Just thought I would let others know of a free textbook that is useful: The habitable planet at www.learner.org.See More

Hi All,This year I have been teaching Unit 3/4 online to eight students from four different schools (Hawkesdale P12 College, Shepparton HS, Brauer College in Warrnambool and Mt Eliza SC). Each Wednesday evening at 7.30pm we all log on to Elluminate for our class. Elluminate is a web conferencing platform with an interactive whiteboard, text chat, polling, audio, web tours and application sharing, that allows the class to communicate effectively, despite the distances between us. All it requires…See More

Hi there all,Congratulations on finishing Unit 3 and I hope you have been enjoying the course as a student or teacher. With my VCE Environmental Science class online, I have been using Facebook to communicate with my students. I use it to let them know about good resources and "corridor chat" to get to know my online class better.I find it a more effective medium than this Ning, because most students log in to Facebook regularly and it has the ability to add links, videos, polls and photos as…See More

Watch Catalyst on ABC next Thursday for great revision of Unit 3 - Area of Study 1 topic: Energy. The Oil Crunch, Kenyan Hot Rocks, Australia's Nuclear Future, Oil from Algae and Sustainable Houses are all relevant for the Unit 3 exam.