Teacher’s Webquest
Introduction | Learners | Outcomes | Process | Resources | Assessment | Conclusion | Student homepage | Credits | Competition | Lesson plans

The major aim of the educational component of the Connecting the Continent project is to maximise the uptake of 'best practices' with on-line learning technologies across the system to celebrate 100 years since Australia's Federation. For students engaged in the project

1. Enhanced understanding of Federation

2. Purposeful engagement with on-line technologies to communicate and collaborate with peers and experts

3. Purposeful use of on-line technologies to develop information literacy skills in a meaningful, relevant and exciting context

4. Development of problem solving skills in an on-line environment

For teachers facilitating students learning at the school site

1. Support to amplify and extend their Information and Communication Technologies skills in a purposeful context

2. Enhanced understanding of how to design and manage on-line projects in their classrooms

The event will be live between June 18 - July 1 however schools are invited to register on-line anytime from April 30. The educational component Connecting the Kids will feature many exciting interactive activities for students and teachers developing and expanding students' experience of on-line communication and creating an interactive learning environment. Students, particularly those between Years 4 - 10 can begin to investigate federation and telecommunication issues.

By registering, your school is automatically in the running to win prizes in several online competitions. Teachers can incorporate the project into their teaching programs, utilising aspects that suit the skills and abilities of their student and their particular learning area.

• An on-line Activity Centre will contain information about,
• project, teacher and student outcomes
• timelines
• intended audience
• how to prepare for the event
• information on how to run a webquest and participate in on-line discussions help on using email, the www, forum and chat.

A feature will be several downloadable lesson plans on the OTL, telecommunications and the cultural heritage of outback SA, all written for a multi-age audience and capturing the requirements of the newly completed South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability (SACSA).

There will also be a Daily News page to provide regular updates and news about the educational activities and accompanying roadshow and a Discovery page for students to solve puzzles on-line.

A major activity will be a Webquest will be the Question. Your answer to this question can be submitted to the organisers for prizes.

Do you think Australia's telephone systems would have been different today without federation?

Visitors to this website can listen to live streaming audio from School Of The Air and see and hear local students and community identities through streaming video.

An on-line Forum will take visitors to a site consisting of discussion and chat rooms hosted by EdNA On-line.

For more information please contact Kate Dibben at the op-en Access College in South Australia by telephone on (618) 8362 0279 or by email at kdibben@oac.sa.edu.au