How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards? A collection of student conducted interviews, photographs and cartoons shares the contribution of a wide range of local businesses and community organisations as 5MB invites the world to come Roaming ’Round Robina!Ħ. The year 5MB class at Robina State School helps unite the community through its Roaming ’Round Robina website. Possibly the greatest obstacle that had to be overcome occurred after the third week with the departure of class teacher Pam Molnar, web master and the driving force behind the whole project! Pam accepted an acting Deputy Principal position in another school but continued to assist with the project working nights and weekends in addition to her new role and responsibilities. Interviewing skills were modelled in our first interview which was conducted with the school Principal in front of all 60 students. Our new class website was online at by the end of the first day of school promoting the Cyberfair competition and calling for parent help. As soon as interview times were confirmed, permission notes were sent home and returned within 24 hours. Parent helpers took on the job of phoning businesses to arrange interviews during school hours. A parent-teacher meeting was called in the second week of term and volunteers were enlisted as driver/supervisors. Transport for small groups had to be arranged at short notice. Later in the project, parent volunteers assisted in proof reading student web pages. Instead of the normal ‘settling in’ period, the class undertook intensive training, provided by the class teachers, in word processing, web publishing, internet skills and use of peripherals. Word processing and web publishing skills were negligible, as was experience with peripherals such as digital cameras, scanners and relevant software. Few students were familiar with our curriculum server including personal and shared file management. The students had only minimal knowledge of learning technology. Establishing contact with businesses, conducting interviews and generating functional web pages that chronicled our efforts all had to be completed inside the first six weeks of the school year.
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Students have had internet access through 12-16 networked desktop and laptop computers in the classroom.īeing a Southern hemisphere school, the short timeframe for the project confronted us as the most pressing problem. Internet access is provided by the Queensland Government’s Connect-Ed. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):Īs part of Education Queensland’s Leading Schools project, Robina State School has been networked since 1998. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3Į. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connectionĭ. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6Ĭ. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:noneī.
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Students conducted onsite face to face interviews, took photographs, created cartoon characters and included their own comments for a collection of webpages that put a human face to the businesses and organisations of Robina.ģ. It is designed to introduce new residents to the providers of goods and services in Robina.
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Our project aims to showcase local businesses and organisations that serve the Robina community. At the same time the commercial heart of Robina continues to grow rapidly.
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Robina is one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, drawing new residents on a daily basis from interstate and overseas. The businesses and organisations we chose to showcase were those of the local community and of the nearby Robina Town Centre. Robina is a relatively young suburb of the city of the Gold Coast, situated in the southeast corner of the state of Queensland,Australia. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2000, 2001Ĭlasses and Teachers: Pam Molnar and Mark Buzolic and Year 5MB Business and Community OrganizationsĦ0 students, ages from 9 to 10 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 15, 2001. NOTE: Due to URL changes, some links may no longer be valid.Ĭategory: 3.