ed-online  http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/ed-online/

Dear colleague,

A lot has happened in the last 10 weeks since the launch of the ed-online project at Museum Victoria. We hope that the resources you find online will be of use to school communities across Australia and the world. We look forward to your comments and feedback.

1. Competitions for Teachers, Students and Parents
2. Australia's BIGGEST FAMILY ALBUM - Online image database!
3. Hear Her Voice - Women in the Migration process
4. Online shop -  Unique products online
5. Resources online!

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1.Win Big Prizes!
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Museum Victoria has just launched two exciting and very simple competitions, each with the opportunity to win Apple iMac computers, IMAX tickets and copies of the new People Place and Time CD-Rom.

To view the details of these competitions, please follow this link. 

http//www.mov.vic.gov.au/ed-online/forums/comps.htm

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2.People Place and Time CD-Rom
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Museum Victoria has also just released it's People Place and Time CD-Rom.

We have collected photographs of a range of human activities in Victoria's and Australia's past, dating from the 1870s to the 1950s. Here, you can access our database of over 9,000 photographs. Known as the Biggest Family Album in Australia, you can search it using a wide range of criteria including topic, concept, activity, place and date.

A range of classroom activities, interactive online tasks and textual information have been developed to assist students and teachers in accessing the database. Activities have been designed to introduce primary and secondary students to the use of photographs as sources of information and understanding of the past.

One single user copy will be circulated FREE of CHARGE to every Victorian School. Every school in Australia will soon be receiving a fax outlining the Biggest Family Album Project and how to purchase single user or site licenses online!

For more information on this project or the accompanying CD-Rom, please view  the link;

The Biggest Family Album Project      http//www.mov.vic.gov.au/bfa/

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3. Hear Her Voice
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Hear Her Voice presents the stories of women in the migration process. It looks at their dreams, aspirations, family ties, disappointments and achievements, while capturing some of the diversity of cultural background, patterns of immigration and experiences of settling.

Primary source material is in the form of transcripts, audio, video, photographs, objects and facsimiles of letters and immigration documents. Hyperlinks allow students access to this material, including the complete transcripts.

Two new stories have just been added.  This is NOT to be missed!

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4. Shoponline
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Museum Victoria's publications aim to improve 'understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live.' The museum is a small publisher rich in collections and curatorial expertise. Its book range is extensive-from academic papers to glossy coffee table books.

In general, the museum publishes monographs (scholarly works), special interest books, (authoritative books for wide audience); reference books, guides, catalogues, surveys, children's books (up to 12 year-olds), education kits, publications supporting school curricula or museum's educational programs and richly illustrated coffee table books.

Buy and MV CD-Rom online and win an Apple IMac computer!

Shoponline at           http://www.commercesuite.com.au/mv/

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5. Resources:
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You can even write reviews of our resources when searching the resources database at 

http//www.mov.vic.gov.au/ed-online/resources/

We look forward to seeing you online!

The ed-online team!
Museum Victoria
http//www.mov.vic.gov.au/ed-online/

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28th July 1999