Remaking Multicultural Australia This site was established to assist teachers with finding quality resources on multicultural education, anti-racism and exploring new strategies to promote cultural tolerance. A generation of students growing up in the first decade of the 21st century is daily confronted with issues of cultural diversity, conflict and tolerance. These educational resources will help to bring these issues into the classroom in a structured way, actively informing and promoting cultural tolerance amonst young people. The site has been created by the Board of Studies NSW and the NSW Dept of Ed Multicultural Progr From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Tangara School for Girls Tangara is an independent girls school, founded by a group of parents and teachers, as the first of a number of schools in the PARED (Parents for Education Foundation) Group. Its foundational and key principle is that parents are the primary educators and that the schools exists to give parents every support. The School offers a unique, personalised education for boys and girls from Reception to Year 1, and girls only from Year 2 -Year 12; with parents and teachers united in assisting each child to strive for excellence. The friendly atmosphere and intimate size of the School are highly conduc From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Historica Histori.ca is a bilingual educational website developed to promote the teaching and learning of Canadian history and heritage on behalf of the Historica Foundation. It includes access to the Canadian Encyclopedia as well as teacher lesson plans, student games, Historica minutes and other resources. From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Thwarted Innovation - What Happened to e-Learning and Why A Final Report for The Weatherstation Project of The Learning Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with the Thomson Corporation. Thwarted Innovation is a major study (published in 2004) that answers the question: 'Why did the boom in e-learning go bust?' Researchers Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy used elearning Weatherstations at campuses across the USA to decipher precisely what happened and why. In the end, they trumped three of elearning's most troubling assumptions: 'If we build it they will come - not so; The kids will take to e-learning like d From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 8:30 p.m..
Search Engine for Digital Libraries (SDL) SDL harvests digital libraries and Open Access Journals in the field of Library and Information Science. From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 8:30 p.m..
Newspaper Pictorials - World War I Rotogravures The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and advertisements touting products of the day, creating a pictorial record of both the war effort and life at home. The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war. From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 8:30 p.m..
MSU-Billings Graphing Calculator Tutorials Flash tutorials for TI-83+, TI-85, TI-86, TI-89, and TI-92 Graphing Calculators are presented and written directions can be printed for future reference. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 16, 2004 at 1:30 p.m..
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One. W3C Recommendation The authors of this document, W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG), have documented the architectural principles that make the Web of today work well, and will help build a better Web tomorrow. From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 2:30 a.m..
Plant Cell Cycle Use this tutorial to explore the growth and division processes for plant cells -- interphase, mitosis, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 16, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
Present Value This Flash tutorial walks you through the steps to calculate present value from the future value, interest rate, and number of maturity periods. You can enter your own values, too. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 16, 2004 at 1:30 a.m..
EdNA Online's Theme Pages for Schools - New Zealand The EdNA Online Theme pages for Schools provides teachers and students with evaluated quality resources from the EdNA Online database. This page brings together New Zealand news, resources from TKI (Te Kete Ipurangi) and customised searches of EdNA online. From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
UniServe Science 2000 - Conference Proceedings The conference was held in April 2000, in Sydney. The following papers were presented: Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate. Ian Johnston, Mary Peat; Evaluating the New Technologies: A student learning focused perspective. Michael Prosser,; Evaluating the New Technologies. Ann Sefton; Is it possible to design a relevant syllabus for Level I Chemistry? Geoffrey T. Crisp; Evaluating teaching materials and educational software for their commercial potential: Issues for academics and teachers to consider. James Dalziel; Doing it differently in science: An evaluation of the process. Sharon P. Fraser, Eliza From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
UniServe Science 2001 - Conference Proceedings The conference was held in Sydney, in April 2001. The following papers were presented: Science education research. Ian Johnston, Mary Peat; Turning teaching development into research outcomes. Richard Gunstone; Improving teaching and learning in undergraduate science: Some research and practice. Marjan Zadnik, Shelley Yeo; Evaluation of MRI Concepts as a teaching and learning resource. Robert Davidson; APCELL: Developing better ways of teaching in the laboratory. Simon Barrie, Mark Buntine, Ian Jamie, Scott Kable; Evaluating constructivist based methods to teach senior undergraduate geoscience From EdNA Online on December 16, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
Positive Negative Photographic Exhibition positive.negative is an initiative which aims to educate the community about the crucial work being done on behalf of all Australians to fight HIV/AIDS in neighbouring countries. As a part of a nation-wide education program for the community on this important issue, AusAID will be visiting rural and regional centres across Australia with its free photographic exhibition, positive.negative. AusAID, in partnership with the Australian Women's Weekly sent five Australian photographers, Stephen Dupont, Lorrie Graham, Ingvar Kenne, Alice Pagliano and Jack Picone to Thailand, Papua New Guinea, C From Recent Items on December 16, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
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