O: We Remember: Australia's Story
This book is about commemorations and history.
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This version will be fine for your own photocopier printing, however, a higher quality file is being used by the commercial printer.
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All eBooks, interactive eBooks, downloadable (printable) versions of the book, and teaching materials are free. You can also order royalty-free, professionally printed books.
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Massiel Barros-Torning is the audio reader for the interactive version of this story. Massiel was born in Valparaiso, Chile, then spent time in a rural coastal village until she migrated to Sydney with her parents as a toddler. The family moved from Gladesville to Granville in Sydney, where Massiel attended school. After school, she started an apprenticeship as a rigger, learning how to make and rig parachutes, but then got an offer to study at UNE, so moved to the New England area of NSW. Massiel has enjoyed a broad career and continued study throughout her life. She has worked as a weeds officer, a TAFE teacher, a university lecturer in IT education, a music teacher and a musician. You can listen to Massiel sign some of the eBooks by looking at the Key Word Sign resources in the programs and listen to her sing her own composition 'We Remember' in this module. Massiel's first language is Spanish. You can also learn to say 'hello', 'how are you' and 'goodbye' in Spanish by listening to Massiel in the recordings below.
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Read-along versions
Audio
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Video
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Dr Graeme Bourke is the video reader for this story. Graeme was born and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, but moved to the country as soon as he could. Graeme taught in secondary schools in NSW and Queensland for many years before becoming a lecturer in History curriculum for pre-service teachers at the University of New England. He also writes books and articles on ancient Greek history. You can learn how to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Greek by listening to Graeme in the recordings below.
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Song
A song has been written by our Armidale musician, Massiel Barros-Torning and donated to this program. You can enjoy singing along with Massiel through the audio and video recordings and by downloading the printed music to learn the chords. The album cover is by Stephen Dobson.
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N.B. The interactives DO NOT work on phones. They are for iPads, tablets, PCs and Macs.
Before you use interactives with children, please make sure they:
1. know the story really well (at least read the book 4 times)
2. explore the interactives 5-10 pages at a time to deepen their understanding of specific ideas in the book.
For more information on why this is important, please view this video.