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>From: Helen Galatis <>
>To: "EdNA What's New Updates" <>
>Subject: EdNA What's New Literacy Week/National Threatened Species Week!
3-9 September 2000
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>Welcome to EdNA What's New Email Alert: Literacy Week/National Threatened
>Species Week! 3-9 September 2000
>
>http://www.edna.edu.au
>EdNA What's New service provides a selection of material from within
>Australia and internationally which has recently been added into EdNA
>Online. Below are the sites featured in What's New for this week. Use the
>What's New events calendar,
>http://www.edna.edu.au/whatsnew to plan your marketing or teaching resources
>in advance.
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>NOTE: If any URLs in this Alert are split onto two lines they may not work
>reliably. Combine both lines if this is the case.
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>CONTENTS
>
>LITERACY WEEK/NATIONAL THREATENED SPECIES WEEK!
>
>1. National Literacy Week
>2. Australian Council for Adult Literacy
>3. Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC)
>4. Clearing House for Literacy and Numeracy
>5. EdNA Online's School Literacy Category
>6. Literacy and Numeracy
>7. National Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks
>8. International Literacy Explorer
>9. Birds Australia (BA)
>10. Threatened species and ecological communities
>11. Threatened Species Network
>12. Wetlands
>
>GENERAL SITES!
>
>13. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
>14. Australian Culture Directory
>15. Garma
>16. Landscape Australia
>17. PictureAustralia
>18. Rural Society
>19. Science Show - Radio National
>20. Teaching Heritage
>21. A Century of Physics
>22. Digital Dilemma - Intellectual Property in the Information Age
>23. How Television Works
>
>LITERACY WEEK/NATIONAL THREATENED SPECIES WEEK!
>Week: 3-9 September 2000
>
>LITERACY WEEK
>
>1. National Literacy Week
>http://www.detya.gov.au/literacyweek/
>A Commonwealth initiative, developed in collaboration with the State and
>Territory Governments and the non-government education authorities to help
>raise community awareness of the importance of appropriate literacy and
>numeracy skills for all Australian students. The event, coinciding with
>International Literacy Day, on 8 September, showcases the work of school
>communities in improving the literacy and numeracy skills of students.
>Information about school activities across Australia is available as well as
>a selection of sites.
>
>2. Australian Council for Adult Literacy
>http://www.acal.edu.au/
>The Council promotes issues regarding adult literacy and numeracy practices
>and policy. Its membership includes representatives of each state and
>territory of Australia. A range of publications and conference information
>can be accessed from the site. Also listed are links to other relevant
>literacy websites.
>
>3. Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC)
>http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/alnarc/
>Funded by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA), the
>Consortium's site provides up-to-date information on its activities and
>associated State Centres. Information is available on the organisation's
>research and policy development in relation to adult literacy and numeracy
>and industry-based education and training.
>
>4. Clearing House for Literacy and Numeracy
>http://www.gu.edu.au/school/cls/cler/
>Information about a number of literacy-related reports, dealing with
>literacy competencies, bilingual literacy, Aboriginal literacy and community
>literacy. An online version of the reports accessible by chapter is also
>available.
>
>5. EdNA Online's School Literacy Category
>http://www.edna.edu.au/go/browse/4781
>A collection of literacy-related resources, from the School Education
>directory.
>
>6. Literacy and Numeracy
>http://www.decs.act.gov.au/publicat/litnumVET/main.htm
>An online resource, developed by the ACT Department of Education and
>Community Services. It is the outcome of a research project entitled Review
>of the Literacy and Numeracy requirements required for secondary school
>students to Access and complete a Vocational Training Package. The site
>presents background information about the project and highlights research
>related to the project. Literacy and numeracy skills and standards are
>explored, and strategies and guidelines for preparing students for further
>vocational education and training are included.
>
>7. National Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks
>http://www.detya.gov.au/schools/LiteracyNumeracy/benchmarks.htm
>National benchmarks in literacy and numeracy are part of an agreement
>adopted by all Australian Education Ministers in an effort to improve
>educational outcomes of all Australian Children. This site provides a
>detailed account of the development and implementation of the benchmarks,
>framed as a series of frequently asked questions and answers.
>
>8. International Literacy Explorer
>http://www.literacyonline.org/explorer/index.html
>A multimedia teacher training tool, created by the International Literacy
>Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, US. It has been designed to
>present an overview of literacy and basic education issues and practices in
>an international context. In addition to information about literacy projects
>and statistics, the site offers ideas, discussions, and activities of
>interest to teachers, practitioners, policymakers, or researchers.
>
>NATIONAL THREATENED SPECIES WEEK
>
>9. Birds Australia (BA)
>http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/
>Australia is home to over 800 species of birds. BA is dedicated to the
>understanding, conservation and enjoyment of Australia's wild, native birds.
>The site provides reference and identification material for a large number
>of these birds. Information about threatened Australian birds is available
>under the section 'Help Birds'.
>
>10. Threatened species and ecological communities
>http://www.biodiversity.environment.gov.au/threaten/index.htm
>Part of Environment Australia Online, this site contains lists of endangered
>Australian species and links to Australian laws about their protection. It
>also includes educational links to Green Kids guide to threatened species
>and Green Consumer Guide to threatened species.
