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Here are some useful web links to give you a flavour of what's on offer at the BBC Stoke Learning Centre. You can learn basic Spanish, gardening, history or simply use a BBC Online WebWise course to get to grips with using the Internet...
Computers & the Internet
Becoming Webwise
Get to grips with the Internet and find out about getting connected, e-mailing, searching, bookmarking, making your own address book and the very basics of building your own web page. Learn at your own pace and it could lead to a nationally recognised qualification.
Health
First Aid Action
Would you know how to react to a road accident, a case of food poisoning or a diabetic emergency with a child? People's lives could depend on your knowledge so take some First Aid Action today.
Get Confident
An online course with information, quizzes and tools to help you develop a greater understanding of yourself and make better use of your strengths in challenging situations.
Design & Technology
Build-A-Bot Techlab
Enter the Build-A-Bot Techlab. Discover the basic skills needed for building robots and get started building a unique breed of robots including roller-robots and walkers. Discover the technology behind sensors and circuits with Sensor-Bot and Robo-Voyageur, your latest robot building assignments.
Robots
Take a look at the world of robots, with the help of the BBC's Science and Nature website.
History
History Trail
Follow one of the seven trails and see how postcards, cartoons, ancient manuscripts and official documents all have a story to tell.
Archaeology
Join Julian Richards on a guided tour of archaeology that takes in its origins and tracks its progress to the present day.
Conquest
When was England, England? Find out more about the crisis that sparked off the catastrophic events of 1066.
Family history
Unravel your family tree and get an insight into some of the specialist fields that will help you unlock the secrets of your ancestral past.
How to do history
Follow in the footsteps of professional historians and find out how they do history. Discover how documents, tapestries and people's memories of the past are all valuable sources for the historian.
Local history
On this trail you can get first hand tips from enthusiasts and experts who have already taken their first steps as local historians.
Victorian Britain
Find out how heroic cartoons and the novels of Charles Dickens can help the historian piece together a picture of the past.
Wars & Conflict
Discover more about the personal experience of battle and how life changed for those left behind on the Home Front. You can also chart the emergence of a British standing army.
WW2 Peoples War
Check out the stories and memories of the Second World War from people across Staffordshire and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Spanish
Language Gauge - Spanish
Find your level in Spanish. This tool will let you find out how much you know and what's best for you to take your it further.
Spanish Steps
Kick-start your Spanish with this short course for beginners. With video clips, online activities and a personal progress chart that keeps track of the activities you have completed.
Talk Spanish
A language course for absolute beginners, with video and audio clips and activities to help you learn.
Suenos World Spanish
A series of multimedia activities for beginners, building on the absolute basics of Talk Spanish, but can be used on its own to learn and practise the language.
French
French Fix
Motivational language learning which takes whatever knowledge of French you have and challenges you to improve it on the spot.
French Steps
Learn how to converse, order in a restaurant and ask for directions in French with this online beginners course that's easy-to-use.
Language Gauge - French
Find your level in French. This tool will let you find out how much you know and what's best for you to take your it further.
Talk French
A language course for absolute beginners, with video and audio clips and activities to help you learn.
The French Experience
A series of multimedia activities for beginners, building on the absolute basics of Talk French, but can be used on its own to learn and practise the language.
German
Language Gauge - German
Find your level in German. This tool will let you find out how much you know and what's best for you to take your it further.
Deutsch Plus
A dynamic introduction to German taking you through the basics of the language.
Italian
Language Gauge - Italian
Find your level in Italian. This tool will let you find out how much you know and what's best for you to take your it further.
Talk Italian
The ideal introduction to Italian. Basic language covering essential topics in manageable chunks.
Italianissimo
Multimedia activities for beginners, using video and audio clips to teach the basics of Italian.
Gardening
How to be a gardener
This online resource, prepared in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society, will bring life to your learning in the garden in eight practical modules.
Nature
Blue Planet Challenge
Your chance to travel across open oceans and into the deep abyss, with seven challenges that explore places you can only imagine, and connect you with an amazing wild world that comes right to your doorstep.
Science
Space
Find out more about astronomy and our solar system with this comprehensive site.
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