Category: Collaboration

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 Competition/Workshops 18 Sep - 23 Oct 2020

Online Book-creating Competition/Workshops during Australian school holidays - I'll be running online workshops to help teenagers create & publish a personalised Family Book over the holidays 18 Sep - 23 Oct 2020. The 10 best books will win $300 each.

$45 Digital book online for 1 year, 100 contributors, 2 hours speech-to-text, save audio & PDF to print on demand. …

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 …

Blakehurst High 'COVID-19 & Me' Book

Blakehurst High’s Collaborative Book

7B finished book

7K finished book

Blakehurst High School’s Year 7 English Enrichment teachers Bahia Malas and Kerry-Anne Faria, have students using FamilyBookform’s technology to easily create their ‘Coronavirus & Me’ Collaborative Class Book as part of their three phase enrichment project. This project is being delivered using the Project-Based Learning pedagogy, which allows students to …

Online Writing Enrichment - Grades 7-12

Improve literacy, engagement, and Social Emotional skills with an online book-creating tool that scaffolds students to interview their family and collect oral stories, using speech-to-text and contributions. 

Students communicate and connect to create an original, valuable book that can be graded, included in portfolios, gifted and sold.

Example: 

My Family’s Favourite Recipes Book - students collect their favourite food into …