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 | Jan 23, 2015 | Blogs, Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Global2
Welcome to any new bloggers who are joining Global2 for the first time and welcome back to those returning from holidays. At this time of the year, many educators set up student blogging accounts. It is really important that teachers get comfortable with how the...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Global2 blogs are used for many purposes. Teachers who are setting up, or considering setting up blogs with their students are reminded that they must obtain permission from both their principal and the parents of students, if they are setting up student blogs. The...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 8, 2015 | Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, New technologies
Here’s what some students are using instead of Snapchat and Instagram to share pictures and files. This can be a positive thing but in some cases not so positive. Again its not the technology itself, its what a user chooses to do with it. It is something...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 7, 2015 | Challenge, Mathematics
The Australian Maths Trust is one of the world’s largest school-based mathematics competitions with more than 14 million entries since 1978. This is a fun 30-problem competition with many of the problems set in situations which show the relevance of mathematics in...
