Notes in November 09

Principles and Best Practice for Managing Student Behaviour in the Australian Education /TERRY DE JONG

(1) Student behviur needs to be unerstod from an eco-sytemic perspctive
(2) Student behaviur managemnt programs and practices must embrace a helth-pomoting approach to creating a safe, suppotive, and caing environment

(3) Student behaviour maagement programs and practices must embrace incsiveness, which caters for the different potentls, needs and resrces of all students.
(4) Student behaviour manageent programs and practices should incororate a student-centred philosoy that places the stdent at the centre of the eduation process an focuses on the whole student
(personal, social and academic).

(5) Student behaviour is inextribly linkd to the quaity of the learnng experince.
(6) Posiive relaonships, particuarly betwen studnt and teacer, are critical for mamizing apppriate behviour and ahievng learning outcomes.

http://www.birdbook.org/

National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/national_geographics_internati.html

http://haslayout.net/css-tuts/Horizontal-Centering
http://www.webvamp.co.uk/blog/coding/graphical-css-rollover-menu/
http://www.elated.com/articles/css-rollover-buttons/
http://www.designawards.com.au/

Quick Photo retouch technique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf4Ih8LyTrc

The Ten Principles of Good Design.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/design-institute-of-australia/the-ten-principles-of-good-design/186006147598
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design is honest.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail.

960 Grid System

Notes in October 09

Zerg Ultralisk : Version 2 : Starcraft 2 : Spore : Creature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o70BK3Jwi4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMzdJfIHUs

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/index.htm

TARA THANGKA PAINTING Buddha
http://thangkapaintings.wordpress.com/

Interactive Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/

http://joboutlook.gov.au/pages/alpha.aspx#N

Essays in a comic
http://lucylou.livejournal.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/06/please-release-me-le.html#previouspost

Game Designer
http://dark-manifesto.blogspot.com/search/label/Portfolio

The Education Revolution—two years on
http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Speeches/Pages/Article_091117_171753.aspx

Cool photo of a building.
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=8981380

http://usabilitynet.org/tools/methods.htm
http://vimeo.com/7578615
http://woodtube.ning.com/video/the-homework-ultimatum/?sssdmh=dm17.409772&esrc=nwwood&email=2097031652

http://fora.tv/2009/10/27/The_Tyranny_of_E-mail_John_Freeman#Constantly_Checking_Your_Inbox_Email_Addiction_Explained

http://www.deewr.gov.au

http://creativenerds.co.uk/freebies/70-of-the-best-photoshop-actions-for-enhancing-photos/

Arrington vs. Shukla: Virtual Goods Controversy – CEO discussion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PhKRCkbX9A

Arrington vs. Shukla: Virtual Goods Controversy
http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html

http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf

The world’s greatest soda pop store
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/video-about-worlds-g.html

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/electronics/

A year in design online magazine
http://australianinternationaldesignawards.createsend4.com/t/r/l/hruujr/jyykhifh/n

http://www.myinkblog.com/2009/11/02/6-ways-to-take-your-webdesign-from-good-to-great/

Tell me this: why was it that, as if by design, in those same, yes, in those very same moments when I was most capable of being conscious of all the refinements of “everything beautiful and lofty,”3 as we once used to say, it happened that instead of being conscious I did such unseemly deeds, such deeds as. . . well, in short, as everyone does, perhaps, but which with me occurred, as if by design, precisely when I was most conscious that I ought not to be doing them at all? The more conscious I was of the good and of all this “beautiful and lofty,” the deeper I kept sinking into my mire, and the more capable I was of getting completely stuck in it. But the main feature was that this was all in me not as if by chance, but as if it had o be so. As if it were my most normal condition and in no way a sickness or a blight, so that finally I lost any wish to struggle against this blight. I ended up almost believing (and maybe indeed believing) that this perhaps was my normal condition.
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky from his book Notes from Underground
Source

http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/node/3973
Neat presentation design on the blurred classrooms.

How To Fold a T-Shirt in Two Seconds

http://www.topuniversities.com/gradschool/grad_school_news/article/brain_drain_women_power_or_lack_of_it/

http://www.simkom.com/sketchsite/

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/tools_of_engagement_the_new_practice_of_usercentered_design_by_robert_fabricant_13907.asp

DESIGN QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’ Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize Physicist, originator of the Special Theory of Relativity and many other acknowledged works of genius, including a plethora of insightful quotes.

