Speaking from Experience: new health resources for students and teachers
A new collection of online health resources is now available for students and teachers. Speaking from Experience is a set of digital video clips documenting Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people's experiences of living with a chronic illness or caring for someone with one. The young people speak openly about their day-to-day challenges, coping strategies, and the impact on their families. The clips are supported by downloadable worksheets and guidance on how they can be used.
Accessing the resources: two options
Teachers across Australia can access Speaking from Experience video clips by searching for 'Speaking from Experience' in their education authority's portal. Alternatively, students and teachers can get full access by registering directly at the RealTime Health website: http://education.realtimehealth.com/register/signup.
My Place television series and teaching resources
My Place for Teachers is an exciting source of rich educational materials designed to support teachers in exploring issues and contexts presented in My Place.
Based on the children's book My Place by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins, and the recently launched television series, the My Place for Teachers interactive website provides resources to engage and motivate students as well as a forum to support collaboration between teachers.
On the website www.myplace.edu.au teachers will find:
- an Australian history timeline that highlights events in each decade
- 39 downloadable clips from the television series
- teaching and learning activities that relate to the Australian curriculum areas of English and History for middle and upper primary, extending to lower secondary year levels
- three main themes and 22 subthemes where teachers can search for relevant resources to support their individual teaching programs
- 'Our place', an interactive forum where teachers can share their strategies for using My Place for Teachers in the classroom and can upload their students' stories.
Since 1988, thousands of Australian teachers have used the My Place book to support the teaching of English and Australian History. My Place for Teachers interactive website extends and enlivens the teaching potential of this brilliant resource. Explore the teaching resources on the website: www.myplace.edu.au
Don't miss the television adaptation screening on ABC 1 in April. Looking back from the year 2008 to 1888, the My Place television series covers the stories of the children who live in the same house over 130 years. The series includes all characters from the book and introduces two new characters, Lily and Mohammed.
The My Place television series screens on ABC1 from 22 April and continues each weekday afternoon at 5.30pm. Australian schools with a Screenrights licence may copy the series and retain it in their school library. More about My Place.
The Le@rning Federation contributes to the Curriki community
The Le@rning Federation is pleased to partner with the Global Education and Learning Community by contributing 100 digital curriculum resources to the Curriki community of online educators, learners and education experts.
Curriki is an online environment supporting the development and distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. The educational content on Curriki includes more than 32,000 high-quality lessons, units, assessments and multimedia learning objects for years K to 12. The resources on Curriki are contributed by teachers, universities, publishers and professional development organisations from around the world.
As a result of the collaboration, The Le@rning Federation's digital curriculum resources will be available to educators worldwide under a Creative Commons licence. The project will provide information about how the resources are used within an international context, and will be an opportunity to explore the licensing implications of sharing content under an open-licensing model.