[English] The Making Of Modern Australia edu-resourcing

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

<http://cmslive.curriculum.edu.au/leader/default.asp?
id=31948&issueID=12171>  Volume 8 Issue 21 >  Articles

Prime Resource: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/makingaustralia


Embracing Screen-based Learning in the Classroom  by Anne Chesher

(Anne Chesher is a lecturer at the SAE Film School, Byron Bay, and a 
teacher at St Michael's College, Gold Coast.)


The Making Of Modern Australia is a four-part television series about 
social history now appearing on ABC television. 

The series is accompanied by an interactive website that allows people to 
upload stories and experiences of Australian history. 

As such The Making of Modern Australia is a unique and engaging 
educational resource that may be of particular interest to teachers and 
students of history, English and media..

The series immerses students in the lives and experiences of their 
parents and grandparents. 

They will witness historical triggers for change in our community, sense 
the 1950's apparent childhood freedoms and see how the rock'n'roll 
rebellion would sweep away pre-war conservatism and change Australian 
society forever.

Under the episode themes of Child (Childhood and Parenting), Home (The 
Australian Dream), Heart (Love and Marriage) and Soul (Faith and 
Religion), this series contains photographs and home movie footage that 
illustrate social and cultural shifts of Australia over the past 60 
years. 

It addresses many curriculum themes: from national identity and nation 
building, population and cultural diversity, religion and community, 
family and home, work and leisure, transport and technology to social 
influences from the 1950s until today.

• The television series was produced by Essential Media and Entertainment 
for ABC Television in association with Screen Australia. It will appear 
on ABC1 Thursdays at 8.30pm July 22 – August 12 and on ABC iView 
(http://www.abc.net.au/iview/).

• The interactive website (www.makingaustralia.com.au), with a dedicated 
education portal, was created by Hoodlum Entertainment in association 
with Education Services Australia – The Learning Federation and 
Australian Teachers' of Media (ATOM). 

• The book was written by actor, author and the series narrator William 
McInnes. It includes Teachers Notes by Hachette Publishing. It is 
available at all leading bookstores.

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Cheers Anne
Stephen Loosley
Member, Victorian
Institute of Teaching