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Sixty Seconds of network news from
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Volume:7
Issue:12
July
2008
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Latest from education.au
Education.au CEO Greg Black shares an Australian perspective on the four emerging technologies identified by the Horizon Report as likely to be entering mainstream use by educators within the next few years.
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a five-year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organisations. |
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In this interview Professor Martin Westwell discusses the impact of technology on the brain and explodes a few myths about multiskilling, and provides an overview of what will be taking place at the next Education.au seminar entitled Mind Over Matter - How Technology Matters.
This seminar offers participants the option to register for a morning, afternoon or a discounted all day session.
- Morning Session - How Technology changes the way we think.
- Afternoon Session - Lifelong learning in the workplace
Where: Leighton Hall, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Sydney.
When: Tuesday August 26 2008
For further information and registration details visit our website. |
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Our latest blog posts include:
- The Olympics are coming
- Reading in the internet age
- Screencasting for professional development purposes
- How Green is your DER?
- New Skills - New Career
- Mind Over Matter: Prof. Martin Westwell
- Book - Wikipedia - Book: what’s new is old again
- Can an iPhone be an educational tool?
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 Australian Library Achiever of the Year Award nominee
Pru Mitchell of Education.au is a nominee in this year’s Library Achiever of the year Award. This is a well deserved nomination in recognition of Pru’s commitment and dedication to the advancement of information management and information literacy at state and national level. We congratulate Pru on her nomination and wish her all the best at the presentation.
Presentation ceremony:
5th August 2008
5:30pm—7:30pm
Treasures Wall, State Library of South Australia. |
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Students entering the myfuture video competition now have until 30th September to submit entries. The competition offers prizes worth $5000. These include DV cameras and an editing computer.
There are six prize categories, a free resource for schools that register, and plenty of resources to help individuals or groups of friends create an occupation video.
Selected entries will go online on myfuture and some will be broadcast on national television through the CREW program.
For more details of how to enter and where to get help check out www.thecrew.net
To see previous entries and to research occupation information visit www.myfuture.edu.au.
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Alison Hall, Janette Carter and Cecily Wright presented at the Computer Educators Group of South Australia conference, highlighting the new feature in edna's advanced search 'search for interactive resources'. The presentation is available on the interactive whiteboards theme page.
Kerrie Smith will be a speaker at the Fifth National IWB conference at Firbank Grammar School, 14-16 August.
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During the Olympics OzProjects will host activities, discussions and resources to increase understanding about the country of China and its culture, and to facilitate student exploration of the human rights issues surrounding China and the Olympic Games.
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Policy and Research
The special report, which is in its 12th year, explores how small and medium size businesses and consumers interact with technology, including the use of e-commerce, social networking sites, mobile email devices, as well as website and telecommunication take-up by businesses.
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The National Science Week will run from 16 - 24 August and will feature a calendar packed with touring displays, hands-on presentations, speeches, forums and a national tour of international science personalities.
This year’s festival is expected to attract over 700,000 event participants across Australia, with another 160,000 taking part in school activities. |
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The Australian Newspapers BETA search service is now available. The BETA service is freely available to the public and currently contains 73,000 out of copyright newspaper pages (approx 730,000 individual articles) from 1803 onwards. In order to expand the available content approximately 20,000 digitised newspaper pages will be added each week to the Beta service.
The National Library of Australia welcomes feedback and suggestions from users of the service to enable further development. Details on the way in which feedback can be provided are on the 'about' page of the service.
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The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr announced his intention to introduce new public funding arrangements that will create additional opportunities for Indigenous Australians pursuing academic research careers. The new opportunities intend to:
- include research into Indigenous health and wellbeing as a priority under the Government’s new Future Fellowships scheme, currently being developed by the ARC
- introduce new Australian Research Fellowships – Indigenous (more senior than, and in addition to, the existing postdoctoral ARC Indigenous Researcher Fellowships)
- change the status of AIATSIS under ARC Funding Rules to make it eligible for funding under nearly all ARC-administered schemes.
