[Agriculture and Horticulture ] FW: Biotechnology resource

Thu May 13 15:48:09 EST 2010

Dear Ag and Hort teachers

For those of you who attended the VCE Implementation Workshops last
Friday or Monday, I showed you a resource on biotechnology. Please see
information below from the contact at Melbourne University.

You may wish to go directly to
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/foodag/foodandag.html

Regards, Lorraine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Major [mailto:jmajor at unimelb.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 4:19 PM
Subject: 

Dear all

You are receiving this email because you have either purchased a
Biotechnology Online school resource kit or participated in a Gene and
NanoTechnology Information workshop.

There are a couple of news items I need to bring to your attention.

First, GNTIS is now called TechNyou.  We have secured funding for
another two years, and a long-term desire of ours has been to embrace
all emerging technologies, rather than just gene and nanotech.  So we
have done that and in the process changed our name, web site and some of
our contact details - see below for these.  We still operate as an
information service, so your students or yourselves can contact us for
help with assignments or to get up to speed with the science and
associated issues of emerging technologies.

We will still have an outreach program, though an expanded one compared
to the last 18 months.  This means taking our information booth to
selected public events to engage with the public on the often very cool
science, but probably more importantly to engage with them on the
associated issues or ethics.

We will still be running teacher PD and student workshops.  For
interested Melbourne or Victoria teachers, feel free to contact us and
we can discuss and design workshops suitable for you students, or for
yourselves, if you are seeking PD.  For interstate schools and teachers,
keep an eye on our events calendar to see when we will be in your area.
If we are coming your way, feel free to contact us and we will be happy
to try and arrange student workshops or teacher PD for you while
attending the calendar event.

We still have large files of media clipping, research reports,
peer-reviewed papers and fact sheets, some of which are downloadable
from the TechNyou web site. Others we can post or email to you along
with other relevant information such as good web sites of experts the
students can contact.

For those of you that haven't checked the web site recently, the
TechNyou site has regular news updates about cutting-edge science,
downloadable publications, FAQs, and regular ethical questions.  There
is a blog that allows students to contribute to a discussion on topics
of interest to them or yourselves.  We are about to insert a forum
functionality.  One aim of this will be to allow students to discuss
assignment topics with TechNyou and other relevant experts.  This will
require you as the teacher to let us know the students' assignment
topics.  TechNyou will set up a forum based on those topics including
some introductory information and posing some questions for students to
consider and use as the basis of discussion.  If possible, other experts
will be asked to contribute to the forum to give students a wider
perspective of the topic.  The forum content can them be used by the
teacher as a classroom tool to discuss the relevant points made in the
forum and to show the different student views and what drives those
views.

Second, and finally, Biotechnology Online is now being hosted by CSIRO
Education, though it is not being updated. It is still a useful and
current resource, but you need to be aware that it was last updated in
early 2007. The funding for an update is being arranged.  It is hardly
news but AccessNano, another online teacher resource is also available.
It contains information, worksheets, lab pracs, audio, video and
animations to help teach nanotechnology.

www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au <http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/> 

www.accessnano.org <http://www.accessnano.org/> 

TechNyou details

Web: www.technyou.edu.au <http://www.technyou.edu.au/> 

Email: technyou-info at unimelb.edu.au
<mailto:technyou-info at unimelb.edu.au> 

Free call: 1800 631 276

And you can follow us on Twitter

Regards

Jason 

Jason Major
Manager
TechNyou
www.technyou.edu.au <http://www.technyou.edu.au/> 
1800 631 276

Location: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville 3010
Postal: PO Box 4455, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052

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