collaborate (verb):to work, one with another

February 20, 2009
ABC Pool Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It’s a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers – upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It’s a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
Gene Pool was launched on February 12th – to coincide with Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. Throughout the year the ABC will release archival material exploring the idea of evolution, beginning with genetics professor Steve Jones talking about the life and work of Charles Darwin. Other offerings include a soon to be uploaded clip from ABC’s Monday Conference in 1971 featuring Paul Ehrlich talking about climate change.

These archives will be released under a Creative Commons licence allowing you to reuse or remix them in any way you like as long as it’s for non-commercial use. You can ‘tweak, twist and remix’ the files to create your interpretation of the themes of evolution and mutation. Using the Pool you can share these results with the rest of the world. The idea is to build a community around the project, remixing and reusing the ABC archival material in new and creative ways.

Visit the Gene Pool for more information about contributing to the project. Your students’ contributions could be chosen to feature on ABC radio throughout the year or at the public exhibition at Melbourne’s RMIT on November 24th – the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book The Origin of Species.


FREE Professional Learning sessions March/April

February 15, 2009

Numbers count



Want to get the most from ABS data?


Want to know what is available from ABS website?


Want to have up-to-date, accurate data for your classroom?

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is offering free professional learning sessions to be held in Australian capital cities during March and April this year.

Perth sessions will be held at Exchange Plaza Sherwood Crt on March 27th [for Teacher Librarians] and April 3rd [for Economics/Business etc]

View the flyer for full details

Image by Pink Sherbert Photography

Safer Internet Day – Feb 10th

February 10, 2009

Tuesday February 10th 2009 is Safer Internet Day

Teachers looking for resources to support units of work about safe Internet use can be directed to the following CMIS web pages:

If you know of other resources useful to teachers exploring aspects of Internet safety please let us know via the comments on this blog.