CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus

Teams from around the world are participating in the 
World Solar Challenge
aiming to drive from Darwin to Adelaide using the power of the sun.

This year’s entrants include vehicles from two WA high schools –  Willeton and Leeming.
Currently Willeton’s Solar Flair is ranked 10th and Leeming’s Hammerhead is placed 18th overall.

 
You can follow the Leeming team’s progress on their blog and to find out all about the technical side of their entry.
A great video and information about Willeton’s entry can be found on the 100 People: A world Project website 

 The lead cars plan to be in Adelaide by Saturday.

Mashup Australia

The Government 2.0 Taskforce invites you to MashupAustralia.

from Wikipedia:

Mashup (web application hybrid), a web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source

Read more about the competition rules and what  Open Access means and why it is so important.

To be eligible for the Student’s Prize [$2,000 for the best entry] you must be enrolled in a recognised secondary schooling or tertiary institution (e.g. TAFE, Uni) in Australia.

Even if you don’t create an entry yourself drop by the Categories page to check out the entries which currently include:

• Victorian Schools Locator
• Broadband Locator
• Geocoded List of Medicare Locations
• Postcode Finder

The MashupAustralia Contest is open for entries until 4PM Friday, 13th November 2009.

from the Edna website…

We are seeking entries from students or schools to produce design work for an electronic edition of the 2010 Schools calendar. The calendar is extensively used by early childhood, primary, secondary teachers and school librarians across Australia and promoted to over 80,000 educational institutions, ensuring that your design work will be seen by many people!

Further information can be found in the competition brief.

Get your winning entry in by Monday 30 November 2009 for your chance to win an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection and a Wacom Intuos 3 design tablet valued at $900, kindly donated by Scholastic Australia.
Further information about the competition can be found in the competition brief.

Download the competition pack to enter.

Horizon Report 2009

The 2009 Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand was released on September 25th, 2009 at the National Broadband Network Symposium at Griffith University.

The report is part of ongoing research by the  New Media Consortium and aims to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry  within education around the globe over a five-year time period

The report is available in web format and as a downloadable pdf [1.29MB]



The report describes six areas of emerging technologies that will impact eduction in Australia and New Zealand over the next one to  five years.

These technologies are expected to have a penetration rate greater than 16-20% within:

• The next year
  • Moblie Internet devices
  • Private Clouds
• Two to three years
  • Open content
  • Virtual and alternate realities
• Four to five years
  • Location-based learning
  • Smart objects

Permission is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license to replicate and distribute this report freely for non-commercial purposes provided that it is distributed only in its entirety.

This post from the Bright Ideas blog summarizes the salient points of the 102 page document.

Those who were unable to attend the ASLA Conference this week may like to check this twitterfountain for the tweets and photos posted to flicker.

An archive of tweets from the conference attendees is also available via twapperkeeper

Thanks to Libsmatter and Pru

Update: This morning’s post was put up in haste – before I left for the unconference. Thanks to Kathryn Greenhill (libsmatter) for this great example integrating technology at libcampperth09

Unfortunately only one java script will run on this blog so I have deleted the twitterfountain for the LibCampPerth2009 [It can still be viewed on The LibrariansMatter blog and a number of other places on the web]

Enjoy the show – wherever you are.

Visit Librariansmatter for Kathryn’s CoverIt Live window or the LibraryCampPerth2009 wiki where session notes, photos and videos will be uploaded as they become available.