Staff Biographies

Primary Department

Paul Carter: I have been a primary school teacher for the past 10 years. At present I am working as an ICT Manager in a junior school on the South Coast of England. In previous years, I have also been Co-ordinator for both English, Design Technology and Special Educational Needs. Two years ago, I produced the Key Stage 1 and 2 ICT Powerstations for Digitalbrain, and this led me on to develop my own websites. I currently run and manage Clickteaching (designed to support teachers and schools by providing easy access to a range of top quality teaching resources), and TopMat (an online learning station for primary children). I am keen to develop further online resources that will motivate and stimulate both children and teachers.

Email paul@clicklive.co.uk Website Clickteaching

Joy Simpson: I have been teaching in the primary sector for 17 years. I am at present a Deputy Headteacher in a middle school and, amongst many other things, Literacy Co-Ordinator. From September I shall be working as a Literacy Consultant for my LEA. I use the internet regularly to find resources and information which includes visiting government websites related to education. In my spare time I run a website, Literacy Lessons, where I share my literacy work with others in order to reduce the amount of time primary teachers, and soon KS3 teachers, spend planning.

Email alison.simpson@zoom.co.uk Website Literacy Lessons

Derek Allen: Thirty-six years a primary teacher, having been headteacher of Snaith Primary School in East Yorkshire for the last 21 and still going strong. Over the last 20 years I have written software for BBC and Acorn machines ( Droom, Albert's House, Wordworks, Sumthing etc ). I moved over to the PC two years ago at the beginning of NgFL. Found the Internet to be barren of good resources for Primary Schools, so decided to write some. Hence our school website Thinking Things from Snaith. I am fascinated by the level of personal communication that children can experience through the Internet, especially in the European dimension.

Email snaithprimary@eril.net Website Snaith Primary

Sue Spolton: I am a primary school teacher in the Nottingham area, with twenty-five years experience. For six years I have been keenly interested in how the Internet can promote learning. My frustration in initially not being able to find good educational resources led me to create Topmarks in 1998. Topmarks has been encouragingly received as a popular educational portal for all age groups and subjects. I believe this is due to the fact that I feature only the highest quality teaching and learning resources - a common aim with other ATW members. I have also created several online religious materials for use with KS2 pupils.

Email education@topmarks.co.uk Website Topmarks

Mark Taylor: I have been teaching since 1992 in the primary sector although my initial teacher training was as a secondary science teacher. I am currently the science co-ordinator at Acock's Green Junior school in Birmingham. I see the internet as a great opportunity for teachers to share best practice, resources and ideas. To that end I have invested time in developing a KS2 science website ScienceZone that I believe will be of value to the wider teaching community.

Email marktaylor001@yahoo.co.uk Website ScienceZone

Leon Cych: I am ICT co-ordinator at All Souls School in central London. Our school had one of the first web pages (non-commercial or university) in the UK. As well as full time class teacher for 23 years I have worked writing web resources for the BBC, BECTA, Digitalbrain, Science and Frankin Museums amongst others. I am currently on secondment as educational consultant with the HTI and working for the arts broadband company Digital Classics. I'm also conducting R & D research
(and implementing it!) into the use of interactive streaming media over the web in VLE environments through broadband. I also maintain the site Department for Electronic Education which is a project to put quality early years software into most NOF training schools. We have given away over 1000 CD's to date.

Email dfee@btinternet.com Website Department for Electronic Education

English Department

Andrew Moore: I have taught English in secondary schools for twenty-one years. I am currently working for the East Riding of Yorkshire School Improvement Service as a project manager for ICT. I started to use Internet technologies to support my own teaching groups, and found that lots of other people wanted to use them. My English Teaching Resource site was one of the first to be listed by the NGfL - it now receives traffic from around the world, and thousands of page impressions every week. I am a member of the European Virtual School English department, a founder member of the Association of Teachers' Websites, and the head of English for the Teachers' Virtual School. I have written other educational Web sites, including an archive site for letters from the Great War and a site for teaching about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. I am also involved in the Babelnet English Project.

