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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! There is a section for review of resources before they are added to this ITGS resources page.

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Resources Under Review

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A

Adaptive/Assistive Technologies

• 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

Airports/Aircrafts

• Airport technology portal
• Mobile phones and landing systems BBC news article

Artificial Intelligence

• A.L.I.C.E.

B

Backups

• Backups from geekgirls

Banking

• eBanking explained.
• How ATMs work
• The Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce.

BBC

• 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

Biometrics

• Article from itsc.org

Boolean Logic/searches

• http://www.kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/ Boolean machine]]
• Boolean operators

C

Citations

• Citation generator from Doodle
• Long Island University

Copyright

• Copyright and Fair use
• Copyright and Fair use, History of, etc.
• Copyright Issues in Digital Media

D

Database

• Whale Shark Database of photos from all over the world using NASA IT.
• Database Solutions website. Great info.
• Data Mining

Data-mining

• Introduction from CSU.
• (EDI) Electronic Data Interchange

Digital Art

• Digital Art International Contest.
• digitalart.org

Digital Divide

• Andy Carvin and the Digital Divide Archive
• Computers in Africa
• iGeneration from the BBC Website
• How to rethink the digital divide

E

E-Cash

• Electronic Money

E-Commerce (Finance)

• E-Commerce
• SSL & e-Commerce
• Amazon.com is an example of a successful e-commerce company
• US Census on e-business
• UK Company

EPOS/POS

• Wikipeadia reference
• Quickbooks software.

Encryption

• An overview of public encryption & digital signatures

Ethics

• 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

Entertainment

• Music Genome project where you can get a random mix of music stream.

F

Filtering Internet Content

• Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China

Firewalls

• Firewalls for beginners

G

Globalization

• Globalization & Localisation of software
• Article on Globalisation of software from Proz

H

Hacking

• Various multimedia pertaining to hackers from BBC video.
• How hacking works
• Hackers.com home page

Health

• Health issues related to computer mulitmedia.

I

IP

• Geographic location of IPs

Intellectual property, Copyright & Fair Use

• Copyright
• Copyright and Fair use from Stanford University.
• World Intellectual Property Organisation.
• Intellectual property by the Australian Government

Internet

• 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

Internet Abuse

• 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

Internet Addiction

• Center for Internet Addiction Recovery

Intranet

• Wikipedia reference

Images/Graphics

• 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

• The Core Rules of Netiquette
• Netiquette Rules for Email, chat, etc

News Articles

• 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

• Business Software alliance Official Piracy study.
• Software Piracy

Privacy & Anonymity

• 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

• 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

Reliability

• 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

• http://www.securityfocus.com/ provides papers and articles on IT security issues.

Science

• www.physorg.com

Simulation

• 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

Social Issues

• Ethno-computing Wikipedia reference

T

Telelearning

• 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

• TEleworking for DISabled People (TEDIS)

Training, Tutorials

• Kidzonline has training videos on various areas of ITGS.

U

Unicode

• unicode.org/

V

Verification and validation

Virtual Reality

• Virtual actors

Virus

• Virus Encyclopaedia
• Articles from Securityfocus.com

W

Weather

• IBM Research Weather Modelling Group
• Physorg weather modelling article
• Climate Models: How Reliable are Their Predictions?
• Technological advances in weather forecasting

Web Browsers

• Web browser Features Wikipedia reference

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Resources Under review

Ross Anderson http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/

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