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!

Tags: ideas christmas december celebrations resources ozprojects concetta
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.

Tags: edna workshop wimba voice celebrate the sea live classroom ozprojects
Posted at 05:12PM Oct 10, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]