A little preview for those Pilot Blog readers. Your coursework task starts tomorrow, you will be helping the hapless Wanda plan an expedition. By the way the image is not Wanda nor is she hapless, I just liked her. You have this week’s lessons to draft your response and two weeks until the final hand in.
You will be presented with a letter from Wanda (pdf) and a list of her arrangements already (pdf). Your task will be to respond to Wanda and aid the development of her expedition.
I have put a lot of materials online. The first thing you should do is consider the success criteria (pdf), what are we looking for in your piece?
All the coursework sheets can also be found on the Wiki.
You will need to respond to each of Wanda’s arrangements, so research will be necessary, remember you already have a lot of information in your class notes. On the Wiki I have produced a list of useful research links, you can also download this word. It would be useful if on Monday night you did some research to enable your drafting on Tuesday afternoon.
Please email or post any links you come across that are useful, I’ll credit you and update the sheet and Wiki. This will help your fellow students.
How you present your response to Wanda is up to you, you may go for a formal letter, a PowerPoint or a poster? I have put some presentation ideas on the Wiki. But remember our motto for coursework
- Pretty and enlightened, not pretty and dim!
Those of you in my class, I have also put on the Wiki some of my teachings points that I’ll be making tomorrow, but it would be rude to look at these! 
If you don’t have Internet access, you are welcome to use the Humanities Computers during the day and after school, remember the deadline is the 4th December 2006. No coursework, no marks! This piece is worth 17% of your marks.
Please tell me if this format is of any use, after handing in the coursework, we’ll do an evaluation.
Enjoy! 
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Hi, don’t know how useful this will be to people but it’s a diary of a ABC journalist and camaraman who sailed to Antarctica as expeditioners with the Australian Antarctic Program. It’s got a lot of photos as well including clothing and equipment. http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/antarcticsummer/default.htm
Brilliant Lianne, already addded to the Wiki.
Looks great Tony!
We had some good responses from our first piece of coursework.
Looking forward to seeing the results, the team seem up for it.
We’ll have to look at each other’s work some time, might be time at the G.A. conference. Very busy at the moment, but could do with a little chat re pilot.
An idea, how about after we finish our extreme environments, a little video message between groups, after xmas of course!
Thanks for that teaching points and that sheet CASSIDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No problem Berliner Boy, keep up the good work.
Video message sounds like a good idea. Will get working on that when I get a moment. Christmas is a beacon of peace which I am working towards…
Christmas, peace, you must be kidding then!