Syndicated Learning ObjectRSS feed of most recent posts from Syndicated Learning ObjectBeyond Library 2.0: getting our hands dirty- July 1, 2008 Library 2.0 and Beyond: getting our hands dirty is the theme for the second WA Library Unconference. The event hopes to include half a day of small hands-on workshops and discussion sessions.http://unconferencewalibrary.pbwiki.com/ Battle for Australia Day proclaimed- July 1, 2008 The Battle for Australia will now be marked on the first Wednesday in September each year, the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Alan Griffin, announced recently. Mr Griffin said the Governor-General, Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC (Retd), had signed the proclamation for the Battle for Australia Day. ALP Media statement, 26 June 2008http://www.alp.org.au/media/0608/msva260.php Announcement of new affiliate for ACODE- July 1, 2008 The ACODE Executive Committee announced that Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) have recently joined ACODE as affiliate members. Upon resolution by the Executive Committee, ACODE has responded positively to an approach by DEANZ for affiliate status. Affiliate membership is available to other organisations in Australasia that are not universities but are interested in open, distance, flexible and e-learning. DEANZ will be represented by their President Sally Rawnsley, who is...http://www.acode.edu.au/ Keyword search for top supervisors- July 1, 2008 The University of Sydney is set to capitalise on the Rudd government's commitment to double the number of PhD scholarships by 2012 by launching an innovative new online resource aimed at attracting the best and brightest prospective students. The new internet enquiry system called Research Supervisor Connect (RSC) works like a job search site for research candidates and is the first of its kind in use at an Australian University. The University of Sydney News, 1 July 2008http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2383 New units of competency promote Intellectual Property- July 1, 2008 Precision Consultancy has been contracted to develop units of competency in relation to Intellectual Property (IP) as part of the national Business Services qualifications. These units will also be relevant to other qualifications convened by other industry groups. Precision Consultancy would like to consult widely about business and training needs in relation to IP and are seeking input from interested parties.http://www.precisionconsultancy.com.au/ Manny's Rumba- July 1, 2008 Users must make up the number of blocks that Manny asks for by dragging and dropping groups of blocks onto the screen. A tally of the number of blocks already added is kept and users can choose to use 1's (units), 10's or 100's (hundreds) blocks.http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html Open access, open archives and open source in Higher Education- July 1, 2008 There are three related concepts: unbundling, interoperability, and non-exclusivity. Unbundling is a matter of commercial practice; interoperability is a matter of technical practice; non-exclusivity is a matter of legal practice. The most important of these is non-exclusivity, but taken together, these three are necessary conditions for achieving independence and sustainability in a very broad range of activities within higher education, from scholarly publishing to teaching to administration..http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/nscf.htm Access Grid Seminar: Culture, racial identity, self-esteem and socialisation of Aboriginal children at school: Ready for school or ready for us mob- July 1, 2008 Educational disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students is evident from the first years of schooling, with Aboriginal students failing to meet minimum academic standards at far greater proportions than other students; this gap widens with each year that Aboriginal children are at school (Zubrick et al 2006). Dr. Cheryl Kickett-Tucker and Rani Param will present on their two projects aimed at understanding the complexity of Indigenous children's transition into and through school,...http://www.aracy.org.au/AM/Template.cfm?Section=20080812 Contributions invited: Technology Supported Learning Database (TSLDB)- July 1, 2008 The database was developed as part of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship Project, to enable sharing and reuse of technology-supported learning activities. This is an invitation to Higher Education teachers who wish to share examples of their teaching for others to reuse to consider contributing to the database. To encourage participation, the project team are offering 3 prizes of $1000 each. The prizes will be awarded to the owners of the 3 activities in the TSLDB (on the...http://aragorn.scca.ecu.edu.au/tsldb/ School readiness of Australian Indigenous children: A review of the literature- July 1, 2008 This review seeks to explore the literature for evidence on the definition of school readiness in an Australian Indigenous context; and effective assessment techniques of school readiness for Indigenous children. Thereafter, salient risk and protective factors influencing the transition to school are mapped out. This facilitates the anticipated outcome of the review: an appraisal of the effectiveness of interventions in mediating for risk factors and capitalising on protective factors that...http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/documents/schoolreadiness.pdf |