2016
Mr Geoff Hinchcliffe, for his project Compelling Collections: improving the utility and aesthetics which utilised the Library's rich K-12 Visionaries collection.
The project proposed production of a system addressing both the K-12 collection audience (students and teachers) and the K-12 collection curators (educators and archivists).
2015
Ms Karen Yager, for her project: Stage 6 English Area of Study/Discovery.
The project introduced the concepts of discovery, in part looking through the prism of texts such as Banks’s Endeavour log. This module targeted Year 12 English teachers and also develop a Year 9 unit of work, grounded in the concept of faction.
2014
Mr Tony Britten, for his project: Digital Excellence supporting Digital Text Creation: the collection of the SLNSW and subject English in the context of the Australian Curriculum in NSW.
This project addressed a new area of curriculum design in the English curriculum: multimodal texts. Britten’s project to identify examples of these texts – essentially texts in multi-formats – to present as a designed resource to teachers, which can then generate student engagement.
2014
Ms Mandy Anderson, for her project: Discovering classification with Joseph Banks.
This project developed a full unit of work on the foundational Stage 4 Science topic of classification. It drew from many strengths of the Library’s collections, and is built around an achievable time frame.