by Sandy Phillips | Feb 18, 2015 | Blogs, Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, Global2
Ensuring that you are using images you have permission to use and presenting the attribution of those images appropriately is a challenge for all bloggers. Compfight is a new function in Global2. The plugin allows you to search Creative Commons images on Flickr from...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 11, 2015 | Blogs, Digital Technologies, Professional Learning
For teachers who would to really like to get their heads around blogging and its potential for their students Edublogs is running its first Teacher Blogging Challenge of 2015! Whether you are new to blogging, or want a refresher on all of the features that blogging...
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 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 | Dec 31, 2014 | Digital Technologies, Global2
Just a reminder to teachers who need to close their students blogs for this year Bulk delete student blogs 1. Go to My Class > Student blogs in your class blog. 2. Select the check boxes next to the blogs you want to delete. Full details are located...
