Month: May 2016
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How a textbook is made
A lot of work goes into creating a textbook. Publishers, authors, designers and printers all need to work together to create high quality resources that help educators teach and students learn. Sometimes it can take four or more years for a textbook to go from idea to published book. The below infographic presents the many stages a…
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Using dynamic and real world case studies to inform learning
When we were approached by Oxford University Press to create a book about language development, we were given some clear directives about what it needed to be: interprofessional (for linguists, educators and speech-language pathologists), locally relevant (for an Australian and New Zealand audience) and useful (for students, lecturers prescribing it as a text and for…
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Top tips for entering the Connecting with Law Short Film Competition
Have you been thinking about entering the Connecting with Law Short Film Competition this year? Are you having trouble getting started with your film? Do you need help getting your creative juices flowing? We recently spoke to some of our previous film competition winners about their filmmaking experiences and asked if they had any advice…
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Where is Annie’s room?
In this article, reproduced from our latest issue of Ozwords, Mark Gwynn investigates the questionable etymology of the Australian phrase up in Annie’s room. In Australian English the term Annie’s room refers to an unknown, mythical, or unspecified place. It is chiefly used in the phrase up in Annie’s room, a facetious reply you may give to…
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Oxford Word of the Month: May – Tag dag
noun: a person who accidentally leaves a garment label showing. In 2008 a newspaper article with the heading ‘No panties OK, but what about the tag?’ drew attention to a fashion faux pas made by model Jennifer Hawkins. It wasn’t the fact she had chosen not to wear underpants, but that a garment label was…