items tagged with Education
Science teaching: Make it more interesting!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-06-18 08:55:00
The BBC is reporting that science lessons in the United Kingdom should be made more interesting for the students, however, sometimes they are dull because of ill-informed teachers. Such problems are apparent all over the world. But, they don't need to be.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-06-18 08:55:00
The BBC is reporting that science lessons in the United Kingdom should be made more interesting for the students, however, sometimes they are dull because of ill-informed teachers. Such problems are apparent all over the world. But, they don't need to be.
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New look QuickBooks goes Web Services
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-06-03 22:16:22
Integration of Web services and a new SQL database engine has made Quickbooks 2008/09 the most significant upgrade to the small business accounting package this century. Will Reckon start selling its popular system as a service?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-06-03 22:16:22
Integration of Web services and a new SQL database engine has made Quickbooks 2008/09 the most significant upgrade to the small business accounting package this century. Will Reckon start selling its popular system as a service?
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iTunes U expands to Australia in university deals
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-03 18:39:08
Several prominent US colleges including MIT and Yale have been providing recorded lectures and other content free of charge to the general public via Apple's iTunes U service. The program has now expanded internationally with the arrival of content from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-06-03 18:39:08
Several prominent US colleges including MIT and Yale have been providing recorded lectures and other content free of charge to the general public via Apple's iTunes U service. The program has now expanded internationally with the arrival of content from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland.
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Apple takes lion's share of retail upmarket PC sales
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-05-19 16:20:20
Apple is sometimes derided for its single-digit market share, but there's a segment where it is doing extraordinarily well. It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that segment is exactly where the company has chosen to compete.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-05-19 16:20:20
Apple is sometimes derided for its single-digit market share, but there's a segment where it is doing extraordinarily well. It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that segment is exactly where the company has chosen to compete.
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OLPC Australia: XO targeting education and definitely NO Windows
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-05-08 22:14:03
It has been known for months that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, originally conceived by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, is opening an independent endorsed office in Australia. Now that the news has gone mainstream, questions arise as to why? In an interview with iTWire, OLPC Australia board director Jeff Waugh provides some answers and says why Microsoft Windows has no role.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2008-05-08 22:14:03
It has been known for months that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, originally conceived by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, is opening an independent endorsed office in Australia. Now that the news has gone mainstream, questions arise as to why? In an interview with iTWire, OLPC Australia board director Jeff Waugh provides some answers and says why Microsoft Windows has no role.
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NASA Education: Students to see what it takes to become astronauts
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-26 09:37:40
NASA will broadcast over the Internet a discussion between the STS-125 astronauts and students in several middle schools across the United States. However, all students and peoples around the world can watch the discussions centering on career diversity and the Hubble Space Telescope mission.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-26 09:37:40
NASA will broadcast over the Internet a discussion between the STS-125 astronauts and students in several middle schools across the United States. However, all students and peoples around the world can watch the discussions centering on career diversity and the Hubble Space Telescope mission.
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X, Y, and Z better than story problem when learning math
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-25 10:13:32
Researchers from Ohio State University find that when students learn math with concrete examples (story problems) it is difficult for them to apply it to other real-world situations. They suggest first using abstract symbols (such as x, y, and z) to learn and understand math concepts.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-25 10:13:32
Researchers from Ohio State University find that when students learn math with concrete examples (story problems) it is difficult for them to apply it to other real-world situations. They suggest first using abstract symbols (such as x, y, and z) to learn and understand math concepts.
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Don’t recycle your CDMA mobile at a Telstra store!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-21 03:18:19
Telstra is asking CDMA customers to hand in their old CDMA phones at Telstra shops and dealers around Australia so they can be recycled for valuable materials, rather than end up in landfill as an inconvenient pollutant. But why recycle them at a Telstra store – when your local school – and the environment – needs them more?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-21 03:18:19
Telstra is asking CDMA customers to hand in their old CDMA phones at Telstra shops and dealers around Australia so they can be recycled for valuable materials, rather than end up in landfill as an inconvenient pollutant. But why recycle them at a Telstra store – when your local school – and the environment – needs them more?
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Australian 2020 Summit good for World
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-20 10:06:42
Some of Australia’s top experts in their fields got together to discuss ways to improve the economy, enhance health, and protect national security. They were especially interested in combating obesity, reducing illness, and promoting a healthy lifestyle by the year 2020. Its format would seem to be good for all countries of the world.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-20 10:06:42
Some of Australia’s top experts in their fields got together to discuss ways to improve the economy, enhance health, and protect national security. They were especially interested in combating obesity, reducing illness, and promoting a healthy lifestyle by the year 2020. Its format would seem to be good for all countries of the world.
