by rcrellin | May 22, 2014 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies
“Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.“ Mark Zuckerberg -Founder, Facebook Are you interested in coding with your students? ...
by Sandy Phillips | May 8, 2014 | Assessment, Class Activities, Digital Learning, Mathematics, Pedagogy
Conrad Wolfram is presenting Mathematica, computer-based math and the new era of STEM and you are invited (or the maths teachers at you school) Conrad Wolfram, physicist, mathematician, businessman and technologist is Director of Strategic Development and European...
by Sandy Phillips | May 2, 2014 | Assessment, Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Stories
The My Story My Content Short Film Competition is an initiative of IP Awareness and Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides students with the opportunity to make a 60-second short film or animation celebrating Australian screen creativity, and win fantastic...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 22, 2014 | Class Activities
Victoria is a great multicultural success story. Together with our indigenous community we have citizens from more than 200 countries speaking 260 languages other than English and following 135 faiths. Our diversity is one of our strengths. It is important that we...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 10, 2014 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Uncategorized
Two handy features in PowerPoint 2010 are the trim video feature, enabling users to edit a video on the ly an feature from images, which performs a basic image edit. Here is a FUSE package with why and how you could use these features. The package also features...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 11, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, New technologies, Wellbeing
You can find full episodes on both iView and Vimeo of the TV show – Don’t blame Facebook http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/dont-blame-facebook/ There is something NQR about. But it might appeal to others. Would you use it as a teaching resource? Basically it...
