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Grade levels: Adult

  • Essential Preparations

    This program covers types of menus, basic equipment and laying of tables and covers.

  • Introducing the Basics

    This program looks at the hospitality industry: an overview, service management, workplace essentials, personal grooming and hygiene and presentation.

  • A to Z of Risk: A Young Person’s Guide

    Risk-taking is a part of life, but in the process of growing and maturing teenagers often take unnecessary, dangerous risks. The A to Z of Risk (A young person’s guide) is divided into 26 fast-paced segments of drama, fact, personal stories, and insights to help students focus on risk-taking behavior that builds up rather than destroys both themselves and others. Topics covered: Sex, Driving, Drugs, Relationships and Decision-making

  • Acquiring Skills: How People Develop Skills

    People perform skills every day – ranging from simple tasks such as walking (although this is not simple for a 10 month old child?) through to much more complex skills such as gymnastics routines. Elite sportspeople perform complex tasks repeatedly and with high success rates whilst beginners start off with basic movements and make many mistakes. Skill Acquisition is the study of how people develop skills and become successful performers. This program clearly investigates the basic concepts of acquiring skills and information processing and applies these to human performance.

  • Managing Databases

    This program takes viewers through the basics of setting up and maintaining a database, covering areas such as setting up relationships, creating a data capture form, creating queries, setting up reports and creating and running macros.

  • Hot Tips For Classroom Management

    One of the biggest challenges facing teachers today is classroom management and dealing with difficult students. This program provides practical help, offering some effective, preventative strategies, as well as ways to deal with difficult behavior when it occurs. Covering pre-planning ? establishing the rules, pre-planning ? other strategies, routine, seven steps of behavior management, the behavior interventions pyramid, depersonalizing behavior sanctions and reflection, and written by teachers in the know, this is a great professional development tool for any new teacher, or any teacher wanting to brush up on essential classroom skills.

  • Health Emergencies in the Classroom

    In every school there are students who suffer from medical conditions. Because of this, it is vital that teachers and other school staff are fully prepared to deal with a medical emergency. This program investigates some of the more common health emergencies that
    occur in classrooms and how best to treat them. An informed look at the treatments for asthma, diabetes, anaphylaxis and epilepsy and essential professional development viewing for teachers.

  • New Standards for Career Development Practitioners

    This program is designed to assist careers practitioners, job networks, industries and organisations, human resources departments, rehabilitation, government departments, schools, Universities, TAFEs and other relevant organisations, with understanding the recent developments in professionalising the careers role in Australia. The program explores: the context for these developments; where Australia fits into the international careers scene; developing competencies, standards and ethics for the profession; agreed requirements being phased in by 2012; the Australian Blueprint for Career Development; and understanding the broad range of activities undertaken in the name of career development.

  • Designing Multimedia

    Designing and Understanding Multimedia uses interviews and practical demonstrations to explain exactly what ‘multimedia’ is, and how this exciting new technology is being used to solve a variety of practical information delivery problems: to inform, educate and entertain. This examination covers all stages of the production – from the initial client brief, through to the storyboarding of content and paths of interactivity, to the design of the user-interface, the digitising of the content, the authoring of the finished product, CD-ROM mastering and duplication.

  • Commercial Printing Processes

    With comments from experts in the industry and clear illustrations, this program examines some of the most common processes in use today including offset lithographic printing, digital printing, flexography, screen printing, binding and finishing.