Clothing Production for Refugees

2013

The project

How it started…..To create and deliver an interactive skills recognition tool for the refugee participants of No Sweat Fashion.

To create and deliver learning for 2 x units of competency from the Certificate 3 in Clothing Production through the use of ipads and in the workplace

We wanted to create a product that could be:• Accessible to the participant in the workplace• Recognise their existing skills• Gap train the participants • Use the Kaleen High school network and ipads.

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How we are achieving our goals…..Our team – Nora Tuchagues, Naomi Thomson, Teri Silk, Steve Wright, Brett Butler, Deb Bowman and Jayne Miller

We have utilised the skills of the teachers within Creative Industries. We’ve identified the strengths of each team member and we are learning as we go.

We have been working with the NSF staff and participants in the lead up to delivering the elearning products. This has been important as it has helped us:• Understand their language and literacy skills• Understand their industry skills and gaps• The limitations in the Kaleen HS network and ipad • The limitations in the ipads and elearn

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What we have ended up with….. We have taken a skills recognition word document and unpackaged this and then repacked it. We've looked at the skills required in each UOC and then packaged these into ‘skill sets’

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What we have ended up with….. interactive pdfs.

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How are the skills recognition tools being used…..We are based at NSF with a teacher for 3 hours per week supporting the refugees in collecting their evidence. As they work they have been collecting since November. This has allowed the participants to

• Use the ipads and become familiar with them• Take photos and videos of themselves and support each other in

their own learning. The development of team has been remarkable within the NSF participants.

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How are the skills recognition tools being used…..the gathering of evidence

The projectWhat we have ended up with….. The creation of the unit of competency workbooks or tools

Nora Tuchagues and Naomi Thomson with educational input from Terri Silk and Steve Wright and literacy support from Deb Bowman have been working away at creating ibooks.• Looked at the UOC and brought them back to the critical aspects• Where possible we have used real life or work-based situations as

examples• To overcome copyright we have used our own video and images• Created quizzes that support the underpinning aspects of the UOC

with a case study developed as summative assessment• A interactive activity sheet has been developed to capture the

student responses and these will be submitted by drop box or at CIT into elearn

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The creation of the unit of competency workbooks or tools

The ibooks are for the following UOCs:• LMTGN2003B• MSAENV272A

What we have learnt:• Finding the right app is important – we’re still

experimenting• The ibooks create excellent PDF books that are useful

backup to the ibook and have interactivity.

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The ibooks….. LMTGN2003B

MSAENV272A

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Overview of the project

Where we are now

Most participants have begun the ‘formal’ skills recognition process. This is behind schedule but we have made up time by:

• Supporting the learners in collecting their evidence. • Helping them to familiarise themselves with the

technology

Overview of the project

Where we are now

The entire group of refugees began using ibook UOCs on the 2nd May.

Where we ended up….

• An rpl tool that teachers can take out to students• A participant group who have progressed through the

certificate I and are continuing to undertake learning through the workplace in certificate II and certificate III

• An interactive ibook that has multiple uses• A group of teachers who have developed into an amazing

team.

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