by Sandy Phillips | Apr 29, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital technology, How To, Literacy, New technologies, Professional Learning
Digital technologies can present new and exciting opportunities for students. The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) are presenting a series of three script writing workshops for primary and...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 1, 2015 | animation, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital technology
A key tool used in animation production by Pixar (think Toy Story) has been released for free for non-commercial usage on Windows, OS X, and Linux. For teachers working with students on high level computer graphics, animation, media, science, architecture, or any...
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 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 | Feb 25, 2015 | Assessment, Creativity, Digital Literacy, Digital Pedagogy, Digital technology, Pedagogy, Professional Learning, Uncategorized
Created by Full Tilt Ahead would love to add “How are students going to show what to do with what they know?” (Bit of a mouthful!) I scooped this from Dennis T O’Conner and thought it was really worth discussing at a staff meeting along with any...
