Category: Collaboration

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 …

Jeff Mao Education podcast with FamilyBookform

Jeff Mao interviews Carey Furze, FamilyBookform Founder - Listen to 45 min podcast

Excerpt from the interview...

And from an academic perspective, what’s to be gained through these stories? Through these interviews? 

Schools have been getting students to interview their grandparents or someone special in their life for decades, we all know the huge cross-curricular & social-emotional benefits from doing …

Empowering students through technology: podcast

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Education podcast 'Teacher Chatter' interviewed Melissa Carson, Director of Teaching and Learning at Champagnat College Pagewood, about her experience with Year 7s using the Family Bookform technology for the English 'Life Writing' unit, in an effort to improve Literacy and Family engagement. 

This project contributes to Ms Carson’s ‘Boys’ Literacy Research’, to be …