Webinars Session
Adult Learners’ Week Boot Camp
When: August 5th, 11th & 12th @ 1.00pm. Are you ready for Adult Learners’ Week 2015? If your organisation offers any form of adult learning such as courses, classes, lectures, exhibitions, tours, training programs, tutoring, discussion groups – then Adult Learners’ Week is a great opportunity to promote what you do – especially as […]
ALA Webinar: How will the NDIS affect my organisation?
Presenter: Judy Buckingham When: Wed 22 July 2015 @ 1.00pm AEST. The arrival of the NDIS will have implications for the policies and operating frameworks for adult and community education providers. What will it mean for my organisation? Are we ready? Join presenter Judy Buckingham from the ACE DisAbility Network as she shares her insight. […]
ALA Webinar: Get in the picture: 3 free and easy ways to add some colour to your teaching practice
Presenter: Robyn Jay When: Wed 1 July, 2015 @1pm AEST. This webinar will explore the possibilities of incorporating some freely available technologies into your teaching practice. Our presenter, Robyn Jay will share some simple tools and tips for using Digital Story Telling, Pinterest and FlickR with your learners. Robyn has a background in adult […]
ALA LLN Webinar: Validating your LLN assessment strategies
Presenter: Philippa McLean When: Wed 20 May, 2015 @1pm AEST. This webinar is for language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together as a group to validate your LLN assessment strategies to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). Getting together for validation sessions can be tricky in today’s workplace – here’s an opportunity to collaborate […]
ALA Webinar: Social Media for ACE Centres – How not to waste time
Social Media is an incredibly important tool for connecting with your community and bringing learners into your centre. However it also has the potential to absorb huge amounts of your time for little return. Different platforms are useful for different purposes and even the most useful are changing constantly and can quickly become less valuable. […]
ALA LLN Webinar: Leave the book on the Shelf!
“Teachers of adult EAL learners are smart, busy people and we love text books – such is the Power of the Printed Page. But a book isn’t a lesson – it’s the germ of the beginning of an idea for a lesson, and the author doesn’t know any more about our learners than we do.” […]
ALA LLN Webinar: Validating FSK Assessments
ALA LLN Webinar: Validating FSK Assessments. Returning in 2015 by popular demand, this webinar is for foundation skills practitioners to come together as a group to validate your assessment strategies to the FSK. The introduction of the Foundation Skills Training Package (FSK) has provided practitioners with a framework of units of competency to support and […]
ALA webinar: Demystifying solar power
There are over 1 million solar power systems installed throughout Australia and your community centre may be in an ideal position to take advantage of the power that solar generates. Generating your own renewable electricity with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on your roof may seem like a big outlay, but if designed and sized correctly […]
ALA Webinar: Skills for Sustainability – What the Gen Green 4 Australia study tells us.
Skills for Sustainability – demand and supply. What the Gen Green 4 Australia study tells us. In this webinar, Dr Fabian Sack, one of the authors of the Gen Green 4 Australia study, will share its findings. Gen Green 4 Australia is a recently completed national study of over 1,000 apprentices, trainees and their teachers, […]
ALA Webinar: Productive partnerships
Partnering is essential to the sustainability and growth of not for profit ACE organisations. However, partnerships can be enormously time consuming and need to be entered into strategically. This workshop with Rosemary Sharman will take you through a strategic analysis of your partnerships to make sure you are putting your energies into partnership activities that […]
ALA Webinar: Validating Assessment Strategies to the FSK
The introduction of the Foundation Skills Training Package (FSK) has provided practitioners with a framework of units of competency to support and complement a variety of training programs. This webinar is for foundation skills practitioners to come together as a group to validate your assessment strategies to the FSK. The structure for this webinar involves […]
ALA webinar: How to read your energy bill
If you really want to make some energy savings, you need to know how to read your energy bill. OK, so this is not the most sexy topic in the world but it’s an important one. At our next session, Heather Coleman from Heyfield Community Resource Centre will share with us how it’s done. She […]
ALA Webinar: Business Models for Community Organisations
In an era of tightening government budgets, many community- based organisations are looking at ways to develop independent revenue streams to support their other work. However, the social enterprise path is littered with examples of poorly planned business ideas that end up costing community organisations money instead of making them money. In this workshop you […]
ALA Webinar: Introduction to the ACSF
By popular demand…. This webinar is designed to support teachers in understanding and using the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and to respond to the language, literacy and numeracy needs of their students. The session will present a basic introduction to the Australian Core Skills Framework, and its use in identifying the language, literacy and numeracy […]
ALA webinar: Validating your LLN learning and assessment strategies
It’s validation time again! This webinar is for language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together as a group to validate your learning and assessment strategies to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). This session is all about collaboration and peer appraisal. The structure for this webinar involves participants sharing one small assessment strategy for […]