Greetings from the Faculty Board Meeting of ACS Education, the part of the Australian Computer Society which provides education to computer professionals. There are about 30 people around a table in the ACS South Australia Branch office. Each person has a laptop connected to the Internet to get the “papers” for the meeting from aRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Faculty Board Meeting of ACS Education, the part of the Austrlaian Computer Society which provides education to computer professionals. There are about 30 people around a table in the ACS South Australia Branch office. Each person has a laptop connected to the Internet to get the “papers” for the meeting from aRead… Read more »
Yesterday I stepped into the City West Library of the Unviersity of South Australia, where I found the staff setting up the display for “Louis Laybourne Smith and Gavin Walkley : Architecture Educators”, as part of the SA History Festival. Louis Laybourne Smith was an architect and on display are his drawing instruments, blueprints andRead… Read more »
Dr Diana Quinn, from the University of South Australia Learning and Teaching Unit (LTU) gave me a quick tour of their City West Campus, at the western end of the Adelaide North Terrace Cultural Precinct. This nicely bookends the terrace, which has the state library, museum and art gallery in the middle and the UnviersityRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Adelaide North Terrace Cultural Precinct. I am in town for a meeting for the ACS Education faculty, but thought I would spend some time at the Libraryhack at State Library of South Australia, this evening. Similar Library Hack events are being held around Australia, during Net Traveller: Information Awareness Month.Event Type: LaunchAgeRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Adelaide North Terrace Cultural Precinct. I am in town for a meeting for the ACS Education faculty, but thought I would spend some time at the Libraryhack at State Library of South Australia, this evening. Similar Library Hack events are being held around Australia, during Net Traveller: Information Awareness Month.Event Type: LaunchAgeRead… Read more »
The University of Canberra has released the web site for their new Inspire Centre for ICT Pedagogy, Practice and Research. A building for the centre is due to be opened by the end of the year. The slide show about the centre shows a cabret style teaching room with ten nine seater circular tables eachRead… Read more »
According to Defence Technology International, one solution to the Australian military’s lack of transport ships is a 102 meter trimaran sitting unused in Western Australia (“Good Deal”, Bradley Perrett, DTI, April 2011). The ship was built by Austral, with a hull design similar to that of the US Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral combat ships (which areRead… Read more »
According to Defence Technology International, one solution to the Australian military’s lack of transport ships is a 102 meter trimaran sitting unused in Western Australia (“Good Deal”, Bradley Perrett, DTI, April 2011). The ship was built by Austral, with a hull design similar to that of the US Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral combat ships (which areRead… Read more »
Anthony Wong, president of the Australian Computer Society, has nominated the NBN, cyber-security, skills and green IT, as needing funding in the Australian Budget. He is quoted in the article “Budget for NBN education programs a must: ACS” (Fran Foo, The Australian, 4 Mat 2011). These are priorities I agree with.On its own, the NBNRead… Read more »