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This project aims to provide a visual and interactive demonstration of electrical system faults which may occur under the MEN system. These include an open circuit and high resistance main neutral. It will assist the visual learner to see and understand what can occur in an electrical installation under these conditions, and the impact and possible dangerous situations that can occur. It will include methods of testing for these situations. Note: Link is not active yet.

This is a professional development course for high school biology teachers but has much to recommend it to TAFE students and lecturers. It is composed of 13 units on various topics and contains videos, an online textbook, case studies, interviews with scientists, an image & animation archive, and a glossary.

This is an animated video from a talk by an author and journalist. It's fascinating as much for its content as by the production method. If you like this one, check out some of the others on the website. You may have to scroll down a bit to find it. - From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the UK.

How We Do It series of presentations and activities: How Clean is Clean (This presentation is an overview of cleanrooms and the importance of cleanliness in a microchip manufacturing facility); How to Make a Chip (This presentation covers the history, technology and basic steps required for creating a microchip); How to Make a Flat Panel Display (This animated presentation reviews the history, technology and basic steps required for creating a flat-panel display), and others. -- From AMSER http://amser.org/index.php?P=Home

Free ebookthat 'explores the interior design of cells and vividly describes the processes that take place within its organelles and structures. Each chapter includes a few review questions.'

Interactive lab exercise - try it out! (Takes a few minutes to load).

The BioEd Online site has been created by the staff at the Baylor College of Medicine. It includes 15 lessons, complete with video clips, slideshows, and .pdf files. -- From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2012. http://scout.wisc.edu/

Click on the 'Teaching Resources' tab at the top of the screen to view the materials.

This web site is maintained as a portal for information on all activities of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory. The website contains backgrounders to GPS, links to media, books & software, company websites, institutions and organizations. It also has information on mapping, GIS, and dozens of related links.

Click on 'Earth as Art' and 'Earth as Art 2' for beautiful photographs of landforms and oceans. Most images are in the public domain. Read the "Information Policies and Instructions" webpage to find out how to attribute (reference) an image if you would like to use it.

Although this unit looks at the main laws and regulations that govern safety and environmental care in the timber industry, it does cover some of the workplace procedures used by businesses to ensure that they maintain a safe workplace and use environmentally sound practices in their day-to-day operations.

This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Music on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons license. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.

edna is a large repository referencing thousands of online resources for education, training and research. You can search, browse and even contribute your own education news, events and resources to the education community. edna is not a Google or Yahoo! style search engine. These use computer programs to automate finding data for their databases. Everything available through edna has been quality reviewed and described by an authorised information officer at either education.au or at an affiliated education organisation. Therefore you can be confident in the quality of your search results. edna does not actually create or store education and training resources; it describes and points to where resources can be found - providing you with a single place to find them all.

"This paper describes the way in which series of undergraduate units have been implemented on-line, using the internet as a means for reaching distance students pursuing postgraduate studies in Cartography and GIScience. It presents the way in which learning resources have been designed and implemented in a Web-based environment where the students can access the unit's study plan, on-line tutorials, hold discussion forums, consult study resources and complete quizzes that enable to monitor their progress within the unit."

This useful website provides general information on reading, writing, and numeracy skills. It is the successor to the BBc"s Skillswise website - which is also a must-see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/

Spatial Data Infrastructure - Asia and the Pacific (SDI-AP) is a free electronic newsletter from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) which is available in both English and Chinese language versions. The newsletter is produced for people interested in Spatial Data Infrastructure, GIS, remote sensing and geospatial data issues in Asia and the Pacific. It aims to raise awareness and provide useful information to strengthen SDI initiatives and support synchronising these activities across the region.

Essential reading for lecturers, librarians, IT professionals, open learning advocates, e-learning advocates and others.

LSC publication aimed at managers who wish to introduce ESD into the curriculum. It features case studies as well as audit tools.