Email armoore1955@bigfoot.com Website English Teaching Resource

Siobhain Archer: I am founder and editor of Teachit, one of the web's largest and most popular resources for teachers of English, Media Studies and Drama. Prior to working full-time on website, I taught English at Goffs school in Cheshunt and English and Drama at St Marks school in Bath. I still keep my 'hand in' by running specialist IT based Saturday workshops and summer schools in conjunction with BaNES LEA. A founder member of the Association of Teachers' Websites, I produce online lessons for Learn and previously for The Daily Telegraph's virtual school, and write a regular 'Online English Teacher' column for Ink Pellet magazine. I trained to be a teacher at Hertfordshire University after a stint in magazine publishing and exhibitions organisation. I received my English degree from Sussex University in 1993.

Email siobhain@teachit.co.uk Website Teachit

Duncan Grey: I am Head of Learning Resources and an English teacher at Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon. I saw the Internet as a way of expanding the materials base of my resources centre and went online in 1994, producing the first UK secondary school website in February 1995 (which I still maintain) and the book The Internet in School in 1998.I give talks on information handling skills and developing resource based learning. I write classroom materials on ICT, information skills and English, especially English language, which I teach at A level.

Email dsg@post.com Website Hinchingbrooke School

Harry Dodds: I have been an English teacher since 1970, first in Gloucestershire and then in Oxfordshire, where I am now Head of English at Gosford Hill School, Oxford Road, Kidlington. It is a truly comprehensive school, so I am used to working with students of all ages and from all backgrounds. It's an innovative ICT school - we are the first in the country to have a wireless-based Internet link to our 5 Primary feeder schools, and I am fascinated to see just what we will make of it.I have a well-established home page, English Teaching in the United Kingdom, full of selected Internet resources and links. Experimenting with this is what led me to believe that the future of education lies in electronically networked and increasingly interactive learning. I am a member of a BECTa consultative group which has been looking at the ICT components of the new National Curriculum orders, and am delighted to see how traditional definitions of the English curriculum are expanding to take in developments in computer moderated communications.

Email harryd@patrol.i-way.co.uk Website English Teaching in the United Kingdom

Steve Baker: After an English degree at York University and a P.G.C.E. at Leeds I started as an English teacher at Hall Mead School in Upminster. While there I was tricked into taking a class in Media Studies and discovered where my interests really lie. I have gradually been removed from English in the years since and after nine years in charge of Media at Havering Sixth Form College am about to take up the head of Media post at Christ the King Sixth Form College in my home town of Blackheath.

Email stevewlb@talk21.com Website Media Studies

Adam Ranson: I have been teaching in the Tertiary & FE sector for 21 years. I am presently the Subject Head of AS/A2 Communication Studies at Filton College in Bristol . I am also an assistant examiner in Media Studies for the AQA. I use the internet regularly to find resources and information relating to Media, Cultural & Communication Studies on Academic and Media Industry sites. In my spare time I run a website, 'Filcommedia', which I started this year to provide curriculum resources for my students and tutees through the college 'intranet'.

Email ransona@filton-college.ac.uk Website Filton College Media

Steve Campsall: I have been teaching since 1995, entering the profession later in life following a management career in international pharmaceutical marketing. I am currently teaching English and Media Studies at Beauchamp College in Oadby, Leicester, a successful Leicestershire technology college. My English revision website, EnglishBiz, is approved by NGfL and other national bodies. It is my attempt to provide a straightforward, easily accessible and more inclusive revision experience for students; it was created in response to my suspicion that many web sites are aimed mainly at the higher achiever. I look forward to the time when a student's reward for a web search is more than just a slowly revealed page of text - the sooner we all have broadband the better!

Email campsall@btinternet.com Website EnglishBiz

Science Department

Nicholas Falk: In addition to being Head of Year in an 11 to 16 comprehensive school I am a member of the planning team of the European Virtual School. I was involved in the eSchola project producing a module of work that utilised the LUVIT e learning platform. I am now the UK national co-ordinator for 'Molecool'; an Internet based chemistry game. I write website reviews for the BBC Educational Webguide and provide lesson material for Learn. My Science website has received several recommendations including a five star rating from Schoolzone.

Email N.J.F@btinternet.com Website Science Active

Mark Rothery: I started using online resources 4 years ago. I teach A level and GCSE Biology in a sixth form college. I regularly use virtual fly lab, Bitesize, Samlearning, The Biology Project and Kimball's with classes of students. The site I have developed contains A level style questions specifically designed for our specification as I have not found any specification specific site on the web. A student recently emailed me saying that my web site was the best A level Biology site they had ever seen. Apart from the internet I use a video projector and a microscope flexcam regularly in classes. I am currently an ILT "champion" and an IT keyskills internal verifier.

