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26 Jul 2010
This tool generates Creative Commons HTML code for Flickr images. Search for images, or enter url and Creative Commons licence details will be retrieved automatically and correct licence and user details added as a caption to photo for easy embedding in websites, blogs, wikis or digital presentations.
21 Jul 2010
National Literacy and Numeracy Week [edna Resources]
(Marion McDonald bookmarked this item)
A Commonwealth initiative, developed in collaboration with the State and Territory Governments and the non-government education authorities to help raise community awareness of the importance of appropriate literacy and numeracy skills for all Australian students. The event, coinciding with International Literacy Day on 8 September, will showcase the work school communities in improving the literacy and numeracy skills of students. Information about school activities across Australia is availabl[..]
15 Jul 2010
Australian libraries and library associations have got together to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading (NYOR), linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.
10 Jun 2010
Learning in the 21st century: Parents' perspectives, Parents' priorities
(Julia Boulton bookmarked this item)
Parents believe that information literacy is crucial to their children's success.
12 May 2010
The Indigenous Literacy Project is a partnership between The Fred Hollows Foundation, the Australian Publishers Association (APA), and the Australian Booksellers Associtation (ABA) with the goal to raise urgently needed funds for literacy for remote Indigenous communities. The Foundation projects use a three-way approach to promote cultural literacy, practical literacy and English literacy. Information on how to support the campaign is provided for the book industry, authors, schools, and busine[..]
07 May 2010
Digital world of young children: Emergent literacy [edna Resources]
(Julia Boulton bookmarked this item)
This research paper explores the ways in which young people's learning and expression are being shaped by mobile and digital technologies, including cell phones, television, video games, smart devices, and computers. According to this report, digital media is already transforming the language and cultural practices that enable early literacy development, making possible a new kind of personal and global interconnectedness.
19 Apr 2010
This report documents what was learnt as a range of government, education and human service organisations collaborated to build language, literacy and numeracy (LLN)1 capacity in a local government region. It's key findings are categorised as networking (past, present and future); building knowledge about educators and LLN learners; and access and circulation of information.
This annual festival celebrates the development and implementation of new ideas and applauds better ways of operating across all industries. Each of the events is hosted by an organisation actively working to promote innovation. The website includes current news on festival activities, details of sponsors and partners and information about festival-related opportunities.
This paper explains how to access the National Centre for Vocational Education Research's (NCVER) information sources. Special research topics are: adult literacy, indigenous people, people with a disability, and young people. There is information for researchers, and a list of what statistics are collected and when they are released.
The course is built around individual and collective reflections, summaries and challenges, using the shared blogging platform. All of the course material is open on the web -free to use for all participants.
Jenny Millea
26 Sep 2008
INVITATION
You?re invited to participate in an open conversation about collaboration in teaching and learning (CTL), online from 3 October 2008 to 14 November 2008 at http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2010
The Collaboration in Teaching and Learning Tankette is being conducted by education.au (www.educationau.edu.au) as part of the Strategic ICT Advisory Service it is providing to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).
To participate, you will need to register at edna groups at http://groups.edna.edu.au/ and use the group invitation key CTL2010.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
The CTL Tankette (a small think tank), and the associated supporting materials, will provide DEEWR with information to feed into their policy making process.
Mark McMahon
17 Jun 2008
Hi, I'm just expanding my use of EDNA. Lately, I have been teaching seniors to be comfortable with the internet (and their relatives who use it often). iGoogle has proved to be an excellent tool as a "base of operations" and a great motivator to evaluate websites, eg, Dihydrogen Monoxide, which actually contains nothing untruthful but .......
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