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The question of equity extends far beyond the well-worn "public v. private" controversies, as important as they are. The new problem is that public education too is becoming less equitable. There are Federal Partnership Programs that pour vast sums into some schools, while passing over others, on a competitive selection basis. Academic selective schools are streaming off the highest achievers and putting some of the best teachers in front of them. The result is that some students in the public system are receiving a great deal more resources than are others who have the same or greater levels of need. Such inequita

A free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues

This Pictures Collection focuses on Australian people, places and events. You can now view more than 100 500 of these items online.

professional network for Australian Educators

This is an informed interview with ISP employees about the Labor policy making the ISPs responsible for enforcing the Clean Feed.

Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.

Review of the Australian Government's Use of Information and Communication Technology

blog featuring the latest Australian children's book releases

Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE

download cartoon evaluation worksheet - useful for all countries. The rest is less useful to aussie classrooms. US history students would get something here though. Wish we had one of these for australian cartoons!!!

Find out about Australian history, identity and culture in our collection of stories.

The Guidelines have been designed to provide a quick reference guide to copyright issues affecting Australian schools

Brilliant blog from a young Australian kid with excellent 'how to' videos on a range of computer topics.

The Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 aims to present a balanced overview of online virtual worlds for educators, professionals and academics. Important Dates * Submissions Open: June 2nd 2008 * Submission Deadline: August 1st 2008 * Email Notification: September 15th 2008 * Workshop Dates: 28th and 29th November 2008

Managing Classroom Behaviour', the second in the series of research digests prepared for registered teachers and the Victorian Institute of Teaching by the Australian Council for Educational Research

Social Network for teachers

Uskoob is a site committed to Teachers, Join the social network, Upload and share resources. Have fun with others in your profession from across the world.

This is an Australian based site and has lesson plans developed by Australian teachers as well as other resources.

VotApedia is an audience response system that doesn't require issuing clickers or need specialist infrastructure. Known users can create surveys and edit the pages on this site. See if your your account has this functionality by looking for the tag "knownuser" next to your account name. If it doesn't and you want it contact Ken.Taylor@csiro.au. You can also look at other people's survey in the recent surveys, or participate in an active survey below. You can read the presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. Audience response systems are widely used for education, but not commonly in Australia. It is hoped that removing the complication and expense of clickers will encourage the use of this teaching aid in Australian educational institutions. VotApedia is intended for co-located audiences but also works with remote audiences which has previously been a different class of application. Surveys are in a multiple choice question (MCQ) form. There is VotApedia Use and Development for more detail about this system.

Australian teachers can add content from edna into their own websites by using RSS services. This free service, enables edna's shared information to be accessible directly to a school's own website or teachers personal computer via a free RSS reader.

an example of wikipedia links automatically extracted from an Australian training package unit - in this case: Apply first aid in the workplace. Some interesting leads, and a few odd ones too.