Writers Workshop CD-Rom from Granada LearningA good example of a commercially produced CD-Rom that enables students to explore different ways of writing.

Price: pound;49 www.granada-learning.com Proquest learning literature is an online subscription service. Full of first class, otherwise hard to access, literature materials. Free trials available, as well as a 20 per cent discount if you subscribe to both this and Proquest learning history.

Price: pound;295 single-user per year; pound;395 for 16-users; and pound;495 for full-access.www.lion-schools.co.uk Free acquisitionsBlogger As the website puts it: “Blogger offers you instant communication power by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever the urge strikes.”

Write a web page in moments. Anyone can do it. Broadcast your ideas to the world in an instant.

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Text to speech software. Will read computer text out loud. Many uses and brilliant for proof reading. Free version to download on the website.www.readplease.com Moving images Go to the British Film Institute to obtain one of the best free gifts:

“Moving Images in the Classroom”. This site offers advice to secondary teachers. It outlines basic techniques and practical classroom activities which can be used in English lessons. For example, it suggests ways of looking at Shakespeare on film or studying literary adaptations. You can download it or request a paper copy, or do both.www.bfi.org.ukeducationteachersclassroommiicindex.html Mind mapping Download a demonstration version of this ideas-generating, mind-mapping software. Full details of what it can do are available on the site.www.mindmanager.co.uk Essential sitesEnglish Online is a New Zealand site full of perceptive ideas and tips.www.english.unitecnology.ac.nzhome.html This Wilfred Owen site is an object lesson in how to present a poet.

http:firth.natcorp.ox.ac.ukjtap English Resources is a splendid site with some great resources for examination work.

www.englishresources.co.uk There are many websites with literature. Bartleby is one of the more pleasant to visit.

www.bartleby.comAndrew Moore’s teaching resource site is impressive for teachers looking for key stage 4material.

www.shunsley.eril.netarmoore Refdesk.com bills itself as “the single best source for facts on the Net”. It might be American, but it is really comprehensive.

www.refdesk.com For an amazing array of newspapers from around the world, this websiteis priceless.http:pppp.netlinksnews Harry Dodds’ site has been around for some time and is still one of the best out there (he is also a regular TESwebsite contributor www.tes.co.uk).

http:ourworld.compuserve. comhomepagesHarry_Dodds Teachit.co.uk exudes enthusiasm! There is much to explore, admire and use here.www.teachit.co.uk Professor David Wray’s site has some good resources for literacy teaching.

www.warwick.ac.ukstaffD.J.Wrayresources.html