Australia

1. - What type of resources will you find on this site?

Information about events, resources, Australian web sites and general information about Australia.

2. - Describe what type of information you can find in each of the following categories:

A. News & Events:

• Design & architecture

• Digital media & film

• Festivals & conferences

• History & identity

• Indigenous arts & culture

• Language & literature

• Performance

B. Resources:

Audiences and access

Youth, indigenous, disabilities etc. engaging the public.

Business management - managing your organization

Links to information about managing businesses.

Collections, documentation and exhibitions

Collections resources: Venues, interpretation, significance, cataloguing and copyright.

Copyright and intellectual property (IP)

Information on IP and copyright.

Education and training

A gateway to education and training resources, associations and providers in the culture sector across Australia.

Grants and services

Information on grants, services, advice, tax incentives and donations.

Jobs

Links to employment resources specific to the culture sector.

Networking and advocacy

Advocacy and networking resources, including discussion lists, Conferences & papers and Peak bodies and portal.

3. - Under what heading can you find information about indigenous art?

Audiences and access.

4. - How many websites and pages are linked via the site?

More than 30

The site also gives information about activities that are taking place right now.

Click on News & Events in the menu on the left of the screen to find this information. Now look under one of the headings and research one of the events.

5. - Summarize what the event is about in one paragraph.

Sculpture in Spring festival is a 3 month long exhibition of sculptures in Jayes Sculpture Garden and gallery space. Compassing very large outdoor sculptures and small indoor sculptures. The exhibition to be opened by Lisa Loader Director of Orange Regional Gallery and she will be judging the competition.

6. - You want to know what people who visit this website find interesting. How can you find out?

Investigating and with the comments they do under the description of the event. And Sculpture in spring is an event that lot of people is going.

7. - What does the heading Featured website mean?

The main attraction of the website.

8. - Look at the Top 10 searches. What are the three most popular searches at the moment?

Australian Culture

Australian History

Gold Rush

You will now find some information on the site about The Great Barrier Reef.

Select Great Barrier Reef from the Top 10 searches list. Click on Great

Barrier Reef – Australia’s Culture Portal. Answer these questions:

9. - What side of Australia is the reef on?

The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

10. - Is the Great Barrier Reef a single structure? Explain your answer.

No, Coral consists of individual coral polyps - tiny live creatures which join together to form colonies.

11. - Is coral a living organism?

Yes, Corals are animals, though, because they do not make their own food, as plants do. Corals have tiny, tentacle-like arms that they use to capture their food from the water and sweep into their inscrutable mouths.

12. - When is coral white?

When corals are stressed by changes in conditions such as temperature, light, or nutrients, they expel the symbiotic algae

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