by Sandy Phillips | May 31, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Online Projects, Student activities, Thinking
Bena Kallick, Arthur L. Costa’s 16 Habits of Mind, has inspired a great site crafted by Nigel Coutts. The site describes the Habits of Mind and presents films which model the attitudes and behaviours Why not get your students to create their own. I must say the...
by Sandy Phillips | May 30, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, News
Little Lunch has won the Prix Jeunesse International Award for Best Fiction Program for 7-10 year olds in Munich. It was also a win endorsed by child viewers. Little Lunch was the only show in its category to be one of the top three shows for both adult and child...
by Sandy Phillips | May 26, 2016 | Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Digital technology, Student activities, Video
Hothouse is a week-long intensive program for Victorian students in Years 10, 11 and 12, aimed at nurturing creativity and moving image skills. Each year, ten students are selected and dropped into a fast-paced studio to gain hands-on production experience, contacts...
by Sandy Phillips | May 20, 2016 | Curriculum, Pedagogy, Web Conferencing
This webinar will be of interest to secondary school students and teachers studying STEM subjects. This first conference will be presented by Harris Eyre. More information and registration. The Convergence Science Network (@ConverSci) & John Monash Science...
by Sandy Phillips | May 19, 2016 | How To, Learning Styles, Pedagogy, Professional Learning
For the first time, we were equipped with the tools to create digital portfolios with learning evidence in the form of descriptive feedback, images, audio and video. Many teachers and students are using a Global2 blog as their digital portfolio. This article was...