Email mark@rotheryuk.freeserve.co.uk Website A level Biology

Nigel Saunders: After completing my D.Phil in biochemistry at the University of York, I researched rheumatoid arthritis and later the rather nasty parasite that causes schistosomiasis. I started my teaching career at Bingley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, where I was also the Health and Safety Officer. Since 1997, I have been the Head of Chemistry at Harrogate Granby High School in North Yorkshire, England. I have tutored for the Open University on their summer schools for the Our Chemical Environment course, marked Key Stage 3 Science SATs and GCSE Biology, and co-authored two Biology workbooks. In my spare time, I run a Web site, Creative Chemistry, which contains fun activities, worksheets and practical guides for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level Chemistry.

Email nigel@creativechemistry.org.uk Website Creative Chemistry

Adrian Dingle: I have ten years experience of teaching GCSE and A level Chemistry in the UK and am currently teaching high school Chemistry and Advanced Placement Chemistry in the United States. I have taught in the private and state (public) systems and in the tutorial college sector. I run my own Chemistry website at http://www.westminster.net/faculty/dingle. I am currently the assistant boys varsity soccer coach of the Georgia AAA State Champions, The Westminster Wildcats.

Email adriandingle@westminster.net Website Chemistry Pages

Roger Poland: I have a degree in Zoology and have been teaching Biology at GCSE and A level for 27 years. I am Head of Science at an Independent Mixed School in Somerset and have a particular interest in Environmental Education and Marine Turtle Conservation in the Mediterranean. I am just writing up my PhD thesis (Exeter University) on the role of the WWW in Environmental Education, using a case study involving the EuroTurtle website. In my spare time I am actively involved in the species action plan for Marine turtles in UK waters and a trustee and member of the Scientific Committee of MEDASSET (Mediterranean Association to Save Sea Turtles): Professor David Bellamy is our Vice-President.

Email roger@kingscol.demon.co.uk Website EuroTurtle

Max d'Ayala: While teaching science in secondary schools I realised that few pupils understood what was expected for their Science Coursework. I have always been interested in practical science and decided to create the 8886 Science Coursework website to try to diminish the worry and time they so often expended on this task. At their age they should be spending time doing much more interesting things.

Email webmaster@8886.co.uk Website 8886 Science Coursework

David Faure: I have been teaching Biology, Chemistry and Balanced Science for 10 years. I currently teach International Baccalaureate level Biology and IGCSE Biology, and Chemistry in Europe's first wholly laptop school (The International School of Toulouse). Every student has their own laptop and access to the Web and a broad range of software. We are currently developing a "Hypertext Curriculum" web site which students use within the science department and we daily use web resources, Cdroms, digital cameras, data logging and video logging equipment as tools to aid the learning of students. This year I have been involved in eSchola and the EUN Schoolnet project to provide online learning experiences for European schools. I have also used Interwise and LUVIT software to publish elearning materials.

Email faure_d@intst.net Website Science and IST

Maths Department

Bryan Dye: I am Head of Department at Hewett School, Cecil Road, Norwich. Have taught all abilities and ages from Year 8 to Year 13, from pupils with specials needs to students on Further Mathematics A level courses. I was also Advisory Mathematics Teacher, Norfolk LEA (1988-89) and I am currently Mathematics Consultant to AngliaCampus educational website. I run the MathsNet website since 1996 and I am consultant to the BBC on web developments.

Email thedyes@freeuk.com Website MathsNet

David Harris: I've been teaching for 13 years now. I started my career in Manchester, and then moved to Egypt in 1990. I've been working in International Schools ever since. From Egypt I moved to London and then Argentina. I had the opportunity while in Buenos Aires to begin an M Ed degree with Bristol University by distance learning. It was during this time that I developed an interest in trying to improve the teaching of probability with technology; the idea for planetqhe.com was born. I am now Head of Mathematics at the International School of Toulouse. We are a laptop school, so there are lots of opportunities for me to integrate technology into my teaching.

