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ICT-WEB Alert
July 2010
- Defense World
Defense World was born out of a concept of providing instant information in the form of news and data products to members of the defense community. This website was created to beat the dilemma of the internet age-data overload but scarcity of usable information. Sifting through the mountains of data available on the net to extract useful information is what this website is all about.
- Encyclopedia Astronautica
The Encyclopedia Astronautica is the single most comprehensive reference for the history of spaceflight. It is a proven and reliable source endorsed by the Encyclopedia Britannica, library associations, NASA, the world's major newspapers and television networks, Internet guides, and leading space writers and historians. A list of their enthusiastic reviews and coments follows, concluded with a brief history of the site.
- Satellite Observing Systems (SOS)
Satellite Observing Systems (SOS) offers unrivalled expertise in all aspects of satellite remote sensing of the marine environment. The company serves public and private sector organisations by providing: Consultancy on the applications and exploitation of marine remote sensing; High quality marine statistics and climatology; Real-time sea-state monitoring from space delivered to ships at sea; Training programmes world-wide.
- Writing.Com
Writing.Com is the online community for writers and readers of all interests and skill levels. Whether you're an enthusiastic, creative writer looking for the perfect place to store and display your writing online or a casual reader searching for a good story, Writing.Com is the website for you! With 600,051 members and 1,296,324 literary items created since inception, this community is bursting with activities, inspiration and creativity.
- Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT)
Columbia has gathered extensive and comprehensive resources to guide thinking about learning technologies. There are dozens of excellent essays and articles at this site along with project reports (An Index | LiveText | American History Archive | Discovery Web | Advanced Media in Education Project ) and lists of Internet resources The visitor will find breakthrough thinking at Readings: Technology and School Reform In addition, one may explore Resources and Curricula Topics.
- Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
The Mid Continent Regional Educational Laboratory offers Technology Connections, which "provide some of the best online resources available to help educators, administrators, and parents answer common questions and solve problems related to the implementation and use of technology in education."
- MIT Media Lab
The Media Laboratory vision of "enabling technology for learning and expression by people and machines" emphasizes technologies that improve the quality of life in the digital age, and that assist people in constructing their own tools for expression. The Lab advocates a process that includes both imagination and realization, criticism and reflection. Research at the Media Lab comprises interconnected developments in an unusual range of disciplines. Lab research is now exploring new frontiers, such as wireless, "viral" communications; wearable computing; machines capable of common-sense reasoning; new forms of artistic expression; and how children learn. These themes outline a future where the bits of the digital realm interact seamlessly with the atoms of our physical world, and where our machines not only respond to our commands, but also understand our emotionsa future where digital innovation becomes the domain of all.
- GovSpot.com (U.S.government information portal)
GovSpot.com is a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by editorial team for their quality, content and utility.
A virtual resource center for U.S. citizens, students, educators, business people, government employees and anyone exploring the Web for government information, GovSpot.com makes it easy to find the best government Web sites and documents, facts and figures, news, political information and much more.
- United States Small Business Administration
Free multimedia courses on everything from developing a successful business plan to email marketing.
With topics ranging from technology to business, we are sure to offer a course of interest to you. All courses are led by experts in their fields, and offer you the opportunity to interact with the instructors and other students online. Get practical advice related to your business, become smarter with technology, and much more!
- Business Week Online
"With topics ranging from technology to business, we are sure to offer a course of interest to you." All courses are led by experts in their fields, and offer you the opportunity to interact with the instructors and other students online. Get practical advice related to your business, become smarter with technology, and much more!
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
"The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Berkeley Lab in Berkeley, California. The more than 2000 computational scientists who use NERSC perform basic scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include climate modelling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors. A survey of scientific research performed at NERSC can be found in the NERSC Annual Reports. NERSC is known as one of the best run scientific computing facilities in the world.
- Mathforum.org
"Have a math question? Log onto the math forum and ask dr. Math or search through their archives of previously asked questions."
- Reference.com
Offers hundreds of links to sources of information such as almanacs, dictionaries, and literature.
- San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD
SDSC is a world leader in using, innovating and providing information technology to enable advances and new discovery in science and engineering. Focusing on data-oriented and computational science and engineering applications, SDSC serves as an international resource for data cyberinfrastructure through the provision of software, hardware and human resources in multi-disciplinary science and engineering, and serves as a leadership national cyberinfrastructure Center to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and broader community.
- Book Wolf
"Book Wolf provides free chapter by chapter summaries and analysis for many books. If you're not able to read a complete book, you can get the gist of it just by reading these guides. The one downside is the intrusive advertising."
- ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The free, advertising-supported service brings you breaking news about the latest discoveries and hottest research projects in everything from astrophysics to zoology. For three years in a row, ScienceDaily has been chosen by the editors of Popular Science magazine as one of the "Top 50 Web Sites."
- RedOrbit.com
RedOrbit.com is committed to providing stimulating, original content and presentation, with over 1,500,000 pages covering the vast ideological spectrums of space, science, health, and technology. The beautiful and engaging forum created at RedOrbit.com promotes a friendly and open environment, enhancing user loyalty and community, while advancing RedOrbit's goal of providing the world with a virtual Utopia for intelligent, curious minds.
- Digital Inspiration
Digital Inspiration, which started in late 2004, is now the 40th most-favorited blog on the Internet, according to Technorati, out of an estimated total of 100+ million blogs.
Mission is to help users in taking maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at their disposal so that they spend more time doing things they really love.
Digital Inspiration blog averages more than 1.4 million hits per month and has been quoted in mainstream publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNet, Wired, CNN Money, Guardian, Financial Times, CBC, Wired, ITWire, MSNBC, BoingBoing, BBC, Mercury News, Sydney Morning Herald, and others.
- Windows to the Universe
Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public. Windows to the Universe has been in development since 1995. Goal is to build an internet site that includes a rich array of documents, including images, movies, animations, and data sets, that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration, and the human experience.
- Bad Science
Bad Science abounds and comes in many guises. This page sets out to attack only one brand: well understood phenomena which are persistently presented incorrectly by teachers and writers, presumably because they either do not know any better or because they don't really care enough to get it correct. By publicizing examples of bad science, People behind the site hopes to sensitize students, teachers and writers to the horrors of such glib explanations or representations.
- Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT)
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) was established in 1986. The centre is a focus for research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning, with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges. This CIMT Web-site was started in May 1995, and moved to University of Plymouth servers at the end of July 2005.
- Devx
Devx is chock-full of resources for software and Web developers of all stripes. Get handy tips from the site's expert articles, learn new programming languages, and get all next-gen with the new Semantic Web Zone section.
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