>
>11. Threatened Species Network
>http://nccnsw.org.au/member/tsn/
>This site contains information about the hundreds of plants, animals and
>ecological communities threatened with extinction throughout Australia.
>Included are also ideas about what we can do to help save them and
>information about the National Threatened Species Week.
>
>12. Wetlands
>http://www.biodiversity.environment.gov.au/environm/wetlands/index.html
>The Wetlands unit of the Environment Australia Biodiversity Group
>administers the National Wetlands Program, and Waterwatch Australia. The
>site highlights a number of government initiatives, volunteer programs and
>research projects, and provides links to related information, online
>brochures, facts sheets, and international agreements and conventions.
>
>GENERAL SITES!
>
>13. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
>http://www.aare.edu.au/index.htm
>AARE is an association of persons interested in fostering educational
>research in Australia. AARE facilitates contact between educational
>researchers and encourages and actively lobbies for development of all
>aspects of educational research. The Association assists members with
>educational research by conducting an Annual Conference, Research Training
>Workshops, supporting the formation of Special Interest Groups, and
>publishing General Publications and Specific Professional Publications.
>
>14. Australian Culture Directory
>http://www.paradigm4.com.au/cgi-bin/bapples-user.cgi?area=502441
>The Australian Culture Directory is a collection of links to a range of
>culture related sites, organised by subject. Headings include Indigenous
>culture, Arts, Alternative Culture, Employment issues, Anarchy, Self
>Discovery - Spirituality and Religion, Food culture and Sexual culture.
>
>15. Garma
>http://www.garma.telstra.com
>The Yothu Yindi Foundation in collaboration with Telstra, have launched a
>new website called 'Garma'. Garma is a Yolngu Aboriginal word used to
>describe a meeting place where different knowledges come together, and from
>which new understandings and meanings flow. The Garma website provides a
>wealth of information about Garma, including details of the second annual
>Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, to be held at Gulkula, Northern
>Territory Australia, from September 4th - 10th, 2000. The website also
>offers information about the development of the Garma Cultural Studies
>Institute.
>
>16. Landscape Australia
>http://www.landaust.com.au/
>This is the online version of the official journal of the Australian
>Institute of Landscape Architects. It is concerned with landscape
>architecture, land use planning, urban design, landscape construction and
>land management. The site contains articles, subscription and advertising
>information, and related links, new books and forthcoming events.
>
>17. PictureAustralia
>http://www.pictureaustralia.org
>Half a million images of some of Australia's most significant people, places
>and events will be at the fingertips of students and researchers with the
>launch of a new free pictorial service PictureAustralia. Hosted by the
>National Library of Australia, PictureAustralia is the first service of its
>kind in the world and features the picture collections of leading Australian
>cultural institutions from the late eighteenth century through to the
>present time. Users search the central index for their subject of interest,
>view image 'thumbnails', then go to a participating agency's web site to see
>a larger version along with background information. PictureAustralia
>provides one gateway to images from the National Library of Australia's
>collection and those of the Australian War Memorial, the State Library of
>New South Wales, the State Library of Tasmania, and the State Library of
>Victoria.
>
>18. Rural Society
>http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/rursoc.htm
>Rural Society is a journal of rural social issues, published three times a
>year by the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University. It
>is a fully refereed academic journal, but designed to be accessible to a
>broad readership. Topics covered include: the rural media; small town
>development; rural gender issues; agricultural restructuring; heritage and
>tourism; youth and ageing in rural areas. Feature articles are available
>full text on the web site.
>
>19. Science Show - Radio National
>http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/default.htm
>This site is the homepage of The Science Show, broadcast weekly on
>Australia's Radio National. The site contains transcripts of broadcasts,
>audio versions of the latest shows, stories, links, and science email lists.
>
>20. Teaching Heritage
>http://www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au/index.html
>Developed by the Interactive Design Group of the Office of the Board of
>Studies, NSW, this site presents a resource for teachers of Australian
>history, society and culture. It is organised into resources and units, and
>covers a variety of topics, including nationalism, heritage, citizenship,
>Australian identities, and cultural values.
>
>21. A Century of Physics
>http://timeline.aps.org/APS/index.html
>Developed by the American Physical Society in celebration of the 100th
>birthday of the Society. The site, based on a database of more than a
>thousand scientific events, grouped into 130 story-lines, tells the story of
>physics in the 20th century. The main section of the site, Timeline,
>provides chronological overview of events, from 1900 to 2000.
>
>22. Digital Dilemma - Intellectual Property in the Information Age
>http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/
>This site is the online edition of a book published by the National Academy
>of Sciences. It explores intellectual property in the digital age, in
>particular, what happens to copyright issues when innumerable numbers of
>people can download a book or song from one copy on the Web
>
>23. How Television Works
>http://www.howstuffworks.com/tv.htm
>Have you ever wondered about the technology that makes television possible?
>How is it that dozens or hundreds of channels of full-motion video arrive at
>your house, in many cases for free? How does your television decode the
>signals to produce the picture? How will the new digital television signals
>change things? This site provides the answers.
>
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