ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop · Harton School

• Click on the link GCSE Subjects, which leads to the NEAB website. We are going to find out what the History email address is.
• Click on History. You will find the History email address at the top of the web page.
• Find out a syllabus number for the GCSE History Syllabus. You may have to scroll down the page.

• The BBC website is supposed to be the most visited information-based website in Europe. BBC Education has a section called GCSE Bitesize Revision, which is intended for learners working on their own.
• Return to the History Page. Click on the Bitesize Revision link. Then click on the Religious Education link. Look at the topics. Are they relevant? Try one and assess the quality of subsequent pages for age-appropriateness and curriculum focus.

• Return to the History Page. Assess the relevance of the teaching ideas, lesson plans, worksheets and resources on offer for History teachers on the two links Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers and Educate the Children.

• Return to the History Page. George Emery is a librarian at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He has been collecting timelines on the Internet since 1993. The fruits of his labour are posted at AlternaTime. How could some of these timelines be integrated into your teaching of History?

• Return to the History Page. Hadrian's Wall is the largest physical legacy left by the Roman occupation of Britain. The Hadrian's Wall Heritage Site is designed for tourists, but is useful for students. It includes an explanation of how and why the wall was built. Once again, how appropriate is this website to your own History teaching?
• Return to the History Page. Hadrian's Wall is a second website designed for tourists in the Borders area. How useful is this site to your teaching?

• Return to the History Page. The portal History and Special Educational Needs links to a number of sites offering resources and strategies for learners with difficulties and impairments. How useful might the links be in your History teaching?

• Return to the History Page and click on the Google link. Use History as your keyword. How many hits were there? Print out the first page of hits.
• Now try out Yahoo, typing History into the box. How does Yahoo present search results?
• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of these search engines?

• If you had the Internet up and running, would you be able to locate and use a web resource in your teaching? Could you set your students a task which they might complete by referring to a web page or website?
• The Teacher Training Agency has published Initial Teacher Training (ITT) National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in subject teaching: Exemplification materials. Access their ICT exemplification materials page and find out how to obtain the materials for History.

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