by Sandy Phillips | Aug 21, 2015 | Challenge, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Student activities
The ABC’s 2015 Heywire Competition is open now and closes on Wednesday September, 16 2015. Enter now! The heart of Heywire is an individual telling a personal story. You must be aged 16-22 on 31 January 2016. You must also live in Australia, but not in...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 30, 2015 | Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, New technologies, Online Projects, Online Resources
With the growing interest in developing creativity amongst our students, teachers are looking for digital solutions to embed within their curriculum planning. As BYOT (Bring Your Own Technologies) and Cloud based platforms become increasingly popular across Victorian...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 22, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Stories
To enter My Story My Content, students must create a 60-second short film and submit it into one of the following two categories: Primary Schools/Students Secondary Schools/Students Entries must be based on this year’s theme: ‘Movies Matter’. Your film must be about...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 21, 2015 | Blogs, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, How To, Student activities
Manage and update your Global2 blog right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Download the Edublogs app As Global2 is an Edublogs Campus, the app will allow all Global2 bloggers to use the support and advice provided by Edublogs. Download the app, dd your username,...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 20, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Programming
A terrific article by Kira DeVaul featured in Common Sense Media’s summer edition (for the US and Europe) presents some great options for teachers to use in their classrooms and give to their students to explore around coding. She has organised these into three...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 17, 2015 | Online Resources
Just a reminder to Victorian Government teachers that when they use FUSE they have their own desktop to create and share resources with their students. Once they login (with their Edumail details) they can upload their own content to share it directly with their...