Using ‘The Age’ as a case study of how to analyse the non-print text of newspaper images, it examines the production of photography, cartoons and graphic design, the process of choice and editorial decision making, how to critically analyse the meaning of these images and what shapes that meaning.
Producers: VEA Group Pty Ltd
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Sports Injury Prevention and Assessment
This program provides a comprehensive guide to the issue of sports injury: its prevention where possible and successful treatment when prevention fails. It covers the following areas: prevention of injury, including warm-ups, protective equipment, diet and appropriate training regimes, immediate assessment of injuries (DR ABC), causes of sports injuries, assessing sports injuries (SALTAPS), treating soft tissue injuries (RICERS) and injury rehabilitation.
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Introducing Customer Service
In today’s highly competitive business world, it is often only the level of customer service that distinguishes one company from another. This program introduces and defines customer service by talking to representatives from customer-focussed organisations like ‘ANZ Bank’ and ‘The Body Shop’. It presents real-life dramatisations in its consideration of the process of meeting customers’ needs and expectations, internal and external customers, dealing with dissatisfied customers and more.
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Essentials of Design and Technology Skills: Drilling, Lathes and Soldering
This program focuses on skills required to use equipment in design and technology workshops. It features: soldering, using a metal lathe, and using pillar and hand drills. Considerable emphasis is given to health and safety, including safe workshop and equipment practices and the wearing of protective clothing.
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Introducing Food Additives
This program describes, using animated graphics, the range of additives used to enhance flavours, improve textures and provide colouration, considers how food additives can be used to improve the nutritional value of food, discusses the applications of additives in the context of food regulations and food labelling.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Exploring the Text
To Kill a Mockingbird has a special place in the canon of American literature. It is a text that deals with complex issues of justice, racism and childhood innocence. In this program, experts Dr Michael Polack and Pam Garlick discuss the way the novel works – examining how the novel has achieved its status and how we can approach the text for a more satisfying analysis and reading.
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Training Awareness: Acute Responses and Chronic Adaptations
This program aims to identify and distinguish between immediate (acute) responses to exercise and long term (chronic) adaptations to exercise by describing the structure, function and the effect of exercise on the three body systems most responsible for movement, these being the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems. The program includes highly effective diagrams and animation and several experts provide quality information. The program is divided into clear sections, at the end of which students are provided with effective summaries of key information.
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A Two Way Street: You and the Organization
This program examines the key rights and responsibilities of both the employer and employee, reviews the nature of work, explores the fundamental employer-employee relationship with workers and employers at a range of industry worksites, and examines a variety of views about unions, working conditions, training, attitudes to work and the nature of the relationship between the boss and the worker.
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Using Computers Safely
Now that computers are an integral part of our working and recreational lives, several health problems have emerged including: Repetitive strains; Back pain; The socio-health problems related to lack of exercise and reduced inter-personal communication. Most, if not all, of these problems appear to be preventable, provided a few basic rules are followed. In this program we show healthy ways to use computers, including laptops, and the exercises which help to prevent health problems developing.
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The Nature of Workplace Communication
In this first program in VEA’s Workplace Communications Series, we look at what is communication in a work context and the importance of good communications to the success of an organization and the well being of the employees.