Digital+and+Online+Helpers


 * Digital and Online Helpers **

**DVDs**

**1. Our history: Volume 1. Indigenous Australians**. [DVD] by M. Rove (Writer/Producer, 2007). Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Commercial.

This DVD is an interpretation of indigenous Australian life before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. It is important to have an understanding of how they lived, what they ate and where they travelled because the arrival of the Europeans had an enormous impact on all of these things. ** TIP ** : You will see indigenous Australians in the film. Think carefully about who they are. Were these people living at the time of the arrival of the First Fleet? How do you know? ** 2. Our history: Volume 1. Colonists arrive. ** [DVD] by M. Rove (Writer/Producer). (2007). Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Commercial. This DVD is an interpretation of many things: ** TIP: ** You will see indigenous and European people in the film. Think carefully about who they are. Were these people living at the actual time of the arrival of the First Fleet? How do you know? **Websites** ** 1. Click to go to [|First Fleet Online – Investigating] ** Part of the website ‘First Fleet Online’, this webpage  talks about designing questions as a starting point to research. The author of the website provides groups of possible questions for investigation based on 6 key questions. Examine the 6 key questions. Are there any important ones missing? Go to ‘Create – Questions and Answers’ in the wiki and create 2 main questions of your own. ** TIP: ** Click [|here] for help with creating questions!
 * 1)  British life on the ships sent from England
 * 2)  what they thought of the country on their arrival
 * 3)  what they thought of the indigenous people
 * 4)  the impact of these things on the lives of indigenous Australians.

** 2. Click to go to [|WebQuest: Colonisation of Australia, 1606-1868:] ** This webpage is part of a webquest. A narrative describes the role of a convict boy who arrived with the first fleet and is later part of a group sent to “capture the first Aboriginal”. ** TIP: ** Do you trust what this webpage is saying? Click [|here] to help you decide.
 * How are indigenous and British people described?
 * Whose point of view is told? Whose is not?
 * Indigenous Australians are called “Aboriginals” on the menu bar as well as in the narrative . If you were the author of this webpage, would you have made the same choice?

** 3. Click to go to [|ConvictCentral.com] ** ; then **click** on ‘**timeline’** (a direct link is not possible) This webpage provides a timeline that includes some events contributing to the British decision to occupy Australia. Look carefully at the events that took place between 1718-1788. Go to the ’Create – Comparisons’ page of the wiki. List any key words  that you think might be useful in your research. Click [|here] for help with key words! Examine what the timeline says happened between 1718 and 1825. Which groups of people are mentioned? ** 4. Click to go to [|Indigenous Australia Timeline - 1500 to 1900] ** This webpage provides a timeline of some events before and after the first British occupation of Australia. Examine the events that are included in this timeline from 1606-1802. Which groups of people are mentioned? Go to the ‘Create – Comparisons’ page of the wiki and compare the Indigenous Australia and ConvictCentral timelines. ** TIP: ** Click [|here] for help with comparisons!

**5. Click to go to [|Yahoo! Kids]**  This is a page from the search engine Yahoo!Kids, a directory of internet sites organised for children. As with many search engines, it can be easy to become lost within a search, so it’s important to start with a good look around. Remember that different topics will need different kinds of searches (for this one you might start in <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; marginbottom: 10pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">‘reference’ or ‘world factbook’, for example) ! ** TIP: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Click [|here] for help with search engines!