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Early Years Bookclub

Would you like to communicate and share ideas with students from Kangaroo Island and Adelaide in South Australia, Sydney in New South Wales, Kaiiri in Far North Queensland and Jupiter in Florida USA? Then join the Early Years Book Club on OzProjects!

The Early Years Bookclub is an OzProjects space for early years learners up to the age of 8 years to explore online books and share class thoughts and ideas. You can introduce yourself to these participants in the Introductions Forum and then read nine fanatstic stories online.  This is a great interactive whiteboard shared reading activity.  Each story has links to activities and a forum in which to discuss the story, give your opnion or answer a question about the story such as "Should Jack have sold the cow for a bean? Why?"  Activities include making some puppets, building a snowman online or playing some online games to learn about rhyming words.

If you need any further information contact Cecily Wright here on me.edu.au or email ozprojects@edna.edu.au

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Posted at 02:43PM Dec 07, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Coast Care Week

Did you know that December 7-13 is Coast Care Week?  

The Celebrate the Sea OzProject at http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/course/view.php?id=16 includes many activities and resources to help you understand how to behave responsibly to look after our beaches.  Many of these activities and resources are suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.  In the most recently added activity you can  learn some tips about preserving our coastal environment By reading the booklet 7 days in 7 ways and then trying an online sentence matching quiz to see how much you understand.

Contact Cecily Wright here on me.edu.au for more details or email ozprojects@edna.edu.au

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Posted at 02:27PM Dec 07, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Astronomy and Space

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy

• edna Schools Astronomy theme page 
• OzProjects online Celebrate Astronomy project
• NASA Kids Club
• BBC Science & Nature: Space
• Top 10 Modern Space Videos
• Explore the Galaxy & beyond with Google Sky
• Visit the Hubble Telescope
  
• Sing along with this little beauty!
• Watch a Solar Eclipse live 
• Download Celestia
  

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Posted at 03:58PM Jul 20, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Celebrate Astronomy

The Celebrate Astronomy online Project on OzProjects provides a range of resources and activities, including a discussion forum, wikis and a database activity. Students will have the opportunity to find out more about astronomy and share their knowledge with other project participants.
Both projects have activities for early years, primary and secondary students. Many engaging interactive whiteboard resources are included in the projects.
Support documents to help teachers and students get started in OzProjects are included in the Administration Block on the front page of the OzProjects website. Further support is available from Cecily Wright.[Read More]

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Posted at 02:21PM Jan 23, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Discover Natural Fibres

To help celebrate 2009 as the International Year of Natural Fibres, OzProjects has created a new project called Discover Natural Fibres.  It includes links to resources and activities for students from lower primary to upper secondary to increase student understanding of the importance of natural fibres. 

Alternatively it can be accessed from the OzProjects home page via the Global Projects section.

Enrolment instructions and additional Support Materials for teachers can be found in the Support Materials block on the front page of the OzProjects site. Alternatively Cecily Wright can be contacted for assitance via email or through her me.edu.au whiteboard
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Posted at 01:32PM Jan 21, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Concetta's Christmas Carnival of Learning

Concetta has collected a myriad of great ideas to do in the classroom this Christmas season. Check them out on her me.edu.au blog post Christmas Carnival of learning

If you have any great ideas or have seen something you'd like to add, leave a comment on Concetta's blog post!

 Also the OzProjects team has been hard at work again, putting together the December Celebrations Around the World online project: A place to share information and link to useful resources about December celebrations around the world.

We've already had lots of interest in this project from schools from around Australia and even an International school in Saudi Arabia! We hope to see a lot of interaction in the coming weeks.

Don't forget to check out the Christmas Theme Page in the Schools Sector of the edna site. The aim of edna's Christmas theme page is to help provide educators with a selection of highlighted links to online resources from within the edna collection. Basically we've done the testing and reviewing for you!

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Posted at 04:11PM Nov 21, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]

Celebrate the Sea and Virtual Classrooms

Celebrate the Sea- new project activities
The 2008 International Youth Coastal Conference will be held from 19th to 22nd October in Townsville, North Queensland, on the Great Barrier Reef. At this conference students aged between 11 and 17 will present 40 minute workshops to their peers on a marine or coastal topic relevant to their local area. Read more about this conference here. Visit the Celebrate the Sea OzProject here. A new activity has been added. it includes links to relevant online resources. Students are encouraged to teach others how to care for coastal environments by adding an action statement to a shared glossary. A new interactive whiteboard resource Sea Games has also been added to this project

  Photo Attributions:

1. big boy in the kelp forest, 2. Swimming in the Coral, 3. Jelly Fish, 4. sea nettle

Professional Development

Looking for some PD opportunities. Check the edna Events calendar for upcoming conferences and events in Australia and Overseas and use the events search tool to narrow down the results.

edna also runs annual workshops which will be added to the workshops page, or alternatively join the mailing list to be notified of upcoming edna workshops by sending an email to join-workshops@edna.edu.au

Virtual Classrooms

We have recently been trialling Live Classroom in OzProjects to provide an even greater interactive experience for Australian students and educators. Live Classroom is a real time virtual classroom from Wimba, which supports voice, video, whiteboarding, content display with archive capabilities as well as application sharing and it is available for use in OzProjects and also in edna Groups

We have also recently installed the Wimba Voice Tools into edna Groups. The voice tools, including a voice recorder, presentation tool and a podcaster. Although we are still in our infancy with this tool we are certainly excited about the wonderful collaborative possibilities ahead. Check out the Live Classroom group on edna for more information.

If you would like to be involved in some free professional development in how to participate in, and run your own Virtual Classroom sessions please email groups@edna.edu.au for more information.

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Posted at 05:12PM Oct 10, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]