Special needs discounts now available for WORK! play

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Thanks to the support of sponsors, we are able to offer a limited number of special needs discounts. The discount is offered at two levels, a reduced fee of $500 plus GST or free. Use this form to apply for a special needs discount.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Red Stitch Actors Theatre and the ACTU have combined to bring an exciting drama about work as an incursion to schools in Term 2

The play, WORK! It’s an experience, explores the ups and downs of getting your first job. It follows the progress of three newbies as they figure out where they fit in the world of work.

Tim’s new boss is cool, but wants to pay him cash-in-hand. Sonja’s not sure if her new co-worker is a bit bitchy or a real bully, while Ngaire has a boss that’s a touch too friendly.  With lots of laughs and a little pathos, Work! It’s an experience brings real workplace situations to life and encourages young people to speak up if something is not right.

Written by actor and playwright Peter Hougton, the play brings a cast of young actors from Red Stitch together in a fast paced drama written specifically for Years 9 and 10.

The play is being offered to schools in tandem with a panel discussion about employee rights and responsibilities featuring employer and union representatives.

WORK! It’s an experience is being offered to schools for a strictly limited season in Melbourne and Geelong from 6 May. The incursion costs $1500 plus GST. To book or get more information, call Edunity 9534 2833 or visit edunity.com.au/work

ACTU Worksite for Schools is sponsored by the AEU, IEU and other unions.

 

Prepare your students for work experience

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Tim, Sonja and Ngaire perform Work! It's an experience by Peter Houghton.

We’ve got together with the ACTU and Red Stitch Actors Theatre to create a fast-paced, informative drama and discussion panel about getting and keeping your first job.

Work! It’s an experience comes to your school, with all actors, props and panel guests.

The play highlights different issues that students may face within their first working experience, including correct pay and conditions, safe and fair workplace, getting skills and dealing with bullying.

Students will:

    • Learn how to deal with tricky work situations.

 

    • Get the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences with an expert panel.

 

    • Learn about employer expectations and their responsibilities.

 

    • Learn about their rights to correct pay and conditions, a safe and fair workplace, getting skills and dealing with bullying.

 

 

With a limited season in May 2013, book your incursion now to avoid disappointment.

 

Call 9534 2833, email [email protected] or visit www.edunity.com.au/work

How to make an online game

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Country Fire Authority flash games - Save the Building screenshot

 

Ever wondered what the process for designing an interactive game is?

1. Firstly the concept needs to be decided and fleshed out in the form of a brief.

2. From there alongside the client we story board each scene or sequence, detailing the activity, scripting the actions and characters as well as working out how the audience will use the controls.

3. Once the brief, storyboard and sequence of events has been written and signed off an illustrator is engaged to bring all the characters to life and a programmer to build the game to spec.

4. Each games is broken down into multiple stages, each of which are tested extensively to ensure all the interactive elements work instinctively and each scenario is makes sense in the context of the entire game.

Have a play now!

Creating online games for the Country Fire Authority

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Here at Edunity we can pretty much do anything thrown our way – we particularly love working on new media projects and this one we designed for the CFA was tremendously fun.

We developed four new games for the Country Fire Authority website to communicate some of the key fire safe messages to kids in a fun way. The games incorporated the cute and furry cast of Australian native animal mascots Captain Koala, Neville Numbat and Wozza Wombat as well as CFA volunteers James and Sophie.

The four games focused on the messages of

• dialling 000 in an emergency
• making a home fire escape plan
• protective clothing worn by CFA volunteers
• the importance of having working smoke alarms.

The games also give children a valuable insight into what CFA volunteers do.

Have a play yourself and tell us what you think!

Inside February Divercity

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Divercity 66 February 2013

Did you know that the animated teddy bear in Ted, the 2012 comedy movie featuring Mark Wahlberg, was created in South Melbourne? Or that a new series of The Block will be filmed locally? Or that Matilda Bay Brewery sells its local brews at a stylish factory outlet and bar in Port Melbourne?

Combine this with hundreds of courses and classes, there’s a whole load of local in the latest Divercity – in letterboxes from 4 February. Or view it online here if you can’t wait.