Settle+In!+-+Background

=ABOUT MIGRANT EDUCATION AND THE "SETTLE IN!" PROJECT= = The Project team is: =


 * [[image:meintassie:anna.JPG width="87" height="87" caption="Anna Kingston - Project Manager/ Flexible Learning Teacher in Migrant Education"]] || [[image:meintassie:IMG_0908_(WinCE).JPG width="113" height="86" align="left" caption="Ian Hewitt - Project Technical Officer, CSWE III Teacher, Migrant Education"]] ||

Our students are recently arrived migrants and former refugees who are learning English and settling in Hobart. We work closely with a range of settlement service providers to ensure that our students have access to accurate and timely information about things like health and accommodation services, Centrelink, the law, etc.

Last year, with AFLF E-Learning Innovations funding, we trialled and embedded a Migrant Education wiki website:

http://meintassie.wikispaces.com/

The **Information** section on the site was the focus of this year's project. It contains pages for each of the main settlement information topics, for example:

We wanted to get the students to create relevant **settlement information resources** - videos and podwalks - which we could get translated into priority languages and upload to pages within the Information section. From our experience, and that of settlement service providers, our newly-arrived students often have difficulties retaining the large amount of information they are given in the first few weeks. We want them individually to be able to revisit the information when they are ready, in a form that is engaging, easily accessible and comprehensible. Students are able to access the Information pages on the open-access wiki and, if they have an MP4 player (which increasing numbers of students do have), they can download the videos and podwalks and play them **anywhere, anytime!**    **BACK TO CASE STUDY HOME**