Category: Collaboration

Student Journals

Have you seen the movie ‘Freedom Writers’? About a teacher who had teenage students journal their lives, in an effort to improve literacy, engagement & grades, but also achieved transformational learning & a movement for change. See interviews.

FamilyBookform technology empowers students to easily journal, by speaking (any language) their feelings, perspectives & experiences directly into a page & …

Book-creating Competition, monthly cash prizes

Book-creating Competition with monthly cash prizes:

$50 for Teacher's Collaborative Class books & 

$100 for Student's books. 

Info & terms: https://forms.gle/G7Nzxg6WzzTWKzgj9

Teachers or students use the FamilyBookform technology to speak, write, interview & collect content into their automatically formatted printable digital books.
All books are private until shared.
All digital books are published/hosted online for 1 year & include: book-creating dashboard …

Australia Day STEAM Book - FREE

Australia Day STEAM Book Project - FREE

Automatically collect student’s content into Collaborative Cultural books for discussion & celebration of what it means to be Australian in 2021.

Digital books online for 1 year, 100 contributors per book, print on demand.

1. Teachers sign up free to create their Class’ Collaborative book: 3 min explainer video

2. Automatically collect students ‘My Australia …

Writing tool for transformational learning

Schools are leading the evolution of writing and publishing tools, and one is a ‘dynamic page’ to easily write, create and collect primary source content into printable digital books of value for authentic audiences.

As youth literacy declines and methods of rote learning and standardised testing undergo huge transformation, some students are leaping forward in their literacy and communication skills …

Micro-credentials - soft skills

How can young people develop soft skills - and prove it?

Soft skills have been identified as the single most important factor in determining if you’ll live a long happy life, with good relationships & career success. Companies hiring talent list ‘Soft Skills’ as the top requirement, as it reflects an ability to collaborate, articulate & share ideas & knowledge, …

Improved Boys’ literacy & wellbeing research

Melissa Carson, the Director of learning at Champagnat Boys College Sydney, presented her research case study: ‘In what ways can family engagement and digital platforms support literacy development in adolescent boys’, to the Teachers’ Guild NSW research awards panel yesterday.

This research was based on the recent Year 7 English ‘Life Writing’ project, using the FamilyBookform online dashboard to scaffold …

Book-creating Holiday Competition & Workshops

Online Book-creating Competition & Workshops during Australian school holidays - I'll be running online workshops to help teenagers create & publish personalised Books over the holidays 18 Sep - 23 Oct 2020 and again 1 Dec 2020 - 30 Jan 2021. The 10 best books will win $300 each.

$45 Digital book-creating dashboard online for 1 year, template pages & …

NESA accredited STEAM workshop for FamilyBookform launched

The FamilyBookform workshop is now a NESA accredited 2hour workshop delivered through the Teachers' Guild NSW.

This interactive workshop will guide teachers to improve literacy, engagement, and social emotional skills with an online book-creating tool, that scaffolds students to interview their family and collect oral stories, and improve their critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are required for success in …

AWS feature FamilyBookform

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Research shows that social emotional learning (SEL) increases student engagement at school, increases academic achievement, and helps students to be more successful in all aspects of life. 

FamilyBookForm, an AWS EdStart Member, aims to encourage SEL through their online book creation tool that allows K12 students to interview members of their family or community to collect spoken stories, in any …