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Senator Conroy recently released the findings of the report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering.
The report details the results of extensive laboratory tests into the current effectiveness of commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) filtering products.
The ACMA report, Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering, can be accessed via the ACMA website: www.acma.gov.au |
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A multinational team, led by archival institutions in Australia and New Zealand, has published a global standard for recordkeeping software.
The National Archives of Australia has worked with the national archives of 11 nations to develop an agreed set of standards for software products that are used to make and keep records.
Under the auspices of the International Council on Archives, the team has finalised three related publications under the title Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments. They were launched by Dr Lorenza Mikoletzky, President of the International Council on Archives on Thursday 24 July at the International Congress on Archives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The International Council on Archives’ Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Environments can be viewed at http://www.ica.org/. |
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This report outlines key findings from surveys that explored factors that drive online experience as expressed by the three different subject groups – nonprofit organizations and cities, web designers and firms, and the general public. The survey’s major findings include:
- designers underestimate the thresholds for an effective site
- easy access to complete information is key to visitor enjoyment
- good visual design and up-to-date information are critical
- visitors want information fast
- visitors want a broad range of topics
- designers are overly optimistic about visitors’ ability to maintain orientation
- visitors point to the lack of breadth and depth of site content as causing an “Information Gap.”
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This guide, prepared for the US Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, is designed as a resource for leaders and evaluators of K–12 online learning programs. The guide features seven evaluations that represent variety in both the type of program or resource being evaluated, and in the type of evaluation. These evaluations were selected because they offer useful lessons to others who are planning to evaluate an online learning program or resource. |
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This report summarises the costs and benefits of studying for a VET qualification. It finds that generally students have an adequate economic incentive to enrol in VET. The best returns were for students who study higher-level qualifications (certificate III upwards), and do so part-time.
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A new survey has documented the current recognition of prior learning (RPL) systems and electronic tools in use throughout the Australian training system.
The results of the Recognition of prior learning tools and systems survey will help inform those considering the use of electronic tools, including software and web-based tools such as e-portfolios, to support RPL processes.
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According to the latest release of Australian social trends the rate of household internet access has increase significantly across Australia in recent years, from 16% in 1998 to 64% in 2006-07. While people use the Internet at home for a variety of purposes, personal and private reasons (including sending and receiving emails and online shopping) were the most common in 2006-07. Almost all (98%) of the 9.9 million Australians who used the Internet at home reported using it for this purpose. Just over half (53%) used the Internet for education or study and a similar proportion (52%) used it for work related purposes.
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The world of mobile internet devices is set to explode in the next four years says chip maker Intel.
Research carried out for the company suggests portable net-enabled devices will grow to 1.2 billion by 2012 as the need to be connected increases. Intel's predictions were unveiled as it launched a series of chips designed for portable web-browsing gadgets.
Alongside an explosion in mobile web-using devices, Intel estimated that 100 million households will also be watching IPTV by 2011. |
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Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has described the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry as central to the development of a knowledge economy in Australia. Welcoming the start of the inaugural National ICT Careers Week in all States and Territories this week, Senator Carr said the power of the ICT sector was transforming the way knowledge was shared in Australia, at an individual and corporate level.
For full details of participating organisations and their proposed activities see the National ICT Careers Week website |
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This paper explores the issue of how vocational education and training (VET) is used in the labour market, in particular the match between what people study and the jobs they get. This match is poor in most occupational groups with the exception of the trades. The paper concludes that the mismatch is a reflection of the generic nature of VET. |
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With the 2008 Beijing Olympics beginning in August, now is a great time to discover TLF's Olympics-themed digital content. Find out more about the 1936 Berlin Games, the 1956 Melbourne Games and the 2000 Sydney Games, and download photographs of Olympians such as Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe and Lauren Jackson.
As well as interactive learning objects, the TLF collection includes photographs, audio recordings and film clips (all with teachers' notes), sourced from australianscreen online, Getty images, National Archives of Australia, the National Library of Australia and Powerhouse Museum.
Visit TLF website to read more and download a list of these resources. |
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