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TESTIMONIALS
The real advantage to history teachers with these types of resources is that it gives us an opportunity as teachers to look outside the box that the curriculum on paper offers us.The great thing with the Digital Learning Resources from Screen Australia is that they’re not just lesson fillers. They’re not just the icing on the cake at the end of the lesson.
The value of this resource for teachers and students is that it gives the ability for students to access material that is visual. And having visual resources to analyse history is really important.
The students that we teach today are the most visually and digitally literate students that we’ve had in the history of this country.
Students really enjoy the classroom activities that come out of the Screen Australia resources and they also really enjoy the visual stimulus that the films provide.
Annabel Astbury
History Teachers’ Association of Victoria
In terms of teaching tools the digital resources are great because they’re visual, they’re auditory, they’re interactive, they keep kids stimulated and engaged in a task. They are also good because they’re written by teachers so they fit within the curriculum very nicely.
The resources provide a visual and auditory stimulation to the students, they give them space to go and explore and also most importantly I think they create links to the media industry and they show the kids how media industry professionals work. If students are interested in going into a career in media then they have to start to explore those links, so it’s good to hear personal accounts.
Emily Brewin
Media, Journalism, IT and English Teacher
Santa Maria College
The most important thing is that by having the resources written by teachers, teachers know what kids want, and they know how kids learn at a particular place and a particular time.
Students like looking at the clips and thinking ‘oh my God, Australia used to be like this’ which I think is really good, because it does help them place their contemporary world within a historical context.
I think the Screen Australia Digital Resource Finder is fairly unique, and I think it’s a very valuable resource, because I can’t think of anything off-hand that has the depth and the quality of resources.
As a classroom teacher I’ve recommended it to colleagues in the school, but as deputy chairman of Australian Teachers of Media, I often use the Screen Australia Digital Learning resources at in-services, at professional development days, and through our website and our list server.
Roger Dunscombe
Media & Studio Arts Teacher
Melbourne Girls College
Deputy Chair of ATOM
There’s a huge range of clips and units that teachers can use at Screen Australia Digital Learning .
Many of the film clips raise important values, not only about Australian values but about values in general, what it means to be an Australian or what it means to be a good citizen.
The film clips are brilliant for this because they raise contemporary issues and we want the kids to address contemporary issues.
These materials give kids a different perspective about how you can use data and that’s why I find them useful.
The film clips deal very much with how you treat the environment, suggesting quite explicitly, the importance of engaging with your community.
Warren Prior
Social Education, Civics & Citizenship Teacher
Social Education, Victoria
I wasn’t aware that Screen Australia had so many resources. I will definitely visit the site in the future.
I work in a relatively isolated country town and having these resources available to the students will be a tremendous support.
Leana Brown
Visual Art & Music Teacher
Merriwa Central School
The Screen Australia Digital Resource Finder and Digital Learning sites are wonderful resources for understanding how new media and technologies have impacted upon society. I highly recommend the searchable clips and the website From Wireless To Web for teachers and students wanting unique information and ideas about the Digital Worlds of the 21st Century
Robyn Treyvaud
Senior Consultant, Centre for Strategic Education Victoria
DIY Doco teaches documentary styles and conventions, film techniques and development from story to screen. It features interviews with experts, a variety of excellent clips from Screen Australia, practical tips, explanations and activities plus a giant site Quiz. This site is a MUST for teachers and students of Media, English and Film studies!
Andrea Hayes
Teacher, Author and Education Consultant
These resources provide a range of amazing opportunities for our students to read multimodal texts. They enable us to easily add depth and complexity to the choices we offer our students as well as help them to connect with others and create, share and comprehend meanings.
Lynne Bury
Victorian State Director
Australian Literacy Educators’ Association
The very best in video-based curriculum resources
Lee Burton
Educational consultant
AWARDS
DIYDOCO
• Winner - Best Secondary Educational Website - Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2009
Screen Australia Digital Learning and Screen
Australia Digital Resource Finder
• Winner - Best Secondary Educational Website
Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2007
• Finalist – Best Secondary Educational Website
ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards 2007
• Finalist - Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms 2008
Focal International Awards
Mabo -The Native Title Revolution website
• Winner - Best Online Production 2008
United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award
"A stunningly informative exposition of the issues surrounding this historic High Court decision. For anyone wanting to know about the finding, Eddie Mabo, colonisation, land rights and native title in Australia and elsewhere this is invaluable. The hundreds of animated audiovisual sequences, other images, photos, newspaper reports and court judgments add up to profoundly valuable use of online technology." Award Judges
Australians at Work website
• Finalist – Best Learning Category
AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association) Awards 2005
• Finalist – Best Secondary Education Resource
ATOM Awards 2005
• Finalist – Best Secondary School Educational Website
Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2005
Australian Biography Online
• Finalist - Best Tertiary Education Resource, Australia
ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards 2005
Ceremony - the Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land - DVD
• Winner - ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards
• Winner - Best Indigenous Resource
ATOM Awards 2007
From Wireless to Web website
• Winner – Best Educational Website
ATOM Awards 2005
• Finalist – Best Learning Category
AIMIA Awards 2006
• Special Commendation – Best Secondary School Educational Website
Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2005
Moving History- 60 years of Film Australia website
• Highly commended- Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms 2008
Focal International Awards