If You Don’t Use It – You Lose It!

The ultimate key to health and wellbeing is consistent and regular exercise. However, as we get older and busier, the average person tends to become less consistent or inactive, resulting in reduced flexibility, balance, coordination, strength and cardiovascular fitness. Yet, once we do pick up a tennis racquet, we play as if we are teenagers and pull up with a shoulder injury, or we go for a 2 hour bike ride with our mates – despite having not done any cardiovascular fitness since the previous summer and can barely walk for a week…. sound familiar to anyone?

What Now?

With the current obesity epidemic (over 60% of Australians are overweight or obese – one of the fattest nations in the world) and an increase in musculoskeletal injuries, reduced activity is costing individuals and the nation a fortune in medical treatment.

To sum up what to include in your exercise routine, incorporate a combination of the following fitness components:

• Cardiovascular/ Aerobic
  • Improves the efficiency with which we deliver oxygen to working muscles.
  • Includes walking, running, cycling, rowing, swimming, dancing.
• Strength/ Resistance
  • Increases muscle strength and endurance.
  • Improves muscle recruitment and maintains optimal posture.
  • Includes resistance training, interval training, pilates, yoga, boxing, fit ball exercises.
• Flexibility
  • Improves/ maintains range of motion and joint health.
  • Assists the body in recovery from exercising.
  • Includes stretching, yoga.

How Much?

There are two types of exercise:

New News 2010 conference – September 2nd – 3rd 2010

To be held on 2nd and 3rd September 2010 as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, New News 2010 focuses on the collaboration, creation and building of new and creative relationships between newsmakers and audiences. The event includes free and ticketed keynote discussions and panel sessions as well as a series of workshops aimed at teaching digital skills to industry practitioners and the general public.

All professional journalists, students, citizen content makers and members of the general community are encouraged to attend.

Swinburne students and staff are entitled to a special deal: for $120, entitles the holder to all sessions on both days.

Purchase your ticket today!

Link: http://tickets.mwf.com.au/product.asp?pt=2&s=358

For more information contact:

• Tara Peck
  pijf@swin.edu.au
  (03) 9214 5239

Assistant Director x 1 (able to assist in the whole production, best to have a lot of contact and ability to arrange personnel such as actor / actress)
Editor/Visual Effect Artist x 2 (must have proficiency in dealing with Adobe Premiere/Final Cut Pro and After Effects)
Scriptwriter x 1
Storyboard artist x 1 (Able to sketch and outline the script)
Let Lisa know if you can help!

This would make a suitable Media Project for those of you studying HALM317

The work will range from simple data entry for content creation and
website development, to managing syndicated content, to helping
research and pitch articles, stories and photographs, to editors and
publishers, and possibly even write articles or sections, for various
publications and magazines, including The Age newspaper. Some of it
will be very basic work, compiling editorial lists and data entry for example. But a fair bit will be directly related to publishing,distribution, journalism and media and I am happy to teach what I know as we work.

I worked at the Age till 1992 as a journalist and have freelanced pretty regularly since. I now run a small publishing business with many projects underway.

I will place an ad on Swinburne’s employment site, but thought this might be a more direct way of finding the right person.”

Please email a 6 – 10 paragraph bio outlining you interests and experience (in prose) to Lisa if you are interested lgye@swin.edu.au

TheBigTip (TBT) is a sports channel driven entirely by public contribution; they say that they represent the ‘real voice’ of public opinion leaders and sports enthusiasts.

If you participate in a sports forum, enjoy writing or simply would like to have your opinion heard then register here and begin writing today.

You will have transparent reporting on all your articles written including views, comments, popularity.

They will aggressively promote your work through all available social media channels, forums and media.

You get paid! Feature writers who receive over 500 unique views are entitled to be paid – As soon as your article hits a minimum of 500 unique views you will be awarded a payment.

What are you waiting for?

The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC), Australia’s not for profit peak body for multicultural community broadcasters, is looking for a project assistant who is highly competent, exceptionally organised, proactive, has excellent written and oral communication skills and has experience working with migrant, refugee and/or Indigenous communities. A knowledge or experience of the media sector is desirable. This position would suit students in their 3rd year or above.
This role will be two days a week for 8 weeks to assist with organising the National Radioactive Multicultural and Indigenous Youth Media Conference to be held in Canberra from 14th- 15th August. The role will involve liaising with multicultural and Indigenous organisations, media outlets and educational institutions to help publicise the conference. The role will also provide administrative assistance to the project manager and main organiser of the conference.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic national organisation and get experience working in the multicultural and community broadcasting sectors.
The hours are flexible to fit in with study or work commitments. You will be mentored by the project manager and there is opportunity for an extended internship to work on other projects within the organisation.
This is an unpaid position based in the NEMBC office in Fitzroy.

Please send a CV and cover letter to Rachael Bongiorno at rbongiorno@nembc.org.au

***Applications close: 15 June 2010***
Preferred start date: 21 June 2010

“The role will be casual – and work will be given project by project (can expect consistent supply). Work to be completed from home, hence applicants will need to have own equipment, software etc.

Mix of work is likely to be 70% Web design, 30% Graphic Design.

Would suit a student nearing the end of their course, or someone who has recently graduated and is looking for work to build their portfolio.

We’re a young company, and are looking for someone who can grow with the business. Hence there may be opportunity for the role to become full time.

Please provide with your application copies of/links to examples of both Web Design & Graphic Design work completed. Applicants should have knowledge of building sites with CMS.”

Please visit the job advertisement on Gumtree to contact the advertiser and apply!

BUT!!! We’d like to know what students want to see more of! Help us provide you with the kind of information you’re interested in seeing so that we can shape the content to suit your needs!

Some ideas to start you off:

- More information on career paths in the media industry
- A broader range of student work on display aside from written pieces
- Help developing your own online presence (through blogs, personal websites, forums etc.)

We’d love as many responses as possible! Please post in the comment box below!

Visit http://tennisaustralia.bigredsky.com for a full list of positions for the Australian Open 2011!

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and ambitious media student. You will need to meet tight deadlines and be able to attend about five production meetings at Swinburne. All meetings will be held after 5pm in late May (after teaching has finished).

I’m looking for: journalists, sub-editors, photographers, layout and design savvy people!

You will help choose the title of the magazine, assist with layout, write stories, take photos, edit and attend meetings with the publisher.

You will get your name in the magazine and a reference letter to put into your portfolio.

If you’re interested in this exciting opoprtunity to add to your portfolio, please email Diana at  dbossio@swin.edu.au