You(r) Tube

Finally DET NSW has relented.


Announcement received a short while ago;

Dear Colleagues,


I'm pleased to announce that after careful consideration from today the website YouTube will be available within the department for all staff.



YouTube is full of excellent teaching resources. And with YouTube now part of Google it has much stronger safe search features which we have been able to enable within the department.


I'm sure staff will use the YouTube resources in an appropriate manner consistent with our acceptable usage policy. This is the first step in making other internet resources available to you and your students in a safe manner.


With my best regards,

Michael Coutts-Trotter
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TAFE NSW
26 June 2009

We are adults after all.

Flexible Learning In 2009

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A New Future For Online Learning ?

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Get a hold of this.

Issued by one of my workplaces today.

".......Staff returning from travel to greater metropolitan Melbourne, Mexico, Panama, USA, Canada and Japan should be treated as follows:

1. If a staff member has been to one of these locations and has been mixing with local school children (in a group of 10 or more) then they should be excluded from work. College Directors and Functional Unit managers should make every effort to enable these staff to perform some work from home during their exclusion.
2. If the staff member has not mixed with a group of 10 or more school children then they may return to work, but be excluded if they develop any influenza-like symptoms.
3. If a member of staff is currently excluded because they have travelled to one of the infected locations, but have not mixed with a group of 10 or more local school children, they may now return to work as long as they are not displaying any flu-like symptoms.
4. If they have been directed into quarantine by NSW Health they must complete the quarantine period...."

Well, that rules out going to see my daughter in Melbourne right ?

Oh man........I'm starting to get worried.

Voluntary Quarantine

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Another letter issued today from one of my employers:

".........Dear _____________________ (name of Employee) ,

I understand that you have recently been to a country where there has been community or school transmission of the Human Swine Influenza.

In accordance with advice from xxxxxxx, I ask that you stay at home for seven days from the date that you return to Australia. This is a precautionary strategy being applied throughout xxxxxxxx. During this period you will be on paid special leave.

If you are feeling unwell with any flu-like symptoms, please go to a hospital Emergency Department for assessment, or ring your general practitioner if you do not have ready access to a hospital.

We are hopeful that you will remain well during this period and we look forward to welcoming you back after this period. At this stage, you will return to xxxxxx on __________ (date).

You can obtain further information from the xxxxxxxxxxwebsite at:

xxxxxxxxxxx

I look forward to seeing you back at TAFE as soon as possible.

Please contact __________________ (insert name) on telephone __________ (number) if you require any further information.

Yours sincerely

College Director........."