About this CD
This subject as part of the Emergency Mangement Course has been provided to students in the past in a print based format. However, it was decided to improve the learning experience for students by adapting this course to an electronic medium to:
- Provide access to web based resources, industry sites and government authorities, which maintains the subject relevance and currency;
- Enable links to embedded multi-media resources;
- Encourage the use of the forums and collaborative learning by linking study activities to forums;
- Provide an opportunity for students to develop a professional practice portfolio and learning portfolio;
- Enable the utilisation of interactive activities that stimulate student learning.
How to use this CD
Internet Explorer
This CD-ROM has been designed to open automatically within Internet Explorer. The latest version is Internet Explorer 6 and is available for download or update from Microsoft.
This CD-ROM is best viewed at a resolution of 1024x768 pixels.
To access this CD_ROM on an Apple Macintosh
- open INTERNET EXPLORER (not SAFARI)
- go to FILE then OPEN FILE
- choose your CD drive, then double click INDEX.htm
- if media files don't play when clicked, go to the MEDIA folder on the CD and double click on the file
Windows Media Player
The video clips should open by clicking on the required link. The video file should then automatically launch the Windows Media Player on your computer.
If you experience problems opening a video file try opening the file directly from your CD-ROM drive (accessed via Windows Explorer or equivalent). To open the video file you need to open or click the .wmv file and then the video file should launch your media player automatically. You could also try opening your media player application (Windows Media Player) and then open the file directly from within that application.
You will need a Windows Media Player on your computer to be able to view the video files. This can be downloaded directly from the software manufacturer, Microsoft.
Using the navigation bars
This subject is comprised of 9 topics, each with commentary and accompanying activities. You can access every topic from the navigation bar at the top of the screen, or from the home page of the subject.
The navigation bar on the right hand side of the screen is basically all the content or the sub-sections of each topic. This may consist of several linked pages. A topic usually consists of an overview, sub-topics and activities, a summary and a review. This allows you quick and easy access to all the elements of a topic.
The topic navigation bar at the top of the screen combined with the right hand side within topic navigation bar means that you can access any element of the subject from anywhere within this site. The 'top' link on the right hand navigation bar takes you to the top of the page where you can access both the top and right hand navigation.
Printing the activity pages
Many of the activities in this subject were designed to be printed and included in your Learning Portfolio. To find out more about your Learning Portfolio you will need to go to the Portfolio section of the accompanying Course Resource CD. The activities that need to be printed have a "print this activity" link. When you click on this link a new browser window will open and your printer dialogue box should appear. You simply need to click on "OK" and the activity will print out for you. If, for any reason, your printers dialogue box does not appear simply right-click on the page and select "print".
For further information about this subject - Emergency Planning 1, go to the about this subject section.
About us
The Emergency Management Course development team:
Ian Manock, School of Public Health, Course/Subject Coordinator
Maryanne Mozer, Educational Designer CELT
Lynnette Flynn, Educational Designer LML Coordinator CELT
John Merkel, Media Production Officer LMC
Annette Stapley, Learning Media Processing Officer LMC
Janine Wright, Learning Media Processing Officer LMC
Acknowledgement
The content in many sections of this Study Guide has been adapted from:
United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP).
http://www.undmtp.org/default.asp
The topics widely refer to
Emergency Management Australia's (EMA)
Australian Emergency Manual Series (AEMs). We thank EMA for allowing us to use these manuals and publications which are available on their own website at:
http://www.ema.gov.au/
All diagrams within this resource that are unreferenced have been developed by present or past staff of CSU.