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atom news
6
The 2006 ATOM Awards amber
nelson & Rochelle Whitty
FEATURES
10
18
new literacies
24
Media Education in Victoria
roger dunscombe
Miss Potter and the ‘Green
World’ of Children’s Literature
Shirley law
Network Literacy: The New
Path to Knowledge
Adrian Miles
32
An Online Goldmine: Film
Australia Digital Learning
Lee Burtonf
36
YouTube: The Evolution
of Media
Christian Christensenf
42
Community Media: Training
New SYNners
Emily Brewin
film craft and analysis
46 8
Cut to the Chase:
A Guide to Teaching Film As Text
Andrea hayes
54
Avoid that Puddle!
Ten Classic Errors Made
by New Filmmakers
Monique Hohnberg
60
The Fundamentals of
Screenwriting: A Guide
Boris Trbic
primary and middle years
66
The Book, the Film and
the Website: Teaching
Multimodal Texts Lee Burton
72
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone: A Teaching Unit on
Using a Fantasy Film to
Awaken Moral Imaginations
Kaneana May
Teaching Media
Does Media Ownership Still
88
Matter Nhi Pham
Through the Wringer:
92
Teaching Social Values with Print
Media Michael Considine
98
Training New Heroes: Directing the
Hero Within Carl Kuddell
The National Media
Education Conference
102
Introduction Michael Dezuanni
103
Re-vision: Why Media Studies
Does Not Mean the Death of
Literature Natasha Mayne
REal Life
The Original Reality Television
110
Series: From 7 Up to 49 Up
Peter Wilshire
Blowin’ in the Wind: A Study Guide
116
Siobhan Maiden
Through My Eyes: The Story of a
124
Marginalized Australian Sue Lingham

australian national Cinema
Silent Cinema: Archetypes and Cliches
130
Andrew Zielinski
Australian Cinema in the 1930s and
135
1940s: The Persistence of the Bush
Myth
Andrew Zielinski
film as text
141
The Castle: Home of the Brave
Brian McFarlane
Under the Storyteller’s
147
Spell: The Usual Suspects
and Narrative Ingenuity
Catherine Wood
Running in Circles:
153
Form in Run Lola Run
Kate Matthews
In the Thick of it: Trust
159
and Suspicion in Lantana
Luciano Di Gregorio
Social Vertigo and Loss
165
of the Self in Gattaca
Justin Shaw
Where’s Donnie It’s
170
Neither Here Nor There:
Ideas for Teaching Donnie
Darko Gary Simmons
Editor
Peter Tapp
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Zoe Tovey
Sub-editor
Rjurik Davidson
Editorial Committee
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(Primary Consultant)
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(Board of Studies, Vic)
Michael Dezuanni (Qld)
Robyn Quin (WA)
Art Direction
David Moore
Subscriptions &
Proofreading
Zak Hamer
IT Consultant
Bruce Wilson
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Lecturer, Department of
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Lecturer, Department of
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School of Cultural and
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Independent Film Scholar
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Department of
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