1. What are the challenges to making a truly sustainable home? A Website Design Project for the Willy Environmental Neighbourhood ICT for visualising thinking ICT for creating ICT communicating Williamstown Primary, August 13 & 14, 2007

2. Focus Question: What are the challenges to making a truly sustainable home? ･ How can we keep development of new home as sustainable as possible? ･ Can current homes be retro fitted with new technologies to make them green? ･ What is the importance of green building materials? ･ What strategies and new technologies can be used in the home to save water, waste and energy? ･ What future technologies could be used to in home to allow for more efficient water and energy use? ･ Can you design a completely sustainable home from the bottom up?

3. That’s a very big question !! So how can we get our brain organised to think about it??? We can use a graphic organiser to help us visualise our thinking…..

4. How can we keep development of new home as sustainable as possible?..... How can we keep development of new home as sustainable as possible? ……

5. What future technologies could be used to in home to allow for more efficient water and energy use?..... … … What future technologies could be used to in home to allow for more efficient water and energy use?

6. What is the importance of green building materials?..... … … … … … … … … … … … … … … What is the importance of green building materials?

7. Can you design a completely sustainable home from the bottom up? YES..... NO Can you design a completely sustainable home from the bottom up?

8. Can current homes be retro fitted with new technologies to make them green?..... Yes Maybe No

9. What strategies and new technologies can be used in the home to save water, waste and energy?

10. Our Task: To make a website on What are the challenges to making a truly sustainable home? Students will answer part of the focus question using one of the following forms of multimedia [students will be in groups of 2 or 3]. The website will be published and linked to the Cluster’s website http://4schools1planet.vic.edu.au

11. Website Design Activities _1 Website [iWeb] Developing a website which encourages on sustainable housing [including home page and maybe facts page, photo gallery and blog and pages to hold the comic/posters and podcast.] Comic or posters [Comic Life] Making a comic or poster about sustainable housing

12. Website Design Activities _2 Podcast [GarageBand 3] Plan and conduct a podcast on sustainable housing issues Wiki Add content about project to cluster wiki Short Movie [Using iMovie HD] to make a promotional video on sustainable housing Digital photography for the website / Comic Life

13. Day 1. Monday August 13th 9.00am Welcome – Overview of program, outline of expectations & housekeeping. Visual thinking activity. Answering the question. Groups organised with mentors. Content collection / planners 11.00 – Recess 11.30 – Software/skills workshops 1.00 – Lunch break 2.00 – Workshop time 1 3.20 - Close of program for Day 1

14. Day 2. Tuesday August 14th 9.00am – Workshop time 2 11.00 – Recess 11.30 – Workshop time 3 1.00 – Lunch break 2.00 – Presentation of final products to Cluster network 3.15 – Close of program for Day 2

15. Designed by Mark Richardson, ICT Coordinator, Williamstown Primary School, & Kara Spence, Environmental Educator, Environmental Neighbourhood Cluster August 2007, For the Williamstown Environmental Neighbourhood. http://4schools1planet.vic.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.