ASLA XXIII Biennial Conference - Stacey Hattensen - Be guided through the latest developments of Scootle including the free digital resources collection aligned to the Australian Curriculum; Scootle Community, a purpose built social media platform for teachers, and Improve, the online formative assessment tool.

1. Stacey Hattensen, Program Director, Content Services
Education Services Australia
Scootle, supporting
teachers to implement the
Australian Curriculum
30 September 2013

2. Thank you for downloading
Scootle Scootle Community Australian Curriculum

3. • Setting: the national education architecture
• Main characters: Scootle, Improve, Community
• Supporting characters: ABC Splash, Illustrations
of practice, Safe Schools Hub, Teach Learn
Share, Myfuture, My Skills
• Contributors: jurisdictions, commercial, non-
commercial…free
• Complications: funding, sustainability of service,
free from copyright collection
• Resolution….
Today’s narrative

4. National Architecture for Schooling

5. Pre-service teachers
Online
Curriculum
Services
Government
(Catholic)
Government
Sharing and Distribution
Infrastructure
(managed by ESA)
Government
Independent
Catholic
Scootle
Universities
National Digital Learning Resources Network
Government
Independent
Catholic
Catholic
Independent
Government
Scootle
Catholic
Independent
The Learning
Place
Catholic
Independent
Teaching and
Learning
Exchange
Scootle
e Centre
Government
Catholic
Independent
Government
Catholic
Independent
Government
Independent
Catholic
Scootle
Scootle
Scootle FUSE / Ultranet

6. Overview of ESA’s national services

7. Connecting curriculum to content

8. Use of Australian Curriculum
Approx. 30% of page views involve searching.
15 minutes per visit on the site, and viewing
around 17 pages a visit.
Teachers are clearly indicating the importance of
tools that let them plan their online learning, and
align to the curriculum in their classrooms
Starting at the beginning

10. http://www.founders-storylines.com/

11. Digital teaching and learning

12. What are the statistics telling us?
170,000 registered users
Access for all teachers, all jurisdictions by 2014
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20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June
Scootle users
Sccotle users Jul'11-Jun'12
Scootle users Jul'12-Jun'13

13. Resources are sourced from a range of suppliers
including:
• Professional associations
• Commercial providers
• Government and non-government organisations
• Repositories of content
• Jurisdictions and sectors
www.scootle.edu.au
Scootle Showcase

14. The digital relationships

15. National Digital Services Infrastructure
Good metadata:
conforms to vocabularies and standards
uses authority control and content standards
supports interoperability
includes a clear statement of the conditions and terms of use
supports the long-term curation and preservation of digital
collections
has the qualities of good objects...
...including authority, authenticity, archivability,
persistence, and unique identification

16. • SCIS records have both SCIS and SCoT terms in
subject fields
• Check your system provider to see how to handle
both systems
• Then turn on the SCoT option in your SCIS profile
• Retrospective subject reload available as fee for
service
• Bulk upload of TLF learning objects
SCIS and SCoT

17. Scootle – Types of content
Interactive multimedia learning
and assessment resources and
tools
Sound
speeches, songs,
radio broadcasts and
interviews files
digital repository
Websites developed
in partnership for
shared content
Still images such as
photos, artwork,
posters, maps,
documents and
cartoons
Moving images from
documentaries, feature
films, newsreels and
TV programs
Teacher ideas show how
to inspire and challenge
students using digital
content
Collections are
selected resources
based around
themes
Teaching units for
targeted curriculum
areas

18. • Focus - a clear focus on the learning of its intended
audience.
• Integrity - intrinsic veracity and authenticity and its
source and content are reputable, current and
accurate.
• Alignment - direct relevance to the implementation
and delivery of the Australian Curriculum.
• Capacity to be licensed as free for school use
including free from further statutory copyright
collection.
Our criteria for selection

19. Scootle - Interactive resources
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/index.html

20. Free Apps
ABS- Statistics made fun ESA-Chinese language teaching
ESA- Pirate treasure hunt Qld minerals Council -Oresome

21. Scootle - Websites
Embedding indigenous perspectives
ABC: Making of modern Australia
ABC: My Place for teachers
ARKIVE: open education repository

22. ABC Splash www.abc.net.au/splash

23. Scootle – Professional resources

24. Partnerships +sustainable development

25. • Publisher’s portal pilot
• Metadata records are uploaded by publisher for
resources that are only available for purchase
• Records align to Aust Curriculum
• Links are direct to publisher’s site- for purchase
or trail
Direct from Publishers

26. Learning paths
One in four page views involve
teachers interacting with a Learning
path.
Visit involving Learning Path -
approx. 20 minutes per visit, and
average page views of 24
Visit not involving Learning path –
approx. 4 minutes and average page
views of four.

28. • Designed to support drivers in draft Australian
curriculum (Chinese) – eg. literacy dev’t, diverse
learners & multiple pathways, Intercultural
Language Learning
• Two sections: teachers and students
• Second language learners in Years 5 – 8 the
main target
• Providing chances to learn Chinese beyond
classroom very important
• PL modules grounded in good classroom
practice – over 10 hours of video.
Language Learning Space

29. Professional Standards & Practice

30. Scootle Community

31. Community features
• Feed
• Networks
• Tagging
• Connections
• Events
• Blogs/wikis
• Maps
• Media library
https://community.scootle.edu.au

32. As of end September there were:
– 4243 users
– 402 individual network areas
– 428 teacher blogs
– 612 wiki pages
– 844 active discussions
– 203 events
– 1113 media uploads
Fast facts

33. Improve

34. Improve
• Launched in February 2012
• English, Mathematics and Science- Years 3-10
• Freely available to all teachers across Australia
• Usage (5 April 2013)12,625 teachers; 92,869
students
– 5,000+ tests created
 User support with videos and manuals
 Helpdesk phone: 1800 620 970
live chat link from page; email support

35. New- Parent dashboard

36. • An assessment creation and management system
• An assessment delivery system
• An assessment marking system
• An assessment results and reporting system
• A data warehouse
• An interoperability solution to facilitate maximum reuse of the
existing system
• An identity and access management system
• A learning resource repository
National Online Assessment Capability

37. National Digital Services

38. The new myfuture

39. My Skills

40. – teachers and
school leaders
– specialist
professionals
working in schools
(guidance officers,
chaplains etc)
– parents
– students
The Safe Schools Hub
• a rich interactive website for:

41. • Voluntary reviewers
• Must have good understanding of the Australian
Curriculum
• Keen interest in digital and online learning
• Review online resources and provide advice
• Contact: Stacey.hattensen@esa.edu.au
• Found something great? Think that it fits our
criteria? Contact me through Scootle
Community.
Want to participate in creating a national
collection?