Email harris_d@intst.net Website Learning Activities Network

Danny Nicholson: I I am a former Science teacher and ICT project manager for the Cornwallis
School, Maidstone. I was their webmaster for three years and the site has won two national awards for excellence. I am currently a senior lecturer for mPowerNet, part of Anglia Polytechnic University, training teachers to use ICT effectively under the New Opportunities Fund ICT training. In addition I write science textbooks for Heinemann such as Eureka!, and ICT Activities for Science. My website, Wavelength Educational, has been online since 1996 in various forms, but has since had a major revamp to provide access to even more resources.

Email mail@dannynicholson.co.uk Website Wavelength Educational

History Department

John Simkin: While studying at the Open University I became convinced by Jerome Bruner's ideas on active learning. Since I began teaching history in 1978 I have attempted to produce educational materials that enable active learning to take place. This has included over twenty textbooks and nine educational computer programs. In September, 1997 I established the Spartacus Educational website and over the last four years I have produced online teaching material for the Electronic Telegraph, the European Virtual School and the Guardian's educational website, Learn. A founder member of the Association of Teachers' Websites, I am the organizer of the Teachers' Virtual School and editor of Teaching History Online.

Email spartacus@pavilion.co.uk Website Spartacus Educational

Russel Tarr: I am a teacher of history and politics at Wolverhampton Grammar School, which was my first post as a professional teacher after gaining my PGCE from Birmingham and my Honours Degree in Modern History from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. From September I will have responsibility for web development within my school and I plan to work closely with departments to implement strategies that will enable them to teach their subjects effectively through the use of ICT. I have a regular column in History Review regarding the use of ICT in History; I have also written for the TES on this subject and have produced web reviews and online lessons for Learn, The Guardian's educational website.

Email rjt@wgs-sch.net Website Active History

Dan Moorhouse: I have been teaching at Laisterdyke High School, Bradford, for 4 years as Head of History, where I am also Head of Year. My responsibilities within the school include curriculum and pastoral design and introduction of a Sixth Form and use of Literacy and ICT teaching methods within Humanities lessons. I have previously been Gifted and talented Coordinator for the local area and have been invited to form part of the training team for coordinators of this strategy. I have been creating online resources for 18 months and have worked for a number of other websites, including Learn, creating online resources and lessons for teachers and students.

Email dan@bantams.demon.co.uk Website Schools History

Andrew Field: I began my teaching career two years ago with an English and ICT position, but decided to further my history skills by developing a website. This turned into the successful Norman Conquest website. Following on from this I decided to develop my School History website that offering online history resources and links. Before I could go on any history interviews for the next academic year, my school offered me a history teaching post. This year has seen the growth of my sites accompanied with work for Learn, Just for Teachers together with other consultancy and educational roles both at school and on the Internet. I have recently been commissioned to create online materials for the Public Record Office. At school, I was promoted to ICT curriculum coordinator in June together with responsibility for staff ICT training from September.

Email MrField@BTInternet.com Website School History

Chris Trueman: I have been teaching since September 1980 in the secondary sector. I am at present Head of Year 7 at a large community college in West Sussex. I frequently use the Internet to find out information that, if relevant, is used in my lessons and passed on to my colleagues. In my spare time I run the History Learning Site which also includes a section on British and American politics aimed at Advanced level students. The site contains lessons/work sheets which other collegues can use free of charge right through from KS3 to AS and A2.

Email trueman@pavilion.co.uk Website History Learning Site

Heather Wheeler: I am just coming to the end of my PGCE year as a History trainee and from September will be working at Filsham Valley School as part of the Special Needs team. Prior to my teacher training I worked as a LSA for 2 1/2 years in a Primary School and 1 1/2 in a Pupil Referral Unit. I am committed to Inclusive education and believe that Online learning is a valuable companion to classroom teaching. In my spare time I produce material for my own teaching website - History on the Net.

Email hetha@clara.co.uk Website History on the Net

Nichola Boughey: I am a History teacher at Weatherhead High School, which is my first teaching position since completing my degree at Liverpool University and my PGCE at Liverpool Hope last year. As an NQT my responsibilities within the department this year have been to create and maintain the new History department website and running the History and ICT
Club for Lower School pupils. I have only been running the website since October but the response from pupils, staff and other History teachers has been very positive.

