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Last Friday saw the release of the final Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts paper. This document has a potentially enormous impact on Media/Arts teachers around Australia, and points towards the "shape" of the incoming national curriculum. Here is a key excerpt from the government's media

Congratulations to Adam Jefford of Windaroo Valley State High School, who found the lucky Adobe logo about 3 seconds after it was posted. Adam has won a copy of one of the new Adobe CS5.5 Suites. Commiserations to the other ATOM members who were hot on Adam's cyberheels! Adobe has just launched the

To help us celebrate the relaunch of the ATOM QLD website, our good friends at Adobe have generously donated a great prize. You could win a copy of the new Adobe CS5.5 Design, Web or Production Premium Suite (Student/Teacher Editions) - the winner chooses which. Click HERE to see what software is

It's been a long time coming, but the Committee is happy to finally present the new ATOM QLD website. We've been quietly running the site for the past week, as you can see from the posts below. Since we didn't break the Internet during that time, we're confident that the site is now ready for the

New ATOM Study Guides are available from the Metro Magazine website HERE. You'll find free Study Guides for Inuks, Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, The Gruen Transfer and more. Plus, you can access iPad-formated Study Guides for two recent Australian films -  Oranges and Sunshine and

There are some interesting film competitions being held at the moment, including Talking Our World - an opportunity for LOTE Students to shine... Other competitions to note include: Queensland New Filmmakers Awards Flood of Ideas At the Movies - Trailer Competition Marketing Mix-Up Good luck

Thanks to Mel Osborne for this report on the recent ATOM QLD Machinima workshop, which took place at Queensland Academy of Creative Industries on July 26, 2011. Glenda Hobdell presented an innovated workshop which takes Machinima beyond it's simple origins where students created films using Second

Finalists for the 2011 ATOM Awards have been announced. See the full list HERE. Great to see lots of Queensland schools, students and teachers in there, including... Mayfield State School Briana Goodchild, Ariella Woods & Ernest Su (Queensland Academy for Creative Industries) James Day,