State-wide Youth Engagement Forum. Are you interested in Community Based VCAL Programmes? This forum is for Community VCAL practitioners, managers and stakeholders who collaborate to create alternative and engaging education programs for young people who are disengaged from mainstream schooling. Youth Commitments. This is for LLEN members and stakeholders interested in establishing a collaborative regional approach to sharing responsibility for…
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The problems and challenges of education for gifted students in the Asia-Pacific region are to be discussed at a conference that begins today in Taipei. The Ninth Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness is being held until Friday in Taipei along with the Children and Youth Creativity Olympia Camp. More than 600 people from 28 different countries and 278 youths from eight…
Talkback Classroom to Discuss Politics, Youth and Career with Stott Despoja. South Australian Senator and former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja will discuss politics, youth and her career with three students in a Talkback Classroom interview on Wednesday 12 October 2005, at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. [Source:School Education Headlines]
Bandwidth Overload!. In the last 24 hours, the Central Ranges LLEN Website and our "Voices from the Future" website have experienced a relatively huge spike in the number of downloads and subscriptions to our three Podcasts! We have experienced a 15000% [yes that's right] increase in bandwidth use overnight. The rate is currently still climbing! This is an excellent result,…
Apple earnings quadruple - but shares plunge. Smh.com.au - Wed Oct 12, 03:23 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Yahoo Seizes Podcast Initiative . Yahoo Inc. introduced a test site yesterday devoted exclusively to downloadable audio programs known as podcasts, a move that some say puts the search engine on the forefront of a cutting edge technology and puts it ahead -- at least in this arena -- of its biggest competitor, Google. By Mike Musgrove. [washingtonpost.com - Business]
Useit.Com: R.I.P. WYSIWYG. For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles. [Tomalak's Realm]
Having a whale of a time in Japan. John Tomlinson takes a satirical look at some of the findings from the recent World Whaling Commission. [On Line Opinion]
Indigenous health still a major problem: report. A report on disadvantage in Indigenous communities in Australia has found there have been improvements in some areas since 1994, but there are still big problem areas, especially when it comes to health. [ABC News: Top Stories]