Email weatherheadhistory@hotmail.com uk Website Weatherhead History Department

Geography Department

David Robinson is a secondary school teacher, with a BA(Hons) in Geography and Education and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Durham University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Meteorological Society. David has been actively involved in the promotion of the Internet as an educational medium since he set up the Geography Exchange website in 1996. He is the UK Geography representative on the European Virtual School team, and has produced on-line lessons for national newspapers. He has contributed material to educational CD's including the SCET Geography disc and is a founder member of the Association of Teachers' Websites.

Email david@zephryus.demon.co.uk Website Geography Exchange

David Rayner: I have been teaching geography in secondary schools for about 25 years. I have experience of many different schools including high schools, comprehensive schools and now a selective school in Kent. I have had software published including a package on London Docklands commissioned by the L.D.D.C. and packages on development and meteorology. I am currently a full-time Head of Geography with extra responsibility for NQTs and new staff. I teach mainly Geography but also some ICT. My school is part of a pilot group using GIS in secondary schools. In my spare time, I run a geography website called GeoResources. I have recently started running workshop sessions at conferences for Geography and ICT. These have included the Kent Heads of Geography Conference (July 2001) and the Royal Geographical Society Conference 'Creative Teaching of Geography at KS3' (November 2001). I have recently been commisioned by Actis to write a series of articles for Geography Online on the use of GIS and digital photographs.

Email david.rayner@cableinet.co.uk Website GeoResource

Anthony Bennett: I have been teaching in the secondary sector for 5 years. I am currently Head of Geography in an 11-16 inner city comprehensive school. I am head of year 7 and also co-ordinate extra curricular activities. I have produced a range of geographical resources for my local LEA based on teaching and learning styles. In my spare time I run a geography web site: Internet Geography. The site is designed to assist teachers in sharing resources and inspiration. A large proportion of the site is devoted to providing background geographical information and case studies for students to use. It also contains a range of online activities and 100s of links to other related sites.

Email anthony@internetgeography.co.uk Website Internet Geography

Modern Languages Department

Anne Cruikshank graduated from Sussex University in 1979 with an honours degree in Philosophy in the School of European Studies. Her specialist languages are German and French, and she spent most of her childhood in Germany, gaining her GCSE equivalents from a German grammar school. Anne started teaching at secondary school level in 1993 and became interested in self access work for French, German and Philosophy GCSE and A-level students, successfully developing topic and grammar based learning packages, many of which are now available online at her own site or at Learn. She is currently employed as a Languages teacher at a comprehensive school, where she is responsible for German, and ICT in French, German and Spanish. She is also Professional Tutor, overseeing the training of trainee teachers. Online learning forms a regular part of Anne's teaching, using mainly material from her own website which is designed to provide comprehensive self access and teacher-led lessons in German and French.

Email anne.cruickshank@dial.pipex.com Website Modern Languages

Anne Fox: I have taught for over ten years in Further Education at colleges in Cambridge, Mid Wales and Cheltenham. My timetable was mainly filled with BTEC National and GNVQ business units including tourism, trade and distribution. After moving to Denmark I completed a textbook for the Living and Working in Europe BTEC/Edexcel option. Here in Denmark I now teach English and IT. I have produced two online courses for the teaching of English and developed a language learning workshop based on the use of CD-ROMs and Internet for individual study which has now been running for over a year. I run several websites including one to help students with GCSE French and one for learning English.

Email af@ghs.dk Website Learn French

Julian Atkinson: I have been teaching for three years now after a fifteen year career in public transport. I currently teach French (and science) at a boys' secondary modern so I have concentrated on developing accessible resources for lower ability pupils to reinforce vocabulary and structures.

Email jcatkin@globalnet.co.uk Website Wildernesse School French Site

Design & Technology Department

Andy Davies: I currently work full time for Learn producing all of their 'Design Technology' materials. I manage my own site Design-Technology, which was set up four years ago. I am the head of the Design Technology Department at the Teachers' Virtual School, and previously produced online materials for the Electronic Telegraph. I have also produced online materials for the European Virtual School. I have taught Design Technology in secondary schools for ten years. For four years I was a head of department in one of the largest schools in West Sussex. For two years I was a 'Head of Year' in one of the smallest schools in East Sussex. I held the position of 'Principal Examiner' for NDTEF. I wrote the GCSE examination papers for both 'Resistant Materials' and 'Graphic Products', for two consecutive years and managed a team of examiners and project markers.

