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Issue number ninety-nine
(March 2009) in a series of Signposts sent by the U3A International Group
UK and U3AOnline Australia, once a month, to any and all U3A members anywhere
in the world.
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Web manager
Vennela
vennela@holloways.org
11th March 2009
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The World Conference
organised by the Indian Society of U3As in association with Chitrakoot University
and WorldU3A.org now has a website. See http://worldu3aconference2010.org |
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ALL SUBJECTS:
Laptop-PLUS-projector-PLUS http://academicearth.org/
gives any serious subject group an incredibly rich resource, namely 'Thousands
of video lectures from the world's top scholars" entirely free of charge.
(Another reason for a U3A Group to find the money for a projector).
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LANGUAGES: Groups
studying Japanese might find the list of Anglo-Japanese Societies at http://www.japanese-society.org.uk/
useful.
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JOURNEYS: http://www.transportdirect.info/
have greatly improved their search facilities and now include all forms
of public transport within the UK.
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This is Money - http://www.thisismoney.co.uk
- aims to help its 1.6m-plus monthly readers to save and make money in all
aspects of their lives. They do this by delivering news plus advice-packed
features, analysis and predictions.
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OpenStreetMap is a
free map of the whole world. Like a 'wiki' it allows users to view and to
edit geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Click
on or go to
http://openstreetmap.org/
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TECHNICAL MATTERS
File sharing and backup: Groups needing to share documents will find
http://www.filephile.net/about.html
useful. Files of any size or format easily shared by any size of group;
confidential, secure and also free to use. |
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