by Sandy Phillips | Aug 4, 2016 | Class Activities, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Games, New technologies
The Department of Education, Victoria (DET), Microsoft and ACMI are proud to announce the Victorian Schools Games and Apps Challenge. This exciting challenge provides an opportunity for students in Years 6, 8 and 10 to design, develop and pitch a game or app to...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 28, 2016 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Resources, Digital Technologies, History, Science
Here are some of the great ideas to use digital technologies in your classroom in junior classes from Ideas to try – Humanities for Years F-2 fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?58YNC9 #090 Video story prompts Use the National Geographic app to watch videos of natural...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 27, 2016 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Literacy
Looking for some quick inspired ideas for your planning with young students? Here are some English ideas featured in the Ideas to Try resource released this week for teachers. All have direct links to the Victorian Curriculum. #032 Story boarding Use the Storyboard...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 18, 2016 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital technology, Parents, Student activities
Erin Wilkey Oh from Common Sense Education prepared a great article around managing the Pokemon craze in your classroom and presents some tips and fun ideas for channeling kids’ excitement into meaningful learning experiences. Erin opresents some great classrom...
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 27, 2016 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Online Projects, Student activities
ATOM and ClickView are proud to present the inaugural 1-Minute Film Competition. Australian and New Zealand primary and secondary–school students are invited to make a 1-minute short film or animation, and win fantastic prizes in the process. The theme for this year’s...
