Information and Resource Centre - for Staff
Teaching and Learning Links (external - on the world wide web)
Sale College Serverlinks Page - Page of icon based links to access the most commonly used folders on the Sale College Servers such as student worksheets, staff shared etc. The closest thing we have to an intranet at present.
Please note that although this page is on the world wide web, Sale College servers can only be accessed when you are at school and logged on to either Scollege or Gserver.
The Learning Federation - licensed digital curriculum content to support teaching and learning.
Assessment for Learning - assessment tasks here are not learning and teaching units, but they do suggest, in broad terms, what learning needs to have taken place before students undertake the provided assessment tasks.
Sale Cluster for Innovation and Excellence Website - contains a wealth of resources created by teachers in the Local area as part of what was the Innovations and Excellence Cluster. Resources will be of particular interest for Years 7 and 8 teachers.
Teaching and Learning Links (internal - on Sale College servers)
Curriculum@Work - on our server that contains learning objects that are designed to assist teachers and students in and across multiple learning areas.
ICT Professional Development Support Folder - on our server and contains a wide range of support on a range of commonly used software programs - some of it in the form of video tutorials and podcasts. There are also suggestions and strategies for using these programs within the classroom.
Click on any folder to see the resources within.
Series of ICT and VELs Video Tutorials and support notes on our server covering a range of Microsoft programs. Provides ideas for teachers and easy to follow steps. Activities covered can be used to meet some of the VELs ICT outcomes.
Click on any folder to open the files.You can copy these tutorials onto your laptops to use with a class.
Click on the flash file in each folder to open the tutorials.
Design Awareness Video Presentation CD on our server containing a wealth of resources, activities and information on the using the design elements and principles correctly when presenting information on a computer screen. Great for any teacher wanting students to create any presentation designed for the computer screen.
A great guide for students in terms of correct presentation and layout of information and images that can be used with the whole class or downloaded into worksheets for students to access. Copy the presentation to your laptop for class rather than stream from the server. Class support notes in PDF can be printed directly from some topics within the presentation.
Click on the red "startPC" file to open.
Adobe CS3 Support folder on our server containing support files to complement the series of books on Adobe CS3 produced by NatColl Publishing that are available from the library at Macalister.
We have the activity books that go with the CD files for Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, In Design, Photoshop Advanced, Premier Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements video Tutorials that cover a range of techniques for editing images. Copy to the worksheets folder if you want students to access them.
In the same folder there are also support files to accompany the NatColl book for
Windows Movie Maker.
Sale College College Curriculim Files
These curriculum files are arranged by KLA and hold the unit outlines for each Year level.
A new proforma was introduced in September 2008 for staff to use when writing unit outlines. The Post September 2008 folder is where course outlines using the new proforma are to be saved.
Internet and Online Resources
Google - the world's most searched, search engine
Victorian Education Channel - the search engine for students in years 7 - 9
Google Advanced Search page - although not exclusively Australian, on this advanced search page you can restrict your search to the .au domain so you only get Australian results
Anzwers - owned by Australia's second largest ISP, Ozemail - provides relevant results
Yahoo - an Australian version of worldwide Yahoo
Recommended Websites for teachers
- page of useful sites for teachers including links to
subject associations
Join the Sale College Wikispace for teachers - Join and create your own page within the site to share your curriculum ideas and resources with other Sale College Staff
Library Catalogue online - Search the Sale College/Wellington Shire Library Catalogue
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