San Clemente's Virtual Study Hub
Syllabus outcomes
Stage 4
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• EN4-2A effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies
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• EN4-1Aresponds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure
Syllabus outcomes
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Stage 5
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EN5-1A responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure.
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EN5-2A effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
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Resources to support creating digital multimodal texts
Film Making
Storyboards, Shot Sheets, Logs, and Slates
"Few things in life work well without a plan. The same goes for video. Planning a shoot by completing shot sheets, storyboards, logs, and slates can help you to get the shots you need and help your video to look planned and professional."
Storyboarding For People Who Can't Draw.
Storyboard Makers
From The Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Templates for creating stories in a comic strip style. A basic free version is available.​
An introduction to animation​
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Australian Film and Music
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Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Library site
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Australian Screen Information about and excerpts from a wide selection of Australian feature films, documentaries, television programs, newsreels, short films, animations, and home-movies produced over the last 100 years.​
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FilmInk"FilmInk is Australia’s leading and most trusted source when it comes to all things movies and the screen industry, with a foundation and special focus on the Australian film industry."
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Music Australia Brought to you by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive.
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Screen Australia ​Screen Australia is a Federal Government agency charged with supporting Australian screen development, production and promotion.
Make Album Cover Art for Free in Minutes
You can access this site for free with your school sign in
Start the design process by selecting a size and layout for your album cover. Adobe Spark Post gives you many standard size selections to choose from, including a “Square” template, which is ideal for album covers. You can also get creative and customize the size to fit your needs.
Themes are a great way to start the design process. Adobe Spark has numerous themed design templates to choose from. You can find the theme that’s perfect for your album cover or design one from scratch. Themes help set the mood for your album cover.
Add photos and other images to personalize your album cover and make it stand out.
Visual Literacy
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​Visual Literacy Slide Share
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Visual metalanguage for comprehending and composing visual meaning
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Poetry
Modern Australian Poetry. National Library of Australia
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal -has a strong focus on Asian-themed creative work and work done by Asian writers/artists
Poetryfoundation.org. The Poetry Foundation has a huge selection of poems supported by substantial biographical info.
Poemhunter.com. Whether you're looking for themed quotes, the lyrics to an almost forgotten song, to revisit a favourite poem or discover new poets, this vast resource of over 800,000 poems and 80,000 poets will deliver the goods.
Poetry180. The Library of Congress's Poetry 180 site encourages schools to share a poem with their students every day.
Red Room Company For established and emerging poets as well as students, the RRC reflects the diversity of Australian voices.
Writing Resources
read write think - Free resources for reading and language arts.
Essay Writing - A beginners guide to writing an essay
Planning your writing - From BBC Skillswise
Purdue Online Writing Lab - information to assist with many writing projects
Writing - ABC Splash - For younger students
50 Great Resources for Writers- Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills
Edubirdie Blog - Improve Your Writing With The Help Of Useful Resource
English Data Bases
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Advertisements
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Adforum is an archive of classic print and magazine advertisements. Students can search for examples of advertising for the second half of the 20th century.
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A collection of Australian advertisements that shows various advertising techniques. 5 brands that won Australian Advertising Awards
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This site helps learners to discover the secrets advertisers use to sell products. It looks at advertising tricks, the secrets of selling and assists in the creation of an advertisement.
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From Mediaknowall.
From History Matters
Includes topics such as propaganda and race.
Practice your debating skills on this website
Representations of Australian Identity
Explore the myriad forces impacting on Australian English and its relationship with our national identity.
What does my headscarf mean to you? (TEDx)
Yassmin Abdel-Magied challenges us to look beyond our initial perceptions, and to open doors to new ways of supporting others.
SBS Documentary: Michael Hing asks "Where Are You Really From?"
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CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA . National Identity Sara Cousins (pdf).
Word Power!
By using this page, you can increase your vocabulary faster and more easily than you may realise.
Gender and Cultural Identity
25 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity
This series of short films features everyday people as they discuss issues of race and identity in America.
Emma Watson's Short Film on Gender Equality
Gender Identity Everything you wanted to know about gender identity at Headspace
Australians Together explains why culture and identity is important
ReachOut Find out how cultural history and family heritage are what make Australians unique and special.
