ICT WORKSHOP - FORESTRY RESOURCES

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET: ACCESSING REFERENCE AND DOCUMENT RESOURCES

Objective: familiarize students with the process of network resource discovery

Tasks: discovery and retrieval questions aimed at guiding browsing and searching
techniques (to retrieve relevant documents):

Browsing (by type, by location, by subject)
Searching
Opening a location (go to given URL=Universal Resource Locator)

Use the web addresses below to find answers to the following questions. Indicate in each answer the web site where you found the answer:

Note: some resources may be understandable from the URL without the need to opening them first. Other references may have no evident relation to the questions.



QUESTIONS:

1. What is another word for matorral and what are the different types?
2. How could you find out about the Progress in Timber Certificatin Schemes World-Wide?
3. Which is the total area of forests and woodland in Britain?
4. When and where is the nearest conference on grasslands?
5. Name the important products of the Spanish forestry sector.
6. What is Spain´s total forest cover? State the reference year
7. List the three possible Spanish equivalents of scrub
8. Which site lists the most forestry or forestry related glossaries?
9. Find companies that harvest and manufacture products from the forest in the U.S.
10. How would you define heathland?
11. Send a question to a forestry specialist, and write down the response you got from him.



SELECTED WEB SITES:

FAO DICTIONARY , MULTILINGUAL, ON-LINE

http://faoterm.fao.org/.

FAO FORESTRY

http://www.fao.org/forestry/index.jsp

FAO FORESTRY DATABASE

www.fao.org/forestry/site/6768/en

FORESTRY ABOUT

http://forestry.about.com/

EUNIS HABITATS

http://eunis.eea.eu.int/habitats.jsp

EC HABITAT DIRECTIVE/HABITAT TYPES

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/.

EU NATURE CONSERVATION. RED NATURA 2000

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/nature_conservation/index_en.htm

FORESTS FOREVER

http://www.forestsforever.org.uk/contents.html

EUROPEAN GRASSLAND ORG

http://www.europeangrassland.org/

ECOSYSTEM TERMS CR

http://mab.kav.cas.cz/en/table.html

USDA FORESTRY SERVICE

http://www.fs.fed.us/

TREE LIST

http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/

TREE SPECIES, US

http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/forest/index.html

DENDROLOGY

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/factsheets.cfm

VIRGINIA TECH – DENDROLOGY SYLLABUS (LAB MATERIALS)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/syllabus.htm

ASK DR.DENDRO great, writing, interactive, e-mail project, internet class

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/doctor/doctor.htm

TREE FACT SHEETS

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/biglist_frame.htm

ID KEY by leaf, by twig (ING I esp.)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/idit.htm

MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL (Woody Plants)

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/wpina/index.html

PLANT DATABASE

http://plantsdatabase.com/

SUSAN´S GARDEN

http://www.susansgardenpatch.com/