It's that time of year again!

The CRT Resource Challenge is on for 2014!  This isn't a competition, there are no judges and there are NO losers!  We always try our best to put on events where everyone can win just by participating.  It's all about challenging ourselves to strut our stuff and finding out what we're really made of!

You are invited to run yourself through the challenge whether you are a member of the Wodonga CRT Support Network or not.

The idea behind this one is to get our creative juices flowing and explore ourselves as teachers.  What exactly are we capable of, what are our strengths and what areas should we seek out some further learning on in order to turn our weaker areas into stronger ones.  To this end; at the closing of the challenge we will also supply some reflection activities to help you sort out your creations and see what it says about you as a Teacher.

In our ever-present quest to kill 2 birds with one stone, this learning experience also builds resources and learning plans in order to populate our CRT Toolkit, Box of Tricks or whatever else you know it by.  This is vital to our role as CRTs and making it stronger also strengthens our classroom performance.

You can find out all you need to know about the challenge on it's page on this blog.

Want to make your stuff look slick but can't afford Microsoft Office or similar commercial software?  OpenOffice, a free and powerful open-source office suite, is a good alterantive for most of MS Office components.  If you have a .edu email account Prezi is an excellent free substitute for PowerPoint and, in our opinion, is better in more than one way.  Not having money to spend on software doesn't mean you can't make your own professional looking resources!

Regards,

Mel.