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The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes(a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century.

To be successful now and in the future, students need new skills - 21st-century skills.

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has been charged with responsibility for developing and implementing a nationally consistent and credible voluntary system for the certification of highly accomplished teachers in Australia. This article focuses on the challenge of achieving such as system. What might be involved and how might such a system be achieved?

"What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education"

Preparing and developing e-learning materials is a costly and time consuming enterprise. This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. We introduce six elements of design and discuss each in some detail. These elements focus on paying attention to the provision of a rich learning activity, situating this activity within an interesting story line, providing meaningful opportunities for student reflection and third party criticism, considering appropriate technologies for delivery, ensuring that the design is suitable for the context in which it will be used, and bearing in mind the personal, social, and environmental impact of the designed activities. Along the way, we describe how these design elements can be effectively utilized by contextualizing them with examples from an e-learning initiative.

The place to start to learn how to edit in Windows Live Movie Maker.

Lots of video tutorials to help you use Windows Movie Maker Live (Windows 7).

Check out the two Thirsty videos.

This site is under-construction by a colleague in DECS Curriculum. This is the place to find a gold mine of resources to support your first assignment.

The place to start for an introduction for shooting better video.

In case you are using Windows 7.

A great tutorial about camera angles and composition.

Rule of thirds

Camera angles First some basics. The following two handouts provide a great visual orientation to the world of camera angles: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work. This provides an orientation to camera angles in comic book genre. It appears here with Joel Johnson's permission. Camera shots, angles and Movement. This handout shoots the same doll from all the major camera angles. I don't know the origin of this one. Let me know if you do. The next section explains how the angles in these handouts can be used to persuade and convey meaning.

Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider. Not sure about which graph to use? Confused between bar graphs and pie charts? Read our: Create A Graph Tutorial

The art of making information beautiful. How do you make statistics look interesting? According to the writer and designer David McCandless, you just need to apply the rules of visual design to information. David Sillito meets him and investigates the trend of applying the rules of visual design to information in order to help us cope with the oceans of data we are bombarded with.

Teaching with Infographics: Places to Start

The video provides good background for teachers about the function of infographics to focus attention on the aspects that authors consider important in a space efficient manner.

Furbles started life as an idea for teaching statistics in an interesting way with children from KS1 to KS3. The original version was published in 2003 online, and its popularity spread. It has been downloaded and used over 20,000 times in the last five years.

Statistics and Probability These lessons are geared toward the elementary aged students - 3rd to 6th grades. Very practical and real life problems.