Awesome puzzle games.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/24/please-release-me-lo.html

Ten tips for creating resilient families
1. Promote b_longi_g
2. Have some sm__ch time
3. Rediscover some family ri_uals
4. Sp_naneity and curiosity
5. Love kids for their differences
6. It is clear who is in crge
7. Costency
8. Teach the skill of sel-teem
9. Know how to rge
10. Parents are relility unpdictable
Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_application_launchers
http://sites.google.com/site/mrhuynh2
http://www.wsroc.com.au/ – Greater Western Sydney Information

Assignment 2 is due on 19th November before 3pm
Wednesday 25th November

Modern marvel technologies
http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/modern-marvels/2404252291-great-inventions-battery

“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.”

http://www.teach.nsw.edu.au/grp/teachstart/index.html
https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/employment/teachnsw/advert/index.htm – teach job ads

http://sites.google.com/site/notesonteaching/
http://danielrolph85.wordpress.com/research/

School of Autism
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/autismschool/

The Uniqueness of Humans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCVu25wQ5s

Contra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2qNpxJB-B0
http://au.askmen.com/top_10/videogame/top-10-hardest-video-games-of-all-time_3.html

http://www.themeparkbrochures.net/mainmaps.html

http://charterforcompassion.org/
http://tasped.edublogs.org/

15 Coolest Sci-fi Weapons
http://www.crystalbaud.com/blog/15_coolest_scifi_weapons_in_film.html

Incredible Digital Painting Tutorials
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/13/35-incredible-digital-painting-tutorials/

Girlfriend Texts During Football: SuperNews!

More Notes 2

Heavy Photoshop work or what!
http://www.carbodydesign.com/gallery/2009/10/audi-r8-spyder/2/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gg

Everything but the Game: Behind the Sketchpad of Amanita’s point
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/14/everything-but-the-g-1.html

http://www.maxim.com/humor/articles/84517/20-awesome-things-made-out-beer-cans.html

DET Annual Report
https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/reports_stats/annual_reports/yr2008/index.htm

http://www.mediavr.com/defqonsydney2009.htm
http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/technologyandappliedstudies.html

http://www.thehappinessinstitute.com/freeproducts/docs/Building%20Resilience%20-%20Using%20Positive%20Psychology%20to%20get%20through%20tough%20times.pdf
http://www.box.net/widget

http://www.cmy.net.au/CMYeNews
Centre for Multicultural Youth e-News

http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/132#watchonline – The New Addicts
There is no education like adversity

Industry Rockstars who have a Disability
Professor Ron McCallum, Graeme Innes
Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield
John Melloncamp, Neil Young
Rich Aller, Ian Dury
Stevie Wonder, Peter Tchaikovsky

national survey of young Australians 2008 – key and emerging issues
http://www.missionaustralia.com.au/document-downloads/doc_view/82-national-survey-of-young-australians-2008-?tmpl=component&format=raw

http://www.yoursexhealth.org/
Award winning site about sex and health information.

Illustration Artist. Pretty good.
http://www.ghostco.org/ – Matthew Woodson

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/10/good_magazine_t.php
Graphs and Chart Design

Light Up Your Retina with 40 Rampaging Vector Robots!
Bad ass robot illustrations.
You Must Fail – Six Lessons from Michael Jordan
1. Take the Shots
2. Don’t Let Failure Stop You from Trying Again
3. Don’t Let Failure Get You Down
4. Learn Every Time You Fail
5. Know your Game Winning Shots
6. Your Response to Failure Impacts Your Team

How to Create a Vector Series of Linear Effects

30 Illustrator Gradient Mesh Tutorials to Help Enhance Your Vector Realism

http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/2050_A_Hypothetical_Future

http://www.jobdig.com/articles/1385/
When the Economy Tanks it’s Time to Shine
- Clean up your attitude
- Step up your performance
- Be perfect only if it matters
- Tighten up your time management
- Be disciplined about multitasking
- Follow through on every promise you make
- Get along with co-workers
- Identify your manager’s (and the department’s) top priorities and do what you can to help achieve them
- Don’t demand things that cost money unless they are vital to the business

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5259
Amazing myths and magic graphics.

http://www.honestfoodguide.org

Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom of Whole-District Reform

Experts offer deceptively simple advice: Hire great principals and teachers, make data-driven decisions, hold everyone accountable, build a strong school culture, and engage stakeholders.

Implement common, rigorous standards with differentiated resources and instruction.
Apply “value chain” thinking to the K-12 continuum.

Blur the lines between the traditional roles and responsibilities of the school board, leadership team, principals, teachers, and parents.

Create systems and structures that reinforce the behaviors necessary for success, and changes in beliefs will follow.

