New Internet Resources for Education - 2003 Archive

 

• New Internet Resources for AESS

• Trial of New Online Services

Many of the following links have been added to the Education pages

December 2003

• New Year's Celebrations from Around the World
  From Topics Online Magazine, "an online magazine for learners of English."

• The Middle Phase of Learning
  
  • Middle Phase of Learning: State School Action Plan [.pdf file, 13 pages]
    This Education Queensland action plan is at the discussion stage.

• Shaping our future - Australia's national strategy for vocational education and training 2004-2010
  Shaping Our Future is government and industry's collective strategy to ensure: industry will have a highly skilled workforce to support strong performance in the global economy; employers and individuals will be at the centre of VET; communities and regions will be strengthened economically and socially through learning and employment; and that Indigenous Australians will have skills for viable jobs and their learning culture will be shared.

• Hot Topics: Christmas
  Updated page of web sites, books and other resources from the Curriculum Exchange. JCU staff and students require a password to access.

• EdNA Theme Pages for Australian Schools
  These pages provide teachers and students with evaluated quality resources from the searchable EdNA Online database. Topics include Animals in Zoos, Convicts, Geography, Television among many more.

  November 2003

• EdNA: National Software Evaluation Project (NSEP)
  Access guidelines for choosing software; software reviews; and links for locating and downloading educational software.

  October 2003

• Kids in Mind
  Children and adolescents dealing with personal problems now have increased access to specialist advice and information with the launch of the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service's Kids in Mind website. AccessEd partnered with the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS – pronounced 'Kims') to design, develop and implement the website. More information

• Australia's Teachers: Australia's Future - Advancing Innovation, Science, Technology and Mathematics
  The Review of Teaching and Teacher Education Final Report was released on 9 October. It is presented in three volumes: an Agenda for Action, a Main Report and Background Data and Analysis. The Agenda for Action presents the Review Committee’s main findings and conclusions and a range of actions the Committee believes need to be taken. The Main Report presents the reasoning and argument based on evidence from a wide variety of sources that underpin the Agenda for Action; and the Background Data and Analysis presents much of the data supporting the views formed during the course of the Review.

• REDI: Resilience Education and Drug Information
  The REDI website is a drug resource for Australian school communities provided by DEST. It contains a comprehensive database of information about resources, policies and materials for drug education and incident management. You can search the REDI databse to find resources and other information for use in teaching school drug education.

  September 2003

• ERIC/ACVE Publications - Trends and Issues Alerts
  Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, these documents may be freely reproduced. One of the most recent is Community Asset Mapping by Sandra Kerka.
  Subscribe to ERIC/ACVE Listserv

• Greek Mythology
  A selection of reviewed sites from Surfing the Net with Kids.

  July 2003

• Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
  Figure This! provides eighty printable math challenges and answer sheets for middle schoolers. The challenges can be used online by checking the two indexes for interesting topics, or download them in PDF format for printing and offline use. There are also sections for parents and teachers which provide tips on using the challenges. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.

• Beyond the Middle: A Report about Literacy and Numeracy Development of a Target Group Students in the Middle Years of Schooling
  A report providing a useful national coverage of approaches assisting the literacy and numeracy development of Australian students in Years 5 to 10.
  The work was undertaken by a research team headed by Professor Allan Luke and Professor John Elkins from the School of Education, University of Queensland and is a study of the efficacy of middle years programs in all States and Territories for improving teaching and learning, and student outcomes in literacy and numeracy.
  The document can be downloaded from this page in Acrobat Reader.

• MyRead: Strategies for teaching reading in the middle years
  The Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) have jointly developed an online resource to assist teachers of students in the middle years of schooling to meet the literacy needs of less able readers in their classes. MyRead incorporates strategies for teaching and learning that acknowledge the diversity of students, the value of monitoring and assessment to inform teaching, and the importance of teaching reading by teachers from all curriculum areas and the professionalism of teachers. MyRead includes a set of 16 reading guides to assist teachers with successful strategies to teach reading. Professor Peter Freebody from Griffith University was the academic advisor to the project.
  One of the guides, Interlinks: Annotated Learning, is co-authored by Glenda Shopen in Cairns.

  June 2003

• Website moves students to write poetry
  Education Queensland and Arts Queensland an online educational resource to encourage poetry writing amongst school students throughout the state.

  May 2003

• Eduseek
  "Eduseek is a U.K. portal to millions of Educational web sites. Only top quality sites are included and the suitable age range is listed for every site. You can choose the age range you wish to search for by ticking the boxes to the right of "Age Groups".
  They recommend using the search box to find the sites you are interested in, but you can also navigate the large directory of sites by selecting the relevant subject.

