Resources

Resources
=ITGS Resources Page= Hopefully you will find a broad selection of useful and informative resources related to the IB ITGS course. If you have some to add please do!

A
Adaptive/Assistive Technologies Airports/Aircrafts Artificial Intelligence
 * [|Freedom scientific] adaptive technology, mainly for the blind.
 * [|BBC] news article.
 * [|University of Toronto] research in and examples of adaptive technology.
 * An interesting article on BBC about [|Digital lifestyles] for disabled people.
 * [|TEleworking] for DISabled People (TEDIS)
 * A [|retailer] of adaptive technology, it has some general information as well.
 * [|Multimedia solutions for disabled persons]
 * [|Airport] technology portal
 * [|Mobile] phones and landing systems BBC news article
 * [|A.L.I.C.E.]

B
Backups Banking BBC Biometrics Boolean Logic/searches
 * [|Backups] from geekgirls
 * [|eBanking] explained.
 * How ATMs [|work]
 * [|The Journal] of Internet Banking and Commerce.
 * [|Action network for the Internet and Computers]
 * [|BBC learning Website] if you cant view videos try the technology page
 * [|BBC International Technology Page]
 * [|BBC ClickOnline]
 * BBC [|Email service]
 * [|Article] from itsc.org
 * [|http://www.kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/ Boolean] machine]]
 * [|Boolean] operators

C
Citations Copyright
 * [|Citation generator from Doodle]
 * [|Long Island University]
 * [|Copyright] and Fair use
 * [|Copyright] and Fair use, History of, etc.
 * Copyright Issues in [|Digital Media]

D
Database Data-mining Digital Art Digital Divide
 * [|Whale Shark] Database of photos from all over the world using NASA IT.
 * [|Database] Solutions website. Great info.
 * [|Data Mining]
 * [|Introduction] from CSU.
 * [|(EDI)] Electronic Data Interchange
 * [|Digital Art] International Contest.
 * [|digitalart.org]
 * [|Andy Carvin and the Digital Divide Archive]
 * [|Computers in Africa]
 * [|iGeneration from the BBC Website]
 * [|How to rethink the digital divide]

E
E-Cash E-Commerce (Finance) EPOS/POS Encryption Ethics Entertainment
 * [|Electronic Money]
 * [|E-Commerce]
 * [|SSL & e-Commerce]
 * [|Amazon.com] is an example of a successful e-commerce company
 * [|US Census] on e-business
 * [|UK Company]
 * [|Wikipeadia] reference
 * [|Quickbooks] software.
 * An overview of [|public encryption] & digital signatures
 * [|Newsline] on Global Ethics
 * Dr. Edward F. Gehringer’s site on [|“Ethics in Computing”]
 * ‘Computer Ethics’ Wikipedia [|reference]
 * [|Computer Ethics] from Stanford University
 * [|Towards a Social Ethics of Technology] research paper.
 * [|Institute] for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
 * [|Music] Genome project where you can get a random mix of music stream.

F
Filtering Internet Content Firewalls
 * Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in [|China]
 * [|Firewalls for beginners]

G
Globalization
 * [|Globalization] & Localisation of software
 * [|Article] on Globalisation of software from Proz

H
Hacking Health
 * [|Various multimedia pertaining to hackers] from BBC video.
 * [|How hacking] works
 * [|Hackers.com] home page
 * [|Health] issues related to computer mulitmedia.

I
IP Intellectual property, Copyright & Fair Use Internet Internet Abuse Internet Addiction Intranet Images/Graphics
 * [|Geographic] location of IPs
 * [|Copyright]
 * [|Copyright and Fair use] from Stanford University.
 * World Intellectual Property [|Organisation].
 * [|Intellectual property] by the Australian Government
 * [|Internet Society]
 * Historical [|Timeline] of the Internet
 * Hobbes’ Internet [|Timeline], developed from a variety sources. Excellent!
 * [|Pew/Internet] is a non profit organization that researches the relationship of the internet and families
 * [|Phishing] video from Microsoft.
 * [|Various multimedia pertaining to hackers] from BBC video.
 * [|Spam] Video from Microsoft.
 * [|All about Internet Security] and more ...
 * [|Articles] from Securityfocus.com
 * [|Center for Internet Addiction Recovery]
 * [|Wikipedia reference]
 * Royalty free images from [|Corbis]
 * Fake or real [|quiz.]
 * [|Wikimedia Commons] free photos and images

