February 2000. The Solutions Training course was held with Academic mentors from various discipline areas. This one day course focused on Administrative Computing, Language and Linguistics, Mathematics and Statistics, Education, Biological and Health Sciences, and Graphics and Design. We were very lucky to be joined by a number of academic mentors as well as industry representatives. The presentations are supplied here in various formats (PowerPoint, HTML and PDF). The movie snippets (encoded to cope with various bandwidths) will give you a taste of the topics covered.

Administration Solutions Why did Queensland Police Service save $30 million over a similar Wintel organisation? — watch movie or download slides:   PDF   PPT		Education Assoc Prof. Barry Harper discusses Curriculum Portals and the challenge of designing new educational tools. There is also a valuable tip for those working with colleges and departments of education. — watch movie 1, movie 2, movie 3 or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT
Graphics and Design 1 Find out about the recent awards that the Macintosh has won in the area of high-end 3D production. — Watch movie or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT		Linguistics and Languages Prof. Roly Sussex on how technologies like e-mail and speech recognition are affecting how we teach languages. Do we need written text at all? Mike Fardon talks about how technology is used to teach languages. — Watch movie 1, movie 2, movie 3 or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT
Graphics and Design 2 Art and technology meet on the Macintosh. Find out how this is being taught at University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. — Watch movie 1, movie 2 or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT		Mathematics and Statistics Chris Feil talks about the use of multi-purposing and parallel computing to sell the concept of Mac labs. Dr Neville Smythe presents the best TEX editor on any platform. — Watch movie 1, movie 2 or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT
Graphics and Design 3 'Everyone says you have to go Windows NT ... We saw an impact at the time. But it's really come back big time over the past 12 months ... The choice of designers is tools like this (formZ) but they really love the Macintosh. It's clear that's the way they really want to work.' — watch movie 1, movie 2 or download slides:   HTML   PDF   PPT		Biological and Health Sciences From remote sensing to the legendary 'Athenborough' — everything you wanted to know about the use of Macs and QuickTime in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and health Sciences. — Watch movie 1, movie 2, movie 3 or download slides:   PDF   PPT.sit (includes QT movies)

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Academic Mentors

Biological and Health Sciences
Dr Alan Cody a.cody@mailbox.uq.edu.au
The University of Queensland


Education
Assoc. Prof. Barry Harper barry_harper@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong


Graphics and Design
Damien O'Brien
damien@cofa.unsw.edu.au
University of New South Wales (College of Fine Arts)


Language and Linguistics
Prof. Roly Sussex
sussex@cltr.uq.edu.au
The University of Queensland


Mike Fardon
mfardon@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
University of Western Australia


Mathematics and Statistics
Dr Neville Smythe
neville.smythe@anu.edu.au
Australian National University



Industry Representatives

Biological and Health Sciences
Kellie Forrester
kellie@adi.com.au
ADInstruments Pty Ltd
http://www.adinstruments.com/

Robert Keeping rkeeping@smarttec.com.au
Smart Technology
http://www.smarttec.com.au






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