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This collaborative Internet project is aimed at students aged from 10 -16 but anyone, nationally or internationally,  is welcome to contribute.  We believe this project would provide an interesting and valuable learning experience which will bring students into contact with people who have had first hand experiences with the Olympic games, or have had incidents recounted to them.  In every corner of the world there are people with stories, some never heard before, who, in this Olympic year, will be willing to share their experience.

   This project gives teachers a chance to let students be involved in an oral history project that could be an integral part of your curriculum in the Olympic year through the medium of information technology.
CSF II OUTCOMES ADDRESSED
KLA CSF CODE CSF LEARNING OUTCOME STANDARDS
SOSE 3.3 SOSE 0303 Compare how people use environments in Australia
5.4 SOSE 0504 Identify and discuss factors that affect opportunities for current and future work
TECHNOLOGY 3.1 TEIN0301
Describe ways in which information can be electronically communicated in a global community.
3.2 TEIN0302
Develop and modify solutions to simple information problems experienced by various audiences, using a limited range of information technology skills, processes and equipment.
4.2 TEIN0402 Develop preferred solutions to information problems experienced by various audiences, using a range of information technology skills, processes and equipment
5.2 TEIN0502 Justify, develop and modify preferred solutions to information problems to meet specific audience needs, using a range of information technology skills, processes and equipment.
HEALTH 3.1 HPIP0301 Explain ways in which people can improve physical and social environments or personal behaviours to enhance health and safety
3.2 HPMP0302 Identify influences that affect participation in physical activity.
4.2 HPMP0402 Identify strategies to encourage involvement in physical activity
5.1 HPIP0501
Describe health issues about which young people make decisions, and strategies that are designed to maintain or improve their health.
5.2 HPIP050
Describe health resources, products and services available to individuals and groups in Australia and consider how they could be used to improve health.
5.2 HPMP 0502 Describe initiatives and motivational influences that affect particiption in physical activities.
 

ENGLISH

 3.4 ENSL0304 Identify and use several strategies for assisting spoken communication.
3.8a ENRE0307 Use several strategies for selecting resources and finding information in texts.
3.8b ENRE 0308 Use several strategies for selecting resources and locating and recording key information found in texts.
3.9 ENWR 0301 Write text that convey intended ideas and information using a small range of text types.
3.10 ENWR0302
Select an appropriate text type to write for a particular purpose and audience
3.12ENWR0304 Use a small range of strategies to plan, compose and revise texts.
4.5 ENRE0401
Read and interpret a range of texts containing some unfamiliar ideas and information
4.6 ENRE0402 Explain how texts are constructed for particular purposes and audiences
4.8 ENRE0404 Use a range of strategies for selecting resources and interpreting key information and ideas found in a number of texts.
4.9 ENWR0401 Use a range of text types to write about some unfamiliar ideas and information, providing supporting detail.
4.12 ENWR0404 Use a range of strategies to plan, compose, revise and edit texts dealing with some unfamiliar ideas and information.
5.8 ENRE0504 Use strategies to select resources, locate, interpret and synthesise key information and ideas from a range of texts
5.10 ENWR0502 Adjust writing for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.

The project team believes that the measurable outcomes of this project will include:

  • Increased enhanced use of learning technologies.
  • Increased and enhanced communication skills (e.g. writing, interviewing,drawing e-mail graphic communication)
  • Increased and enhanced research skills.
  • Increased and enhanced collaborative skills.
  • Increased awareness of local history.
  • Increased awareness of the value of goal setting and achievement.
TEACHER SKILLS REQUIRED
  • up-loading and down-loading information from the web
  • e-mail
  • basic web page authoring principals

 
PUPILS SKILLS DEVELOPED

 
IDEAS
  • Contact your local sporting association for a  list of  local athletes and officials.
  • Circularize your school community for family/neighbourhood contacts.
  • Spectators will have some fascinating stories which more than likely have never been shared.
  • Invite past Olympians to visit your classroom.
  • Research your local newspaper.

Schools Involved in the Project

The schools listed below are participating in the Global Classroom Project "Faces Of Olympics" when you send your page in, you too will be listed, and become famous.

School

School Logo

URL
Mt Pleasant Primary

Ballarat, Australia

   http://www.mtpleasps.vic.edu.au
Napoleons Primary

Ballarat, Australia

   http://www.napsps.vic.edu.au
Mt Clear Secondary

Ballarat, Australia

   http://www.mtclearsc.vic.edu.au
Springfield Convent Junior School

Wynberg, South Africa

   http://www.computers4kids.co.za/sfcj.htm
Summerdale Primary School

Launceston Tasmania, Australia

   email: lib.summerdale@postoffice.tased.edu.au
Rollins Primary School

Batesford Victoria, Australia

   rollinsps@eduamail.vic.gov.au
Mount Clear P. S.

Mount Clear, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

   mount.clearps@eduamail.vic.gov.au
Bardmoor Elementary School

Seminole, Florida, USA