Waraku Education

A great blog called Waraku Education that Leigh has come across - it walks the talk!
It goes back to October 2004 and links into a range of great sites to stimulate educational debate and tap into resources.
“Ideas, experiments and observations as they occur relating to teaching and learning in a secondary school - special focus on ICT.”

Gibba Gunyah Workshop

This is the Thursday Blogging Workshop hard at work in Picton.

September 2005 Workshop - Gibbah Gunyah

Here are some snapshots of Outreachers when they still had their hair and had not blown their gaskets hahaha :>)

Community Capacity

Community Capacity Building Workshops

We have just run 2 two-day workshops at Scott’s Head & Albury, and Kerrie Bowtell is writing up what happened and what was decided. Once her report is available, we will upload it on this site (probably in October 2005)

Welcome to Stonequarry - Gibbah Gunyah

Hi fellower Outreachers! Welcome Welcome welcome! Glad to have you all here this arvo before the NSW Statewide Outreach Conference. Well we have some exciting things for you to do so lets not wait - lets get down and get dirty folks....

Lesley n Jude

Fantastic Website

I have found a great new website. You may already know it but for those who don't it is wonderful. You can download a free version of this program or pay $400+ for a live version. I find the free version is enough.It is still under construction and they are evently improving it all the time.

It is a world geographical program. You type in the area you are looking for and watch it come up. When you download the program it leaves an icon on your desktop for easy access. Brisbane and Canberra plus many other places come up really clear however, some are not so clear, but I believe it is all still in the making and everything will improve with time.



My hubby enjoys looking at places all over the world and I can't wait to show my children how to use it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

http://earth.google.com

General Links - Research and Stats You Can Trust

• The Brotherhood of St Lawrence produces a range of magic up-to-date articles and research on all sorts of issues about unemployment, the poor, surviving on Housing Estates etc.
• Unemployment Stats: a NSW Community Economic Development newsletter from State and Regional Development offices throughoout NSW; ph: 93386722.
• ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Services)
• NCOSS (NSW Council of Social Services)
• CPE (Centre for Popular Education at UTS) - great range of books, articles and workshops on popular education, community strengthening etc.
• RIHSS (Research Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, the University of Sydney) - runs excellent workshops, research and writing.
• John Buchanan's excellent leftist research centre at Sydney Uni. on employment, workplace issues etc
• Community Builders Web-site - nsw government site with great range of resources & links

• http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/search.html: an excellent source of up-to-date educational research, for instance: Lifelong learning and older workers by Tom Karmel & Davinia Woods (23/12/04), concludes, rather obviously but usefully, that the more qualifications the better, and that education and training increase employability among older workers just as they do with all other workers.

Egames - Improvisation

E-games: Improvisation through open platform design

“A diverse range of instructional design and facilitation strategies are emerging as alternatives to content-focused courseware designed for self-paced independent learning. This paper explores improvisation as one such emergence. We have been using improvisation as a fast, cheap and effective strategy to adapt, re-use and continually improve over 20 instructional templates. Designed for technologies like email, forums and chat, these templates aim to facilitate different types of collaborative learning across a broad range of contexts.”
http://www.designplanet.com.au/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=25