Although there are risks in using the wonderful resources on the Internet, there is a great deal of advice and support available to parents, teachers and pupils. Here is a selection of some of the best online resources for those who need to update and get to grips with the issue of online safety, reviewed by Jim Merrett.

An ICT Coordinator, Alison Ball, tells us about the websites that she finds most useful.

Going to BETT is always an exciting prospect. Will there be new interesting technologies that can enhance the teaching learning process? It is impossible to see everything at BETT, in fact sometimes I think it is impossible to find anything at BETT, it's so huge but I always hope to make new discoveries.

Waiting outside in the weak winter sun I talked to the people around me to understand who was coming to the exhibition. I talked to South Africans, Australians and I could see from the badges that this was a truly international exhibition. We should be proud and realise how lucky we are this event has such a draw.

This article is a personal view of some of the things that caught my eye and it is not meant to be representative of the whole exhibition.

This article describes an activity used with a Year 4 class when studying a contrasting locality. The school is located in a suburb of Swansea. The locality used as a comparison is the rural and coastal village of Oxwich, located some10 miles to the west of the school on the Gower Peninsula. The activity gave the opportunity to develop the children's geographical skills and knowledge whilst developing their use of ICT. As well as the use of the Internet, the activity integrated other ICT applications into the work, including a spreadsheet and wordprocessing/desktop-publishing package.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize 1998 and first appeared in MicroScope 50, 1997. Sally describes how she worked with Year 2 children to develop a collection of exciting games to play using the Roamers.

More self-esteem with my e-portfolio (MOSEP) is an innovative European project that started in August 2006 for a two year period and is being funded under the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci programme. The latest report can be read on their website but Ray Tolley takes issue with the current thinking on e-portfolios.