Email a.davies@design-technology.org Website Design-Technology

Wendy Daniell: I am a Research Fellow in Earthquake Engineering, a branch of Civil Engineering, at the University of Bristol. Over the last 10 years, my colleagues and I have regularly visited schools to tell children of all ages (from primary to A'level) about Earthquake Engineering. Our presentations have included slide shows of earthquake damage, demonstrations of how buildings behave during earthquakes (using model buildings on a small shaker), and hands-on activities. They have been so popular that we are often requested to visit schools. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to all invitations. So, my colleague, Dr Adam Crewe, and I developed the IDEERS website as an educational resource which can be used as part of the technology, science and geography curricula in secondary schools.

Email Wendy@sjdaniell.freeserve.co.uk Website IDEERS

Ali Farrell: Previously a food technology teacher and Head of Department in secondary schools I moved into technology curriculum development and advisory work in 1989, working for the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) and Consortium for Assessment & Testing in Schools (CATS). For the last six years I have been working as an independent technology education consultant, nationally and internationally. Clients include Department for Education, Department of Health, QCA, DATA, NATHE, Design Council, Open University, British Nutrition Foundation, Consumers' Association, Ministry of Education in Colombia and the food industry. I run numerous courses and conferences for teachers and have authored a broad range of curriculum materials. This year I received a Design & Technology Association (DATA) Award for Outstanding Contribution to D&T Education. I established Food Forum, of which I am Director, in 2000 - a web site offering teaching and learning materials for food and consumer.

Email ali@foodforum.org.uk Website Food Forum

ICT Department

Rebecca Wilson: I have been working in the primary and secondary sectors since 1989. I have been extensively involved in using ICT in a variety of settings; as part of a Visually Impaired Unit at Yerbury Primary School and as part of the Learning Resources team at George Orwell Secondary School (now closed and re-opened as Islington Arts and Media School.) I have team taught ICT in the Computer Network Room in a range of subject areas. Since 1999 I have worked at the Institute of Education as the ICT Teaching Support Analyst supporting ICT throughout the PGCE and Post Compulsory courses. Currently I am working on an online newspaper project Hackney Life with Highwire' a City Learning Centre in Hackney.

Email r.wilson@ioe.ac.uk Website ICT Teaching Resources

Religious Studies Department

Lewis Lynch: I teach Religious Education in St. Mary's College, Hull. At the moment Catholic KS3 RE is undergoing a major change. The course that we follow is called Icons and our departmental head is a writer. We aim to encourage the use of the Icons course by publishing ICT lessons through our website. Our own brief is to facilitate the delivery of the curriculum by non-specialist RE teachers who may have little experience using computers.

Email re@resauce.org Website Religious Studies Resources

Paul Hopkins: I am currently a lecturer in Education at the Open University specialising in the use of ICT in education. From 1992-1999 I was a Senior Teacher and teacher at various times of Religious Education, History, Geography, Science, IT, Mathematics and PSHE. I have been involved with on-line education since 1993 contributing to the TES, Guardian and Telegraph on line materials and writing content for a number of the NoF providers as well as writing my own web materials for both my own schools and a wider education audience. I have published widely including books, articles, CD-ROMs and web sites.

Email revision@paulhopkins.org.uk Website GCSE Religious Studies

Gordon Becket: I am Head of Religious Studies and ICT Development Co-ordinator at Woodford County High School for Girls. His first experience with computers was teaching with 'CommunITel' on BBC 'B's back in 1987 and he has since used ICT extensively in his teaching. In recent years he has produced RE related websites, led INSET courses and produced ICT material for the Open University Learning Schools Programme. Gordon is a Sixth Form Tutor and has been a Governor of Woodford for thirteen years. Websites created include WCHS and Redbridge RE Network.

Email emphyr@globalnet.co.uk Website Redbridge RE Network

Music Department

Liza Shannon: I have been a secondary school music teacher for two years after completing my PGCE at Durham University. I have recently been promoted Head of Music at a Technology School. As a new teacher I became increasingly aware of the importance of sharing ideas and designed my own website Music at School. Since creating the site I have witnessed how online learning can help many students and have created interactive activities and quizzes. This has led to work with Learn.co.uk where I have written topical lessons and am currently being commissioned to write music archive lessons, together with work for New Grove, Music Education and Just for Teachers.

