Friday, January 21, 2011

UWC Online Resource #2

Global NewsBank with Periodicals

Periodical and newspaper database, including five full-text newspapers including Singapore’s Straits Times, New York Times, The Times (London) and the South China Morning Post.

Articles cover politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents.

Username: ra-uwc
Password: ra-uwc

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/

SIRS Knowledge Source

A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. For more information on how to use the database, click here.

Username: xx0891
Password: 9111

http://ars.sirs.com

Gale Virtual Reference

Our collection of ebooks with titles ranging from The Cold War Reference Library to the Lucent Library of Science & Technology & Drug Education Library.

Password: reference

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uwcsea

WorldWide Volunteering

A unique search-and-match database with over 1,450 volunteer organizations, 1.1 million placements throughout the UK and in 214 countries worldwide.

Username: UNITED9893
Password: ZZ2988

http://database.wwv.org.uk/Introduction.aspx

Careerscape Online

Careerscape includes information on all UCAS Higher Education courses (currently around 50,000). This information can be accessed via a career, or via a search facility that takes into account keyword, region and type of course.

To create a new account, please key in the following information:

Licence name: c375
Licence code: gaingoal81

http://www.cascaid.co.uk

 

UWC Online Resource#1

Resources:

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://school.ebonline.com/

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Atomic Learning

Software video tutorials. To access from home please use the username "uwcsea" and the password "elearn"

http://www.atomiclearning.com/uk/en_GB/home

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BookFlix

To access from home please use the username "uwcsea" and the password "bookflix"

http://bkflix.grolier.com/

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Discovery United Streaming

Only for teacher use

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

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TumbleBooks

ebooks for eKids! To access from home please use the username "uwc" and the password "books"

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=uwc&P=books

 

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Comparing Singapore to Malaysia, Thailand to Singapore

Compare Malaysia to Singapore

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/MY/SG

-          Consumer 9.5 times more oil

 

Compare Singapore to Thailand

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/TH/SG

live 8.7 years longer......

 

Click those links for details.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Jan2010 Some news

Population
Numbers of Foreigner (non pr/citizen) increase during economic boom and decrease when it plunges. S'pore population increased .9% post 911. Total pop growth26 over 10yrs. Citizen 8 at 3.2m now. PR 541,000. Foreigner 1.3m.

Budget
Analyst expected Spore to reverse est of -3b to +6b.

Monday, January 10, 2011