A resource for teachers of Religious Education and Values Education. Five schools from Spain, Liechtenstein, The Netherlands, Germany (former GDR), and the UK are contributing to a web-site based upon the key stage 3 Agreed Syllabus for Somerset. The project is the cooperation between Exeter University, The Farmington Institute for Christian Studies, The Central Bureau for Educational Exchange, Socrates/Comenius Action 1 & Somerset County Council. There are 9 Modules: 1.Experience & Belief 2.Human Beings & The Environment 3.Where's The Answer? 4.Belonging, Belief And Identity 5.Life's Journeys 6.Keeping The Rules 7.Expressions Of Belief 8.What Do People Believe? 9.What's To be Done? Each module will have lesson plans for major subjects of the curriculum. Currently most of the material submitted is in the first two modules.

DISKUS "a disembodied journal of international religious studies" was first published in the UK in 1993 and issued on computer disk only - hence its name. The journal is now part of the Internet Journal of Religion and is published on the WWW. DISKUS aims to publish scholarly articles of a broadly phenomenological character, covering a range of different religious traditions and topics. These include culture and education. The most recent issue deals with multiculturalism.

The NRM www site attempts to provide a resource for those interested in the new religious groups and movements and of anti or counter cult movements. It consists of profiles of known groups and several annotated bibliographies of internet resources of groups and organisations. The site also includes a number of lectures and readings which aim to provide some analysis of the general and specific aspects of the phenomenon of NRM's. There are associated pages on religious freedom and religious broadcasting. This resource has been created by Professor Hadden, Dept of Sociology, University of Virgina

RE-Net been created by R.E. teachers, either in training or already practising, as a partnership of Canterbury Christ Church University College and St. Simon Stock School in Maidstone, Kent, UK. The purpose of Re-Net is to be a "free online resource for teachers, trainees and pupils of Religious Education, and anyone interested in broadening their understanding of religious belief and practice." The site contains resources on six major religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism); 'Other Belief Systems'; Philosophy and Theology. The Christianity section contains a range of articles on the Bible, Mark's Gospel, the Catholic Tradition and Christianity and AIDS. Much of this material is aimed at GCSE or 'A' Level coursework (ie 14+ years and 16+ years). The section on Hinduism employs an "experimential experiential approach to Hinduism with an emphasis upon finding creative and innovative 'pathways' into each topic". For the other religions material relies on links to other web sites, some of these are not operative.

RE-XS (Religious Education Exchange Service) is part of the "Electronic Media and Religion" initiative of the Department of Religious Studies and Social Ethics at University College of St Martin. The RE-XS team consists of two specialists in IT and all aspects of Internet applications and two specialists in religious education. There are sections on Religious Education, Ethical Issues, RE Teacher's Support, a Daily News Service and Interactive Services.

The Register provides information on formal academic research theses completed in the period 1980-1990, undertaken in UK institutions, and concerned with Religious Education in the UK. The Register is published in printed form by the Christian Education Movement in association with the British Journal of Religious Education on behalf of Culham College Institute.

A British RE teacher has set up a web site where RE teachers can exchange ideas and share their experience with those who need it. One section of the site is the Lesson Plan Warehouse comprising approx 20 resource items. Each item is available as a compressed Microsoft Word document file. The WinZip utility is required to open these files.

A collection of on-line texts addressing various aspects of some contemporary religious ideas such as Science and Christianity, Dawkin's worldview, Belief, Religious Pluralism, The Problem of Evil. These papers have been written particularly for sixth-form teachers but are also suitable for the interested layman. They aim to express religious ideas in non-technical language. The papers are published by The Farmington Institute for Christian Studies.

"The REsite is a 'meta-website': it has no curriculum content of its own." In practice TheREsite, launched in December 1998, offers a number of resources, principally for practitioners. The resources include 'allRE' a specially researched searchable index of web based resources and organisation directory for teachers and students of RE; a list of Government and agency web sites relevant to ICT and RE (consisting of about 20 links including HMSO pages of extracts of Education Acts relevant to RE); a school guide to visiting places of worship; and a small directory of ICT/AV resources for RE (which includes links to television broadcast schedules).

The www site of The Stapleford Centre, one of the UK's leading producers of materials, resources and training for schools and teachers in the areas of Religious Education, Assembly worship, Pupil's Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development. Summaries of these resources are available.