by Sandy Phillips | Mar 27, 2014 | Arts, Challenge, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Stories
Screen It is the Australian Centre of the Moving Image’s (ACMI) nation-wide competition for primary and secondary students. It encourages and fosters young moving image makers and this year – to celebrate the competition’s 10th anniversary – students are asked...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 20, 2014 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Global Projects, Online Projects, Online Resources
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) has a campus in iTunes U. iTunes U is a section of the iTunes Store where educators can access courses from many international colleges, universities, and schools. They are also able to publish their...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 3, 2014 | Creativity, How To, Learning Styles, Online Resources
Created as part of the FUSE Project by the DEECD and the School Library Association Victoria (SLAV) and the State Library of Victoria (SLV) was the Question Generator. It is a really simple way to get students to think of new questions to help investigation and...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 17, 2014 | Web Conferencing, Web conferencing
On Safer internet day we used the Virtual Conference Centre (VCC) to connect students and teachers from across the state. More than 70% of participants were there for the first time ever!!! Great work teachers of Victoria. I do want to just let you know that as...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 20, 2014 | Digital Learning, Digital Pedagogy, Pedagogy
Considering the TPACK Model, there has been discussion around what sorts of technical knowledge teachers should have to facilitate contemporary learning. No one has ever suggested that teachers should undertake IT degrees or learn to cut code, as they are educators...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 10, 2014 | Online Resources
Thanks to Eric Redmond @coderoshi for tweeting this. I would love to see how students answered thin in 1817, 1970 and now. Maybe an activity for students….