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Want healthier, smarter teens: Ditch the bedroom TV!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-17 08:15:02
A University of Minnesota study has found that older adolescents who have televisions in their bedrooms watched more TV, ate more sugary drinks and fewer vegetables, exercised less, and did worse in school than those without the “boob tube” in their bedrooms.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-04-17 08:15:02
A University of Minnesota study has found that older adolescents who have televisions in their bedrooms watched more TV, ate more sugary drinks and fewer vegetables, exercised less, and did worse in school than those without the “boob tube” in their bedrooms.
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Satyam sets up shop in Victoria's second city
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2008-04-13 23:01:34
India-based Satyam is establishing a technology and learning centre at the Geelong Technology Precinct.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2008-04-13 23:01:34
India-based Satyam is establishing a technology and learning centre at the Geelong Technology Precinct.
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Results of NASA’s “The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-07 19:45:13
On April 7, 2008, NASA announced the winners of the high school and college divisions of its 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-07 19:45:13
On April 7, 2008, NASA announced the winners of the high school and college divisions of its 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race.
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Need a school project: Build a Moonbuggy for NASA
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 09:45:55
NASA’s "15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race" will be launching on April 4-5, 2008, at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Race your Moonbuggy around a simulated lunar course, but watch out for those deep craters!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-20 09:45:55
NASA’s "15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race" will be launching on April 4-5, 2008, at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Race your Moonbuggy around a simulated lunar course, but watch out for those deep craters!
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Open Source professionals higher skills, higher paid: survey
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2008-03-10 07:12:49
A new survey of companies and individuals supplying Open Source solutions and services claims to show that Open Source IT professionals make more money than their proprietary IT counterparts because they're more highly skilled.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2008-03-10 07:12:49
A new survey of companies and individuals supplying Open Source solutions and services claims to show that Open Source IT professionals make more money than their proprietary IT counterparts because they're more highly skilled.
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Educating Tux: case studies of Linux deployments in high schools around the world
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-03-05 08:38:06
Linux has a lot to offer cash-strapped education departments. It’s free, for one thing. It is naturally secure with distinctly non-privileged accounts and it is easily centrally administered. However, the experiences by schools that have gone this route are a mixed bag. Let us investigate some and see what lessons there are.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-03-05 08:38:06
Linux has a lot to offer cash-strapped education departments. It’s free, for one thing. It is naturally secure with distinctly non-privileged accounts and it is easily centrally administered. However, the experiences by schools that have gone this route are a mixed bag. Let us investigate some and see what lessons there are.
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UK schoolkids get space experiment opportunity
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-04 23:26:31
Primary school students in the UK have the opportunity to design a science experiment to be carried out on the International Space Station.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-04 23:26:31
Primary school students in the UK have the opportunity to design a science experiment to be carried out on the International Space Station.
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PopularitEee champ ASUS to launch 8.9-inch Eee PC
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-04 20:00:48
If you’ve been eyeing the Eee PC but wished you could get one with a larger screen, ASUS have just showcased the Eee PC 900 at the CeBIT technology show in Hanover, Germany, but they won’t arrive in many countries (including Australia) for around six months yet and perhaps longer.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-04 20:00:48
If you’ve been eyeing the Eee PC but wished you could get one with a larger screen, ASUS have just showcased the Eee PC 900 at the CeBIT technology show in Hanover, Germany, but they won’t arrive in many countries (including Australia) for around six months yet and perhaps longer.
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ASUS Eee PC with Windows XP lands in Australia
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-02 20:57:58
The wildly popular ASUS Eee PC has already been available with XP – but only in Japan. Now the promised Eee PC pre-loaded with XP will finally arrive on Australian store shelves sometime this month – but how much will it cost?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-03-02 20:57:58
The wildly popular ASUS Eee PC has already been available with XP – but only in Japan. Now the promised Eee PC pre-loaded with XP will finally arrive on Australian store shelves sometime this month – but how much will it cost?
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From Windows to Linux - and back again
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-18 09:16:07
Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-02-18 09:16:07
Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.
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Should I put Windows XP on my ASUS Eee PC?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-11 00:28:59
The ASUS Eee PC comes pre-loaded with Xandros Linux, an operating system far less susceptible to viruses, spyware, malware and the other nasties that are almost of biblical proportions in the Windows world. So, even though ASUS makes a Windows XP driver disc to allow the easy installation of XP, and is due to start selling the Eee with XP pre-loaded, is XP worth the worry?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-11 00:28:59
The ASUS Eee PC comes pre-loaded with Xandros Linux, an operating system far less susceptible to viruses, spyware, malware and the other nasties that are almost of biblical proportions in the Windows world. So, even though ASUS makes a Windows XP driver disc to allow the easy installation of XP, and is due to start selling the Eee with XP pre-loaded, is XP worth the worry?
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