by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 8, 2018 | Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, STEM, STEM, Student activities, Uncategorized
Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator behind Hello Ruby – a series of books, and activities that focus on developing computations thinking skills for 4 to 10 year olds. These include things like the ability to decompose a problem, spot patterns,...
by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 6, 2018 | Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, Student activities, Uncategorized, Webinar
As part of Safer Internet Day 2018, 20,000 Victorian students joined our virtual classrooms and pledged to make the internet a more respectful place. Thank you to all of you for participating and for your excellent contributions. Make your pledge for Safer Internet...
by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 6, 2018 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
Sydney Opera House, Arc Centre for Excellence for All-Start Astrophysics, the Australian Museum, and Reef Headquarters are just a few organisations that offer incursions via virtual conferencing. Check out this post by the DET Virtual Conferencing team at to see a...
by Tamara Carpenter | Feb 1, 2018 | Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
A new UNESCO Broadband Commission report on “Digital skills for life and work” shows that education systems worldwide are only just beginning to help learners cultivate the digital skills they need to excel in our increasingly digitized societies. The report...
by Tamara Carpenter | Jan 23, 2018 | Blogs, Class Activities, Digital Technologies
Welcome back after what we hope has been an excellent summer holiday. If you are planning to use blogs for the first time, or you are looking at ideas to refresh your existing blogs, we’d like to remind you of a few of the great tools and resources available to you:...
by Kathleen Morris | Dec 1, 2017 | Blogs, Digital Technologies, Global2, Uncategorized
This post by Kathleen Morris was originally published on The Edublogger. It’s often interesting to hear how educators got started with blogging. Some people are told to blog. Others are encouraged by colleagues or inspired by seeing what other classes are...
