2008
items posted on the websiteJul: "Agricultural image in dire need of makeover." LINK to article by Alison Beaty, Australian Farm Journal Edition 338, 3/07/2008 3:48:03 PM
Jul: The Minister’s Young Designers Awards (MYDA) - closing date Friday 1 August 2008
Jun: The Initial Teacher Education Committee (ITEC) nomination form with an information sheet
The National Conference 'Innovation Generation'
Sponsors website links for the 2008 Biennial Conference at Deniliquin
HSC 2007 Agriculture and Primary Industries student award citations
May: Advanced information on the 2008 Biennial Conference at Deniliquin
Apr: Password member links removed due to scripting errors. They have not worked since the website was moved to a new host server. This provides better member access to resources.
Apr: Expressions of interest for Initial Teacher Education Committee (ITEC) Panels
Mar: Professional Development Workshops:7-12 Agriculture & Technology
Mar: HSC Seminars information
Feb: Premiers Agriculture Scholarships for 2008 information
Jan: NAAE Conference 2008 Pictorial Report
HSC Agriculture and Primary Industries Student Awards
Agriculture Teacher Awards
New web hosts "Have it Hosted" have taken over from Connectedhosting
2007
Nov: Promotion for the NAAE Conference in January 2008
Oct: Due to 1,000's of SPAM messages deluging the Executive mailboxes and no means to exclude them using filters, new email addresses have been created as listed below:
- president.nswaat@gmail.com
- secretary.nswaat@gmail.com
- treasurer.nswaat@gmail.com
The homepage and Executive webpage have been changed as a result
Jul: Teaching resources for the Links webpage and feedback provided by Graham Quintel. Much appreciated.
May: New competitions listed on homepage with details provided via hyperlinks.
Mar: A change to the structure of the nswaat executive has been posted to the executive.htm webpage.
Feb: Various agriculturally related events have been promoted this month.
Jan: State Executive information updated. Several links to external websites/email addresses corrected. Ongoing issues with SquirrelMail and SPAM. Mailboxes are getting choked with SPAM. There is a need for efficient filters to delete or redirect SPAM. Consultation with our host Connectedhosting® continues.
2006
Apr 18: Website has been down again this month but finally back online after 18 days of frustrating attempts to find out what the problem was. It appears that our web host thought our domain registration had expired. It hadn't. When that was cleared up we instantly became accessable to web browsers again!
An increase in "hits" on website noted in the period leading up to the conference , during and after the conference, which indicates the effectiveness of this medium in promoting such events.
Conference Agenda updates added to the Events webpage to replace outdated information.
New directories added to website to better organise uploaded files. Files moved and placed in directories according to their relevance to particular webpages. Links to webpages redone to allow these files to be accessed by members.
Mar: Website is down. Numerous emails have been sent to the web hosts to try and get the access issues resolved. It has taken 8 days for admin to find a fix to the problem.
2005
Dec: Additional information on Biennial Conference Bronze Sponsors added to the Events webpage. Information on Pat McCann's 2004 Award added to the Awards webpage.
Winter_05 edition of BAAT added to the BAAT archives webpage.
Oct/Nov: Spherious Web Hosting incorporated into a new "Web Host" (interesting how a well known Search Engine picked up on this sentence; therefore I have deleted the name). The change-over did not go smoothly and the old Web Server had to be rebuilt. This caused our website to be off-line for over a week. When it came back on-line, many of the functions used for maintaining the website did not work. The potential is there however for improved web hosting services.
Most webpages are now back up again and accessable to web browsers. Squirrelmail remains a problem as all passwords have been lost in the change-over and some email user accounts have disappeared. They have had to be set-up again as new users. Access is via http://www.nswaat.org.au/webmail/src/login.php (and not www.nswaat.org.au/squirrelmail/src/login.php)
Aug: Graphics added to a number of webpages along with updated links. Conference sponsor pages added.
Jul: Different webpage editing software trialled, including Macromedia's Studio MX.
Apr: Revised dates for Biennial Conference
Mar: Information on Biennial Conference 2006 posted
Feb: Colour added to various webpages
2004
Dec: New pages added and information updated by Ian Baird with much help from Graeme Harris.
Oct: Website completely revised.
Apr: State conference information attached, state world skills photos added.
2003
Dec 2: substantial update , addition of BAAT archives
Sep: New syllabus links added
May 31st: Jobs vacant and casual teachers available forms and page developed
