Events

ElNet Cafe Melbourne will hold its last Event for the year on Monday 10th November.

How can information and communications technologies be used to promote effective learning and teaching? What are its key affordances for learning and teaching? Are we making optimal use of the key affordances of the e-learning technologies in designing and developing our learning and teaching resources and environments? In this discussion, led by Associate Professor Som Naidu, we will focus attention on the ability of these technologies to promote “Effective, Efficient, and Engaging (E3) Learning in the Digital Era”. We will examine what these attributes mean, and what is the current thinking and literature on these lines. 

To register for this event or find our more, visit our website.

Committee Member Profile

Yamini Naidu

What keeps you sane?
My family, exercise, a sense of purpose and (surprisingly) my work.

What makes you mad?
Inauthenticity,  wasted opportunity.

What was your first job?
Selling home made lemonade (no one bought but we enjoyed drinking it all ourselves and I learnt my first business lesson). 

Would you rather be stuck in an elevator or on hold listening to an automated message tell you how important your call is to XYZ company?
Stuck in an elevator with my thoughts for company!

Reading – book or magazine?
Book

What do you love most about e learning?   
The potential.

What is your e learning pet peeve?
When technology not learning is centre stage.

If you could change one thing about e learning what would it be?
Getting everyone on the same page with focusing on learning outcomes and business performance.

AIMIA Awards

15th Annual AIMIA Awards

The AIMIA Awards, the longest running and most prestigious awards in Australia’s interactive media industry, are now open for entries!

Celebrating the very best in digital content innovation across all genres and interactive media platforms, the AIMIA Awards recognise the industry’s finest and showcase Australia’s leading Digital Content developers, content providers and application developers. 

The Awards have 23 categories including; advertising, mobile, entertainment, tourism & travel, cultural, social media, science, health & environment, financial and learning & education.

Entries are open until 4 November, 2008.

Be a real winner in interactive innovation. Enter the AIMIA Awards.

www.aimia.com.au/awards

AIMIA Innovatives Program

Rewarding innovation in digital media

The AIMIA Innovatives Program launched across Australia in March 2008 to help digital media entrepreneurs to progress their innovative ideas from early concept stages to commercial launch. The scope of the program covers new concepts for digital content, new media distribution and much more.  
 
The program is a joint initiative set up by the ABC's Innovation division, Deloitte and Intel and is offered free of charge to promote innovation in the industry. To date, six talented Australian digital entrepreneurs have been hand-picked to develop their ideas with technical, business, legal and creative support from the AIMIA Innovatives partners.
 
We are calling for more entries from people with a radical innovation in digital media who would like the chance to receive support from the program. See the link for an entry form www.aimia.com.au/innovatives or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

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ElNet AGM

ElNet's AGM will be held mid December. Stay tuned for more information.