About
eKids Science is an online education website focussed on rural education. The project is managed by Country Education Project in collaboration with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
eKids features resources developed by teachers working in rural Victorian schools. Students access resources and post their work through their blogs. eKids is built on WordPress with BuddyPress social networking plugins. (more…)
eBiology
eBiology is an exciting online program to assist rural students and teachers, in providing a quality Biology program for 2011. With the mentoring and support of Andrew Douch, approximately 40 rural VCE 3/4 students from eight schools are involved in an online learning program weekly. Students from Werrimul, Swifts Creek, Corryong, Camperdown, Heyfield, East Loddon, Wycheproof and Hawkesdale, along with their teachers are participating in a weekly online elluminate session; discussion on a secure website; as well as accessing podcasts. (more…)
From the blog
Usernames for login: Important!
We have had to change login usernames for eKids. But don’t stress, it’s a simple change. All we have done is removed the “@” symbol from usernames. Why did we do this? Because some eKids users were not able to get to the profile home page. It has to do with special characters in URLs [...]
New site design
The new eKids design is activated. The new site layout focusses on the social network and Courseware for teaching and learning