This document summarizes the author's experience using the Sakai learning management system with first year botany students at Charles Sturt University. Some key features of Sakai that were utilized included announcements, blogs, wikis, test centers, chat rooms, forums, podcasts, and resources like lectures and past exams. Students engaged with these tools and formed study groups. They provided positive feedback, saying it created a learning community and questions were answered quickly. The author was pleased with Sakai's improvements over a traditional forum and is looking forward to updates in the next version.

1. We gave it a try now our students love Sakai! John Harper & Geoff Burrows School of Agricultural & Wine Sciences Charles Sturt University 1

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8. A joint project between Team Botany and students Unit 1 Very Small Dogs Sniff Feet – Vascular tissue, Sporophyte Dominant, Seed, Fruit Evolutionary leaps from mosses to angiosperms. Mnemonic- thanks to my mum ’ s dog Benji Kids Playing Chicken On Freeways Get Squashed : Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species All Good Pterodactyls Like Broccoli : Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Lycophytes, Bryophytes Botany Mnemonics 8

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14. Verbal Directions Pod casts of past exam answers

16. Double Fertilisation Tutorial

17. Double Fertilisation

18. 1. Label the diagram in the next slide 2. List and explain the key steps involved in double fertilization and its outcomes. Starting point is the 2 nuclei (1 & 2 in the diagram on the next slide) approaching a structure that contains 8 nuclei. Note the two nuclei in 1 & 2 are different from those at the top of the diagram Double Fertilisation exam Question

20. Supermarket Botany! See: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/grahamcentre/education/

21. “ Just a pinch of this underground stem in your curry……”