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Update
Feb 11
Marine
Discovery on Kangaroo Island
1st
& 2nd March, 2003
Come
and discover the delights of Kangaroo Island,
with a weekend workshop. The weekend is designed
for primary and secondary teachers, as well as
other marine educators, and comes with up to 10
hours accreditation. Kangaroo Island Sea Link
is kindly offering a special ferry fare for participants
(see below).
Saturday,
1st March
Venue:
Kingscote Wharf Marine Centre
The
program includes:
- ·Beachcombing
activity
- Kathy
Paige & David Lloyd, School of Education,
University of South Australia - 'Beach Treasures:
A constructivist approach to curriculum planning'
- Tony
Flaherty, Marine and Coastal Community Network
- Lauren
Monks, Education Officer, Coast & Marine
Branch, DEH
- Chris
Ball, Coast & Marine Officer, Conservation
Council of SA
- Alex
Gaut, MESA & Marine Life Society of SA -
Seaweek & Jewels of the Sea kits
Optional
evening activity: Tony Flaherty is offering to
do a plankton tow at dusk with whoever is interested.
The time will be accredited for 1 hour extra.
Saturday
night is an excellent opportunity for casual networking
over drinks and dinner.
Sunday,
2nd March
Venue:
Kingscote Area School
A
special morning workshop presented by Jonathon
Shankar-Noble, Environmental Education Officer,
DEH - Introducing the new 'Coast & Marine
Education Framework'.
BBQ
Lunch - certificate collection and round up.
Kangaroo
Island Sea Link is kindly offering a special half
price ferry fare to all workshop participants
travelling from the mainland.
Return
ferry fare: $32.00 per participant (usual price
$64.00)
Coach
or car travel still at usual rates - please ask
KI Sea Link about these rates.
To
get this special deal you will need to register
for the workshop by contacting us. Once we have
your registration, we will immediately send you
a schedule and give you the details of how to
book using this special offer.
Alex
Gaut ph: 0418 921 849 or e-mail: octopus@chariot.net.au
January
2003
Just
to update you a bit for 2003. At the 2002 national
conference I met a number of enthusiastic Kangaroo
Islanders and we got very excited about the prospect
of a teacher workshop over there. I admit to having
been very slack in this area but it has been difficult
to raise funds. However, I have just recently
submitted a proposal to the Department of Environment
and Heritage to ask for supporting funds for a
weekend workshop. So – fingers crossed and
there may be something happening very soon. I’m
planning for late February. Because travel and
accommodation costs will make things quite expensive,
I’m hoping that we won’t have to charge
participants for
the workshop.
The
DEH Environmental Education section is in the
final stages of preparing a new document for teachers
– the Coast and Marine Education Framework.
It is a huge resource guide, with thousands of
internet links and pages and pages of non-internet
resources such as books, music, kits and CD-roms.
It will be available through the
internet and as a CD-rom. They hope it will be
launched in Februaryand it will be presented in
a session at the workshop.
Seaweek
2003 plans are afoot and updates are available
through the MESA home page.
Don’t
forget – you can contact
me anytime on email if you have any questions,
or if you are interested in the February workshop.
Bye
for now
Alex
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