Connections Archive

ARTS: COMMUNICATORS BECOME RADIO PRODUCERS
Avondale College communications students visited Central Coast radio stations 2GO and Sea FM this past week to help produce advertisements from scripts they wrote for class. Bill Bailey, creative director of Red Tractor Creatives and a Writing for Broadcast Media guest lecturer, coordinated the visit. Many of the students voiced their scripts. "[We're] committed to developing links with industry, so it was wonderful for students to have first-hand experience with script production at a local radio station," says communication lecturer and course coordinator Carolyn Rickett.-Kirsten Bolinger

Caption: Communication students Marissa Grove and Benjamin Moyes take direction from Bill Bailey as they produce their radio advertisements.
Credit: Carolyn Rickett

ASA: BENARD NAMED NEW PRESIDENT
Avondale Student Association has appointed Jared Benard, a second-year Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Teaching student, as its new president. Choose the "Announcements" link on the Connections homepage for the names of other appointees.
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FESTIVAL OF FAITH: 10/5 TIME CHANGE
Festival of Faith will begin at 10 am each weekday from next year. The decision by the Avondale College Academic Board may see some classes rescheduled but will save having to compress the timetable.

INSTITUTE OF WORSHIP: STUDENT AFFIRMED AS MENTOR
More than 100 people representing more than half the Seventh-day Adventist churches in South Australia have attended a conference organised by the Avondale College-based Institute of Worship in Adelaide. One of the highlights: "The way young worship leaders and musicians were mentored and affirmed," says director and senior lecturer in theology Dr Lyell Heise. He notes in particular the contribution of Bachelor of Education (primary) student Blake Robinson, who joined Lyell, Valmai Hill and Marian Moroney and two other consultants as tutors.

TRIATHLON CLUB MOVES FROM COMMUNITY TO COLLEGE
Avondale College has a new club. The Avondale Lake Macquarie Triathlon Club had been operating as a community-based organisation before the organisational and name change. Dr Darren Morton, a senior lecturer in health and exercise science in the Faculty of Education, is president.