History+Network

=Welcome to the DE History Network page =

New items appear in BLUE at the top :-)

 * Coordinator** **name**: Lisa Tonkin **Position**: Head Teacher English/History


 * School name**: Southern Cross **Phone**: 0487 808 087 (02 6681 0395 desk)

**Goals** To share the planning and creation of quality learning materials to meet the needs of the new syllabus To share TPL To share other resource creation for History 7–12 **Members**
 * Teacher name || School name || Email ||
 * Lisa Tonkin (coordinator) || Southern Cross || lisa.tonkin@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Chris Lauder || Karabar || christine.lauder@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Ott Uussaar || Sydney || ott.uussaar@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Graeme Hosken || Dubbo || graeme.hosken@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Trish Andrews || Karabar || pietruccia.andrews@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Greg Waide || Sydney || gregory.waide@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Rikki Chalmers || Southern Cross || rikki.chalmers4@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Sally Kneipp || Camden Haven || sally.kneipp@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Wayne Proctor || Sydney || wayne.proctor@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Anne McKeon || Sydney || [|Anne.mckeon@det.nsw.edu.au] ||
 * Kate Dimmick || Dubbo || katy.Dimmick@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Katie Magriplis || Southern Cross || katie.magriplis3@det.nsw.edu.au ||
 * Danielle Cleary || Southern Cross || danielle.cleary@det.nsw.edu.au ||

Term 1, 2014 VC minutes
Please find minutes following for the 7 March VC. Thanks to Danielle Cleary for minuting and Greg Waide for organising.



NSW DE HIstory Network Conference 7–8 November 2013
Please find minutes following. Thank you to Ashley for scribing throughout the conference. An email will go out in next couple of weeks to move some of the issues forward.

Uploading on Equella
Please find a guide to uploading items on Equella to assist schools. Please put items up on Equella rather than emailing as it clogs the system :-)

It would be good if we could use 'History Network' in the metadata. I've sent an email to RDE to ask if it could be an Advanced Search item.



**DE History Network Videoconference 2 September 2013**
The VC discussed our forthcoming conference in November, units that have been completed and issues around time for writing and concerns that schools did not have an agreed common way of providing time for writing. See VC minutes attached.

2013 Symposium
Please find attached the minutes from the 2013 symposium. Please remember we will now use Equella to share, review our writing.

Our 2012 conference was very successful. We made small changes to our proposed program for the national curriculum based on the release of the syllabus and decided on dates for each stage of the writing process. Please see the writing timeline, a program for 7–10 History for the new syllabus and the most recent version of our History template.

Funds were distributed to each school based on our writing plan and funding submission. The Head Teacher has been named the person responsible for those funds which are for relief for writing. **We had a successful Network Conference in Sydney 17–18 November 2011. At that conference we: **
 * agreed on a program for 7–10 mandatory History based on the draft of the forthcoming new syllabus
 * decided on new writing or modification of current materials that is required to meet syllabus requirements and agreed on a template to ensure consistency
 * allocated writing, a critical friend and proofing tasks for each DEC

Thanks to Chris for noticing our conference decisions had fallen off the wiki. Please find our decisions from the conference below. We are going to revisit some of these after our meeting at CLIC.

**Videoconference 15 March 2012 ** 

**Videoconference Friday 25 May 2012 **

We've had a successful submission for the purchase of www.teachithistory.co. This resource will be available via Equella. Information will come out early next term regarding use.

Day 1—housekeeping and discussion about funding to support out network plan Day 2—visit CLIC at Strathfield for hands on session viewing their History products.
 * DE Symposium 14–15 June 2012**

TPL through MyPL@Edu || All writers Lisa setting up course || 2012 || Tech support Time to work on course Greg Alchin for advice re new template || Critical friend comment/advice (DEC 2) Proofing (DEC 3) Trials Evaluation and changes || As per writing list All DECs All DECs and writer || 2012–14 || Access for network to share and edit drafts on Equella TIME || VC to feedback to other DECs || All DECS || Ongoing || TIME TPL funds || TPL face to face and/or VC || All DECs and Greg Alchin? || Ongoing || Greg Alchin Time ||
 * Network plans**
 * What || How || Who || When || Support required ||
 * Discussion/evaluation of Syllabus Draft 2 for consultation || VC and reviews put into the BoS by each DEC || All DECs || Term 1 2012 ||  ||
 * TPL on writing effectively for DE || VCs
 * Drafts based on our agreed list of writing tasks || Draft written (DEC 1)
 * Continued TPL opportunities || Advertising external courses and CLIC events
 * Training in technologies to assist the teaching of History via DE || Research


 * History network template V2 **

Please 'reply all' my email regarding suggestions for our next funding submission.

Please find attached list of topics on the teachithistory.co I think it will be very help for Stage 4 and some Stage 6? Logins all be provided early next term.



Network funding request

I have submitted our Network funding request (please see below). I managed to get it exactly to the maximum we could apply for. Based on our discussions I requested funding for Network management, assistance for each DEC to attend Network Conference in November and some time for writing. The writing time requested was based on a breakdown of the tasks each DEC agreed to at our conference last year. I used the indicative hours for each task to work out the writing day allocation.

Videoconference held Week 7, Term 3.

=History Network Conference= When: Thursday 8 and Friday 9 September, 2012 Where: Novotel Rockford Darling Harbour, Little Pier Street, Sydney Who: One or two delegates per school Conference package per delegate per day: $230.80 Subsidy: $152 per DEC Purpose:
 * examine new History syllabus
 * finalise History writing schedule deadlines
 * decide on Depth Study 6 and format of Australians at War module
 * scope and sequence of skills and text types for each stage
 * training in use of print based template and examine methods of delivery of History materials (Moodle, LAMS, iTunes U, Edmodo)
 * brainstorming of initial units

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