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 Web resources

Internet Public Library: Printing - provides web links for printing.

About Desktop Publishing - tutorials and help.

Design and Publishing Center - design, typography, graphics, illustration, writing, printing, publishing, advertising, signs, displays and people involved in the visual communications fields.

Elements of Style - online book, the aim of which is to provide the principal requirements of plain English style.

Photo Net: Learn Photography - a technical overview of digitising, storing, organising and retrieving photographs. Contains useful information on watermarking photographs and protecting copyright on images.

Technology Centre for Printing and Visual Communication - located at Douglas Mawson Institute of TAFE. It is trialling online courses and resources.

The Ultimate Resource - links to sites on DTP and DTP resources, including some materials relevant to printing.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For this program area the following forum may be of interest:

• Graphic Arts Services Association of Australia

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 April, 2007

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