A NOTE FOR TUTORS

If you wish to place supporting course resource references including reading lists on this page, please email the details by clicking here.

. . your ideas for the enrichment of our Website. If you're a Course Leader/Tutor - can we possibly publish course notes or a reading list before term begins? If you're a member who enjoys learning, we welcome your ideas for courses. And here's a question for everyone -- would you participate if we ran some courses online on this website?

You may have other ideas . . . whatever they are, please let us know. Email the Course Coordinator. There are 175 U3As in Australia with a current membership in total of 54,233 according to

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Signposts

SIGNPOSTS

. . . from the U3A Internetwork Group UK and U3AOnline Australia, an excellent source of material, edited and issued by Tom Holloway (UK)and Dr Rick Swindell (Australia). Here are some gleanings from recent Signposts ...

For Scrabble enthusiasts check out Scrabble tips, word checks and Scrabble history

Art Lovers click A directory of online museums

Rick Sheridan's comprehensive Healthcare online course. Highly recommended.

Free history course material from Washington State University on ancient civilisations. Click Washington State University and go to 'Resource and Collections'.

What's the time there when here it's now? To find out, simply click here! Handy when phoning overseas and a generally useful site for any calendar or time-related information.

For a free collection of Internet, PC, and classroom resources from Patrick Crispen, Educational Technology Consultant, check out The Net Squirrel. The site includes a collection of training resources in Powerpoint format.

An interactive site from the ABC that allows you to see what the future will be like in 2024 for food, transport, house or work

If you’re interest in Investment, Geology or the Environment there’s plenty to learn about the future of Saudi/Middle East oil

Access a 'Dictionary of Units' from Exeter University, UK, for conversions from anything to anything including a CPI calculator with which you can read what a 1950s salary would be worth today and vice versa

* U3A UK's Internetwork Group announce a website for technical support - NOT for definitive answers to your problems, but a good place to check before you spend money on repairs or on new equipment. Click-on http://worldu3a.org/support

* Lovers of Victorian Art will delight in the treasures to be seen at http://www.artrenewal.org/ This gigantic online museum aims "To create the largest on-line Museum on the internet, with  hundreds of thousands of high quality images of all the known  works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history"

* We've featured the BBC site before. It's a great site for many  learning activities. For example - see the basic skills in reading,  writing and maths.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/

* A veritable treasure trove for teachers of skills-based courses. Huge reservoir of free teaching materials from the very basic to the more  advanced www.itrainonline.org

* Here's a fascinating site which has absorbing programmes on  many aspects of teaching. Take a look at www.teachers.tv (Thank you Mike Williams - U3A Hastings).

* "The best of..." provides links to free sites on a large number of topics.  Click the topic in the left frame of www.tourbus.com/best.html (Thanks Ralph Otwell, Evanston ILR - USA)

If you are studying French click on the first of two sites or the second for aids to pronunciation.

For back issues of Signposts click here. It's well worth a visit.

If a particular site takes your fancy, why not add it to your Favorites?

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