by Sandy Phillips | Apr 15, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities
Produced by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the ABC this app for iPads and tablets presents the the events of Gallipoli as and where they happened in a 3D map space. From the first sightings of British Naval ships by Ottoman platoons and the unfolding chaos of...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 27, 2015 | Challenge, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital technology, Gaming for learning, Pedagogy, Programming
Get your students involved in The Great Victorian Coding Challenge – register your school by visiting the Victorian Education Department website – Click Here Students will be challenged to develop their creativity using the computer program Scratch. Scratch is...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 26, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Stories, Digital technology
The Australia Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) are presenting a Screen It 2015 Videoconference Series This free, video conference series allows students and teachers to discover what makes a winning Screen It entry. The sessions are being repeated (for those of you...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 23, 2015 | Challenge, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Technologies, How To, New technologies, Pedagogy, Professional Learning
The Department’s Virtual Conference Centre is providing eight iPads for Learning Online Professional Learning sessions in Term 2. These sessions are for teachers and leaders who are using iPads in their teaching and learning with sessions including: Tuesday 21st...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 12, 2015 | Challenge, Digital technology, Uncategorized
The Australasian ‘New Pedagogies for Deep Learning’ (http://www.newpedagogies.org/) cluster is a group of schools in Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand. The cluster has developed a project to engage students from across the globe in authentic action...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 4, 2015 | Challenge, Science
Science concepts, ideas and questions and the capacity to get involved – every science enthusiasts’ dream. I can’t stop singing the Periodic Table song (6.7M of us cant be wrong!) but I am not doing it as well as a 4 year old who has submitted their...
