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http://usc.edu.au/University/MediaPublications/News/MoreNews/GayleBeijing.htm

University of the Sunshine Coast business lecturer Gayle Mayes used Adobe Connect to bring the Beijing Olympics into her classroom.

Ms Mayes spent two weeks in Beijing for the Olympic Games, and organised live video links with her Sport and Event Marketing classes during their scheduled lecture times, covering the sports marketing topics discussed in her University classes.

Issues included ticket prices, politics and sport, drugs in sport, security, the cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts of mega events, and the challenges of marketing and managing an international event in China.

Ms Mayes uses experiential education as her main teaching strategy. This approach last year earned her a $10,000 grant from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

A few of us have decided to get involved in this great event, by growing a mo for the month of November. Movember aims to raise awareness about male health issues, in particular prostate cancer and male depression, by encouraging guys to let their mo’s grow for a month. We’ll keep you updated on our progress, a few radical concepts for individual mo’s have been thrown around but let’s let the mo’s do the talking!

Movember donations are tax deductible and can be made at http://www.movember.com.au/ or 1300 GROW MO.

Go the mo!

Ikea has launched a fun new mini-site to promote their wardrobes. Like a remarkable kitchen mini-site they had created earlier which rotated through different kitchen scenes frozen in time, this new site is another engaging experience built in Flash.

A set of five well-appointed rooms, stacked one on top of each other, are visited by choosing levels from a set of elevator buttons, giving you a voyeur’s view of rooms as you pass up and down on your way to your destination.

The site makes good use of Flash video with people coming and going into the rooms, leading the viewer into the features currently being displayed.

IKEA: Kom In I Garderoben

Google Map’s addition of street mapping for Australia on Friday didn’t go unnoticed, it inspired us to add a dynamic location map to the contact section of our site.

The launch itself was unofficial, features like searching and driving directions are yet to come, rest assured we’ll add those features once they’re available…

Discover your location on Google Maps.

Nice interface, interesting photographer… Karl De Keyzer photography

An online collaborative list for everyday stuff. Remember the Milk

They must have bandwidth galore in Slovakia. Lovely interface device on the Kamikadze site, but be prepared for a loooooong wait.

A different way to tackle alcohol issues

US communications company Comcast have developed an intriguing site with some fantastic Flash programming (we’re not too sure why). Make your way to the interactive puppets…

What can you say??? Burger anyone?