• Towards the Development of a National Agenda for Early Childhood
  A consultation paper has been prepared by the Commonwealth Task Force on Child Development, Health and Wellbeing to start discussion and debate about the development of a National Agenda for Early Childhood.

• ICTs for Learning
  "The ICTs for Learning strategy aims to assist Queensland state schools to integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) into teaching, learning and the curriculum. It is part of the Queensland government's Education and Training Reforms for the Future package.
  This site provides information for principals, teachers and school communities to support them in participating in ICTs for Learning."
  • Girls and ICTs Framework for Action 2003-2004 [.pdf file, 17 pages]
    This publication provides a blueprint for schools to increase girls' ’ participation in ICTs subjects and to create a new, more inclusive culture of learning with technologies.

• How to get better at writing geographically
  Describes the development of a method of helping KS3 [lower secondary] students to understand different levels of attainment in geographical writing.
  (See also Teaching Geography, April 2003, vol.28(2) p.56)

• Child Care in Queensland
  Information relating to child care from the Queensland Department of Families
  (Early Childhood Development & Education)

• Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: a Review of the Research
  This report, commissioned by the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and published in March 2003, is available on the ASLA website. (Library Resources for Schools )

• A Good Start to Numeracy: Literature Review of Effective Numeracy Strategies in Early Childhood [.pdf file, 63 pages]
  The Commonwealth has commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research to undertake a longitudinal study examining the practices and learning experiences that support the early numeracy development of children in the year before school (2002) and the first year of schooling (2003). The title of the project is Project Good Start.
  This PDF file reviews the international and Australian research literature on numeracy in early childhood with a focus on effective strategies and practices.

• New Ejournals in Education
  • Post-Script [ISSN 1444383X]
    (http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/insight/pscript.shtml)
    Post-Script is a journal of research and reviews for graduate students of education. Post-Script publishes:
    • Reports of empirical studies, including research-in-progress
    • Critical literature reviews
    • Analytical articles on contemporary issues in education
    • Essay length book reviews
    • Short book reviews
    [Indexed in AEI]
    (From NewJour, http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html)

  • International Education Journal [ISSN 14431475]
    (http://iej.cjb.net/)
    This is a broadly based journal edited by staff in the School of Education, Flinders University. It encompasses research and review articles. Education is interpreted in a wide manner and includes human development, learning, school education, formal and informal education, tertiary and vocational education, industry training and lifelong learning.
    [Indexed in AEI]
    (From NewJour, http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html)

  • Australian Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology [ISSN 1446-5442]
    (http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/ajedp/)
    The AJEDP is a fully refereed online journal publishing research and scholarly reports from the broad areas of educational and developmental psychology. The journal aims to attract publication from a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, encompassing research and scholarship relevant to understanding the learning processes across all age groups and across all educational settings. The Editors may on occasion invite papers for a special thematic issue.
    [School of Education, University of Newcastle publication; indexed in AEI] (From NewJour, http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html)

  • Journal of Educational Enquiry [ISSN 1444-5530]
    (http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/JEE/)
    The Journal of Educational Enquiry is dedicated to publishing original contributions on all aspects of education with a particular emphasis on articles that are research based. It is intended for teachers, school leaders, teacher educators, school and university-based educational researchers, higher degree research students and education policy-makers. All article are freely available online.
    [From the University of South Australia; indexed in AEI] (From NewJour, http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html)

• New from Education Queensland: Online database of examples of ICT curriculum integration
  

• New from Education Queensland: Multimedia Online
  Multimedia Online will introduce you to working with the media elements - images, video, sound, animation and text - that can be combined to produce successful multimedia productions. Presented in 4 modules. [Curriculum Exchange - password required]

• Innovation and Excellence in Middle Years: 4th Middle Years of Schooling Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 October 2003
  This significant event will focus on building and maintaining innovation and excellence in teaching and learning for middle years students (Years 5-9). Local, national and international presenters will share best practice in the key areas of pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, school organisation and community engagement. Schools involved in several Victorian government initiatives will be among the presenters. The program will feature workshops, seminars and discussion groups, a diverse exhibition of school and commercial programs and resources.
  (Middle Years of Schooling)

  April 2003

• Enhance TV
  Produced by Screenrights, the Audio-Visual Copyright Society, EnhanceTV aims to focus on film and television content that is relevant to Australian educational institutions and promote film and television titles as educational resources. The site includes a weekly email service and downloadable classroom materials related to documentaries and films.

