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 Learning guides

Learning guides for extensive agriculture studies are available from Printwest.
Email: printwest@tafensw.edu.au    Phone: (61) 2 6393 6900.

The catalogue of resources includes learning guides on:
        
         •  Soil management
         •  Weeds & Weed Control

 Web resources

Biology links - provided by Harvard University, Dept of Molecular & Cellular Biology.

Gardenscape.com - is an information resource for the home gardener and gardening professionals & includes a Lists of Educational Resources.

GardenWeb Australia - includes forums, a plant database and a searchable glossary of botanical terms.

Internet Directory for Botany - an index to botanical information available on the Internet where you can search for information alphabetically or by subject.

IPM Access - landscape design articles are provided by the Integrated Pest Management Information Service.

National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) - aims to preserve the genetic diversity of plants. Search information online or download a PC version of the  database.

Planet Ark - world environment news.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - provides a range of information sheets.

Turf Tec Australia - a manufacturer of turf machinery and equipment.

Urban Agriculture Notes - a collection of resources for beginning and professional gardeners, students, teachers, professional agronomists and horticulturists.

 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:

• GardenWeb: forums covering all aspects of gardening
• GardenVoices: a garden-related blog directory

 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: 13 April, 2007

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