After selecting courses for the ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program, I thought I should start. But how do I start a course?The online system has a lit of the courses I selected. When I click on the first I see a brief description, a title “Lesson Objectives” (with nothing under it), a Course Overview,Read… Read more »
After seeing I could navigate the ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program, I thought I should select some courses. One annoyance I have found is the log-on screen has an option for accessibility, but I have to click this each time I enter the site, the option does not appeared to be remembered in myRead… Read more »
In Perth, Western Australia, yesterday, I met up with Dimitri Kapetas, architect from practice EHDO, who told me about their design for the Beehive Montessori School at Mosman Park. This is described as a “village”, with two phases of development. The first is a library and multi-purpose hall funded by the BER economic stimulus package.Read… Read more »
Dr Rebecca Whittle from Lancaster University gave an entertaining and informative talk on “Flood Recovery in the UK” at University of Western Australia, yesterday. She described research into the June 2007 floods in Hull, England, where 8000 families were displaced. A longitudinal study using diaries and group discussion was carried out. As well as papersRead… Read more »
The 17th Canberra International Music Festival runs from, 11-22 May 2011. The program is emphasises Schubert. It also commemorates the work of Canberra’s original architects: Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. The conference program features a series of remarkable graphics, overlaying the plan of Canberra, with mystical symbols.The Griffins were invovled in anthroposophy .Read… Read more »
The 30 minute audio Podcast “Telecommunications in Australia”, by Keri Phillips, ABC Radio National “Rear Vision” program, is available.This puts the National Broadband Network a historical context: “Everything to do with communications in Australia has always been highly political; the National Broadband Network provides the latest evidence. Rear Vision looks at the story of communicationRead… Read more »
For the next two weeks I am in Perth, around the University of Western Australia. This is mostly a holiday, but I will be attending “Flood Recovery in the UK” at 4pm 19 April 2011. Happy to talk to people on green ICT, e-docs, e-learning and e-rooms while here. Particularly to my university, CSIRO andRead… Read more »
After making sure I could access the ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program, I thought I should select some courses. Like any student the first thing I did was click on the first link on the web site “My Plan”.The welcome email message had an attachment (“Tips for E-learning”), but this was in hard toRead… Read more »
The “Whole-of-government ICT strategic workforce plan 2010-2013” from the Australian Public Service Commission The whole-of-government strategic ICT Workforce Plan was underpinned the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA originated in the UK and so, not surprisingly there are many more mentions of it on UK government web pages (97) than the USA (2).Read… Read more »
A few days after the Austrlaian Computer Society told me I was selected as one of the initial students for the pilot is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I received an email message with the user-id and password. It was a slight inconvenience that my ACS id and password were not usedRead… Read more »