by Sandy Phillips | Aug 9, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Gaming for learning, How To, Professional Learning, Uncategorized
Microsoft and the Department of Education and Training are presenting free coaching sessions for teachers to support the Victorian Games and Apps Challenge. Students are welcome to attend if teachers wish to invite them. They will not need to register. Teachers do not...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 13, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities
Vote for your favourite design here… After receiving hundreds of creative entries from students across Victoria, a shortlist of jumper designs have been selected in the 2016 One Team One Goal: Celebrating Diversity competition. The AFL and the Department of...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 7, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Outreach Virtual Classroom ‘Making good choices online ’ The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner is working with us (DET)to offer a range of Virtual Classrooms. Presentations are usually about 30–40 minutes in length, allow student participation under...
by Sandy Phillips | May 31, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Online Projects, Student activities, Thinking
Bena Kallick, Arthur L. Costa’s 16 Habits of Mind, has inspired a great site crafted by Nigel Coutts. The site describes the Habits of Mind and presents films which model the attitudes and behaviours Why not get your students to create their own. I must say the...
by Sandy Phillips | May 30, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, News
Little Lunch has won the Prix Jeunesse International Award for Best Fiction Program for 7-10 year olds in Munich. It was also a win endorsed by child viewers. Little Lunch was the only show in its category to be one of the top three shows for both adult and child...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 18, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities
If you’re aged 16-22, and live outside the big cities, enter your story in the Heywire competition and be part of something big. Entries close 16 September 2016. Stories can take a variety of forms. http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/competition/ Here is the link to...