Confront the effects that beliefs about race and achievement have on student performance, and help teachers and students apply this knowledge to their day-to-day work in classrooms.
Lead for equity.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-09-final-fantasy/56840
http://www.techlearning.com/
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0924_in_disabilities/index.htm
Transformer Costume
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=143481104820&ref=nf

http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/10/10/20-essential-infographics-data-visualization-blogs/

More Notes

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2009/09/08/20090908_obamaschool.mp3

DESIGN
How to Create a Yellow Submarine Icon with Gradient Meshes
Daily Inspiration #291
20 CREATIVE Business Cards
40 Awesome Futuristic City Illustrations
25 Amazing Inspirational Vector Illustrations
Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text
How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect
Interview with Bubblefriends Creator Sascha Preuß
50+ Diverse Vector Masks from Across the Globe
The Art of Beauty – Live ONLINE presentation
Amazing digital art.
Guild Wars 2!
A world beyond our world! This is what legends and fantasy are made of.
Assassins Creed interview with Jade Raymond
http://blizzcon.rayv.com/ – blizzcon conference online streaming
20 Coolest Bike Designs
25 logos with hidden messages
Unique and different styles go out of trend quick. Clients often want classical styles.
Top 71 CSS Menu Nav
How smartphones are transforming our lives?
Smartphones today provide a range of functions to your daily life. The iphone has many application that can find restaurants, time how far and how long you drive, communicate with communities, draw a mindmap of how your mind think. The article identifies the many functionality smartphones provide.

MISC.
13 Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You
Why Are Smart People So Ignorant When it Comes to Health?
Article telling the truth on how powerful organisation and the government are pushing unhealthy food on to consumers to make money and not using some common sense to development more nutritious food alternative.

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Power

“The super powers in your world originate from shards of Necroverse energy seeping through the boundaries of space-time. All of Earth’s greatest heroes combined could never match the power possesed by those bonded to the true source.”
-Elite Necroverse Deviant

TEACHING
HSC countdown: plan study for success
Gourmet Paper Mache Dragon
Retard’s Breakfast
From Art to Apps: Data Visualisation finds a purpose
Kool Moves
Simple flash animation and effects software.
CrazyTalk 6
Neat lipsynce face animation software.
Logitech Orbit Face Effects FUN
11 3D Text Effects
Amazing text effects.
John Coutis
This guy is the man, with no legs.
Abnormal & Extreme People
Examples of how people are different and how they are the same. We need to value all people for harmony.
How To Cope With Being Teased
Tips for life, from HowCast.
Wood under the microscope by Alan Crivellaro, Italy

http://simpsonizeme.com/
http://www.befunky.com/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/11-sites-to-create-cartoon-characters-of-yourself/
http://www.woodmagazine.com/woodworking-plans/
http://cranesbillbooks.com/dinorobot-kit-from-kidzlabs.html

http://sites.google.com/site/mrhuynhsite
http://mrhuynh.pbworks.com/Design-Process

GENERAL GROWTH
Blueprint for a better world
I thought I would die: rescued Minister
Reflections on the White House Internship Program
Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
Deep speech on the philosophy of truth.
Why execise won’t make you thin
Top 60 jobs that will rock the future
Interesting list of jobs of the future. As people say there are many jobs that have not been created yet. The future is always changing. Where will you end up hey?
Is this the most exciting time ever to do an mab?
Another example of conciencious people and there unique ideas. The dean of a business school with his positive attitude and cunning nature talk about the mba program has never been so vibrant. Throw away the textbook and bring in the New York Times for a live discussion and debates. The global financial crisis has brought about a world that could be describe as “the most intellectually exciting thing you have ever done”.

Technology Notes

General collection of media on the topic design and technology to be use for a teaching lesson.

http://www.123ppt.com/
A powerpoint template website that has an intense video clip.

Photoshop: Cartoon Effect – Tutorial
One of the best cartoon effect tutorial out there.
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/300C9A9F-6182-44C3-B78C-8E8A08C4B7F2/

Awesome CG demo real 09. Cars, monters and robots.
GIJOE the game! Alots of shooting, blastic, robots and transformation!

