by Sandy Phillips | Apr 30, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Health Education, Research, Web Conferencing, Web conferencing
To register for one or both of these sessions go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/detonlinesafety We invite you and your students to attend two web conferences targeted at Years 4, 5 and 6 students. Each will be hosted by the Department of Education and...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 22, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Data visualisation, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
Better World Flux was created in Australia to raise awareness for the UN Millennium Development Goals . Teachers and students can create, visualize and share stories that are hidden in the World Bank Open Data. This image presents data showing Australia’s own...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 7, 2015 | Digital Learning, Programming, Uncategorized
Robot School presents like a good option for schools with access to iPads to introduce coding to young children. Has any one tried it out?
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...
