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This guide has been designed to help you learn more about the equipment the JML has as part of its Thinkers and Tinkers Space.

Curtin University WAIT Reunion of 2015. Reconnect with your fellow WAIT graduates. Get back in touch with Curtin’s prestigious, global community.

You established a global network years ago. You just didn’t know it then.

Now is the time to reconnect with fellow WA Institute of Technology (WAIT) graduates and former staff and put the Curtin network of 190,000 alumni, spanning 150 countries, into action.

Curtin University is hosting a WAIT Reunion over the weekend of the 31 July - 2 August and we’d love to see you there. To pre-register for the event, and keep informed about the exciting range of activities planned for the weekend click on the button below or call Curtin Alumni Relations on +61 8 9266 3113.

There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today's society: the para-academic.

Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces. We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don't sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.

We take the prefix para- to illustrate how we work alongside, beside, next to, and rub up against, the all too proper location of the Academy, making the work of higher education a little more irregular, a little more perverse, a little more improper. Our work takes up the potential of the multiple and contradictory resonances of para- as decisive location for change, within the university as much as beyond it.

Lumo is an interactive projector that reacts to motion. Download, play, and design your own games. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

Health in Difference is a flagship conference of the National LGBTI Health Alliance, and Australia’s premier conference on the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and other sexuality and gender diverse people.

Blogger Matt Davis has collected some helpful resources parents can use to help their kids start learning about computer programming.

Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.

The movie just entered public record, so I am offering it as a download on my server with no bandwidth limit. It is rated 8.2/10 on imdb.

• Help yourself and download the HD version here (3.4 GB)
• You can also Download the HDRiP movie here (958 MB)
• Thanks to @levlaz for providing a WebM version (254 MB)

At the occasion of the World Puppetry Day 2015, that would be celebrated on March 21st, UNIMA is glad to present you the International Message written by Behrooz Gharibpour.

UNIMA sincerely thanks this great Iranian Master for accepting its invitation.

Jacques Trudeau
UNIMA Secretary General

Information about The Social Life of Big Data 2015 symposium to be held at the Perth Zoo Convention Centre on Tuesday, 2 June, 2015.

Outcomes

Among other outcomes, at the end of the day you will know:

• more about big data research and use in Australia;
• whether you can use big data in your research; and
• how to access WA support to use big data resources if you wish to do so.

Event details

Date: Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Time: 9.00am - 6.30pm
Venue: Perth Zoo Convention Centre, Labouchere Road

Date: Friday 15 May 2015
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Executive Briefing Centre Bldg 100, Level 2, JCIPP Foyer
Speaker: Dr Kathryn Shine, School of Journalism

In recent years Australian politicians of all persuasions have talked repeatedly of the need to attract “higher quality” candidates into the teaching profession to address a perceived decline in educational standards. There appears to be recognition among politicians and policy makers that the status of teaching as a profession is low and that this may be deterring high calibre candidates from choosing teaching as a career. However, little consideration has been given to the portrayal of teachers and teaching in the highly influential news media. This presentation outlines recent research on the depiction of teachers and teaching in recent Australian news media coverage of significant educational issues such as NAPLAN testing and the Gonski review, and points to implications for teacher recruitment and retention and education policy.

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia | May 17 & 18

The NMC Academy is a fresh approach to accelerate professional learning among educators, providing personalized and powerful online and offline experiences that inspire and transform teaching practices. The NMC Academy’s courses and events are hosted by a variety of education leaders and specifically designed for busy teachers and faculty, along with museum and library professionals.

School teachers and their support staff play an increasingly important role in supporting parents with a mental illness and their children.

For teachers interested in incorporating coding and computer programming into the curriculum, VideoAmy has collected a variety of inspiring videos and helpful resources in this Five-Minute Film Festival.

Teaching elementary students to code begins with connecting to resources, looking beyond 1:1, trusting kids to learn, involving the school community, and making it fun.

After receiving the Global Teaching Award, renowned educator Nancie Atwell made remarks discouraging prospective teachers from entering the profession and criticizing the effects the common core has had on education.

A Cards Against Humanity app for iOS, Android and computers. It has all the cards you know and hate, plus all 5 expansions. You still need to be in the same room to play.