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Trichorder2: i stood at the crumbling edge. Teachers warned off online contact with students. TEACHERS have been banned from contacting students on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and other social networking sites amid growing concern over inappropriate relationships. A revised Code of Conduct will also require state school teachers' personal sites be kept "private and appropriate". Breaches can result in loss of pay, demotion or sacking. The move has been labelled a violation of privacy by education stakeholders and civil libertarians.

More than 30 Queensland teachers have had their registration cancelled for unprofessional relationships with pupils over the past three years. Eight cases involving inappropriate behaviour of a teacher contacting students via electronic equipment were heard by the Queensland College of Teachers' disciplinary committee last financial year. "The most serious matter that included an element of use of a social network site involved sexualised communication and innuendo and the teacher's registration was cancelled," the college said in a statement. Teachers warned about befriending students on social websites | The Daily Telegraph. Australian Women Online. Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list - Trends in the Living Networks. The Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications list is now officially launched – the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0.

A few quick comments: * See the scope and criteria for the list. * No doubt many will disagree with what has or hasn’t been included in the list. That’s inevitable in drawing boundaries around defining Web 2.0 applications. We have been strict in applying our scope, and many very worthy applications have not been included in the list, not because they’re not excellent, but because they haven’t met our judge’s view of what constitutes a Web 2.0 application. * A few more applications have come to our attention since the list was finalized.

. * Despite the caveats above, we’re very happy with the list and what has come out of our efforts in creating it. 1. mig33 Website: Person/Company: Project Goth (Steven Goh/ Mei Lin Ng) 2. Website: 3. Website: 4. 3eep 5. Extra storage as students go Gmail | Australian IT. Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal. Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The aim for lucidity is also central. Susan Gordon-Brown, . Image courtesy of . During the 1930s and 1940s there was much debate about Modernist writing and what it meant. In the 1930s, two poetry movements emerged in Adelaide: the Jindyworobaks and the . The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language indicating their essence as Australians, whereas the Angry Penguins wanted Australian poetry to become more innovative and international by using surrealism.

The influence of the two movements on Australian poets was profound. The Jindyworobaks In the 1930s a group of poets led by Rex Ingamells called themselves the . John Meredith,1920 - 2001, , 1991? The Jindyworobak movement continued the spirit of literary nationalism inherited from the early Australian poetry, especially the 1890s. .