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My name is Rob Sbaglia and I am the ICT coordinator at Castlemaine North Primary School, a school of 163 students. We have a strong focus on ICT, with all our Grade 5 and 6 students having their own netbooks, as well as desktop and netbook access throughout the rest of the school.



As Grade 5/6 teachers, we are writing to invite your Grade 5, 6 or year 7 students to an online discussion of an issue covered recently in Behind the News. The… Continue

Castlemaine North Primary School Professional Development in ICT

Term Three offerings…

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Hi,



My name is Rob Sbaglia and I am the ICT coordinator at Castlemaine North Primary School, a school of 163 students. We have a strong focus on ICT, with all our Grade 5 and 6 students having their own netbooks, as well as desktop and netbook access throughout the rest of the school.



As Grade 5/6 teachers, we are writing to invite your Grade 5, 6 or year 7 students to an online discussion of an issue covered recently in Behind the News. The discussion will be around the… Continue

Hi,
I have been finding everyones resources and links to be very helpful. I have just uploaded some videos that I did last year. Hope you find something useful.

A new term, a new inquiry topic, and a whole bunch of new opportunities to use technology have presented themselves at Castlemaine North PS.

Our inquiry topic this term is “Who and what have shaped Australia’s identity?” Somehow, I stumbled on the ABC 3 series “My Place”, which consists of 13 episodes set 10 years apart, from 1888

all the way to 2008. Each episode has a story about a 10 year old child

who has been shaped by the preceding 10 years’ history. As well as…

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