Hands Across the Oceans

 

1  Hardware

www.howstuffworks.com

 

2  How to Email

http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk

 

3  How to Format Computers

http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-format-computer.php

 

4  How to Search the Internet

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

 

5 How to Update Files

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2000/HA011364061033.aspx

 

6 PowerPoint

http://www.actden.com/pp/

http://www2.umist.ac.uk/isd/lwt/apt/ppclass/home.htm

 

7  Building a Website

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

http://www.2createawebsite.com/

 

8  New Devices, e.g. ipods

www.howstuffworks.com

 

9  Computer Viruses

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

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

 

10 New Operating Systems

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

 

11 Photoshop

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

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

 

12 Photos

http://picasa.google.com/

Can be downloaded from Google website

 

13 Access

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/default.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.aspx

 

14 Copyright Issues

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/

 

15 Computing Terms

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0044494.html

http://yourdictionary.com/

http://foldoc.org/

 

16 Creating Blogs

http://www.blogger.com

http://edublogs.org

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/

Excellent links to dictionaries for computing

Glossary for computing majors

 

 

Introduction

 

The table of contents is based on the topics in the textbook “Infotech – English for Computer Users” by S. Esteras.

1  Computers Today

http://www.pcworld.com/

Computer applications

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

What can computers do?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/ComputersCantThink.txt

http://slashdot.org/

 

2  Configuration

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

Hardware

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/

Software

http://www.tucows.com/

Storage devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=storage+devices&fulltext=Search

Input devices

http://www.pctechguide.com/51InputDevices.htm

Output devices

http://www.school-resources.co.uk/input_output_devices.htm

Minis and micros

http://www.thocp.net/hardware/microcomputers.htm

 

3  Inside the System

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc1.htm

CPU

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

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)

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

Register

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/r/register.html

Main memory

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/main_memory.html

Internal memory

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

 

3  Expansion Slot

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/e/expansion_slot.html

Clock

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/kellyxp04.mspx

RAM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

ROM

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/memory.html

 

4  Bits and Bytes

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes.htm

Characters

http://webclipart.about.com/library/weekly/blindx1.htm

ASCII code

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

Kilobyte

Megabyte

Gigabyte

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212444,00.html

Pixel

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/pixel_icons.htm

 

5  Buying a Computer

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/buy/

http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/guides/bestdeal.htm

Macintosh

http://www.apple.com/

Workstation

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/

Remote access

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx

Notebook

http://www.notebookreview.com/

Technical features

http://www.eetasia.com/CAT_590626.HTM

Specifications

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

 

6  Arrow Keys

Keyboard

http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/keyboard/page1.html

 

7  Capture Your Favourite Image

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/shareit/book.mspx

Scanning

http://www.scantips.com/

Digital photos

http://photography.about.com/od/takingphotos/

Photostory

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides/Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx

Blog

www.blogger.com

 

8  Viewing the Output

Monitor

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

Liquid crystal display (LCD)

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

Cathode-ray tube

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/search.php

Bitmap

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci211672,00.html

Video graphics display (VCD)

http://www.videohelp.com/

 

9  Choosing a Printer

http://www.which.co.uk/

Types of printers

http://209.196.177.41/10/10-02.htm

Photosetters

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=photosetters

Plotters

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

 

10  Devices for the Disabled

http://www.szs.uni-karlsruhe.de/5linkliste/5hilfsmittel/hilfsmittel.eng.php

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Disabilities/murhpy.AT.html

Steven Hawking

http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html

Braille

http://www.braille.org/

 

10  Speech Synthesizer

http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/

Morse code

http://www.babbage.demon.co.uk/morseabc.html

Inspiration

http://www.inspirationpeak.com/

Enigma

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml

 

11  Storage Devices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=storage+devices&fulltext=Search

 

12  Hard Drives

http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm

Internal

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

External

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,117817,00.asp

Computer aided design (CAD)

http://www.compinfo-center.com/cad/cad.htm

 

13  Optical Breakthrough

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/47010.html

Optical disk

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/optical_disk.html

Optical drive

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/179

http://compreviews.about.com/od/cddvd/a/DeskCDDVDSpecs.htm

Magneto-optical drive (MO)

