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Paul Williamson has spent a great deal of time empowering teachers in different subjects to use their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively. The successes have become increasingly apparent with every area of the school moving forward rapidly.

Broadgreen are one of the few high schools across the country that run a baccalaureate programme. The programme is highly successful one for their students and are Becta's ICT Excellence Awards 2008 - joint runner-up award winners for the Best whole school in the North West category.

In this article we are looking at a piece of software that has the potential to be very helpful in textiles activities at Key Stages 2 and 3. We believe that this piece of software is in the public domain and available for educational, non-commercial use. Even so, we advise you to carefully read any restrictions or conditions of use before installing it.

Trawling the hidden depths of Microsoft Word!

This article was first published in the D&T Association's Magazine and is the eighth in our series of articles through which the authors hope to inform you about the increasing opportunities to use design and technology-related software which is freely available on the internet. In this article, however, the authors are not looking at a piece of free software, but one which is possibly the most widely used program in primary and secondary schools - the ubiquitous Microsoft Word.