Showcasing Events and Curriculum Projects in the ISC

Recently we set up a permanent wall mounted 42" display monitor in the ISC. Its purpose is to not only promote reading and activities in the ISC but also showcase Gippsland Grammar events and ICT projects.The display monitor is already creating a great deal of interest from the students and I encourage all teachers to use this tool to not only showcase exemplary work but provide students with an audience to view their ICT products.I'm sure it will raise the bar if students know that their assessment tasks will be viewed by a larger audience.

Education Services Australia

It might have gone unnoticed that Education.au and Curriculum Corporation merged to become Education Services Australia in March 2010.It aims to meet the needs of all educational sectors,particularly in relation to the implementation of National Curriculum and the Digital Education Revolution.The Services it provides are :

Scootle - A rich digital curriculum content resource for schools

me.edu.au - An online professional network for educators with a strong Web2 focus

Edna - A resource supporting all education sectors in the use of ICT.

Cyber smart - Provides activiites and resources to help young people stay safe online.

Myfuture - An excellent national online career information resource

Global Education - Funded by Austaid ,aims to increase the amount and quality of teaching of global education.

Teaching Australia - A national body for the teaching profession which promotes quality teaching

A new Education Services Australia website will be launched soon at esa.edu.au.Until then, previous links to Curriculum Corporation and Education.au are provided.

Scootle - Your one stop shop for digital curriculum content

Last week all teachers at Gippsland Grammar were given the opportunity to register with Scootle.Scootle has been developed by Education Services Australia and basically replaces what we called in the past,The Learning Federation.This online learning repository contains all the digital curriculum content from Learning Federation with the addition of some great new features. After having a play around with it I can see that it will become a starting point when planning learning activities.The new features that were not available on the former TLF are:

• Access to teaching units
• Access to assessment resources
• Ability to create learning paths and share them with students and teachers
• Access to collections based on themes/topics.
  

At this point of time we have 31 teachers registered across the three campuses.I will be managing our school account which means I will be keeping the users list up todate and provide PD on its use when requested by individual learning areas