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The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
e-SP – Telemedicine clinical observation for speech pathology students & regional and remote speech pathologists
| Amount Granted |
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$37,065 |
| Grant Awarded |
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15/10/2008 |
| Project Completed |
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September 2010 |
This project aimed to trial the use of videoconferencing technology for two key purposes:
1. Speech Pathology electronic clinical observation (e-obs) as a clinical education delivery model for university students, and
2. Videoconferences to improve communication and liaison with speech pathologists in the south-west region of Victoria (SWARH) to provide support and education.
Growing student numbers of Speech Pathology students in recent years has placed extra demand on clinical facilities that cannot be met. The objective of this project was to find a supplementary means to on-site clinical placements to help meet the demands.
The pilot project, conducted in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, established two modes of video conferences for clinical education and both of these were introduced for speech pathology students within this project.
This trial was found to be both efficient and effective in supplementing on-site clinical placements and the e-SP project has been successful in establishing the use of video conference technology to deliver discipline-specific clinical education to Speech Pathology students at La Trobe (LTU) and Charles Sturt (CSU) universities.
The Speech Pathology department intends to continue use of videoconferencing for both student education and providing consultation and support to rural clinicians. In addition, the department intends to explore videoconferencing as a means to improve regional speech pathology delivery for children in Victoria.
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Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES)
Watch This!
| Amount Granted |
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$54,500 |
| Grant Awarded |
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20/11/2009 |
| Project Completed |
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September 2010 |
The “Watch This!” project piloted downloadable video resources for 'English as a Second Language' learners for access from mobile devices such as mobile phones and mp3/4 players/iPods.
The videos for this project were titled ‘Life stories’ and were licensed from SBS, chosen for their relevance to learning about Australian cultures and ways of life to enable full participation in Australian society. Subsequently videos will be created or chosen specifically for the Watch This stream on the VILC site.
20 Videos were chosen from the SBS archives from its “Insight” program ranging from 1.28 to 4.56 minutes. The videos were selected for their usefulness to newly arrived migrants in Australia as well as for interest.
Student activities were prepared by an experienced AMES Project Officer. They are available at elementary, intermediate and/or advanced levels with accompanying teacher notes for the topic and related websites on the topic in the video.
The Watch This! stream on the VILC site allows students/teachers to view the videos on the web and to download the video files for use with mobile devices so they can be utilized for language learning at any time and in any place. This makes them ideal resources for independent learners as well as for classroom use. The accompanying activities, teacher notes and transcripts are available as PDFs and are print ready and can be viewed on the screen or saved.
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