8.+Evaluation

Self Evaluation ** 
 * GREEN EDUCATION POLICY
 * ** Purposes/individual functionalities of the site ** || ** Components that do this

** || ** Things I needed to do ** ||
 * **IDENTITY**

I chose the title as a contraction of the theme 'Green Education Policy'.

The green is a link to the focus on the environment.

The red is a link to the photo which I took one day at the Botanical gardens which is also a link to the environment. || I made sure the title 'Green Education Policy' appeared at the top of every page to ensure continuity with the topic.

The red was also linked through in pages and the photo appeared intermittently.

I wanted to keep the visual theme simple.

I followed this through in the PowerPoint on the AR project, which also followed through with the green, the red, the photo and also had the AR focus appear on every page so that it was constantly being reinforced. || I needed to ensure that my background was a little more visually appealing.

I needed to have a greater variety of fonts.

At times, I could not figure out who to edit the fonts so gave up in frustration as I think it made the appearance sloppy and was not condusive to the continuity that I was trying to achieve. ||
 * **PURPOSE

To provide a general overview of the concepts of 'education for sustainability', Green Education policy etc so that those with an interest could then follow the links and investigate the areas they did not understand or wanted to find out more about in more depth. ** || Definitions of the terms was something I had not thought of prior to planning the Wiki but as I progressed, I realised that re-defining the 21st century notion of sustainability and the notion of 'education for sustainability' is vital.

To raise awareness that the UNESCO notion and the UK notion of education for sustainability is far more comprehensive and holistic than current policies whether at the state, territory or federal level in Australia.

To raise awareness that the UK is already well on its way to implementing an integrated approach to education for sustainability and thus, we do have precedents that have been set i.e. it is possible to do this. || I need to summarise the UNESCO documentation regarding education for sustainability clearly and succinctly because Wiki viewers are more likely to read my summaries than the documentation.

I may have to re-visit the notion of Green Education policy as the UNESCO term of 'education for sustainability' is gaining universal currency and there is no need to cloud the issue further.

Greater clarification with Liz regarding the conference and how we see it. We are clear on our focus areas but I think we need more discussions regarding the research that we have conducted thus far.

Far more elaboration on the Victorian context not to mention the other states, territories and the federal context. ||
 * **APPEAL**

This will appeal to teachers interested in education policy, environmental action and climate change.

I also want to engage experts on climate change, architects, the average citizen, policy makers, climate change advocates from around the world in this space as well.

The focus of my AR is to look at policy re-design and those interested in re-shaping Australian educational policy will find the links to UNESCO and UK models interesting. || The focus on UNESCO is global and I think it is important to keep reminding ourselves of the bigger picture rather than just Australia, which the page on 'Sustainability in the 21st Century' and 'Education for Sustainable Development' does.

The embedded cartoon, the 'Beds are Burning' video clip and the Youth Decide video clip are important visual ways of conveying the message in different ways. || I want to include more on empirical articles on educational change over time.

I'll have to think of a way to make empirical articles and summaries of the studies more interesting!

I think I need to make it more obvious that I want to get a variety of perspectives on Education for Sustainability in Australia rather than just from teachers. || Sequential page ordering to complement development of ideas. || I have organised the pages in sequential order because I felt the development of ideas, particularly the definition of sustainability and education for sustainability was important.
 * **ORGANISATION**

The Powerpoint was used because I felt that there needed to be more movement on the page and that was the only way I could think of including something dynamic. || I actually started out by naming the pages after the three propositions. I may come back to this way of re-organising it as it may be a better way of explaining the AR. || Combination of external links, pdf documents, Powerpoint and Youtube videos. ||  ||   || Links have been made on the pages when things are referred to so that the viewer is able to access the information easily. ||  || I need to look at learning how to create links in a more visually appealing manner. ||
 * **INFORMATION**
 * **LINKS**
 * **INTERACTIVITY** || I have included discussion points on a couple of pages as I hope this assists me in getting ideas but also provides a forum for healthy discussion.

As I say in the Powerpoint - we assume that climate change is real so my focus is not to discuss whether it is happening or not, but to look at how we would develop Education for Sustainability in Australia. I think I just re-worded my AR! || I think this is perhaps my weakest area. And I have not thought of a way around it quite yet. ||

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