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You must read the student assessment instructions prior to completing all assessment tasks. After you have completed all the tasks, you must declare that the completed assessment tasks are authentic and completed by yourself by checking each point in the table below. You will also be required make an electronic declaration of authenticity prior to submitting your completed assessment tasks. STUDENT DECLARATION Core units HLTAHW061 Engage in community health research HLTAHW066 Manage the delivery of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander HLTAHW067 Manage health education and promotion HLTAHW068 Develop work plans HLTAHW069 Develop health care policy HLTAHW070 Manage human resources HLTINF004 Manage the prevention and control of infection HLTWHS004 Manage workplace health and safety BSBMGT605 Provide leadership across the organisation BSBMGT608 Manage innovation and continuous improvement Elective units CHCADV005 Provide systems advocacy services CHCCDE007 Develop and provide community projects CHCDIV001 Work with diverse people CHCEDU002 Plan health promotion and community intervention CHCEDU008 Share health information CHCMGT007 Work effectively with the Board of an organisation CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice HLTAHW025 Provide information and strategies in health care HLTAHW032 Supervise individual workers HLTAHW033 Maintain community health profile HLTAHW034 Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice HLTAHW043 Facilitate access to tertiary health services HLTAHW050 Develop a healing framework for social and emotional wellbeing work HLTAHW051 Respond to loss, grief and trauma HLTAHW061 Engage in community health research HLTAHW062 Supervise health care team HLTAHW063 Implement office systems HLTAHW064 Manage budgets HLTAHW072 Provide guidance in social and emotional wellbeing HLTAHW073 Practice social and emotional wellbeing in a clinical setting HLTAHW0

An interesting and shocking site which shows live statistics for world population, economics, the environment, and many more. Useful resource for sparking debates. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

The report shows that mobile technology is becoming the most desirable means of communication -- especially in poor countries. The numbers show dramatic growth: By the end of 2008, there were an estimated 4.1 billion subscriptions globally, compared with roughly 1 billion in 2002, according to the International Telecommunication Union, one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. The study also looked at the Internet, and found that worldwide, usage has more than doubled: Approximately 23 percent of the population uses the Internet, up from 11 percent in 2002. Still, poor countries are far less likely to surf the Net. For example, only 1 in 20 people in Africa went online in 2007.

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Faced with an increasingly wired student population, a movement of educators and innovators is testing the boundaries and possibilities of online education.

The Independent Review of ICT User Skills of Britain's population has just been published. It makes for some interesting reading.

In 2005, New York Times published an article titled "The Lethal Water Wells of Bangladesh" by David Rohde and this raised the interests of Dr. Graziano and his team to investigate the arsenic poisoning in the Bangladeshi wells that World Health Organization called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history."

With a dwindling population and an out of control HIV infection rate in Russia, the future looks bleak. Estimates place Russia on the forefront of the battle against HIV and in a worse position than Africa. Largely ignored by the media and the government, HIV has become the rapidly spreading epidemic in Russia, especially among the youth who are supposed to be future of the country.

Angela Pascopella reported on U.S. school district and national measures "to address surging ELL enrollment-and dropout rate[s]" (deck).

Great piece by Bill Ferriter (@plugusin) on the tension between helping kids create a positive, empowering digital footprint and the use of scare tactics to dissuade them from being active online - Two diametrically opposed paradigms.

This is a wonderful citizen science project where users are asked to classify animals on the Serengeti from camera traps to help real scientists survey and track populations of important and endangered wildlife. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science