Master’s Challenge 2009 Comic Con: Sidekicks
The master’s challenge guy and his ways of meaning.
Technology + Funny Guy = Great TAS Teacher.
Nat at Comic Con

http://www.youtube.com/user/engadget?recommended=0
http://www.blur.com/

http://www.zupzup.com/Art/Little_Red_SHEAR_070409.jpg
http://www.zupzup.com

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9821/enviro3.jpg
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=29807&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=33630

http://www.houstontexans.com/wpimages/uploaded/pdfs/Bull_Head_Large.jpg

http://www.imaginismstudios.com/images/forums/beammeup.jpg

http://www.exponentialdesign.com.au/
Awesome unique website design of a brand and experience company. The site features beautiful showroom pictures and neat simple flash animation. Why does this matter to anyone? Well it has pretty pictures to look at. It is good example interior or showroom designs for you to show others. Well generally it is pretty, interesting and beautiful.
http://www.creativesbehindthelens.com.au

Neat teaching video.

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine

Total Australian Energy Consumption
Australian Energy Statistics 2008
ABS Website 2002 data
- Uranium & black coal are the highest energy production source
- Transport, Electricity and Manufacturing & Construction are the three main energy concumption industry.
- US Secretary talk about the energy problem

Arrogance, contempt shroud ETS debate: Turnbull
Full on straight talk discussion by Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

E2 – Teachers know their students and how they learn

Teen death reignites cyber bullying fears
Excellent video of interviews and discussion about teen cyber bullying. Today internet social media are important part of communication but there are a common issue of bullying and harrassment. About 10% of student have experience cyber bullying today. To view the video refer to the right colum of page.

Youth Mental First Aid
The first day information lecture advise on issues youth mental health. Mental health is really a common thing. Students today face many issues such as:

Depression

Anxiety disorder

Psychosis

Substance use disorders

Eating Disorders

Caroline Movie Trailer 2009
Awesome kids movie. It is really scary, lots of magic, tricks, techniques and better things.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090717/sc_livescience/robotscouldreplaceteachers
- Human are born natural immature and curious and when we grow old we develope complex cultural developments.
- In the first five years, kids have huge learning protential. Kids learn language well.
- Learning is highly social. Human are social creatures.
- Imitation as learning is fast and easy.
- Children learn best from other people and playgroups of peers.
- The key is to figure out the passion and curiosity for learning in formal schools.

Don’t teach boys to be like girls

Defeated Villian
Rad guy from CA posted intense portrator of villians.

http://prezi.com

I Have a Vision – Draft

Have you ever thought about your hopes and dreams?
Where do you see yourself in five years time?
What do you aspire to be? What goals do you have?

You only live once.
Why not live it to the fullest.
Don’t waste a minute of everday.
Life is a marathon.

You could be the greatest.
Be the best singer, best athlete, best designer, best scientist, best engineer, best business person…
You could be rich, famous, powerful…
You can travel the world.

Get Ahead Start 2009 – TAFE it! PDF
Drawing Perspective Elipse

“I think the best use of games isn’t for education as it is for motivation. I would much rather motivate kids to be interested in Science or economics or sociology, than I would want to teach them how it works. Unless they are motivate it they won’t do it. There are so many books available to learn from. To motivate kids is far more long term successful in educating them.”
- Will Wright, the video-game designer of The Sims and Sim City.

The awesomeness of design and technology can be seen here at the website about the Siggraph 2009 conference in the area of computer graphcis and interactive techniques. This pretty much relates to the significants of design and technology. Technology is exciting and inspiring. It brings about engaging comunication media that have not been done without.

NSW to censor student laptops
Interesting user comments on laptops for students.
7.30 Report – Laptops in Schools
KCK School Laptop Program Gets High Praise

Universal Principles of Design
One of the most important design principles in designing product. Design must be Equitable Use, Flexibility in Use, Simple and Intuitive Use, Perceptible Information, Tolerance for Error, Low Physical Effort and Size and Space for Approach and Use. See the link for more details.

UTS: Architecture and Construction Films
Awesome video-clips showing what Architecture and Construction industry is all about. Who are the people, what do they do, what does it look like, how is it done? The clips are current, visual and there are many videos!

Peter Garrett has defended his decision to approve a new uranium mine in South Australia
Peter Garrett as Federal Environment Minister has the responsibility to act in the interest of all parties to approve a new uranium mine in SA, but as a consequence many people have a particular interest and felt portrayed by him.

Made In Chicago

This is a note on motivation from the DVD Made In Chicago: The Making of Barack Obama.

Barack Obama began his community development endeavour during his twenties in the city Chicago. He graduated from University with a B. A. and began to work as a director of the Developing Communities Project.

He was driven to improve the low socio economic community and the people living in it. He wanted to improve the futures of kids vandalizing in the streets. He wanted to pass policies and to improve health and safety program. He talked to the leaders from churchs and community organisation to improve the condition. He asking them about what there hopes and dreams for the people and the community.