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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:
Catching Cancer (examines research on relationship between viruses and cancer),
Every Family's Nightmare (Western Australian legal case gone wrong, about 15-year-old youth accused of rape),
Bush Slam (performance poetry contests in regional Australia, with H.G. Nelson presiding),
and The Cove (eco-activism and dolphin slaughter).

The latest to be screened is Community Cop (community policing on Melbourne's migrant/refugee highrise estates),
Skippy - Australia's First Superstar (humorous doco about Skippy the Bush Kangaroo TV series of the 1960s),
Feral Peril (the threat from foxes to indigenous fauna in Tasmania,
and the decline of the Tasmanian Devil through facial cancer disease)
and Australia's Heritage - National Treasures, (about places and events of national importance
in Australian history and cultural heritage).

Others over the past year are the Australian-produced series based on the British program,
Who Do You Think You Are?, also Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, The Hunt for HMAS Sydney,
and The Prime Minister is Missing (disappearance of P.M. Harold Holt in 1967).
Also completed are study guides on Guru Greg (Chappell's cricket coaching stint in India),
The Safe House, an animated personal documentary-reminiscence
set during the Petrov cold war spy era of 1954.
Monash - The Forgotten Anzac (General John Monash, WW1),
I'll Call Australia Home (Burmese and Sudanese refugees),
Infamous Victory (P.M. Ben Chifley's battle against striking coal miners' union in 1949),
Rosa's Journey (follow-up to Rosa's Story, about a young woman and her family struggling to survive
in post-independence East Timor), and Newcastle (full-length coming-of-age feature film).

TEXT TALKS & OTHER ITEMS IN THE AGE:
(Note that the web links for these items may change on The Age site.
5 Feb 2010: I have updated all archived links for 2009 Text Talks.)

*Text Talk article on Generals Die in Bed, novel by Charles Yale Harrison,
online Education section of The Age newspaper website, 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).

* Text Talk on The Kite Runner, novel by Khaled Hosseini, 20 October 2008.

* Text Talk on Maestro, Australian novel by Peter Goldsworthy, 25 August 2008.

* Text Talk on Look Both Ways, Australian film directed by Sarah Watt, 18 August 2008.

* Text Talk on The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, 19 May, 2008.

* 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 in The Age newspaper during 2009
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 2008
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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Electric Chronicle

Yes, it has mysteriously disappeared from the main page...
In time other education resources I've had in the pipeline will be added.
If, though, you would like to view a full Electric Chronicle subscriber edition from 2004, go to here.
A Chronicle subscription service is ready to resume at any time if enough interest is registered,
either in its present form, or adapted to suit teachers' interests.
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
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MY CURRICULUM VITAE

For those who are interested, there is a link to my CV from the Other Sites page,
which is occasionally updated.

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