Wednesday 5 March 2008

Encyclopedia of Earth

I just spotted this rather useful looking website called Encyclopedia of Earth. It is pretty much what it says on the box and delivers quite detailed information about a wide range of environmentally related topics. It's a growing resource and they are looking for people to contribute.

There is a forum too so students can get involved in discussing some of the issues relating to the articles.

The site looks like a very credible source of free information. A lot of the articles tend to have a US focus, but there's still quite a few that don't.

The language / information level is quite high so this is for speakers with a good level of English, but there's certainly plenty of information, text, images and opportunities to interact that could make this a pretty useful tool. (Terms of use)

Hope you enjoy it.

Best
Nik

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please can you post links to these sites you list. The current links go to your sites not the actual sites.The image links to a photograph not the web page. Thanks

Nik Peachey said...

There are three links in the text, The first is in the very first sentence below the image.

Best

nik