CLI product news
New English resource
CLI has released two new products for HSC English, HSC Belonging (ESL) and HSC Belonging (Standard and Advanced) to help students understand the compulsory topic, Area of Study: Belonging...more
Astronomy Masterclass
Fred Watson combines his musical talent with his knowledge of Astronomy in this entertaining and hugely informative masterclass on the past, present and future of the telescope. The resource targets Stage 5 Science and Stage 6 Physics students...more
Weeds attack!
Weeds attack! is a web-based, multimedia resource for schools with interactive learning activities aimed at preparing students to investigate a local weed of national significance...more
Career Moves
The Career Moves web portal provides a powerful new information resource to support NSW students with disabilities in their transition from school to further study, work or other goals... more
Visual Arts Masterclass
CLI's newest Masterclass has been developed for Stage 5 Visual Arts. Guan Wei is a full-time professional artist who works in his studio in Sydney and on site at numerous venues in Australia and overseas... more
Virtually Archibald
Have you seen this year’s winning Archibald Prize portrait? Virtually Archibald, a digital resource produced by CLI, helps students explore the background to this annual portraiture competition and guides them in their own portrait making... more
Rainforests and climate change
The Centre for Learning Innovation puts climate change top of the list of topic areas of importance for 2008... more
Masterclass in statistics
CLI's newest Masterclass - a lesson and interview with statistician Lucy Snowball from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)... more
skoool resources for science and maths
A collaboration between Intel and NSW DET has delivered more than 200 high-quality interactive learning resources for science and maths to NSW schools... more
New geography resource
Fire challenge is a new multimedia resource for Geography Stage 5 that recreates real firefighting situations for students. Through a role-playing exercise, students have the responsibility of bringing a fire outbreak under control... more
New visual arts resource
Site, structure, significance is a new CLI resource for schools. It was officially launched at CLI on Wednesday 17 October to coincide with the Sculpture by the Sea, 2007 exhibition held at Bondi and Tamarama beaches in Sydney. It introduces students to a wide range of sculptures…more
Working for peace
Working for peace is a new online teaching resource produced by CLI featuring Dr Hans Blix who was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in November, 2007...more
Science talk
CLI has developed a new online teaching resource to promote science and mathematics education. Science talk features video interviews with prominent scientists ... more
New TAFE Animal studies resource
Animal Studies is a new TAFE learning resource that supports 13 units of competency in the Certificate II in Animal Studies. The resource can be used for individual learning, flexible or distance delivery and classroom teaching... more
New schools maths resource
Binomial theorem and binomial probability is a web-based multimedia resource designed to support students in learning about various applications of Pascal's triangle. more
Science @ the lakes
Science @ the lakes has inspired a keen interest in science and technology among primary school students in western Sydney. more
Careers advice for the mining industry
Prospects: Thrills and Skills in the Mining Industry is a new careers advice CD providing the latest advice and guidance for young people working in the industry in NSW. more
A new resource for online learning - Children's Services Diploma
Learning takes place more effectively when it is situated in the real world or workplace environments. This is the belief that underpins the design of a new Children’s Services Diploma resource.
Context-based materials were developed to support the resource including videos of child care centres, audio interviews with practitioners, as well as the Summerville Children’s centre site – a simulated childcare centre. The simulated workplace provides an authentic context in which to apply learning.
The resource has been developed for the revised Community Services Training Package (CHC02) and consists of learning topics based on an analysis of the units of competency and complimentary contextual materials for use in an online environment. more…
Primary students benefit from a new interactive Maths tool
A practical maths resource has been developed to guide primary teachers and to assist students to learn through interactive maths lessons.
Using Maths Tracks is an interactive resource produced by the Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) to address Board of Studies outcomes for maths and support teachers using Rigby Maths Tracks publications.
A series of sequenced lessons guide students through interactive activities providing answer guides. Teacher notes are included, offering additional resources including related websites and assessment records. Teachers can use the resource as a guide when planning class or group work. It can also be tailored for students’ independent learning, better fitting the needs of individual students. more…
New resource for Stage 5 English
Indigenous Voices introduces Indigenous poetry, song and stories from Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Western Samoa and Solomon Islands to Stage 5 English students.
The resource consists of three self-contained parts that include interactive learning activities, based on text, audio and flash animations. Each part is accompanied by learning activities and student writing tasks.
Comprising approximately 16 hours of study, the unit examines the ways language forms and features of Indigenous texts shape meaning. Students have the opportunity to respond to and compose a wide range of texts in a variety of forms. ...more
Prove It!
Prove It!, a new online skills recognition tool, is now available to Registered Training Organisations via the Internet... more
