Double Trouble was produced by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). The 13 episodes x 24 minute series is a live action, comedy drama.

The story explores the lives of identical twin girls, separated at birth due to an old superstition. Yuma lives with her wealthy father and step family in Sydney. Kyanna lives in a community in the central Australian desert with her mother and extended family. These girls are completely unaware that the other exists, until a twist of fate sees them bump into each other in Alice Springs and they agree to swap lives.

It’s a story of different cultures. The white and the black. The city and the bush. Traditional ways of life and modern day thinking. It’s a chance to explore Aboriginal culture without it being a

tourist oddity. It is about being exposed to a new and very different culture and having to cope.

The ACTF has partnered with the NSW Department of Education and Training to produce the Double Trouble: Learning and Teaching Resource (DVD-ROM) which explores Indigenous perspectives through a multi-discipline approach.

The resource contains:

• 29videoclipsselectedforrelevanceto themes and activities in teaching resources

• 63subject-basedlearningresourcesand interactive activities presented as case study investigations

• Productioninformation,includinginterviews with key production personnel and stills of locations and characters

The interactive activities are housed in five sections: Me, My Family, My Place, My World, and My Vision.

Themes: Identity, relationships, family, twins, belonging, ancestry, stereotype, adolescence, growth and development, genre, humour and satire, expectations and decision making, among others…

Year/Audience: Middle years (upper primary to lower secondary - Ages 10-14)

Curriculum links: English, The Arts (Dance, Drama, Media, Music, Visual Arts), Health andPhysicalEducation,History,Geography,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Ethics and values.

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On15and16August2011,12schoolcoordinators converged on the ACTF for the annual meeting of the national panel of ACTF Advisory Schools. This meeting gave the ACTF an opportunity to update coordinators about the work of the ACTF, particularly, in respect to the Convergence Review, programs under development, new ideas for future productions, and the creation and distribution of new education resources. Also, the coordinators had the opportunity to share their schools’ experiences in using ACTF programs and resources and provide advice on educational directions in their state and territory that influence the delivery of classroom education.

Priortothemeetingthecoordinatorscompleted a questionnaire about the ACTF website. This feedback gave the ACTF valuable evidence about how to direct information more effectively to educators.

The ACTF is interested in expanding the Advisory Schools’ network in each state and territory and is interested in hearing from energetic teachers who feel their school might like to be involved. Should you be one such teacher, please view the work of the Advisory Schools on the ACTF website andcontactMaggieGarrard (maggie.garrard@actf.com.au) directly.

The ACTF, in partnership with the GeographyTeachers’AssociationofVictoria(GTAV),hasproducedan array of engaging teaching strategies and learning activities that support primary teachers and lower secondary geography/humanities teachers using My Place in the classroom. The geography section is available in the My Place Teachers’ Guide (Series 1 & 2) and addresses the learning concepts identifiedintheShapingPaperfor the Australian Curriculum for Geography,foryears3-6.

The My Place: Geography resource offers more than 40 teaching activities relating to 20 video clips selected from series 1 and 2. Teachers can access interactive maps which show the changing landacrosssevendecades(1948-1888).Theteachingactivitiesusean enquiry-based approach and focus on concepts such as Place, Environment and Space. The mapping activities build student skills, knowledge and understanding of basic elements such as distance, direction, compass points, measurement, and scale, among others. Additionally, students can hear Nadia Wheatley talk about how she has been involved in community environmental protection activities to clean up the My Place creek and environment.

TheGeographysectionaddstothe existing History and English teaching strategies and creates an extensive multi-discipline, multimodal resource. Visit the My Place for Teachers website www.myplace.edu.au, and the ACTF shop www.actf.com.au/shop to order the My Place package.

The ACTF wishes to advise Kahootz users that the Kahootz website (www.kahootz.com) is no longer active. If you wish to access Kahootz examples in the future, please visit www.actf.com.au/education/kahootz.

If you are registered on the Kahootz database, the ACTF will transfer your contact details from the Kahootz database to the general ACTF Education database. Therefore, you will receive the general Education eNewsletters.

