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