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 Web resources

Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA) - provides a range of information for the public and industry.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CIM) - provides updates and news as well as access to five years of editorial archives.

Clean Energy Council - member organisations are responsible for a quarter of Australia's total electricity production including gas, wind, hydro & bioenergy.

Electroline - provides electronics professionals with a complete information source on the industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Electronics Teacher - provides a wide range of tutorials, schematics, datasheets & other resources.

Fire Safety Information - includes newsletters, datasheets & technical bulletins.

Intute: Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering - provides links to many resources with a description/summary of each as well as a good search facility.

Networking Computing - links to the current issue of a computer networking, network security & management magazine. Has an archive of past issues.

Silicon Chip - electronics magazine directed to professionals, trades people and enthusiasts in the electronics, electrical, computer and related fields.

Snowy Hydro - provides range of engineering & education information about renewable energy from the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

TAFE Studylinks: Manufacturing & Engineering - access additional websites for electrical /electronics, instrumentation & measurement, telecommunications, etc.

TransGrid - provides a range of publications & reports.

WWW Virtual Library: Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Yahoo Science: Engineering: Electrical Engineering

 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.

 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 January, 2008

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