How to take part
Taking part in the Q150:A Children's Gallery Project is a four part process.
Once the decision is made and you have your school committed to the task, you need to:
- Familiarise yourself with the materials on the site.
- Register on the oz-Teachernet site.
If you are not already registered on the site - that is, you do not have an oz-Teachernet username and password - you need to register.
Go to the home page. Click Register on the right hand side of the banner at the top of the screen. Follow the online instructions. Your username is usually your email address but your password will be your own choice.
3. Entering your school's details
When you have your oz-Teachernet username and password, you then need to go to the Project site for the gallery. Click Login on the right hand side of the banner and enter your username and password when prompted.
You will now see an additional 'box' which lists the participating schools in alphabetical order. Note that Sandpit School - our imaginary test space - will have a My Gallery link visible beside the school name. Your school will eventually have a similarly visible link - but only you and authorised teachers and students will see it.
Click the Add button. The box expands. Enter your details:
- Your "organisation" is the name of your school. Entering your school URL is a good way of letting others know more about your school and where you are located in Queensland.
- Please note that your contact name and email will not be visible. These are for our records and let us know who to contact if problems occur. You must use an email address which indicates your affiliation with a school or school system.
- The information on the number of classes and year levels is an easy way for us to chart who is taking part.
- We will generally approve schools within 24 hours of posting your request.
When complete, click the Add button again. This will upload your details. You will not have access to your gallery until your request is approved.
We will issue you with generic username/passwords for teachers and students. There are instructions on the site to get you started. You can experiment in the Sandpit School site or add/delete to your own site as frequently as you wish. Individual "years" pages will need to be approved by a "teacher."
We will add you to a teachers' email list designed for project announcements and as inbuilt peer support. In our testing of the Q150:A Children's Gallery project in Townsville, some teachers pointed out that 'other' teachers might also be a source of materials for your part of Queensland. They are a fairly mobile group and have connections all over the place! You may, on request, have other members of your school staff added to the list.
You will have until June 5, 2009 to complete as many of the 150 year pages as you wish. There is no compulsion to complete ALL years in the 150 years of Queensland Statehood. Your selections do not need to be unique. Other schools in your district may choose the same events but it is likely that different images may be used and differing interpretations applied.
When open to the public from June 6, 2009, you can no longer edit your pages. You and others may add blogs/comments to the pages. The entire gallery will be searchable through a Google search engine.
Once you have access, you can begin building your history! You can access the page using your oz-Teachernet login. Your students - with different permissions - will use the username generated by using the 'short name' of your page with your postcode as a prefix and @q150 appended. So a student login for the Sandpit School would be 4000-sandpit@q150. The password will also be the 'short name' and you are advised to change this before you start work. The postcodes will solve the problem of their being multiple schools with the same name, for example, 4612-stjosephs and 4538-stjosephs have the same name but are in different places.
Photos and other files can only be uploaded to your school's Q150 'home page' by the person who who requested the page creation - this is to maintain control over uploads. The blog and comments on this page will not be made public and will remain a working area for you and your students.
Let's begin!
Last Modified: 11:16:27 Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
