by Sandy Phillips | Jul 3, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Student activities
The Design Squad site targets kids ages 8 and older and features creative activities, video, interactive games, and contests. The goal is to give kids a stronger understanding of the design process, and the connection between engineering and the things we all use in...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 24, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities
Schools are invited to participate in the 2015 Victorian CANstruction project, a unique philanthropic, artistic, engineering project supported by GASCO. This project enables teams of up to 10 students the opportunity to learn more about Maths and Science principles...
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 7, 2015 | Challenge, Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Students’ Making Good Choices & Great Online Communication Webinars To register for one or both of these sessions go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/detonlinesafety We invite you and your students to attend two web conferences targeted at...
by Sandy Phillips | May 6, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Video
My Story My Content Short Film Competition is an initiative of IP Awareness and Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides primary and secondary school students with the opportunity to make a 60-second short film or animation celebrating local screen creativity,...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 22, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Data visualisation, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
Better World Flux was created in Australia to raise awareness for the UN Millennium Development Goals . Teachers and students can create, visualize and share stories that are hidden in the World Bank Open Data. This image presents data showing Australia’s own...
