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 Web resources

Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) - works to reduce alcohol & drug problems using the media and other communications to influence public policy, law and legislation.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - provides quality, up-to-date knowledge and information about many aspects of Indigenous health.

Australian Institute of Management (AIM) - promotes the support and development of the profession of management in all its forms.

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) - provides research projects information, publications, resources, a library, links and other information. 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - provides information mental health, alcohol & other drugs, etc. as well as downloadable publications.

Australia Sport Directory - links to major national sporting organisations.

Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) - The Centre is a research facility, an education and training institute and a community based organization providing health promotion and prevention services across the province of Ontario, Canada.

Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies (CAIS) - conducts research into the traditional and contemporary life of Aborigines. 

Council of the Ageing (COTA) - is the peak consumer organisation dedicated to protecting and promoting the well-being of older people.

Culture & Recreation Portal  - provides access to services & information in the fields of culture and recreation, from government and non-government sectors.

Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform - information on drug law reform.

Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) - a research and educational facility that shares information & expands knowledge on sports nutrition and exercise science.

Health Matters: Indigenous Health - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online gateway to indigenous health information.

Indigenous Australians - information from the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW).

National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) - provides a range of Workplace related resources and publications.

NSW Department of Lands: Recreation - information about walks, state parks & camping & caravanning.

NSW Government: Health - access information about health conditions, groups & organisations, healthy living as well as many links.

NSW Government: Culture & Recreation - access information about facilities, events & activities.

Quitnow - the National Tobacco Campaign one-stop-shop with all the information you need on quitting smoking.

Spencer S. Eccles, Health Sciences Library - University of Utah, Health Sciences Centre, is a comprehensive listing of journals, links and library material.

Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) - collects, archives and shares sport information with sport enthusiasts in Canada and around the world.

Exploratorium: Sport Science - provides articles relating to sports science.

WWW Virtual Library - Aboriginal Studies - keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Australian Aboriginal studies.

 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 forums may be of interest:

• Yahoo Health: a directory of chats & mailing lists

 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: 20 April, 2007

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