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212513,00.html

DVD rom

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

CD-R/CD-W

http://kadaitcha.cx/cdr_cdrw.html

 

14  Operating systems

http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm

Applications software

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

 

14  Operating System

http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm

Software

http://www.download.com/

http://www.tucows.com/

C programming

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm

Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.mspx

Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/Windowsvista/

 

15  Graphical User Interface

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/Graphical_User_Interface_GUI.html

 

16  A Walk through Word Processing

Word processing facilities

http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/whatiswordproc.html

 

17  Spreadsheets

http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Spreadsite/

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/may99/spreadsheet.html

Excel

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

Graphic representation

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

 

18  Databases

http://databases.about.com/

 

19  Faces of the Internet

e-mail

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/email.htm

Web browsing

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

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

Internet relay chat (IRC)

http://www.mirc.com/irc.html

File transfer protocol (FTP)

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213976,00.html

 

19  Telnet

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

Newsgroups

http://groups.google.com/

Webpage

http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html

http://www.webpage-maker.com/

URL

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Navigation buttons

http://www.xp-web-buttons.com/webbuttons/cool_navigation_buttons.html

Links

http://www.answers.com/

Security

www.infopackets.com

 

20  Creative Software

Graphics and design

http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/

Games

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/games-channel.htm

Multimedia

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

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

Translation

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Animation

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/tv-animation.htm

 

21  Desktop Publishing

http://desktoppub.about.com/

e-magazines

http://www.emagazine.org.uk/

Newspapers

http://www.theonion.com/content/index

 

22  Multimedia

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

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

Encarta

http://encarta.msn.com/

 

22  Encyclopaedia Britannica

http://www.eb.com/

Compton’s encyclopaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton’s_Encyclopedia

 

22  File Formats

http://www.wotsit.org/

Text

Txt

Pdf

Doc

Htm

Html

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/text_file.html

Graphics

Gif

Jpg

Jpeg

http://www.graphics.com/

Sounds

Wav

Ra

Ram

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

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

Video and animation

Avi

Mov

Mpg

Mpeg

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Video_and_Animation_Tools/

http://www.video-animation.com/

Compressed files

Zip

Sit

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q129605/

 

23  Programming

Assembly languages

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

Machine code

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

Assembly languages

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

Source programmes

http://www.itu.int/wsis/stocktaking/scripts/documents.asp?project=1099574012&lang=en

Compiler language

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

Object programme

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts/index.html

High-level language

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/high_level_language.html

 

24  Languages

Basic

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

Visual basic

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/

 

25  PostScript Revolution

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-11,GGLG:en&q=postscript+revolution

 

26  Jobs in Computing

http://www.utexas.edu/student/careercenter/careers/index.html

 

27  Computers Tomorrow

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/information_technology/report-21853.html

Tele-communications

http://www.telecoms-mag.com/

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

Modem

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

Local bulletin boards

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

Blogging

www.blogger.com

Online service providers

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

Internet service providers

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

Commercial online services

America online

CompuServe

Prodigy

Microsoft

http://www.synapse.net/radio/commersh.htm

 

28  Internet Issues

Privacy

http://www.privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privacy/

Security

www.infopackets.com

Firewalls

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

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/f/firewall.html

www.zonealarm.com

Network security

http://www.insecure.org/tools.html

Virus protection

http://www.mcafee.com/us/

www.zonealarm.com

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

 

29  LANs and WANs

http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/13.htm

LAN

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

WAN

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/wide_area_network_WAN.html

Protocol

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

Ethernet

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

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ethernet.htm

Gateway

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-buying.htm

TCP/IP

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TCP_IP.html

http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM

Fibre optic cables

http://www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm

Satellite

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/satellite/

http://www.gma.org/surfing/satellites/

Wap

http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm

 

30  New Technologies

Voice mail

http://www.skype.com/products/skypevoicemail/

Internet tv

http://wwitv.com/

Video tele-conferencing

http://www.cit.cornell.edu/atc/materials/vtc/

RSS feed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)

Voice mail

http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htmhttp://www.skype.com/products/skypevoicemail/