Sunday, 25 August 2013

WonderNote- Wonderful

WonderNote described in iTunes as " a wonderful diary book which can help you to record your life with text, photo gallery and voice, from now on, your life will become remarkable."



Features Highlight: 1. Support text, photo gallery and voice.2. Support both iPad an iPhone, sync notes and configuration to your iDevices automatically.3. iCloud backup, your notes will always be there.4. Support background color configuration, life is always colourful as it should be.5. Support passcode to protect your notes.6. Weather information retrieved automatically.7. Share your wonderful moment via twitter, email or just save it to your photo library.8. Notice on time to write an essay, which makes a great habit.9. Support All orientations. and it's FREE. 

Don't miss out as it is a very handy app for students in class.

Friday, 9 August 2013

News from Australian Science Teachers Association

The Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA)
has produced 15 online Units of Work supporting the Australian Curriculum: Science for students in years F-10. 
The units were written by experienced teachers using resources available freely
online and through Scootle, in a project funded by DEEWR through Education
Services Australia.


The website is now live at http://scienceweb.asta.edu.au

ASTA is presenting a series of weekly webinars from August - November to support
teachers using the ScienceWeb units. The first of these webinars will be
presented by course writer Deb Smith on Tuesday 6 August at 8.00 pm EST.


There are two ways that teachers can login to the webinar. 
or 'enrol' in the Mixing and Separating course page on the ASTA
portal http://moodle.asta.edu.au/course/view.php?id=124


A free login on the ASRA portal is required to enrol. There are no requirements
other than a valid email address to set up an account on the site.


If your email address is an .edu.au domain you can self-enrol, otherwise please
email online@asta.edu.au to request access.
The portal page also contains a discussion forum about the unit. Links to
additional resources and the recording of the webinar will be added later.

Times for the webinar:
8.00 pm in Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic and Tas
7.30 pm in SA and NT
6.00 pm in WA
10.00 am GMT/UTC

The schedule of future webinars can be viewed at
http://moodle.asta.edu.au/course/view.php?id=73 

Nigel Mitchell
Manager, Online Professional Learning
ASTA - the Australian Science Teachers
Association    www.asta.edu.au   moodle.asta.edu.au