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Developing material for students with literacy needs in Stage 5 Science
Presenting School: Karabar High School & Distance Education Centre Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Over the past 5 years the number of enrolments with significant learning needs has increased at Karabar DEC. In the search for appropriate materials teachers are caught between material written with stage 5 content but with high text content and stage 2 & 3 material that is text appropriate but does not cover the outcomes for the course. This expo outlines how the Science faculty has sought to balance these demands in the production of materials. It outlines how NAPLAN data has been used to inform teachers of the learning needs of the students and some of the literacy strategies employed to generate appropriate materials. Examples of the materials will be shown and how the materials are used deliver flexible programs of learning for the students.

English Studies and the Moodle Course
Presenting School: Karabar High School & Distance Education Centre Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: The expo will look at ways to engage stage six students studying English studies through the mode of online learning. We look at organisation of materials in Moodle, types of content available and ways of encouraging independent investigation and research skills for the “real world”! We also look at ways of encouraging electronic communication between participants.

Implementing Strategies from the Accidental Counsellor Course
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Expo will provide examples of resources gathered from the workshop and examples of successful case studies where the techniques have been used in distance education settings. Video clips will be provided to demonstrate examples.

Live Life Well @ School
Presenting School: NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Live Life Well @ School (LLWatS) is a joint initiative between the NSW Department of Education and Communities and NSW Ministry of Health that aims to get more students, more active, more often, as well as improving students’ eating habits. Despite not being designed specifically for the DE setting, LLWatS has been successfully implemented by DE schools. The extensive collection of resources has been invaluable to all schools in NSW teaching from the K-6 PDHPE Syllabus.

LLWatS aims to develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and confidence in teaching nutrition and physical education including fundamental movement skills as part of the K-6 Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus.

The program offers primary teachers the opportunity to participate in a two-day professional learning workshop that promotes a ‘whole of school’ approach to physical activity and healthy eating.

At the workshop, each school’s team of teachers draft a LLWatS Action Plan for initiating a sustainable change in PDHPE. The plan is based on the ‘Health Promoting School Framework’ that combines curriculum, culture and community into a ‘whole of school’ approach.

Millennium for distance education (DEMS)
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Southern Cross uses millennium as a total distance education management system to integrate enrolment information, ongoing welfare and administration along with electronic record cards and assessment and reporting information. Our expo will demonstrate how Southern Cross uses millennium to search for information on individual students, classes, geographical areas of enrolment, categories of enrolment, also how we have digitised student record cards. Additional information about using the website will also be provided.

PBL at SXDE
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description:
 * Looking at how SXDE is implementing Project Based Learning.
 * Viewing students work samples from PBL tasks.
 * Sample PBL tasks developed at SXDE.
 * Opportunities for participants to engage in a PBL task.

Portable e-learning
Presenting School: Sydney Distance Education High School Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Most DE students are able to connect to e-learning via the web. However, there are still a number of students who for a variety of reasons cannot access the web regularly. "Poodle" is a portable e-learning delivery system that allows students to access moodle based courses independently from the internet.

Quizzes in Moodle
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: This outline will be used to select workshops and expos and will be published as information for delegates. Please provide enough information to enable delegates to have a clear idea about what your workshop.

Southern Cross DE Enrichment Program
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: Enrichment Days involve teachers visiting Distance Education Support Centres and working with Students and Centre staff to provide a variety of learning experiences in TAS, Carts and PE.
 * PowerPoint presentation of enrichment activities in action
 * Student work samples
 * Photo display of student activities
 * Handouts

Stage 6 English ESL
Presenting School: Karabar High School and Distance Education Centre Stage of Learning: 15 to 19 year olds Description: Future Directions. This expo will be a discussion on the development of the course addressing student profiles, programming, delivery modes and challenges.

Supporting student learning through video
Presenting School: Karabar High School & Distance Education Centre Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: What does it mean to effectively teach students at a distance? How do you teach Biology to a student in Paris or playing tennis in America? How do you communicate process skills to a student who suffers from a chronic illness or is a school refuser? In the Science faculty at Karabar Distance Education Centre we have asked this question over the last 3 years whilst developing our Moodle course. Student feedback from our courses, assessment tasks and NAPLAN data has led us to think of new ways to teach the students. This expo will show how we have created videos to replace or supplement text, demonstrate experiments or skills and explain content and skills outcomes. We will outline the process of identifying the need for a video, the use of Adobe Captivate in the process and the final products in the context of our Moodle and Poodle courses.

Using Video in Blended Learning
Presenting School: Sydney Distance Education High School Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: This expo will explain how the Visual Arts faculty uses video to unpack practical artmaking activities in the form of teacher demonstrations. These demonstrations will also show how difficult concepts can be explained in a clear and engaging way using video and animation. Video material is prepared and incorporated into blended learning courses in Stages 4, 5 and 6.

To make the video teachers engage in a process of storyboarding, scripting, rehearsal and then footage is taken. Editing is the final stage before uploading into e-learning. There will be at least three specific examples presented from moodle.

Writing for distance learners
Presenting School: Southern Cross Distance Education Centre Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: With the dismantling of a dedicated materials producer, distance education teachers have been expected to create learning materials with little or no training. Southern Cross has set up the SXLMPU (Southern Cross Learning Materials Production Unit) to train staff at Southern Cross DEC in the principles of instructional design for the creation of quality learning materials and modification of existing digital learning objects to suit our current students. The learning materials created through the SXLMPU meet Board of Studies outcomes, cater for a range of learning styles and abilities, incorporate digital technologies and meet agreed timeframes and budgets.This expo will showcase the SXLMPU, the training courses which are now available through My PL@Edu, production processes and samples of the quality learning materials being created.

Year 10 Moodie: Changing Rights and Freedoms (Migrants)
Presenting School: Sydney Distance Education High School Stage of learning: Early Years (K-4), Middle Years (5-9), 15 to 19 Year Olds All Stages Description: To enable colleagues from other Distance schools to witness and interact with this element of our course, which was developed by the History Flexible Learning Team.