Jenny Millea has worked with education.au for eight years in a range of roles, her current role being Program Manager, Higher Education. Her most recent major project was the ALTC Exchange (formerly Carrick Exchange in which she undertook the preliminary research and conceptual work in developing the scenarios that were the basis for the RIN (Resource Identification Network) demonstrator and the subsequent core functionality of the ALTC Exchange service. She managed the consultation processes with the higher education sector for the rights management investigation and the metadata investigation.
Jenny was both manager and information manager for the edna project and was part of the management team that led its movement from a static website into a set of web services available via XML and RSS and mobile technologies. She was the initiator of the accessED toolbar project. She was the lead writer and researcher on a consultancy for the ACT Department of Education and Training on emerging technologies in education and training.
Jenny’s background is as a content developer and information architect and she has been working directly in web and content development for the past 12 years. She has won awards and grants for her creative writing including a residency at the Varuna Writers’ Centre. She taught professional writing at the University of Canberra for 6 years and received a $40,000 university grant to undertake a project ‘Integrating the Internet’ to assist academics in integrating the internet into their teaching, learning and research. She won a ‘Don’s Dozen’ award from the then Vice-Chancellor for services to the university community. She was the production manager of the University’s literary journal ‘Redoubt’, initiator and manager of the professional writing students’ annual publication ‘FIRST” and co-edited a collection of short fiction by ACT writers funded by the ACT Cultural Council. She was the Deputy Director of the University’s Canberra Centre for Writing and contributed to a number of university committees.
She telecommutes with education.au’s Adelaide office from the nation’s capital, Canberra.
