Senator Stephen Conroy and the Hon. Peter GarrettMP have announced a 19.94 million Education Portal linked to the Australian Curriculum. A funding arrangement between Education Services Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation will allow access to the ABC’s vast content all of which will be digitised for the portal.
“Mr Garrett said the new portal would provide access to interactive learning resources, which will support the implementation of the Australian Curriculum. It is being developed by the ABC in collaboration with Education Services Australia (ESA).”
The portal will be launched in the second half of 2012. It is often easy to be sceptical of Government initiatives but I’m going to choose to be optimistic and if this online resource turns out ot be as good as it sounds it will be a valuable resource for teachers and students and their implementation of the Australian Curriculum.
Read the full press release here. Posted on the primary edutech website. Even if you’re not interested in the press release click on the link anyway to check out the site for great primary school tech based resources.
Just spent a while this morning checking out this blog site. Very impressive. Lots of relevant information and articles with useful links to glogster examples, rubrics, the Aust Curric site, work samples etc. I like the outline for the programming proforma and what our school expectations are as well. Very clearly explained.
This has been put together in a very impressive format. Very useful and information easy to locate and access. Are you sure you are a PE teacher not a computer geek in disguiseNick?