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It offers 'start to finish' production and management of Internet conferences, which include 'real time' online discussions and the opportunity for professionals to connect with colleagues, both nationally and internationally. CyberText also provides website management, electronic newsletters and Internet video production. CyberText has long-term experience in the production and management of professional journals and newsletters. We offer a full range of editorial services, such as freelance journalism, proofreading, cartoons, desktop publishing, graphic design, online video and photography. CyberText also specialises in travel writing and photography for newspapers and magazines. Please contact Ms Debra Brydon if your organisation, school or company would like to discuss the provision of any of the above services. Ms Debra J. Brydon is a former primary and secondary school teacher from Melbourne, Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History at the University of Melbourne, Ms Brydon was awarded a Rotary Graduate Scholarship in 1983, to become the first western student at the University of Kashmir, in Srinagar, northern India. She maintains a strong interest in inter-cultural and international issues, including international exchanges, and enjoys spending time backpacking in diverse parts of the world. Ms Brydon has visited schools in Nepal, India, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom, and welcomes the opportunity to meet educators from all countries, either in Australia as visitors, or in their home country. For the past 17 years Ms Brydon has been involved in editing and managing publications specifically for educational leaders, and has published her own articles in some of these publications. At present, she is Executive Editor of Principal Matters, the official professional journal for secondary principals in Australia. Ms Brydon is also the Executive Editor of Leadership in Focus (formerly Prime Focus), a professional publication for Australasian school leaders. Since 1992, Ms Brydon has been the Managing Editor of Directions in Education, an education policy advisory service, for the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL). From 1993 to 1997, she was the Managing Editor of International Directions in Education, which was produced by the then ACEA on behalf of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration. From 1996 Ms Brydon has been producing Ed-Vine, a monthly international education news publication for the ACEL. In 2006 a new e-news service, ACEL FastNews, was added to the services supplied to the ACEL by CyberText’s new e-news division, FastText, For three years, from 1996 to 1999, she was the Australian Locator for International Internship Programs, in Tokyo, placing over 350 Japanese interns in Australian schools and some businesses in New Zealand. Ms Brydon was also founding editor of ICP Online, the website for the International Confederation of Principals, in 1999 and managed this until 2005. In 2000, Ms Brydon, through her company CyberText, managed the first internet conference held by the Australian Principals Associations' Professional Development Council (APAPDC). In 2001 she managed the first internet conference held by the Technology Colleges Trust, in the United Kingdom, for the professional development of school heads. During that year, she also managed an internet conference on Civics and Citizenship education, for the New South Wales branch of the APAPDC, which involved principals and school heads from all over the world. In 2001, she also managed an internet conference for the Teachers' International Professional Development (TIPD) program, in the United Kingdom. In 2002, Ms Brydon managed a second internet conference for the Technology Colleges Trust (UK), which featured an international online debate for principals and school heads. Since then, she has been involved in managing online conferences for the Trust (now the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) and its international arm, iNet (International Networking for Educational Transformation), including its first- ever international online conference for students in March 2006. Ms Brydon has made presentations to school leaders at the International Confederation of Principals conventions in Helsinki, Finland and Kyonju, in Korea. Ms Brydon also made presentations in Amsterdam at iNet’s first global conference in 2005, and in Birmingham, UK, at the Specialist Schools and Academy Trust’s national conference in 2005. In 2004 Ms Brydon was awarded the title of Fellow by the Australian Council of Educational Leaders in 2004. |
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Welcome!
CyberText is an international company that provides
Internet and paper-based publication services for the education and
travel sectors.