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The ccea.org.uk family of sites brings together 3 areas of curriculum, examinations and assessment by collating a diverse range of supporting materials in one easy to navigate website.
Created by CCEA | Multimedia, the learning resources production department of CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment). We have a highly skilled team delivering innovative learning resources that are engaging and provide a critical response to challenges across many areas of the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum.




You and Yours is BBC Radio 4's award winning Consumer programme. It is broadcast every weekday between 12 o'clock and 1, attracting 3 million listeners a week. Online, thousands of people access additional information about the stories covered, download podcasts, access Transcripts, email the programme, and use the 'Listen Again' facility.




Catch21 is the UK's first internet television channel at Westminster. They provide really good quality reports, shows and interviews on Blip TV, You Tube and their own website.




CCEA | Multimedia is the learning resources production department of CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment), a unique body in the UK bringing together the three areas of Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.
At CCEA | Multimedia we have a highly skilled team delivering innovative learning resources that are engaging and provides a critical response to challenges across many areas of the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum.




Dad Info is the first universally available information service for dads in the world.
The service consists of:
- www.dad.info - a brand new website for dads with information on pregnancy, birth, babies, kids, parenting issues and separation/divorce, all from a dad’s perspective.
- The “Dad Card”; a credit card sized info card, distributed FREE to the maternity services of the UK for midwives to hand out to the half a million expectant dads they meet each year – directing them to the site.
- Free emails based on their baby’s due date take new dads through the essentials of new fatherhood. Comments and live chats on the site form the basis of this new online community.




DISCODAMAGED is the only website for London's gay men and women who like clubbing where
a) they hear the serious news the clubs don't let the gay press print. In particular Damaged was the website that got everybody talking abotu GHB and crystal by reporting when people died in clubs. That kick started a whole debate that eventually got the clubs organised against it.
b) allows its users to talk about gay life and clubbing in London uncensored. The other sites censor heavily as they rely on gay businesses.
They also support small groups and events that wouldn't get publicity elsewhere as they can't afford to take an ad that'll get them copy.
It's non-profit serious work is done in a humorous non-judgemental way and gay life in London would be worse for losing it.




Dr Syed Nayyer Abidi is a senior health professional, working as the founder director of a registered Community-Interest Company called CHIEF - Community Health Involvement & Empowerment Forum. He is also known as a social entrepreneur, a healthcare writer, a bilingual author, and a well-known public health campaigner in the United Kingdom. He also leads M.E.H.A Group of Health Promoters that has recently been highly recommended for Queen`s Award for Voluntary Service - 2008.




ecancermedicalscience is an open access, professional cancer journal which is completely free to publish, free to read and free to comment. The journal is thus accessible for anyone with computer access across the globe without the restrictions of membership fees, publication fees and open access only being offered after one year. All articles are available to access immediately with comment encouraged following reading through comment boxes, blogs, forum and letter to the editor. With Open Access publishing a reality and an urgent need for improved cancer communications, ecancermedicalscience fits the 21st century bill for a cancer journal. Thanks to online, multimedia technology and a community poised to podcast and blog - ecancermedicalscience offers a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to cancer. ecancermedicalscience offers an open access resource for clinicians, surgeons, nurses, students and the entire cancer community.




By far the most useful "alert" system on developments that might post a risk to a democrtically accountable infomraiton society.




Futurelab is a not-for-profit organisation that pioneers ways of using new technology to transform the way people learn (www.futurelab.org.uk). In April 2008, Futurelab launched Power League (www.powerleague.org.uk), a free online resource for schools which supports pupils of all ages to explore, debate and discuss any topic in a fun and easy way – by creating leagues, visual representations, of students’ opinions on the chosen topic.




www.kew.org/trees is the new website for the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens in London. The Xstrata Treetop Walkway is a stunning new attraction sixty feet off the ground that invites visitors to get closer to trees and learn more about them. It is reached via The Rhizotron, a tunnel in the ground that allows visitors to experience the lively underground life of trees before heading high into the tree canopy. The Xstrata Treetop Walkway’s interactive experience is a cross - platform solution designed to delight families and general visitors and attract new young audiences to Kew.




Media Lens is a response based on the conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. They are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.




Journalisted.com helps you answer the question: 'How do I know this
journalist knows what they're talking about?' The site provides a page
about every journalist published on any UK national newspaper website, the
BBC or Sky - with the articles they have written (updated real time),
summary information about what they write about, and links to biographical
information. It even lets you 'build your own newspaper' of your favourite
journalists.




Media With Conscience, is a political news magazine dedicated to human-rights and justice.




Fab free website aimed at children aged 7 - 12, growns will love it too. The Monsters are soooo cute!




Moshi Monsters brings a virtual world of adoptable pet monsters to life. Far from being just an online game, Moshi has been developed with education at the forefront. The Monsters ask their owners to play a daily puzzle game with them, in order to earn Rox, the in game currency. The puzzles are made up of numeracy, literacy and other skills, that adapt and get harder or easier, depending on how the user performs.




Philip Virgo is Secretary General of EURIM, the Parliament/Industry body, set up in 1994, to promote IT policy in Government. Before that he was present at the birth of the Parliamentary IT Committee, 27 years ago. His blog, hosted by Computer Weekly was set up last year.




Great teaching is all about inspiring someone and for that, there's nothing quite like face-to-face communication. School of Everything is all about facilitating this kind of offline interaction using online tools to draw on the long tail of teaching talent that exists out there.
But School of Everything isn't just about connecting people, it's also about changing the way we learn and how we think about education. Traditionally, education has been a top-down affair. Teachers talk; pupils listen, whilst the system decides what it is they should know, how they should prove they know it and what they will get out of knowing it. School of Everything turns this on its head: everyone has something to teach - whether you're a professional tutor, a committed hobbyist or simply someone with something interesting to share. Learning is all about pursuing what you're passionate about, meeting new people and having fun - it's an end in itself, not just a means to an end.
The team has just secured their first round of investment and they're working away building a strong community of users, with support from the likes of the Young Foundation and Channel 4 Education.




This is a consumer-facing website empowering people to make choices that help them live a greener life.
It offers independent information and advice for those who want to be more environmentally-friendly and encourages visitors to share their own ideas and experiences via community message boards, comment panels and blogs.
Its aim is to encourage people to learn about being green without feeling pressured or lectured. The site also includes tools and features such as a green products shop, environmental jobs search engine, carbon footprint calculator and a directory of other green websites, businesses and organisations.