• How Do I Know a Good Early Reading program when I see One?
  In your local school, do first graders with reading difficulties get an extra hour of reading instruction a day? Are students writing and reading every day, learning new words and their meanings, and being taught to blend letters and sounds to form new words? These are a few of the items on this checklist published by the U.S. Dept. of Education on how to recognize a good reading program.

• National Quality Schooling Framework (NQSF)
  The NQSF is an interactive, accessible web-based tool to support pre-primary, primary and secondary Australian school leaders and teachers implement innovative and evidence-based projects to improve student learning outcomes. The Framework draws on recent development in the fields of school and teacher effectiveness, and school improvement and innovation. It offers informative, practical resources to support school improvement through innovative projects and evidence-based approaches to proving their effectiveness.
  A brochure is available in Acrobat Reader format[16 pages].

• Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
  The US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development reports that a combination of teaching phonics, knowledge of word sounds and giving feedback on oral reading is the most effective way to teach reading.

• ERIC Lesson Plans -- March
  15 new lesson plans were added in the following subject areas: Arts; Health; Language Arts; Mathematics; and Science.
  To view these lesson plans, go to the Latest Lesson Plans page
• Education Queensland: Curriculum Exchange
  This digital resource centre is your gateway to online learning and teaching materials. A range of information services is offered, including:
  

• Healthstar is maintained by Life Education Australia and is a site particularly for teenagers where they can learn about common health issues, play an online game, and participate in community notice boards and forums. There are also free curriculum-relevant teaching materials, based on the Australian national curriculum outcome statements.
  • collections of electronic resources
  • reviews of educational materials
  • practical tips for unit and lesson planning and classroom strategies
  • online units for primary and secondary students.
  JCU Education staff and students require a password for access. Contact InfoHelp if you need help.
  (Education Queensland links)

  March 2003

• Creating a Safe, Supportive Math Classroom
  More students are becoming afraid to try new things in case they fail, and mathematics, with its emphasis on 'right' or 'wrong' answers, can potentially reinforce these fears, argues this writer. This article investigates ways mathematics teachers can help to create a secure, supportive classroom environment in which students learn not to fear failure and to value mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow.

  February 2003

• Research in Education Newsletter
  Published by the SCRE Centre (Scottish Council for Research in Education), University of Glasgow, between 1968 and 2002. Full text of articles is available from 1994.

• Schools of Hope
  Details the work being done in 11 NSW schools to help students with behaviour difficulties overcome their problems and keep them engaged in education and training.
  (From inform, http://www.det.nsw.edu.au/inform/yr2003/feb/index.htm)

• From Now On The Educational Technology Journal -- The latest issue

  January 2003

• Interactive Programs Enhance Teacher Learning
  Teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) can watch a video of a teacher presenting a mathematics lesson, analyze it with other teachers, and then try it out. This professional development program is offered by the University of California, Los Angeles Collaborative Institute. The program is designed to help educators reflect on their teaching on their own and with colleagues.
  (See other Teacher Education links.)

• Learning Conference 2003 London, July 2003. More Information [Word document, 1 page]

• Study of sun enlightens kids on UV dangers
  Middle schoolers in Michigan are becoming enlightened to the risks of overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays through the national SunWise School Program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Students measure the intensity of ultraviolet rays, study the risks of spending too much time in the sun, and learn how to reduce those risks.
  (From Education World's News Headlines of the Week Newsletter.)

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  December 2002

• New E-journal Titles
  • English Teaching: Practice and Critique
    Volume 1, Number 1 went online in November, 2002. Hosted by the University of Waikato with world-wide contributors, this free, peer-reviewed journal is aimed at encouraging critical reflective practice and classroom-based research.
  • Resonance: Journal of Science Education
    Fulltext free from July 2000+. Tertiary level, however secondary teachers should find the scientist or mathematician highlighted each month of interest.

