National Education Network

War witness is a new and developing project that aims to provide a rich repository of digital resources including images, video and eye witness accounts from World War 2 and more recent conflicts.

Imagine a search engine designed for KS2 children… What would it look like? It would be easy to use, allow safe internet searches and filter inappropriate results to give KS2 relevant, child-friendly online resources, helping children to find valuable sites with an appropriate educational focus. It would also ensure that children don’t interpret the search as ‘boring’ or ‘restrictive’. It becomes in short an ideal place from which children can explore the web.

This tool allows you to use your own pictures and audio to build a presentation or demonstration. A simple zoom tool allows you to focus in on the items in a picture you are talking about, as you outline information you can zoom and pan around an image.

Natureweb is an online GCSE A-Level resources for students of environmental science. It contains video and audio material based on work at six nature reserves.

Making the News 2 (MTN2) is a website designed to introduce students to the world of online media publishing and broadcasting for the 21st century. Teachers may register, doing so will create a homepage on MTN for their school. The teacher may then create student accounts. Students can then login and create articles and programmes which will be submitted to the teacher and if approved published on the school homepage. Well rated articles will be added to the National MTN2 site. Articles may be text and images or they may be video, audio or a sequence of images.   Students can use any media editing tools you wish to create and upload video/audio articles, or use the tools embedded in the MTN2 website.   This is an E2BN project that has been jointly funded by: CLEO, EMBC, LGfL, NorthernGrid, SEGfL, SWGfL, and YHGfL. Teachers at schools in these RBCs may become registered users without charge. Teachers in schools in other RBCs, in schools outside the NEN, private and overseas maybe subject to a subscripton fee of £250 per school per year.

Homerton Children’s Centre has long had a national reputation for its work on using appropriate technologies in Early Childhood Education. This website is a result of work and training undertaken at Homerton. Use the Planning area of this website to find out how you can plan for ICT so that it underpins each principle of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Also look at how the principles of the EYFS can inform our practice in developing uses of technology in the Early Years.

You won't find Batman here, nor the Incredible Hulk. But you'll find people who really did exist - people who made their mark on history. But what sort of people were they? Did they have incredible powers, like Batman and Superman? Or were they more like you and me? Find out about Alan Turin, Elizabeth Fry, Nelson, Cromwell and others and decide for your self whether they deserve to be call 'hero'.

This website has arisen out of a learning network project that involved six Cambridgeshire Nursery Schools and Children’s Centres in building on good practice in children’s mathematical development. In particular we looked at the area of mark making for mathematical purposes and as a process towards informal forms of written calculations across the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Doing a theme on South Africa? – check out this vuvuzela-free NEN resource:     ArtisanCam: Mandela Comicbook Artists’            Visit this resource here  

Doing a theme on South Africa? – check out this vuvuzela-free NEN resource:     South Africa / UK talking wall      Visit this resource here   Also you might be interested in the following resource:   ArtisanCam: Mandela Comicbook Artists

Pupils from a school in Redcar and Cleveland know all about the opportunities the Internet provides. They also know about the risks. The pupils, aged from 6-8 years old, worked with their class teacher and Creative Partnerships to produce this powerful message about how to stay safe online. Please note that this video can only be viewed from a connection on the National Education Network  

Trench warfare has become synonymous with the First World War but what was it really like and why did it become so predominant? Find out more about the theory and the reality of trench warfare.  

  This resource considers the life of slaves and asks whether Booker T Washington's description of life as "miserable, desolate and discouraging" is accurate.  

Since the 1960s the emphasis has been on the awful conditions, the terrible casualty rates and on the stupidity and cowardice of the 'butchering and bungling' generals. But what was it really like for the men on the Western Front?  

Everyone has heard of the Somme but what was it like to take part. Find out more by looking at these differing accounts.

This local history study focuses on the Market Place in Durham to show how and why it has changed. 

Designed to act as introduction to the study of history at secondary school, this resource includes sections on timelines, different types of source material, anachronisms and bias.

The First World War witnessed many new technological developments such as the use of aircraft, developments in artillery techniques, changes in methods of communication and the use of gas. This resource looks at these developments and asks what impact they had.

Find out more about life in Victorian Durham in this online resource which also includes links to a trail around the city centre. 

A series of downloadable working sheets focusing on Britain in the Second World War that can be used in the teaching of literacy.