Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Measuring your school's ecological footprint Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Measuring your school's ecological footprint. The Powerhouse Museum aims for greater awareness of environmental and sustainability issues across the community. To advance this goal the Museum has developed an interactive educational web site called eco'tude: changing your school's ecological attitude. Website allows students to investigate features capable of ready measurement, including consumption of energy, water, materials, and food, as well as waste generation, transport to and from school, and the nature and use of school grounds and buildings. A From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Promoting the sustainable management of water through education Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Promoting the sustainable management of water through education. The Australian Water Association (AWA) is an independent, member owned association of 4,000 water practitioners and organisations engaged in all aspects of water management throughout Australia, who promote the sustainable management of water. Details their Water education priorities and resources: The Water Education Network (WEN); 'We All Use Water' educational resources and the Australian Junior Water Prize and Stockholm Junior Water Prize. Other key focus areas. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Sustainable Consumption: a vital ESD theme Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Sustainable Consumption: a vital ESD theme. Humankind consumed more natural resources in the second half of the 20th century than in all of previous human history. The damage brought on by consumption, definitions of sustainable consumption and education as a proven method for engineering social change. There is considerable need for expanding education for sustainable consumption programs in Australia, as well as incorporating sustainable consumption topics into existing ESD curricula. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Towards the UN Decade for ESD: looking backwards, looking forwards Curriculum Leadership 2:30 Towards the UN Decade for ESD: looking backwards, looking forwards. January 1, 2005 marks the beginning of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) - a catalytic process for social change that seeks to foster through education, training and public awareness the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future. Includes brief overview of work done in Environmental Education since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and implications for education at policy, programme and practice levels. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
How Young People are Faring 2004 This is the sixth report in the Dusseldorp Skills Forum series 'How young people are faring'. The series provides information about the participation of young people in study and work, especially by those not initially entering higher education. The measures in this report focus on the various combinations of work and study in the years shortly after students leave school. The results are mainly drawn from the Labour Force Survey and the supplementary Education and Work conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:15 p.m..
Australian Breastfeeding Association The Australian Breastfeeding Association is a large community based self-help group, recognised as a leading authority on breastfeeding management. The association provides speakers on parenting and breastfeeding to pre-schools and schools. The site provides information for both breastfeeding women and for health professionals and others who are involved in supporting and promoting breastfeeding. Formerly known as the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 10:30 a.m..
Len Webb Ecological Images Collection These images form part of a collection of around two thousand 35mm transparencies taken by Dr. Webb and a few others during the course of many years' study (since early 1950s) in the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry. They depict a wide variety of native vegetation, fauna and landscapes, mainly in tropical and subtropical Northeastern Australia, and are of considerable historical value, as many of the sites have now been lost or have suffered disturbance of various forms. In 1994 Dr Webb donated his collection to the University Library and the slides have been digitised using PhotoCD techn From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 5:30 a.m..
Griffith University Professorial Lectures The Griffith University Professorial Lecture Series commenced in 1995. Each year approximately 10 members of the University's professorial staff present a public lecture on a topic relevant to their teaching or research interests. Topics are selected on the basis of their general public interest and lectures are pitched at the non-expert level. The list includes details of all lectures presented to date, and links to the full-text content are provided for many lectures. The list is arranged chronologically by year. From EdNA Online on September 27, 2004 at 4:30 a.m..
UNICEF Australia School Room Education resources from the UNICEF Australia website containing background on Children's Rights: you and every other child have rights. Learn about them here. Education Resources: how do children in other parts of the world live? How can I make a difference? Have your say: connect with Voices of Youth, UNICEF's international chat site, to meet children around the world. Play games, explore, discuss and take action together. From Recent Items on September 27, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
Managing Information (Information for Australian Government Employees) Information for communications managers, website managers, records managers, archivists and others involved in managing Commonwealth information from the FedInfo site. Sections include: Advertising & Communications, Annual Reporting, Archiving and Record Keeping, Freedom of Information, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Publishing, and Website Management. From EdNA Online on September 26, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
Partners In Rhyme: Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects Royalty free music, sound effects (animals, human, nature, vehicles, and midi music loops for download and use in multimedia projects. Partners In Rhyme owns and retains all copyrights but you can use and distribute these sounds inside a multimedia presention. The site also includes links to archives of audio software and sound utilities including converters, midi, notation, cd burning, label makers and midi converters. From EdNA Online on September 26, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
Ponto Triplo A Portuguese weblog with links to the best chemistry (or chemistry related) sites, news and events From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 26, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
Whites in the Land of the Blues: Ethnicity, Race and Class in the Mississippi Delta This page is a portal into a number of sites resulting from on-going research in the Lower Mississippi Delta. The three sites most relevant to Merlot are "Race: Mississippi", "Out of Africa: African Missionaries to the Mississippi Delta", (both built to accompany videos, which are posted) and "J.C. Coovert, Photographer of the Cotton South." More sites are under construction. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 26, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
ADEPT An instrument to increase Awareness of Decisionmaking in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 26, 2004 at 11:30 p.m..
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