by Sandy Phillips | Feb 18, 2015 | Blogs, Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, Global2
Ensuring that you are using images you have permission to use and presenting the attribution of those images appropriately is a challenge for all bloggers. Compfight is a new function in Global2. The plugin allows you to search Creative Commons images on Flickr from...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 4, 2015 | Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Safer Internet Day will be celebrated on Tuesday 10th February. The theme for 2015 is Building a Better Internet Together. Activities include a web conference co-presented by the Cybersmart Team at ACMA and the Department of Education and Training Victoria. The...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 23, 2015 | Blogs, Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Global2
Welcome to any new bloggers who are joining Global2 for the first time and welcome back to those returning from holidays. At this time of the year, many educators set up student blogging accounts. It is really important that teachers get comfortable with how the...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 8, 2015 | Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, New technologies
Here’s what some students are using instead of Snapchat and Instagram to share pictures and files. This can be a positive thing but in some cases not so positive. Again its not the technology itself, its what a user chooses to do with it. It is something...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 16, 2014 | Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Newsletter snapshot, Uncategorized
This is number 16 and the final post in a series of great articles designed to put in school newsletters to keep parents informed around the latest cybersafety issues. They have been developed by the Cybersmart team at ACMA and are available via...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 15, 2014 | Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Newsletter snapshot, Uncategorized
This is number 14 in a series of great articles designed to put in school newsletters to keep parents informed around the latest cybersafety issues. They have been developed by the Cybersmart team at ACMA and are available via...