Development of training resources

'Timber Plus Toolbox' website - under development

This resource is currently under development, and due for completion at the end of 2010. When finished, it will be available either on CD through TVET, or on-line, through the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.

For more information about the project, and to view the current draft versions of the units developed so far, go to the Timber Plus Toolbox page of this website.

'Timber Toolbox' website

This resource is available through the Australian Flexible Learning Framework in the following formats:

• on-line - see on-line preview
• CD-ROM - see information on purchasing
• learning objects - see information on learning objects

For a general description of the project, go to the Timber Toolbox page of this website.

'Making RPL part of the furniture' interactive CD

This interactive CD was developed for ForestWorks, the Industry Training Advisory Body (ITAB) for the Furniture Making and Upholstery Industries. For more information, go to the RPL Interactive CD page of this website.

View the trial version on-line

(Note that you may need to 'allow blocked content' to see some of the interactive elements if your web browser has restricted active content.)

The following interactive CDs were developed with funding from the Department of Employment Education and Workplace Relations through the Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Program.

These resources are produced on a Powerpoint platform, and feature on-screen text, still photos, movie clips, animated graphics and a voice-over narration. Each section contains interactive learning exercises.

Two CDs are provided in each package - one 'slideshow' version and one 'customisable' version, which enables trainers to customise all elements, including interting their own site-specific photos and movie clips.

Each package also contains a Trainer and Assessor Guide and a set of assessment instruments relevant to the units of competency covered in the resource.

Workspace Training has developed a mobile phone grading rules program, with the assistance of funding from Australian Flexible Learning Framework through its NSW E-learning Innovations program.

This pilot project uses the grading rules for hardwood T&G strip flooring, summarised from Australian Standard 2796.

The program is downloadable from the web, either direct to a mobile phone, or via a computer and transferred to the phone using Bluetooth, a USB drive, or a removable memory card.

For more information about this project, and for links to download it, go to the Mobile phone grading rules page.

The print-based learner guides listed below were funded by the NSW Department of Education and Training, through a resource development project managed by ForestWorks (the Industry Skills Council for the Forest and Forest Products Industry).

They are available for purchase from the NSW Department of Education and Training website: Skills Online.

These learner guides relate to the following competencies from the Forest and Forest Products Industry Training Package (FPI05):

All of the above resources have been 'noted' by the National Quality Council as quality assured Training Package support materials.

Samples from the learner guides can be viewed in PDF format on the Skills Online website.