Karen Player, Author at Virtual Excursions Australia

ClickFest is an annual video conferencing festival run in November each year. ClickFest is an exciting initiative from education organisations across Australia. It highlights the diversity and scope of video conferences available to schools across Australia. Sessions are delivered free or at reduced cost to schools, providing a great opportunity for teachers to give it …

Tags: Australian Museum, Clickfest, digital outreach, education, events, video conferencing

Sep 25

Earth Science Week 2017

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Earth Science Week 2017 is on soon. Join in from October 8-14, 2017 and celebrate the theme “Earth and Human Activity.” This year’s event, the 20th annual Earth Science Week celebration, promotes awareness of what geoscience tells us about human interaction with the planet’s natural systems and processes. Tuesday 10 October ANMM Inspiring Stories Marc-Andre Bernier: …

Tags: Australian Museum, Australian National Maritime Museum, digital outreach, Earth Science Week, education, events, video conferencing

Jul 07

SciFest 2017

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The SciFest video conferencing festival is in August and provides a great link to National Science Week. Now in it’s fouth year SciFest is a great opportunity to engage your students in a variety of science workshops and events. Monday 14 August Scifest ANMM Inspiring Stories Lloyd Godson “The man who has lived underwater!” and the search …

Tags: Australian Museum, Australian National Maritime Museum, digital outreach, SciFest, video conferencing

May 30

NAIDOC Week 2017

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This year the theme for NAIDOC 2017 is ‘Our Languages Matter’ focusing on the importance, richness and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages. Before European settlement there were over 250 unique Aboriginal Language groups with over 600 dialects. Today only around 120 of those languages are still spoken and many are at risk …

Tags: Australian Museum, Australian National Maritime Museum, digital outreach, events, NAIDOC Week, NRL, Powerhouse Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens, video conferencing

Feb 17

Clean Up Australia

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Get ready for Clean Up Australia Day with a series of video conferences from the Australian Museum and Australian National Maritime Museum. Since 1992, school communities across Australia have demonstrated their support for caring for the environment through participating in Schools Clean Up Day. So far 2,223 primary schools and 1,119 youth groups have removed …

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Dec 22

What’s on in 2017

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SciFest showcases science across Australia

It’s been a great year for video conferencing and 2017 will be even bigger. In 2016 Virtual Excursions Australia delivered events for NAIDOC Week, SciFest, Earth Science Week and ClickFest. These events brought content providers from across Australia and created engaging learning experiences. DART Connections once again delivered the popular Premiers Reading Challenge series reaching over …

Tags: Clickfest, digital outreach, Earth Science Week, events, NAIDOC Week, SciFest, video conferencing

Nov 24

Pirate School From Cyberspace Attacks!

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All is not right on the world wide web! The news is out that there has been a series of pirate attacks at a virtual excursion near you! Join the Australian National Maritime Museum for ‘Pirates from Cyberspace Attack’ on 7th and 9th December 2016 at 10.00am 11.30am and 2.00pm. Your senses will be raided …

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Oct 24

ClickFest 2016

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Oct 24

Meet Winny Live Stream

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The Australian Museum launched the 2016 ClickFest Video Conferencing Festival with Winny our Muttaburrasaurs. Come along to meet Winny to learn more about Australian Dinosaurs. Winny Saurs is a life size Muttaburrasaurs dinosaur puppet and she takes you on a journey to explore her world. You will be transported back 100 million years into Cretaceous …

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Oct 20

ACMI Videoconferences

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ACMI Teacher Talks The Australian Centre for the Moving Image offers Free Videoconference Sessions for Teachers. Duration: 20 mins + 5 min Q&A. Admission: Free, registration essential. Each month ACMI hosts a short, after-school professional development talk designed to get you thinking about something new, exciting, innovative or quirky in education. Explore multimodal literacy, moving image …

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