Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES)
Watch This! Videos of current events and issues for mobile learning
The Watch This! Project will provide downloadable video resources for English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign language (EFL) learners for mobile devices such as mobile phones and mp3/4 players/ipods, enabling students to learn wherever and whenever they want to about current affairs pertinent to ESL/EFL learners.
Grant received:$62,856

Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES)
Environmental Networking - Spreading Sustainability through schools using innovative media
CERES Environmental networking project aims to expand their website for schools to enable environmental networking through WEB 2.0 technologies. This website framework will enable schools to upload motivational sustainability case studies of their experiences in sustainability programs facilitated by the Victorian government.
Grant received:$30,000

Tenants Union of Victoria Ltd
Residential Tenancies e-Learning
Tenants Union of Victoria's Residential Tenancies e-Learning project aims to develop a learner management system to cater specifically for community and housing sector employees and volunteer workers of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 (RTA) who, due to their part time employment or volunteer status, are precluded from gaining readily available access to essential training and support. This project will allow these employees and volunteers to conduct the training at a time that is convenient to them.
Grant received: $9,800

Cancer Council Victoria
Use of real time UV information via internet-enabled mobile phones to promote skin cancer prevention
Cancer Council Victoria's use of real time UV information project aims to use internet-enabled mobile phones to promote skin cancer prevention. By publishing real time UV information on a website optimised for mobile phones, it will enable any individual to check the UV rating at any particular time from anywhere in Metropolitan Australia.
Grant received:$30,000

Victorian Space Science Education Centre at Strathmore Secondary College
Mission to the Orbiting Space Laboratory for Primary Students
Victorian Space Science Education Centre's Mission to the Orbiting Space project aims to provide students with exciting hands on science experiences. By immersing the students in the experience of being an astronaut and conducting experiments in areas such as robotics, human physiology and microbiology the project aims to promote high order thinking skills such as problem solving, team work, communication skills and leadership.
Grant received: $64,500

Berry Street Victoria Incorporated
Childhood Development, Trauma and Attachment Outline Learning ModulesThe Berry Street Childhood Development, Trauma and Attachment program aims to develop online modules of these three linked topics that cover complex and new ways of thinking. This project will use the learning's Berry Street has so far articulated as a basis to write, instructionally design, test and launch online learning modules on Childhood Development, Trauma and Attachment. These modules will be used by Berry Street staff and volunteers to strengthen their capacity to deliver high quality, evidence-informed services to all clients and communities across Victoria.
Grant received:$29,950