Should you no longer wish to receive any eNewsletters, please unsubscribe by emailing education@actf.com.au. Alternatively,shouldyouwanttojointheACTF mailing list yourself with updated information, you can subscribe online at www.actf.com.au/news/sign_up_for_newsletter.

The ACTF will also cease to offer Kahootz 3 professional training from the end of 2011.Pleasedon’thesitatetocontactusif you have any questions, concerns or queries.

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In line with the launch of our new website, the ACTF is making giant virtual leaps in providing educators with the latest digital avenues to connect them directly with the staff, programs and initiatives of our education team.

The ACTF has been responsible for delivering some of Australia’s best loved kids’ shows and our new You Tube channel OzKidsTV showcases dozens of video clips from our television productions, giving audiences the chance to explore, share, comment on and reconnect with these much loved series.

Our Facebook page, Australian Children’s Television Foundation – Education, provides a hub where educators are encouraged to directly

connect and share information with our staff, industry partners, and peers.Byjoiningus,ournetworkof friends is kept up-to-date with our latest program developments, initiatives and relevant news.

Educators can also sign up to our eNews subscription on the ACTF website to receive monthly highlights, linking them to the latest news and productions.

Over the coming months, the education team will continue to explore new ways to deliver its ever popular professional development programs in 2012, including through the latest online web conferencing facilities. Visit our education website to find out more, connect with us or subscribe to our eNews.

ACTF moving towards web 2.0

Wa schools benefit from using actf multimedia resources

The Department of Education Western Australia has been adapting ACTF resources for use in their online environment within the teacher portal. Each resource has been adapted to cater for the varying needs of WA teachers and formatted so that numerous worksheets and videos can be accessed on a variety of platforms and locations and used in an interactive manner.

To cater for the varying and constantly evolving computer setups that a school may have, each video clip is now available in twoformats:PCandMac,andformattwoissuitableforiPads/iPhones/iPods.

The Australian Curriculum has now been tagged across all ACTF resources. Teachers are able to discover the ACTF resources by searching Australian Curriculum keywords, strands, sub strands and content descriptors. The resource metadata contains all relevant Australian Curriculum codes and also addresses keywords from the Western Australian syllabus.

Mapping the Australian Curriculum for teachers to use in planning documents has also been a priority. Within each resource, teachers can access a supporting document that features a list of the Australian Curriculum codes that are specifically addressed within that particular resource, which strand/sub-strand they are a part of, related ScOT terms and which activity they are addressed in. This list can be downloaded and then extracted and placed into a teacher’s programming and planning documents.

Written by Vicki Delves, A/Principal Consultant, Online Curriculum Services, WA DET*Australian Curriculum link provided on each resource’s initial landing page

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The Western Australia Department of Education AdvisorySchoolsProjectcomprises14WesternAustralian schools ranging in needs and circumstances (such as remote schools, education support centre/special needs, intensive English centre, district high schools, and metropolitan primary schools) who have volunteered to view and use the ACTF resources in order to provide feedback on how they could be optimised to suit their specific needs. New lessons and worksheets have been added to the WA portal as a result of the Advisory Schools’ suggestions of possible learning activities.

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persuasiveAll language is persuasive. Whether we are telling a funny story, giving a compliment, proposing marriage, or passing the time in a long queue at the supermarket, we are using words and expression for a particular purpose. Language is never neutral. The PersuasiveText(DVD-ROM)offersteachersand students 12 clips with aligned teaching activitiesforyears3,5,7and9,whichaddressNAPLANcriteriaanddevelopsstudents’ skills for using persuasive language through verbal and non-verbal forms. An example of a clip is Casa de Evil, a spoof advertisement where the video images replicate persuasive marketing.

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Explore all four series of the international award winning comedy Round the Twist, based on thestoriesofcelebratedchildren’sauthorPaulJennings. The series are supported by online trailers, production images and free lesson plans for teachers, encouraging students to compare written and visual text to become critical readers and viewers.

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