St Monica’s Primary, North Parramatta (NSW) opened a multi-purpose learning centre last May. Funded by the Australian Government Building the Education Revolution, the centre has an open plan area accommodating up to 200 students. The students are divided into groups by stage of development (not strictly by age) with two teachers and an assistant forRead… Read more »
Professor Ian Young, Vice Chancellor of the Austrlaian National Unviersity (ANU) has been consulting staff on what should be in a new strategic plan. The current plan “ANU by 2010”, mentions “flexible modes of learning”. This has been implemented through initiatives such as the ANU’s Wattle Learning Management System and the Digital Lecture Delivery System.Read… Read more »
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has issued a “Information Publication Scheme Draft Agency Plan” for comment by 28 March 2011. The document describes how the OAIC proposes to provide details of its own information. The document discusses information architecture, what information is to be published including that required by the FOI Act, accessibility,Read… Read more »
The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »
Google have introduced a beta AdSense mobile interface. This allows those with web sites displaying Google ads to check on their revenue. It is an interesting progression from simply being able to create ads for mobile devices. Original post
The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre in Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Julius Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) released a report on “The Protection and Security of Electronic Information Held by Australian Government Agencies” on 23 March 2011. Agencies audited were: the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), ComSuper, Medicare Australia and The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC). The audit found measures were generallyRead… Read more »
The last talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was Dr. JamesPopple, Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner, talking about the FOIreforms of government and what this requires of the information systemsgovernment uses.The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner commenced 1November 2010. This integrates information management, privacy and FOIfunctions of government.The new Original post
Tsunami exercise CARIBE WAVE 11/ LANTEX 11 is being conducted. A exercise Caribbean-Wide Tsunami Watch Message was issued at 1302Z 23 MAR 2011. This was relayed by the West Coast/Alaska and NWS Pacific Warning Centres. The messages received have spam warnings due to there being no sender’s name and all upper case in the bodyRead… Read more »