by Sandy Phillips | May 20, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Mathematics, Online Projects, Wikis
Mark Warner suggested the following idea on the site Teaching Ideas Its a great idea but I am going to suggest to do it using the global2 wiki tool to add to and deepen the learning. Why use the wiki when it is so much easier to do on paper? It enables students to...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 28, 2015 | Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Online Projects
Connecting your students to others across the globe, and undertaking meaningful collaboration is powerful learning in action. It may seem a bit daunting at first but these two organisations have educators at the ready to help. A reminder that any Global2 educator is...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 2, 2014 | Digital Learning, Online Projects, Online Resources, Professional Learning
With a number of schools exploring a variety of online tools to support their students’ teaching and learning, a great opportunity awaits as the EdTechTeam presents their Melbourne Summit featuring Google for Education Xavier College on Barkers Road in Kew ...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 22, 2014 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Digital Technologies, How To, Online Projects, Video
ABC Heywire is calling for stories by Year 10, 11 and 12 students from regional Australia. Stories can be in text, video, audio or photo format. 30+ winners will get their story on the ABC and win a trip to the Heywire Summit. Entries close 16 Sept 2014. For details...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 23, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, History, How To, Online Projects, Online Resources
Historypin is a web 2.0 tool that allows students to explore it contribute to it and curating stuff on it. The site allows students to take images, build a story, set it within real locations (Google Map allows placement anywhere in the world) and authentic sharing...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 20, 2014 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Global Projects, Online Projects, Online Resources
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) has a campus in iTunes U. iTunes U is a section of the iTunes Store where educators can access courses from many international colleges, universities, and schools. They are also able to publish their...