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MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

STUDY GUIDES:
* Film study guides for both Film Australia (now part of Screen Australia) and ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media),
mainly on documentary films screened on ABC and SBS television. These are on-going, commissioned projects.

Recently completed study guides are on:
MURUNDAK - Songs of Freedom (doco of Black Arm Band's music tour),
Secret History of Eurovision (doco about the famous song contest and its place in recent European history),
Wilfred (Series Two of comedy-drama satire about a 'human' dog and his owners),
and iPad history worksheets on Oranges and Sunshine (feature film drama about the "forgotten children" sent to Australia
from England, 1950s-1960s).

The latest to be screened is Outback Kids (doco series about Brahminy rehab program for traumatised teenagers).

TEXT TALKS & OTHER ITEMS IN THE AGE:
(Note that the web links for these items may change on The Age site.)

* Text Talk article on A Farewell to Arms, novel by Ernest Hemingway,
online Education section of The Age newspaper website, 18 July 2011 (here).

*Text Talk article on The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, feature film, 2 May 2011 (here).

*Text Talk article on Things We Didn't See Coming, fiction by Steven Amsterdam, 14 March 2011 (here).

*Text Talk article on Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, non-fiction, 9 August 2010 (here).

*Text Talk article on On the Waterfront, feature film, 10 May 2010 (here).

*Text Talk article on Bypass - The Story of a Road, non-fiction by Michael McGirr, 1 March 2010 (here).

*Text Talk article on Generals Die in Bed, novel by Charles Yale Harrison, 19 October 2009 (here).

* Text Talk article on Hard Times, novel by Charles Dickens, 12 October 2009 (here).

* Text Talk article on Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories, 10 August 2009 (here).

* Text Talk article on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 1 June 2009 (here).

* Text Talk article on the poetry of Robert Frost, 2 March 2009 (here).

* Article about old movie serials in the Green Guide, the TV-Radio weekly supplement
of The Age, 5 July, 2007 (also online here).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
* Indigenous Studies, History and English classroom study units on clips
selected from Film Australia's documentary films.
(An on-going project - the F.A. Digital Learning website is here.
Now part of the recently formed Screen Australia national film funding body.)

* Feature length article on the "Entertainments" of Graham Greene,
in May 2007 edition of Good Reading magazine (their website is here).
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VINTAGE AUSTRALIAN COMIC BOOKS ON CD-ROM
Available for order.
Prices include packaging and post.

There are two prices for orders from within Australia:
Single User (e.g. for home use): $35 Aust.
Multi-user (e.g. schools, libraries, unlimited number of users on computer network): $50 Aust.
Payment is by cheque, in Australian currency,
or by on-line credit card through PayPal.

Orders from outside Australia:
Single-user (for home use) and Multi-user (e.g. schools, libraries) orders: $45 Aust.
Purchase from outside Australia is only by on-line credit card through PayPal.

More info on this site here!
SPECIAL ADDITION TO INFO PAGE! Web links to interview with Jeff Wilkinson and Peter Chapman,
writer-illustrators of Australian comic books 1940s-1960s.

Send email for further inquiries and information.

REVIEW OF CD-ROM AND FREE DOWNLOADS:
Vintage Australian Comic Books on CD-ROM, and the free downloads for schools,
are reviewed by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE)
in their quarterly newsletter (No. 2, 2006, pages 15-16).
It is also available on-line at the VATE website HERE.
(Clicking this link will open a new web browser window.)
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Year 12 English "Text Talk" articles

Information about my Text Talk articles planned for publication on The Age newspaper website during 2011
has been uploaded to my Text Talk web page.
Dates of publication of each article are being added as they occur during the year.
Details for ordering my Text Talk items published between 2000 and 2010
are also available on request. If interested please send email enquiry.
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CARTOONS OF AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION CD-ROM
Suitable for secondary school studies in Australian History, Media and English.
The CD-ROM contains suggestions for classroom activities.
Click Federation Cartoons link at top of this page.
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MY CURRICULUM VITAE (TEACHING & WRITING)

For those who are interested, here is a link to my CV,
which is occasionally (rarely) updated.

And here are some ghastly photos of someone in the classroom, 1998.
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Electric Chronicle

The Electric Chronicle is no longer published.
If, though, you would like to view a full Electric Chronicle subscriber edition from 2004,
looking at World, Australian and General news items and current affairs cartoons
from exactly one century earlier (1904), go to here.
UPDATE 20 Sept 2011:
Previous editions have been found archived to a CD
and are now being uploaded to this site, HERE.
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please email to RMS Education at:

info@rmsed.com.au

or write to:
RMS Education
P.O. Box 50,
Preston,
Vic. 3072

(To email, please copy and paste the above address to your email program.
The link had been removed to prevent spam.)
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