Queens Photos

All photos can be found on S:\AMES General\PHOTO ALBUM\Queens May 07 .

 

If there are any of you that you object to, please feel free to delete them.

 

Philip

 

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Lunch at the Queens - Sunday 27th May

New lift

It has been reported to me that there is a trip hazard with the new lift because the levels are slightly different.

 

Has anybody had a problem with this? If so , please tell me.

 

Thanks.

 

Philip

Excursion on Friday 1st June

In case you didn't know and want to take your class out on Friday 1st June, Government House is open to the public from 11 am to 3 pm.
Philip

New obstacles for migrants

Nina (teacher in Balga) read an interesting article in the Australian yesterday which Andrew has also put up on the Balga blog.

Please read it here it is quite frightening.

Term 3 Cert 3 option

There will be a Certificate 1 in IT course running for CSWE 3 students next term. Even students with no AMEP hours may be eligible for this 200 hour 4-day a week accredited course. If you have any Cert 3 students who may be interested, lack Office (word-processing, database, spreadsheet, etc) skills for work or study, then please let Philip know.

Learnscope Last Call

There are still some places left on the Learnscope project for both casual and permanent lecturers.

 

You will learn about video: how to access ESL videos; how to add sub-titles to existing videos; how to make "digital stories", (photos with subtitles and/or narration), or just narrated text; how to make these accessible to students through public video sites; how to shoot videos for classroom purposes with a digital camera; how to edit these videos.

 

It may sound daunting, but we're doing it slowly with ten fortnightly sessions. And, you only have to come into the City for the first session. The other sessions will be delivered into the safety of your own home through computer and I will provide backup.

Here is a rough outline of the sessions:

 

1 Introductions
Use of Software (Elluminate, GoogleTalk and other communication software) {Everybody here in Perth}

2 Accessing YouTube and other video access sites; finding ESL sites; adding sub-titles to videos

3 Creating Digital stories with Photostory3

4 Creating a YouTube account and uploading digital stories; exporting YouTube addresses

5 Consolidation and review

6 Using a digital camera to take movies; uploading the movies onto the computer

7 Editing and saving movies with MS MovieMaker

8 Enhancing movies with MS MovieMaker; Recording dialogues and adding them to your video

9 Exploiting your video

10 Review

 

but these may be reviewed and altered according to participant needs and wants.

 

So, if you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible. Phone 9229 3609 or e-mail nichop@ames.training.wa.gov.au .

 

Philip

Interested in Learnscope?

I myself saw the advantages of using online video yesterday morning. With my CSWE3 class on Monday mornings I am teaching “instructions” in general and LOs 3B1 and 3D1 in particular. The theme of the next few weeks is “recipes” and after racking my brain for a few hours to find a new way of introducing the theme that will inspire me as well, ten mins before the lesson, I remembered that I am meant to be doing this Learnscope project on online video and why not use that. No time of course to film Barbara or Barnaby making bigos (the project will include making and editing your own videos) but time enough to search YouTube for an easy recipe. On the second page, I found “Carrot Cake” with sub-titled ingredients and lots of repetition of “add”, “mix”, “beat”, etc. With the class starting off in the Lab, the students were able to view the 6-minute video at their own pace before we went through it together.
Now, there are plenty more uses for video than this in your classrooms, so if you are interested in participating in this year’s Learnscope project please contact me by the end of the week.


STOP PRESS: Coincidentally, I hear that Anna is doing video recipes in the Lab with the "Entree to work" course and is using a video site specifically on instructions. Have a look at www.videojug.com .