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Learning Resources

 Print resources

Resource materials available to TAFE teachers include:

• Exploring Career Options Resource Package, A&GE Curriculum Centre.
• Focus on Skills-A Guide for Teachers, A&GE Curriculum Centre.
• Aboriginal Identity-Teaching & Learning Strategies, Aboriginal Development Division.

Available now from:

• Strategies for Success - teaching resources for language/literacy/numeracy teachers to help vocational students.
    
• Practical Ideas for Teachers of Students with Disabilities - lots of great strategies for vocational teachers and Disabilities tutors.

References for TAFE teachers teaching the Certificate III in Aboriginal Access to Further Studies Course:

• 'Text to Note'A. Adkins & I. McKean, Edward Arnold 1985. Book Plus cassette
  Note-making strategies plus listening exercises.
• 'Study Skills Strategies, Your Guide to Critical Thinking' By U. Lengefeld. Crisp Publications. California.
• 'Seven Keys to Successful Study' by Peter Edwards ACER 1989.
• 'Power Learning by Gwen Gawith. LONERMAN 1991.
• 'Adult Study Tactics' by D. Percy. MACMILLAN 1989.
• Student Success Secrets by E. Jenson. Barrons Educational Series. USA 1989.
• Practice in Study Skills. Book plus cassette compiled by S. King
  TAFE NSW Multicultural Education Unit 1995.
• Developing Study Skills, Taking Notes & Tests, Using Dictionaries and Libraries by Conman & Heavens. NTC Skill Builders 1991.
• 'Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn' RS Lebauer. Prentice Hall Regents 1988.

 Video resources

Aboriginal Experience
   • Part 1. Removal of Children/Denial of Aboriginality.
   • Part 2. How Aboriginals are claiming their identity.

For Notetaking
 
Great Australians
    • Victor Chang, Barrie Humphries, Pat O'Shane, Albert Namatjira, Mum Shirl.

Time Management For Students - Having the time of your life
   • S. Clark - Video Education Australasia.

 Web resources

ESL/ELT Resources - from Thomson Heinle publishers

Teacher TidBytes - access a wide range of information and resources.

Workplace Learning Help Desk - provides articles on deploying innovative and enlightened business practice.

Aboriginal studies

Aboriginal Art & Culture Centre - award winning centre operated by the LAYATA INKEME TRUST on behalf of approx 100 featured Aboriginal artists.

Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library - the Internet Guide to Aboriginal Studies.
 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library Resource Network (ATSILRN) - supports Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people working in libraries as well as people and organisations servicing the information needs of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) - the premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Reconciliation Australia - established in January 2001 to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice - keeps Indigenous issues before the federal Government and the Australian community to promote understanding and respect for the rights of Indigenous Australians. The Commissioner is a member of the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission.

IndigiNet - a key player in the development of the global Indigenous Internet and Multimedia development.

Indigenous Employment, Education, Training & Small Business Development - the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) in association with its members & the Federal Government, has worked to increase the number of indigenous Australians employed in the private sector.

Indigenous Law Resources - provided by the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Koori Centre, University of Sydney - provides programs, services and facilities to encourage and support the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in all aspects of tertiary education. 

National Native Title Tribunal - assists people to resolve native title issues.

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - reports provided by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) - part of Charles Darwin University in Northern Territory offering a wide range of courses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, Indigenous governance and natural and cultural resource management.

The Banabans - information on the history and plight of the Banaban people and the Banaban Lobby Group.

Yothu Yindi on the Web - find out about the band and their music.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 12 April, 2007

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