• Science Class
  Subscribe to the free NSTA Newsletter, received monthly via email - see the bottom right of their homepage
  (Science Education Resources)

  October 2002

• Technology in the Classroom
  • Technology Integration Made Easy
    Education World offers 19 ways to integrate technology into daily routine of the classroom. Included: Nineteen activities and nearly 50 Web sites to help integrate technology into the classroom.
  • Fusing Teaching and Technology
    This Fusion Web site promotes the integration of technology into K-12 instruction. Review from Education World.
  • Dinosaur WebQuest
    Education World review of a WebQuest designed for Grade 2

• International School Library Day 2002 -- 28 October 2002
  (Library Resources for Schools)

• Winners of the National Learning Quest Challenge
  WebQuests from the winners and all other entrants. To enter, teachers and/or students developed a web page or site following the Learning Quest formats. (WebQuest Links)

• Multicultural Education
  Victoria's SOFWeb site includes policy documents and support materials
  (Education for Cultural Diversity )

• The WebQuest Place
  Includes an online introduction to WebQuests, templates and scaffolding in WebQuests
  (WebQuest Links)

• Review of Teaching and Teacher Education
  (Teacher Education)

• Queensland Studies Authority | Information
  (Education Queensland Pages and Related Sites )

• What Works. The Work Program: Improving outcomes for Indigenous students
  ( Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education )

• National Report on Schooling in Australia Available online from 1989. Sections of the 2000 Report are available. ( Education Statistics)

  September 2002

• New Page Getting Ready for School in Queensland
  Provides links to information about the new prep year to be trialled in Queensland schools next year

• Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN)
  An initiative of the Documentation Centre of the UNESCO Institute for Education which brings together a network over 90 adult learning documentation and information services in all regions of the world. The search facility on the site provides access to all UNESCO education websites, ALADIN members' names, areas of specialization, geographical foci, location (region or country), and relevant adult learning documentation and information services.
  (Post-Compulsory Education )

  August 2002

• Rural Education
  An Australian site focused on the promotion of and collaboration in Rural and remote education, primary, secondary and tertiary. The Pre-service Forum is an initiative of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) and has eight tertitary institutions, including JCU, working in collaboration to enhance and extend the preservice experiences of education students. The site also includes rural resource links.
  (Rural Studies )

• Hawaii International Conference on Education
  Aims to provide an opportunity for academics and professionals from various education related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. Honolulu, January 2003.
• Transforming Literacies Changing English: Elsewheres of Potential
  8th conference of the International Federation for the Teaching of English incorporating the AATE/ALEA national conference. Melbourne, July 2003.
• LETA/ACEA International Conference 2002 Leading the Learning Edge
  ACEA: Australian Council for Educational Administration and LETA: Learning Environment Technology Australia. Adelaide, October 2002. Some articles are available in the Participation area.
  
• PEPE 6th International Conference Learning | Practicum | Technologies
  How is practical experience in professional education enabled or limited through available technologies? QUT, Brisbane, January 2003.
  (Education Conferences )

• Education Queensland: Curriculum Exchange Log in to Curriculum Exchange for access to TIPS - Teaching Ideas and Practices, a collection of teaching methods, strategies and processes contributed by Queensland teachers. Ideas range from brief tips to whole unit plans. These may need to be modified by each teacher for their specific classroom use. Teachers are encouraged to share ideas that worked for them in their classroom.
  (Lesson Plans and Lesson Planning )

• What Works. The Work Program: Improving outcomes for Indigenous students
  Part of a national effort to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, What Works, launched this week, encourages school principals and teachers to have high expectations of Indigenous student success and to develop a range of strategies that are linked to performance indicators and targets for Indigenous students. It is based on research that shows Indigenous students are more likely to experience educational success if their educators all share a fundamental belief in the value of what they are doing and the prospect of success.
  (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education)

  July 2002

• Early Childhood Mathematics: Promoting Good Beginnings
  A joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC - US) and the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM - US)
  (Mathematics Education Resources)

• myfuture Designed to help all Australians, particularly students within the Australian secondary and further education and training sectors, to make informed career decisions
  (Internet Resources for Education: Guidance and Counselling)

  June 2002

• What's New in Drug Education Queensland School Drug Education Strategy
  (Internet Resources on Drug Abuse)

• Office of Youth Affairs
• Generate
  Interactive site for 15s - 25s in Queensland - provides information, opportunities for feedback, section for indigenous youth and more
• Institute for Youth, Education and Community, Victoria University.
  The Third Biennial Conference, August 2002, addresses concerns related to policy, research, practitioner and community perspectives.
  (Youth Studies)

  May 2002

• E-Journal titles added
  • Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning Online peer-reviewed journal, produced at Wake Forest University (USA), dealing with innovations in computer-enhanced learning, and with the explration of theoretical and pedagogical issues arising from these innovations
  • Technology Teacher on ProQuest and InfoTrac

• Forthcoming Conference
  • Building Inclusive School Communities University of Queensland, June 2002

• Plan for Aboriginal education in early childhood and schooling 1999-2003
  From the Aboriginal Education Unit, South Australia
  (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education)

