ANSWERS TO SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
If you have further questions, please contact us. Email: Wendy Rush
NOTE: To receive email updates and to be in
the prize draws you have to register for both
Reach for the Stars
and National Celebration of Literacy separately.
I don’t know how to do a digital story. What can I
do?
Digital Stories can be simple or complex. There are examples of digital stories created by children with their teachers at the tab ‘Stories’. There are also step-by-step instructions that describe the process and also links to other sites that can help you.
If you decide Digital Stories are not for you and your students, you can still be involved. Go to the tab ‘Other Activities’ and you are sure to find something of interest.
Do we make one digital story each or do we do one together?
It’s up to you and how you want to respond to the book that you are reading. You will upload your digital story to your own site and then send us the URL. Your URL might direct us to a whole range of stories.
Where will we publish our stories?
The National Celebration of Literacy (NCL) website will provide links to URLS you provide– it will not house the digital story itself. You can upload your digital story to your own school site, to Youtube, to Teachertube, or to another place you know. You then sent the URL to us with a brief description of the content. This will be published on the NCL site.
I have my own idea to celebrate at my school. Do I have to do one of the activities you have listed?
Not at all! The National Celebration of Literacy is a perfect time to celebrate the work you are doing. If you choose to do something different, please write a short description of what you have done (a couple of paragraphs) and we will upload your report onto our gallery. Feel free to send us a photo or a URL link to your school website if you have published your activities there.
Other teachers at school are also interested in being involved. Do they need to register?
This is entirely up to the teachers and schools involved. Everyone who fills in a registration form with a valid e-mail address will receive e-mail updates and an invitation to provide feedback to us at the conclusion of the project. Many schools choose to have a single coordinator who receives and distributes information, but each school is welcome to register as many teachers (not students) as they wish. Each school will only have one entry into the prize draw.
I am leaving the school. How will the school stay involved?
If you have registered as the contact person and leave your school part way through the project, we recommend you nominate someone at your current school to maintain involvement in the National Celebration of Literacy. In order to continue receiving updates via email, the new contact person will need to register.
Do we have to do our National Celebration of Literacy activities on a particular day?
You can start planning and working on your National Celebration of Literacy activities as soon as you wish. We hope that as many schools as possible will celebrate with the school and/or the community between 29 August and 4 September so we can celebrate the great work in schools as a nation.
Do I have to register again for Reach for the Stars?
Yes. The National Celebration of Literacy (conducted by the Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Literacy Educators' Association) and Reach for the Stars (conducted by The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers) are two of the key events for National Literacy and Numeracy Week.
To receive email updates and to be in the prize draws you have to register for both Reach for the Stars and National Celebration of Literacy separately.