Email MissShannon@BTInternet.com Website Music at School

Rob Jones: Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) at St. Mary's College, Hull but continue to be a Head of Music. Have written a number of websites, including one on cookery! Main website is Music Teachers' Resource Site which I have developed since 1996. Contributed to the Electronic Telegraph's virtual school. I've worked extensively for national training providers such as SfE giving courses on such things as World Music, Music technology, composition and motivation of pupils. Written materials for the OU. Developed and written GCSE syllabi for AQA. GCSE moderator and A level examiner. Run own music publishing company, MTRS Publishing

Email rob@mtrs.co.uk Website Music Resources

Ray Burrell: I I have been teaching at South Hunsley School in the East Riding of Yorkshire for 7 years. We are an active music department with many extra-curricular activities taking place every week. I constructed our department website in order to give students and parents a way of accessing keystage three, GCSE and AS level resources, and a way for them to hear some of their composition work in the form of MIDI files and MP3s. I have also provided inset in music IT for colleagues and teachers in a school in our consortium.

Email ray.burrell@eril.net Website South Hunsley School Music

Gavin Richards: I am 25 years old and am Assistant Director of Music at The Perse School for Boys in Cambridge; I will be acting Director of Music for two terms in 2002. In 1999, I created The MusicLand website, which led me to appreciate the potential for ICT in music education today. It has been featured in most of the national broadsheets, the BBC music magazine and was receiving nearly 20,000 page views per day at the peak of this summer's exam season. I try to do as much performing as possible, within the contrains of a busy teaching schedule; to that extent I have recently given a full evening recital to raise money for the local hospital. Last year I performed Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 in the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. I also enjoy conducting and accompanying. I worked in local radio for a short time, and other interests include cinema, cooking, walking and travel.

Email richards@gavin.tc Website MusicLand

Economics Department

Geoff Riley: I am currently Head of Economics and Politics at Eton College having spent twelve years at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Upon Tyne. I created the Tutor2u web site as a departmental web site in 1999 and it has grown and developed since into a portal site for Economics and Politics. Most of my teaching resources find their way onto the Tutor2u web site in some shape or form. I use the internet constantly as a source of up to date information, comment and analysis
to assist in my day-to-day teaching. But the web offers much more that this, and increasingly I interact within discussion groups and other communities to share ideas, generate resources for teaching with other colleagues and debate issues.

Email G.Riley@etoncollege.org.uk Website Tutor2u

John Birchall: I have taught Economics and Business Studies for many years. Until recently I was an A level Chief Examiner. My publications include books, articles and specialist papers. I regularly work at INSET Days and Student Revision Conferences.I am a QCA Consultant, member of EU Virtual School Business and Economics team and the main contributor to Biz/ed. My other interests include the developing world and the politics of development. I regularly visit the developing world.

Email Makallay@aol.com Website Biz/ed

Chris Sivewright: I have been teaching for over twenty years. I have held a variety of posts from Trainee, to Head of Business Studies, to Principal in a variety of Institutions. As well as teaching I have written over 20 books on Business Studies and Economics. I am an A level Examiner for Economics. I founded Oxford School of Learning in 1986. In addition to teaching in schools I also teach via the internet, usually taking no more than a few weeks for students to gain a Grade A/B in A level. Next year I will be spending even more time raising money for the Dystonia Society (a charity), having recently been granted an 'e-commerce in the Community' award from BT.

Email chris.sivewright@which.net Website Oxford School of Learning

Sociology Department

Chris Livesey: I studied for my first degree at Lancaster University (BA (Hons) Sociology: 1975 - 1978) and I gained a Sociology Masters degree from the London School of Economics the following year. For the past 14 years I've taught Sociology (GCSE / A-Level) at Bournemouth and Poole College. I am currently a part-time lecturer with The College, the reminder of my time being largely taken-up with the running of the Sociology Central website, although I occasionally find the time to lecture at Sociology Conferences (usually on the subject of Sociology and the Internet). My additional interests include resource-based and problem-based Learning techniques.

Email chris.livesey@sociology.org.uk Website Sociology Central

Politics Department

Email trueman@pavilion.co.uk Website History Learning Site