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You can be the Voice of the Future

Schools across Australia are invited to host a 2020 School Summit during the three weeks commencing March 17th 2008. Teachers are asked to encourage their students to articulate and communicate their feelings and ideas for the future of Australia.

Interested students who are not at a participating school may submit feedback directly through the Summit website.

CMIS will be posting two separate series of VoiceThreads – one for younger students (middle/ upper primary and early adolescence) and one for older students (Late adolescence).

Both series will consist of 10 separate VoiceThreads, each concentrating on one of the 10 Critical Areas identified for discussion at the Australian 2020 Summit.

We will commence posting the VoiceThreads on Monday March 17th and will continue posting one each working day over the next two weeks. The VoiceThreads will remain available for comment until April 3rd (to allow for comments to be collated and submitted to the Australia 2020 site by the April 4th deadline)

Please feel free to use the introductory VoiceThread below to experiment with creating a VoiceThread account and recording comments.

Australian educational bloggers are invited to embed these VoiceThreads into their own blogs (or link to this one) Here is a sneak preview of the first topic (for older students) and the first topic for younger students.

To learn more about VoiceThread visit their excellent tutorial page.

Teachers please note: VoiceThread Terms of Service require users under the age of 13 to have parental permission to create their own accounts.

Check out the CMIS webpages on Student Safety Online for useful information

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