Making good use of the Web in A2 Economics

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Making good use of the Web in A2 Economics Andy Beharrell (Triple A Learning) Andy Hargrave (Biz/ed) John Sloman (UWE and Economics LTSN) Welcome and introduction to centre staff New initiative supporting learning and teaching in higher education economics

Advantages of using Web resources Up-to-date Relevant (if you know where to look) Accessible Interesting Can use information to illustrate your answers The Internet Economist http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

Primary resources: News sites Economist www.economist.com FT www.ft.com BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news Guardian/Observer www.guardian.co.uk Reuters www.reuters.co.uk Ananova www.ananova.com/business

Primary resources: News portal sites Guardian World News Guide www.guardian.co.uk My virtual newspaper www.refdesk.com/paper.html Newspapers on WWW www.gt.kth.se/publishing/news.html Google Econ. News news.google.com Moreover www.moreover.com/economics John Sloman’s news links www.booksites.net/sloman

Primary resources: UK official sites Government gateway www.ukonline.gov.uk/ Treasury www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ Bank of England www.bankofengland.co.uk/ Parliament www.parliament.uk/ DTI www.dti.gov.uk/ Regulatory bodies www.ofgem.gov.uk/ www.sra.gov.uk

Primary resources: Data LTSN data access www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/links/data_free.htm National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk BofE (M&FS) www.bankofengland.co.uk/mfsd/ www.bankofengland.co.uk/target2point5 Pocket Databank www.hm-treasury.gov.uk Europa (E&FA) http://europa.eu.int/comm/ OECD Economic Outlook www.oecd.org IMF www.imf.org Country briefings www.economist.com/countries

Primary resources: Data banks & gateways LTSN data access www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/links/data_free.htm OFFSTATS www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm Economagic www.economagic.com MIMAS www.mimas.ac.uk/ Data Archive www.data-archive.ac.uk/ Biz/ed Timeweb www.bized.ac.uk/dataserv/datahome.htm

Gateways and libraries Biz/ed www.bized.ac.uk Economics LTSN www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk Tutor2U www.tutor2u.net/ SOSIG www.sosig.ac.uk WebEc netec.mcc.ac.uk/WebEc.html RFE www.rfe.org John Sloman’s hotlinks www.booksites.net/sloman

Using Google Use www.google.co.uk Use Google Advanced Using “…” Searching within website Using Google toolbar

Need an economist? http://images.google.com Keynes? Milton Friedman? Galbraith?

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