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 Web resources

ALLDATA - Automotive Repair Information Internet Site.

Autobookworld - one of Australia’s biggest specialist retail motoring book shops, catering for car, motorcycle & motor sport enthusiasts.

Briggs & Stratton - provides information on maintenance and repair engines and outdoor power equipment.

Chainsaw Safety - Carl Smith articles (parts 1, 2 & 3).

Chainsaw Safety - view a kickback accident...VERY graphic and might disturb!

Chainsaw Safety Guide - download from Workcover NSW.

CDX Global - information about automotive training products and includes a free online automotive textbook & encyclopaedia - the CDX eTextbook.

Detroit Diesel - provides online service bulletins (at bottom of the page).

Google Directory: Earthmoving - link to equipment companies.

How Cars Work 101 - includes diagrams, animated demonstrations, articles & definitions (links are at the bottom of the page).

Marque Motor Books -  supplies workshop manuals, motoring books, videos, DVDs, etc. for cars, motorbikes, trucks, tractors & marine engines.

M&D Mower - catalogue of mower manuals, videos and CDs.

Mower Specialists Association of Australia (MSAA) - the largest retailers and repairers of outdoor power equipment in Australia.

North West Tech - a source for technical educational equipment.

Prentice Hall - search for 'engine' for technical books on engine reconditioning, etc.

Quasiturbine - continuous combustion  rotary engine, compressor and pump. 

Road Safety - Australian and international links from Monash University.

Road Traffic Authority of NSW (RTA) - the Heavy Vehicles section contains a wide range of information on licensing, rules & regulation, road safety and other issues.

Safety Manuals - from Stihl for chainsaws, brushcutters, etc.

Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia  (SAE) -  provides information on seminars, conferences, standards, publications, etc.

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

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

TAFE Studylinks: Plant & Heavy Vehicles - 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 forums may be of interest:

• ToolSource TechTalk - automotive topics at toolsource.com
• Drivers Round Table - the trucking industry discussion forum

 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: 14 January, 2008

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