Hands across the Oceans

Introduction

The table of contents is based on the topics in the textbook “Oxford English for Computing” by Boeckner and Brown.

 

1  Personal Computing

 

http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

 

Devices

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/peripheral_device.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

 

IBM

http://www.ibm.com/us/

 

Structure of processor

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CPU.html

 

Hardware

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware

 

 

2  Portable Computers

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_computer

Laptops and notebooks

 

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/index.asp

Ipods

 

http://www.apple.com/ipod/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

 

Software

http://www.tucows.com/

 

http://www.download.com/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software

 

Operating systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_systems

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

 

 

 

3  Online Services

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_service

 

Tucows

http://www.tucows.com/

 

Digital

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Digital

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCi

 

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/d/digital.html

 

Analog

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/analog.html

 

 

 

4  Programming and Languages

 

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/programming_language.html

 

Organizing paragraphs

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

 

http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/paragraphsTOC.html

 

 

5  Software/Comparing Software Packages

 

Windows XP magazine

http://www.windowsxpmagazine.co.uk/

 

Infopackets

www.infopackets.com

 

 

6  Networks

 

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/2830Afinal.mspx

 

LANs

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/local_area_network_LAN.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN

 

Network configurations

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/clustering/clstntbp.mspx

 

http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-04/networknirvana_01.html

 

Shared Folders

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

\\gpsc3\psu-home\index.htm

 

Yahoo briefcase

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home

 

 

7   Computer Viruses

 

http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm

 

Security

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

 

www.zonealarm.com

 

http://security.yahoo.com/

 

Hackers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker

 

Phishing

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

 

 

8  Computers in the Office

 

Visions of tomorrow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3375117.stm

 

Wired houses

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/power_houses.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/499044.stm

 

Computer chips

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060327_neuro_chips.html

 

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/chip.html

 

 

 

9  Computers in Education

 

http://www.acce.edu.au/

 

http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html

 

http://www.learningtimes.org/

 

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/

 

Discovery

http://www.discovery.com/

 

http://www.cosmeo.com/

 

National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

 

National Council for Ed Tech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Educational_Research_and_Training

 

CALL

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-6.html

 

Webheads

http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/esl_home.htm

 

Community of practice/Conference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice

 

http://webpages.csus.edu/%7Ehansonsm/CoP_Resources.html

 

http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/generic54.html

 

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

Cheap computers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4735927.stm

 

 

10  Computers in Medicine

 

http://www.iit.edu/~marajos/CS485/project/index.html

 

Robot stomach surgery

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050822/microbot.html

 

Remote doctors

http://www.esa.int/esaTE/SEMWL2S1VED_index_0.html

 

Data storage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_storage_device

 

Data management systems (DBMS)

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/database_management_system_DBMS.html

 

 

11  Robotics

 

http://www.ri.cmu.edu/

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/directory/Computers/Robotics

 

http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/elearning/newletters/winter01/page7.html

 

Military

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175800886

 

Classification of types of robots

http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/elearning/newletters/winter01/page7.html

 

Nanotechnology

http://www.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

 

 

12 Virtual Reality

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality

 

Simulations

http://www.arcscience.com/

 

Games

http://videogames.yahoo.com/

 

VR input devices

http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/virtual/vrtech/develop3.htm

 

 

13 Machine Translation (MT)

 

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

Artificial intelligence (AI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

 

Retail operations intelligence system

http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/elearning/newletters/winter01/page7.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail

 

 

14 Multimedia

 

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/multimedia//

http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/

http://www.twistermp3.com/

 

Vlogs

http://www.voiceblog.jp/joke/

 

Audioblogs

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

www.blogger.com

 

Voicemail

http://www.extremetechnoelt.com/moodle/index.php

 

Digital photography

http://www.bubbleshare.com/upload

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

 

 

15 Computer Graphics

 

http://www.univ-bechar.dz/Boutiche/Education/visualization.htm

http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/

 

Sunsystems

http://www.sunsystems.com/

 

Adobe

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readermain.html

 

Photoshop

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html

 

16 Graphic Art

 

http://www.gammag.com/

 

Clip art

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic20.htm

 

24-bit colour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth

 

Computer jargon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_jargon

 

App

Letters & CV

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html

 

APP

Glossary of technical terms

http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/glossary/

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