M
Multimedia
 * Designing [|accessible] websites from Joe Clarke
 * [|Media access] from Joe Clarke

N
Netiquette News Articles
 * [|The Core Rules of Netiquette]
 * [|Netiquette Rules for Email, chat, etc]
 * BBC’s [|Email service], where you sign up for Tech or any other news.
 * [|Clickonline] BBC’s TV IT show’s website
 * [|Computer world] News articles, case studies from a management point of view.
 * [|Educause]
 * [|IDC]– full of commentaries from analysts about he global IT marketplace
 * [|Information Age] Publishes articles relating to the Impact areas in the ITGS
 * [|NewsScan]
 * [|The Australian IT]
 * [|Wired News]
 * [|zdnet]
 * [|http://www.technologyreview.com/ MIT] technology review magazine
 * [|BBC]

O
Organizations
 * [|Association for Computing Machinery] (ACM)
 * [|ISTE]
 * [|Pew/Internetis] a non-profit organization
 * [|IEEE Computer Society]
 * [|Simulation Industry Association of Australia]
 * [|Institute] for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

P
Piracy Privacy & Anonymity
 * [|Business] Software alliance Official Piracy study.
 * [|Software Piracy]
 * [|Controlling and Securing] Personal Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society
 * [|Consumer-action] Organisation on Identity theft and Privacy
 * Australian [|legislation]
 * [|Media Awareness] Network.
 * [|Surveillance] Campaign
 * [|Electronic] Privacy Information Centre
 * http://privacy.net/ | Privacy]].net

R
Reference Reliability
 * [|techweb] encyclopaedia
 * [|ACM] portal digital library of the
 * [|How Stuff works]
 * [|Wikipedia]
 * http://www.webopedia.com
 * [|Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy]
 * [|JargonBuster] Computer Jargon Dictionary from BBC
 * [|Computer Jargon] Dictionary from About.com
 * [|Tech Faq]
 * [|Internet] Library
 * [|Data] reliability.
 * [|Design] for Data security.
 * Software [|metrics and reliability] from NASA
 * Software [|bugs]
 * most famous [|bugs] from wired.com
 * [|Incidents] of accidents due to computer error.
 * [|Quality] Information Check-list
 * [|News] article reagrding data reliability in the medical field.

S
Security Science Simulation Social Issues
 * http://www.securityfocus.com/ provides papers and articles on IT security issues.
 * www.physorg.com
 * [|Education Simulation Web site]
 * [|K-12 examples]
 * [|Simulation; The Engine behind the virtual world]
 * [|NASA] Sim Labs
 * [|IBM Research Weather Modelling Group]
 * [|Social Simulations] and policy making.
 * [|Simulation Industry Association of Australia]
 * [|USA Military Simulations]
 * [|Military Simulations] in the British Army
 * [|Ethno-computing] Wikipedia reference

T
Telelearning Teleworking Training, Tutorials
 * An ISTE article titled [|“What is Telelearning? Reflections and an Invitation to Respond”]
 * [|The Efficiency of Telelearning] a professional article on Telelearning
 * [|http://www.cristalla.com/telelearning.htm]
 * [|Collaborative Telelearning]
 * [|Traffic Modelling in a Telelearning Environment] an example of a telelearning lesson.
 * [|Telelearning]
 * [|report on Telelearning in a prison]
 * [|Telelearning in Hospitals]
 * [|TEleworking] for DISabled People (TEDIS)
 * [|Kidzonline] has training videos on various areas of ITGS.

U
Unicode
 * [|unicode.org/]

V
[|Verification and validation] Virtual Reality Virus
 * [|Virtual actors]
 * [|Virus Encyclopaedia]
 * [|Articles] from Securityfocus.com

W
Weather Web Browsers
 * [|IBM Research Weather Modelling Group]
 * [|Physorg weather modelling article]
 * [|Climate Models: How Reliable are Their Predictions?]
 * [|Technological advances in weather forecasting]
 * [|Web browser Features] Wikipedia reference

These resources have been kindly donated by an ITGS School in Australia.