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| Site news updates Posted 8 September 2008. |
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MOST RECENT PUBLICATION(S) * 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. The latest to be screened is the Australian-produced series based on the British program, Who Do You Think You Are?, also Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, and The Hunt for HMAS Sydney. Recently completed are study guides on The Prime Minister is Missing (disappearance of P.M. Harold Holt in 1967), also Guru Greg (Chappell's cricket coaching stint in India), Monash - The Forgotten Anzac (General John Monash, WW1), Infamous Victory (P.M. Ben Chifley's battle against striking coal miners' union in 1949). Further study guides are in development. * Text Talk article on Maestro, Australian novel by Peter Goldsworthy, in Education section of The Age newspaper, 25 August 2008 (on-line here). * Text Talk article on Look Both Ways, Australian film directed by Sarah Watt, in Education section of The Age newspaper, 18 August 2008 (on-line here). * Text Talk article on The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Education supplement of The Age newspaper, 19 May, 2008 (on-line here). * Article about old movie serials in the Green Guide, the TV-Radio weekly supplement of The Age, 5 July, 2007 (also online here). * Indigenous Studies 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.) * Feature length article on the "Entertainments" of Graham Greene, in May 2007 edition of Good Reading magazine (their website is here). ***** 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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