by Sandy Phillips | May 29, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Digital technology, How To, Leaders, Professional Learning
DIGICON Festival of Learning 2015 DIGICON is the annual Digital Learning Teaching Victoria (DLTV) There is still time to register It will be held at Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 24th & 25th July 2015 DigiCon brings together educators, pre...
by Sandy Phillips | May 27, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersmart, Digital Literacy
Just a quick reminder to schools that the ‘Making Good Choices’ webinar session tomorrow for grades 4, 5 & 6 starts at 9:30 tomorrow morning, 28th April. All schools are welcome. It is also a good professional learning session for teachers. If you...
by Sandy Phillips | May 27, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Online Projects
The Children’s book council of Australia have published the Book of the Year Awards Short List 2015 There are many great books on that list and I am sure you have read many in your classrooms (and the other places you like to read)! This list provides a great...
by Sandy Phillips | May 20, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Mathematics, Online Projects, Wikis
Mark Warner suggested the following idea on the site Teaching Ideas Its a great idea but I am going to suggest to do it using the global2 wiki tool to add to and deepen the learning. Why use the wiki when it is so much easier to do on paper? It enables students to...
by Sandy Phillips | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafes, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world that anyone can add to, sometimes described as the...