Shift happens

What will the educational environment look like in a few more years?

The PPT link on the website below shows you just what a changing world we live in. The implications for the educational sector in Australia and around the world are huge.

How are educational institutions like St George College, and Sydney Institute as a whole, going to train people for jobs that we don't know about yet? How are we going to ensure that what we are training people in is current if the technical knowledge is changing in a very short time frame? The job of keeping training resources up-to-date whether they are in hard or soft copy is going to be huge.

For those of us committed to working in the field of educational delivery there are interesting times ahead, we certainly won't be getting bored!

You can link to the website here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukschools/archive/2007/06/18/shift-happens-did-you-know.aspx, then scroll down and click on the link. The version shown is a UK one, maybe someone would like to do an Australian one?

Netiquette

A hundred years ago people often wrote letters on a daily basis. They chose their words carefully and thoughtfully to communicate feelings and intent. However, during the intervening decades the art of written communication has been lost. People in this digital age do not know how to begin or end their emails appropriately.
Email is a casual means of communication and informality has become the norm. But some critics believe that familiarity in work emails has made communication trickier. Maybe we need to develop a workable etiquette for emails. What do you think?

eBooks available 24/7

Our ebooks are ideal for homework, great for research and perfect for casual reading. Using them costs nothing. Chances are you can access our ebooks from where you are sitting right now.

Access is via the TAFE catalogue - TAFEcat
Click on the TAFEcat link on the library website at
www.sit.nsw.edu.au/library
Click on the eResources tab
You need to register before you can use ebooks.
You can register from this web page.
Click on the hyperlink - TAFE NSW Students can self-register
Your Online Access Code is on your enrolment form.
(See Library staff if you do not have this with you)

Your TAFE barcode number starts 25555---------

Complete the registration process.
You can then click on NetLibrary of Safari to read ebooks.

Daylight Saving in New South Wales

Recent News
On 27 June 2007 the Premier announced that legislation would be introduced to provide NSW residents with extra daylight saving.
A Bill is presently before Parliament and will be debated when Parliament resumes sitting in September.
More information about Daylight Saving (including a history dating back to World War I) may be found at :
https://webmail.tafensw.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving