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 Web resources

American Meat Institute (AMI) - information on the American meat industry.

Bakers Dictionary - find out what all those baking terms mean.

Baking and Baking Science - lots of baking information from a retired US baker.

Bakery-Net - resource for the bakery industry including a range of articles.

Baking Tips - baking recipes and tips using M&M's.

Barbecue Food Safety - an article from the University of Nebraska.

Dictionary of Baking Terms - provides brief descriptions of ingredients and bakery processes.

Food Science Australia - provides a range of information and resources..

Joy of Baking - recipes, a glossary, information on ingredients and conversions.

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) - provides a range of information and resources.

Meat Matters - UK site providing a range of useful information.

PastryWiz - provides 1000's of pages of food related information both for the professional and the consumer.

NSW Food Authority - provides a range of information for consumers and industry.

Safe Meat: Consumer - information for consumers about red meat.

Safe Meat: Publications - a range of publications are available relating to red meat.

Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) - provides a range of publications.

TAFE Studylinks: Baking - access a wide range of websites.

TAFE Studylinks: Meat - access a wide range of websites.

 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:

• Meating Place discussion forum - join for free & participate

 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: 17 April, 2007

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