• Piano on the Net
  Online music lessons for starter, intermediate and advanced level
  (Internet Resources for Creative Arts Teachers)

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Information for Teachers
  Human rights resources for use in Australian classrooms, recommended by Helen McDonald.
  (Studies of Society and Environment)

• Becta Educational Software Database Information about educational software for pre-school to further education in the UK (Resource Reviews)

• Australian Children's Book of the Year Awards 2002
  (Children's Literature Resources)

• Clearinghouse for National Literacy and Numeracy Research Provides public access to the products of research funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) Grants for National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies and Projects Programme
  (Literacy Links and Numeracy Links)

• QAMTAC 2000 Conference Proceedings
  The Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers proceedings of the conference "Mathematics - going for Gold?"
  (Mathematics Education Resources)

• Plagiarism: Internet Resources -- New page

• P-3 Early Childhood Learning Community Network An Indigenous Education and Training Alliance (IETA) site to help support Early Childhood Teachers of Indigenous Students.
  (Early Childhood Development & Education)

  April 2002

• Cool Planet: a global perspective for the classroom
  • Wake Up, World!: A day in the life of children around the world
• Development & relief programs around the world Oxfam Community Aid Abroad supports community based self-help development projects in over 30 countries
  • Gender and Development Provides useful information about the lives and experiences of women in developing countries
  (Studies of Society and Environment: Global Education)

• Community Infonet: Child Care in Queensland
  Government information relating to child care in Queensland
  (Early Childhood Development & Education)

• Queensland Office of Economic and Statistical Research (OESR): Education and Health
  (Education Statistics)

• Education Queensland: Employing Quality Teachers
  Information about working with EQ
  
• The First Days of Middle School Help for all new teachers. Provides links to a number of selected sites on discipline and classroom management, the first days of school and more
  (Teacher Education)

• Under the Skin: Combating Racism in Queensland Schools Presents two units which explore issues of significance
  (Inclusive Curriculum)

• The Reading Wars The debate between proponents of reliance on phonics and supporters of the whole language approach

• Digest of Education Statistics, 2001 [.pdf]
  A compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten to graduate school. Includes some international comparisons.
  (Education Statistics)

• Mathematical Gossip How to improve the image of Maths. Article from Classroom, 6/2001
  (Mathematics Education Resources)

• Education Week 2002
  Education Queensland information for Education Week, 20-24 May 2002

• EnhanceTV A useful website with advance information for teachers about TV and radio programs, with ideas for teaching content, links for downloading study guides, lesson plans etc.

• IETA: Indigenous Education and Training Alliance
  Based in Cairns, IETA is a team of people who work collaboratively to provide education and training services to schools throughout Queensland who have a large proportion of indigenous students

• Distance Learner's Guide Free online e-book from Prentice Hall
  (Distance Education and Online Education)

• Outcomes-Based Education

• E-Journal titles added
• Research in the Teaching of English on ProQuest
• The Technology Source Peer-reviewed periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University aims to assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching
• Education + Training on Emerald Fulltext
• International Journal of Educational Management on Emerald Fulltext
• Career Development International on Emerald Fulltext
• Health Education on Emerald Fulltext
• On the Horizon: the strategic planning resource for education professionals On Emerald Fulltext
  International quarterly publication providing analysis and comment on the future of post-secondary education
• Quality Assurance in Education on Emerald Fulltext
  The role of quality in the future of further and higher education
• Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual on InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index
• Journal of Educational Administration JCU staff and students only. Online 1994+
  (A - Z List of Education-Related Ejournals)

• Australian Commonwealth Government Portal New entry point to a comprehensive array of Commonwealth Government information and services concerning all aspects and levels of education in Australia
  (Government Departments and Agencies)

• New Zealand Council for Educational Research
  ( Organisations and Associations)

• Links to Powerpoint tutorials
  (A - Z Index)

• Australian Teacher Education Association
  ( Organisations and Associations and Teacher Education)

• ScienceWeb U.K.site for primary teachers includes ideas, project packs and links to professional scientists and research programmes around the world.
  ( Science Education Resources)

• The Lab ABC's gateway to online science
  (Science Education Resources)

• Beyond 2000 "Your window on the future". Web site of the TV program
  (Science Education Resources)

• HowStuffWorks Express Great resource for teachers and students on how things works
  (Science Education Resources)

• Foundation Stage U.K. site which provides early years practitioners with information on the preschool years
  ( Early Childhood Development & Education)

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