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Introduction This Wiki has been created to showcase our Year 3 Ned Kelly Authentic Learning Task, for Assignment Three:Authentic Learning Task of our Murdoch University e-portfolio assessment for the undergraduate Bachelor of Education unit EDN113 Living and learning with technology. The purpose of this Wiki is to share our Authentic Learning Task design, resources, and information online with teaching professionals and their students. We envisage our Authentic Learning Task to be of particular interest to teachers seeking information on how to design authentic learning tasks and integrate multiple learning areas of the Australian curriculum. Further information about the Authentic Learning Task and topic overview are below.

The Authentic Learning Task Overview
 * Topic: Ned Kelly.
 * =====Product of Authentic Learning Task: alternative ending narrative launched as a mixed media Podcast for sharing via MP3 technologies including iPods. =====
 * =====Year level: Year 3. =====
 * ACARA Curriculum Learning Areas: English, Technology, History, The Arts, and Mathematics.
 * =====Student teachers: Nicki Baker, Karen Bond, Janneke Markovic, Amy Smiles, and Amanda Ulyatt. =====
 * =====End users: Education professionals and their students. =====
 * Suggested presentation space: Podcast for MP3 technologies audio/visual resource for the school library.

Through integration of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) learning areas of English, Technology, History, The Arts, and Mathematics, students explore Australia's historic story of Ned Kelly. Through lessons conducted over a ten week period, students research facts about the infamous bush ranger, and communicate ideas through collaborative mind maps, time lines, and individual art works. The lessons are sequentially structured to meaningfully produce segments of a final product. The final product of the Year 3 Ned Kelly Authentic Learning Task is a Podcast including student narration of their own interpretations of an alternative ending to the story of Ned Kelly, and visually accompanied by students' visual and media art works.The finale of the Ned Kelly Authentic Learning Task is planned to coincide with term three's national Book Week, with the Podcast launched at a Parents and VIPs Presentation Night, held in the school library. The final product, the Podcast, may be presented as a class gift to the school library, as an audio/visual resource for use in listening stations in the library, or classrooms. The Kelly Gang PowerPoint Presentation media type="custom" key="18377918" width="100" height="100" align="left"