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Sixty Seconds of network news from
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Volume: 6
Issue:20
November
2007
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Latest from education.au
education.au staff attended the 21st Century Curriculum Conference, 12-13 November, in Sydney. Globalisation and internationalism was the theme of this year’s conference. The range of national and international speakers provided a social, cultural, political, economic and historical backdrop and context for delegates at the conference to discuss and consider what is required to develop innovative curricula, relevant to young people, as they prepare for the challenges of the 21st century.
Keynote speakers included Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE, Professor Peter Dawkins, Mr Mick Waters, Professor Fazal Rizvi, Dr Mark Rose and Mr Michael Coutts-Trotter.
Papers and presentations will become available the Conference website.
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This case study demonstrates our approach and the technologies used to implement a distributed search solution for Land & Water Australia. Land & Water Australia is a statutory research and development corporation within the Australian Government Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio, with 56 Regional Natural Resource Management bodies across Australia. Our solution enables staff to search many disparate databases from a single entry point.
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The edna (Education Network Australia) project marks ten years of service to the Australian education and training community this month and you’re invited to share in the celebrations.
We are hosting two online events that you can participate in:
- Live Classroom
- Second Life
Both events are on Tuesday, 27 November, from 3:15pm to 5pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time).
Both events will include a half hour audio feed from education.au hosted by Jason Haseldine with guest speakers including former CEO Gerry White and current CEO Greg Black. For further details visit edna’s 10th birthday page. |
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Our latest blog posts include:
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a building block for ePortfolios
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Professional networking with me.edu.au
- 21st century curriculum_21st century schools
- Career Chat
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Career Services
 myfuture occupation searches based on Learning Areas
Using the Refine Search option can make exploring Occupations in myfuture more relevant and tailored to individual preferences.
You can, for example, search for occupations that match one or more preferred learning areas. From the Occupations search, scroll down to select from the drop down menu presented in the Learning Area list box. Choose from a range of Learning Areas including Biology, English, Physical Education, Performing Arts and Chemistry.
More than one Learning Area can be selected by holding down the control key (Ctrl) while clicking with the mouse. A refined search can be conducted with or without entering a keyword.
Conduct your own search at:
myfuture.edu.au>The Facts> Work and Employment>Occupations | |
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edna
Share your e-learning journey over the past decade with other edna users by creating a digital story, photo or blog post and using the edna10 tag so we can find your story via del.icio.us, Technorati and Flickr. You can also contribute to the Frappr map and/or Voice Thread available on the official edna 10th birthday page. | |
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edna Lists upgrade and outage
Please note that edna Lists will be unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade of our ISP's server network. This will occur on Sunday, 18th November 2007, 7:00am - 12:00pm (CST). All edna network services will be unavailable for significant periods during this time. List managers please forward this information to your list members and request that postings are not sent to their lists during the outage. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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The Government Education Portal provides three options for keeping up to date with education and training news – a weekly email alert, a range of tailored RSS feeds and a comprehensive news section on the site. However you prefer to receive your news the Portal is a great way to find out about government policies, reports, initiatives and programmes, as well as opportunities for awards, grants and funding.
To subscribe to the weekly news update or RSS feeds visit http://www.education.gov.au |
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Please take a few minutes to complete the 2007 Global Education website survey. We would like to know how well the site meets our criteria of high educational quality, attractiveness and ease of use by teachers. We are also interested in how you use the Global Education website and how interested you would be in contributing content and resources for the Global Education website project.
If you enter your email address at the end of your completed survey you will be placed in the draw to receive global education book prizes. |
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Policy and Research
The largest UK Higher Education funding council HEFCE issued guidance to the senior management of higher education institutions about IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) in e-learning. A key point was:
“Every HEI(higher education institution) needs to establish a clear, preferably plain English, IPR policy and disseminate it widely across the organisation, including IT guidelines and codes of practice for staff and students.”
The objective of this institutional development pack is to empower people to undertake this task and help them put in place the necessary supporting measures in their institutions. |
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This report is the result of research carried out by KcKinsey and Company between may 2006 and march 2007. The focus is on how differences in what is happening at the level of the school system impacts what is happening in the classrooms, in terms of enabling better teaching and greater learning. The report suggests that three things matter: getting the right people to become teachers; developing them into effective instructors; and ensuring that the system is able to deliver the best possible instruction for every child.
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Community groups across the country will have a greater capacity to preserve Australia’s heritage following the announcement of the 2007 Community Heritage Grants.
Grants worth $428 300 are going to 85 community groups and organisations in 2007. The groups include museums, libraries, archives, historical societies, art galleries, migrant, Indigenous and religious organisations. Each will receive funds to assist in the identification and preservation of community owned but nationally significant heritage collections. | |
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The EFA Global Monitoring Report is an annual publication that assesses where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education to all children, youth and adults by 2015.
The report can be viewed in various formats:
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The not-for-profit, community-owned Early Childhood Training and Resource Centre was presented with the prestigious Innovative Business Award at the Australian Government's 2007 Australian Training Awards.
The Early Childhood Training and Resource Centre, in conjunction with other members of the childcare industry, has developed flexible e-learning resources that complement existing nationally recognised education and training resources and practices.
For more information on the 2007 Australian Training Awards visit: http://www.australiantrainingawards.gov.au |
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A new report by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) explores the gaps in our understanding of the ways that scholars create and share new knowledge.
The white paper, "Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement," encourages academics, librarians and their key partners to gather more data on practices that both enable and inhibit the production of scholarship and its communication. The report identifies eight themes, with research possibilities in each area.
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Queensland primary school students were honoured for reading almost one million books as part of the second annual Premier's Reading Challenge.
Premier Anna Bligh presented 18 reading challenge awards to schools from across Queensland that reached 100% participation rate in the challenge.
This year 650 schools from throughout Queensland participated in the challenge with 48,000 students from Prep to Year 5 enjoying more than 960,000 books. | |
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Delegates from the European University Association (EUA), the peak group for higher education in Europe representing more than 700 universities in 45 countries, are meeting with Vice-Chancellors from across Australia.
Universities Australia is hosting the discussions with senior representatives from European universities, which will specifically focus on the Bologna process, and the fostering of research links between Australia and Europe.
As part of the week-long program, Universities Australia has organised meetings between the EUA and the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), Australian Research Council (ARC), and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and site visits to several universities. |
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The findings of an international study on interoperability have been released by researchers from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen. The research on interoperability consists of a white paper and three case studies:
White paper - When and how ICT Interoperability drives innovation
Case studies - DRM-protected music interoperability and eInnovation, Digital identity interoperability and eInnovation,
Mashups interoperability and eInnovation.
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JISC has published a very useful briefing paper summarising all its current e-portfolio projects. The paper also categorises the types of e-portfolio approaches projects are taking including e-portfolios for presentation, transition and learning. (This is a revised version of an earlier paper).
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The Federal election is less than a month away. The Le@rning Federation has a large number of learning objects and digital resources that can support teachers in discussing the process with their students. For example the Take a vote series of learning objects looks at the process of electing a school captain fairly and is suitable for primary schools.
Digital resources include election posters and cartoons, speeches, film clips and documents about previous elections from the time of Federation.
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