by Sandy Phillips | Oct 10, 2014 | CEM Events, Class Activities, Connected Educator Month, Cybersafety
There are now more than 720 events & activities on the Connected Educator Calendar with more on the way. One exciting event you are all invited to is the premiere screening of the latest Cybersmart resource #GameOn. 16 October 2014. The film will be introduced...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 23, 2014 | CEM Events, Class Activities, Connected Educator Month, Digital Technologies, How To, New technologies, Professional Learning
The Department’s Virtual Conference Centre is providing a number of iPads for Learning online professional learning short courses for teachers and leaders who are using iPads in their teaching and learning. There will be four short courses, each focusing on a...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 12, 2014 | Class Activities, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Pedagogy
Screen it is ACMI’s national moving image competition for primary and secondary students. Screen It is designed to encourage and foster the next generation of young moving image makers. This year is Screen It’s 10th Birthday! To help mark this special...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 4, 2014 | CEM Events, Class Activities, Connected Educator Month
Millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development opportunities as part of Connected Educator Month (CEM) over the past two years. In the past, CEM was largely a US-centric event. This October, Australia, New...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 14, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, History
Over 350 primary schools across Victoria have already registered, for the Gallipoli Oaks Project. The Quercus Calliprinos (Palestine Oak) saplings are now being grown at various nurseries and Burnley Horticultural College for planting by Victorian primary students at...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 13, 2014 | Class Activities
Throughout the month of August ABC Science is asking for help with transcribing weather observations from old ships’ log books. We are taking a crowd-sourcing approach to reduce this workload and asking regular folk, students, schools and members of the public,...
