'Brekkie with a Techie' - Kariong Mountains Learning Community 'Brekkie with a Techie' is a weekly 15 minute presentation by teachers for teachers covering a wide variety of ICT tools, tips and tricks to support the relevant, meaningful integration of technology into teaching and learning. 'Brekkie with a Techie' is delivered online via Adobe Connect every Wednesday morning from 8.15am sharp to 8.30am. Click on a link below to view a 'Brekkie with a Techie' recording: To join our weekly 'Brekkie with a Techie' sessions: 1) Open Internet Explorer 2) Go to: connect.schools.nsw.edu.au/kps 3) Login using the following details: USERNAME: detusername@detnswPASSWORD: your portal password For more information download the 'Quick Start Guide' using the link below. Anyone is welcome to present at one of our weekly 'Brekkie with a Techie' sessions. Contact Justine Abell: justine.abell@det.nsw.edu.au Contact Kerri Mullane: kerri.mullane@det.nsw.edu.au
Koori Mail Australian Curriculum Lessons Maths - Text Ideas Olivia Counts - Ian Falconer Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek - Eileen Christelow Follow the line - Laura Ljungkvist One Bear at Bedtime - Mick Inkpen One Frog Sang - Shirley Parenteau One Gorilla - Atsuko Morozumi One Hundred Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy The Shopping Basket - John Burmingham Ten Apples Up On Top - Theo LeSieg The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle City by Numbers - Stephen Johnson Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure - Doreen Cronin Chicka Chicka 123 - Bill Martin & Michael Sampson How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten - Jane Yolen & Mark Teague Potato Joe - Keith Baker Five Creatures - Emily Jenkins and Tomek Bogacki My Little Sister Ate One Hare - Bill Grossman One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes & Bonnie Mackain Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book - Christopher Wormell Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book - Yuyi Morales Ten Black Dots - Donald Crews How Many Bugs in a Box? Let's Count to 100! 10 Little Penguins, Jean-Luc Fromental
OER in Australia OER in Australia OER is a global phenomenon and whilst it is currently concentrated in a few countries, there are a growing number of good OER websites in Australia: Scootle has over 1500 learning resources made available under CC licenses by Education Services Australia. The Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (ACARA) offers the Australian curriculum as an OER. The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides OER and sample courses from 5 faculties including science and technology. First Steps is a WA Department of Education website which offers OER on literacy, maths and physical education. Charles Darwin University offers a digital repository of endangered literature in Australian Indigenous languages from around the Northern Territory as OER. The NSW Department of Education and Communities offers six OER set out in creative and interactive web-layouts: Julius Caesar is a resource for senior students studying Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".
Aboriginal inventions: 10 enduring innovations ABORIGINAL PEOPLE FORMED one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world when they first arrived in Australia. The way they adapted to our country's challenging conditions is a testament to Aussie inventiveness. It was once a widely-held belief in Australia that before contact, Aboriginal culture stood still. But forming the kinds of agricultural societies typical of English settlers just wasn't the right strategy to endure Australia's harsh conditions. Even with imported English technology, agriculture was a precarious business in Australia. "Diversification was the key to surviving in such a diverse landscape," says Lyndon Ormond-Parker, a research fellow from the indigenous studies unit at the University of Melbourne. This diversity can be seen in the wide range of technology Aboriginal people used. The boomerang The boomerang's distinctive sound and remarkable return flight has made it famous throughout the world. The woomera Thermoplastic resins Weirs and fish traps Toys
Mathletics: powering maths learning across Australia Open educational resources (OERs) There is no one, standard definition of open educational resources. However, the following broad definition of OERs from OER Commons seems to be generally accepted by the community: 'Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.' OERs exist within a wider ‘open’ movement and context, explored below. The open movement Many of these have been driven by and created by communities that recognise the benefits to themselves, and sometimes to wider groups. What are educational resources? What are open educational resources? Engagement with OER can be light touch. Finding OERs