Welcome to the Interactive Learning in the Early Phase website.  Our aim through this site is to provide Early Phase educators with the support they need to make ICTs integral to learning.    We hope to show how ICTs can not only make learning more engaging, but how they can enhance learning and make learning more relevant to our digital learners and provide students with opportunities to learn about processes, topics and concepts that they simply can't explore without the use of ICTs.  

Digital Literacy Learning Activities for the Early Phase  Resource Kit

This resource has been developed to provide Early Phase teachers with a bank of ideas and learning activities that they can use to help students develop digital literacy skills.  The 50 ideas and activities featured in this resource have been developed in consultation with Education Queensland's Student ICT Expectations and the QSA English Essential Learnings.   By implementing some of the activities featured in this resource in the classroom, you'll be well on your way to helping your students become active, literate members in our digital world.

For the past nine months, our team at the ICT Learning Innovation Centre have been undertaking research and trials with the Bee-Bot programmable floor robots.   We've found that these little bots are simply irresistable to teachers and Early Phase learners and have discovered heaps of ways that the bots can be made integral to learning.    We invite you to explore this section to learn more about the Bee-Bots.

We've created this video lounge so that educators from throughout Queensland and beyond can share in some of the great Early Phase professional development that we offer through the ICT Learning Innovation Centre.     

The current presentations on offer have been captured from our 2007 Interactive Learning in the Early Phase Conference.  

Ever dreamed of having resources that are purpose-built for your class.   Imagine if they contained your students names and characters based on your students.    What if they gave students the opportunity to explore and interact and to make their own decisions about what they wanted to learn about?   This is the premise for the interactive environments that are available for download in this section.

Want to boost your own ICT skills so that you can do some amazing, creative things with your Early Phase students?    Check out some of these tutorials to get started....

• Offficial LIC Bee-Bot Guide
• Make an Interactive Digital Collage
• Learn how to edit your own digital video
• Make your own stop motion animations
• Create your own comics with Comic Life
• Create your own Photo Stories
• Make a 'What am I?' Photo Story

View the entire collection....

Go Interactive - 50 Ideas for using ICTs in the Early Phase

At our 2009 Conference, we launched the first of our 'Go Interactive' mobile applications.   This mini application can be bluetoothed or downloaded for use on most Flash-enabled mobile devices.   At the conference, delegates bluetoothed the app to their mobiles and then took the application back to their schools to share with other teachers.   The application features 50 ideas and links related to ICTs that can be used in the Early Phase.    Most of the ideas related to ICTs that were on show at the conference.