Canberra

The gendered culturaled compting. Still dominated by girls in design and boys - programming etc.In The Public Sector

The ABS:
 * Personalisation of portal spaces - Treasurer has different needs/interests to Statistician
 * Moving ABS into social networks to deliver information - delivering news TO users instead of waiting for them to come to you
 * Use wikipedia to source information to assist online assignements
 * Online forum to hold discussions.
 * Collaboration accross sectors.
 * Blogs and Journals as a reflection tool
 * Collaborative tools for groups.
 * Remote people need access to a variety of collaborative tools as well.

In The Education Sector

Create - IT, Question - IT, Collaborate - IT, Communicate - IT Tools - wiki's, blogs, podcasts

Making it relevant. Using it as a reflective tool.

High School:
 * Use of digital cameras to keep a journal of process as opposed to product (technology - design/make/appraise)
 * Wikis - provide collaborative opportunities. Already in use in IT/English/SOSE
 * Blogs - internal to school. Allows students to publish work (e.g. digital images, podcasts etc)
 * Selecting software specific to tasks instead of relying on generic applications e.g. ComicLife
 * emergent techologies by more attention - engagement
 * provides more balance, meaning to the curriculum. Provides opportunity to engage students who otherwise are disengaged.

[Difficulties in the Education Sector]
 * Access to new technology in social networking contexts e.g. YouTube, MySpace etc.
 * Allowing access to internal resources to staff from outside (e.g. access to school data from home)

VET Sector iPods used for lesson integration. Content loaded by students for use with lesson. Library manages iPods