work with Compose World Junior software. You will need to use your normal NYCC school password for web site access. | |
| Spreadsheets online
 | A spreadsheet is a program which allows you to work with numbers. You can use it as a calculator, but it is capable of doing much more. In particular it allows you to ask the question 'what if .. '
- what would happen if I change some numbers in a calculation?
- what would happen if I change the order in which I calculate an answer?
- what would happen if things change faster or slower?
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| SMART board software
 | Link to the SMART website for the latest version of the Notebook software version 9. The software suite comes loaded with applications, Flash resources, and thousands of images and templates. Unlimited installs, free upgrades and a take-home version are included. | |
| Promethean UK
 | Link to the UK Promethean World website for product information, deatils of training available and downloads | |
| Primary Zone from Granada Learning
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| AngliaCampus
 | AngliaCampus is the UK's leading online education service. Written exclusively to support the National Curriculum by a team of over sixty teachers, it is used in thousands of UK schools and homes. Schools should now visit the Curriculum Online web site and subscribe using e-Learning credits to gain access to these on-line curriculum materials from Granada Learning. Use the A-Z index of suppliers to find Granada Learning Online resources | |
| Learn.co.uk from the Guardian
 | On the website you will find lessons to support the national curriculum, resources for learners which build on the 200-year-old archive of the Guardian and the Observer and a unique range of online events. | |
| BBC ReviseWise for KS2 and GCSE BiteSize Revision
 | Learn, revise, ask a teacher, refine and improve your skills. Multimedia revision services with websites, t.v. programmes, books and CDroms - all are closely linked and can be used together or separately. | |
| Freetext word processor
A simple to use word processor available as a free download from Kudlian Soft. It includes most common functions, a spell-checker and a word bank making it a good introduction to word processing for younger children. Click here to download. (4.87Mb file - expect it to take about 20 to 30 mins using a 56K modem) |
| North Yorkshire curriculum pilot projects
| Examples of web-based resources for the curriculum produced as part of a pilot exercise to develop content. | |
