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 Learning guides

Learning guides for mining and forestry are available from Printwest.
Email: printwest@tafensw.edu.au    Phone: (61) 2 6393 6900.

The catalogue of resources includes learning guides on:

   • Mine Electrical Fundamentals
   • Mine Fluid Power Concepts
   • Mine Hand and Power Tools
   • Mine Power Transmission
   • Mine Welding and Thermal Cutting
   • Geotechnical Field Operations Skills Record Book

 Web resources

Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (AusIMM) - a professional body providing up to date information on training and professional development.

Centre for Land Rehabilitation - a University of Western Australia facility that involves a range of disciplines in the study of the management of disturbed lands.

Institute of Quarrying Australia (IQA) - the professional body for quarrying, construction materials and related extractive and processing industries.

NSW Mineral Council (NSWMC) - represents mineral producers, operators, explorers and extractive material producers in NSW.

Opal Encyclopaedia - information about opals including a picture guide to opals.

Resources & Infrastructure Industry Skills Council (RIISC) - peak national training body for the mining and extractive industries.  

Uranium Information Centre (UIC) - includes a range of education resources, briefing papers and information on Uranium exploration and mining in Australia.

 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: 16 April, 2007

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