It came as a surprise to many, myself included, that the Department of Education and Training released the long anticipated Twomey Report or, more formally, The Education Initiatives Taskforce Report. The taskforce was set up to examine “continuing education staffing shortages forecast for the years ahead” its “prime objective was to consider the supply of, and demand [...]
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Well, it seems that I have been the victim of a hoax. While my ego was flattered by the idea that Richard Dawkins might join Twitter and follow me, I have since discovered that it was a hoax following something curiously unatheist like Tweeted this evening: Thanks for listening and following along. Have a nice day. belief system. It’s [...] It is not everyday that you wake up and Dr. Richard Dawkins, biologist and atheist, author of books including The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion is following you on twitter. It as an amazing example of the power of the internet and particularly services like twitter. That people with such different backgrounds, geographical locations and lives [...] Early on the morning of June 10 Perth time Steve Jobs announced the second generation iPhone and fulfilled everyone’s expectations. The new phone does, indeed, include 3G networking allowing for much faster data transfer over the telephone lines. The changes don’t stop there. The iPhone also includes a GPS system with live updating. Unchanged was the 2 [...] Today’s West Australian newspaper reports on the decision by the Industrial Relations Commission yesterday. According to the newspaper the State School Teachers Union is still considering strike action in order to apply pressure to the Department of Education since, at least in the opinion of Anne Gisborne the SSTUWA president, an offer can still be made [...] The Western Australian Industrial Relations Committee has moved to end the ongoing dispute between the Department of Education Department of Western Australia and the State School Teachers Union of Western Australian by officially ending the “bargaining period”. Following a submission by the Department that the bargaining period be ended the commissioner, Jennifer Harrison, decided in favour of [...] This via Daring Fireball. 280 Slides is an online presentation creator. It’s interface is pure Keynote. If you wanted a companion to Adobe’s online word processor Buzzword this would have to be it. An amazing piece of programming. It is in Beta and is free at the moment. The only question that really pops into my head is why I [...] I am not sure how I came across the musings of UbuntuCat. His byline seems to be fundamentally opposed to Atomac’s skeptical, atheist, Apple-loving rhetoric given that he is a Christian Linux user, but he writes some excellent stuff. In Teach kids computer skills, not computer programs he argues that the standard rationale for the use of Windows [...] I have only used an Asus EEE PC briefly but as a concept I think that it has legs. For those not in the know the EEE PC is a tiny computer in the same form factor as a laptop or notebook machine. Available in two models one with a 7″ screen and the other with [...] |
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