University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

Useful web sites for Computing and Information Technology

 

Associations

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

British Computer Society

Institute for the Management of Information Systems

National Computing Centre

Gateways

BUBL Information Service  Catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. Try searching in the: subject menu, A-Z menu or the Dewey menu 000,s.

Internet for Information and Communication Technology for online tutorials to get you started on the web

Yahoo - Computers and the Internet  This site is a major gateway and is well worth a browse. Some of the key areas you will find are communications, computer science and programming.

General

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies  Collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources.

First Society in Computing  The world's first scientific computing society for professionals and students.

FOLDOC  Free on-line dictionary of computing.

IBM

Joint Information Systems Committee  Support for Further and Higher Education in the use of information and communication technology

Microsoft MVP Program  Solutions to common computer problems including on-line discussions within public newsgroups and mailing lists. NOT affiliated to the Microsoft Corporation.

Open University  Free resource material from the Open University openlearn website

SDmagazine  Software development on line.

Primary & Secondary Resources

British Educational Communications & Technology Agency (BECTA)  Government funded agency that promotes information communications technology and its use to raise standards in education.

ICT Advice for Schools  Impartial advice and help with computing and communications technology for UK schools.

NAACE  Supporting effective use of ICT in primary education.

For an eLearning tutorial that teaches critical evaluation of information found on the Internet then try the Internet Detective website. The website also includes sections on copyright matters, plagiarism and citation/referencing.

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