by Sandy Phillips | Feb 4, 2017 | Curriculum, Mathematics
The Department of Education and Training has entered into a three-year agreement for the provision of a proprietary suite of Wolfram products across all Victorian secondary schools. The licence covers school devices, teacher devices and student bring your own devices...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 2, 2017 | Digital Learning, Digital technology, Student activities
Hi to you all, hope you had a great break, As you know Safer Internet Day is a global event held annually to promote the safe and responsible use of digital technologies, for children and young people. The theme for 2017 is Be the change: Unite for a better internet....
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Some Victorian Government Teachers have been experiencing issues setting up a new Global2 blog. Teachers may not be receiving a confirmation email with their temporary password in their Edumail inbox. Note** this is not affecting student email accounts or Catholic...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 30, 2017 | Class Activities, Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Safety in the age of disappearing media The Department is working with Facebook and Instagram who are hosting a #girltakeover safety workshop working with the children’s charity Plan International Australia, the anti-bullying group Sticks ‘n Stones and the New Zealand...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 5, 2016 | Challenge, Digital Learning, Gaming for learning, Programming
The Department and Splash, are supporting Code Club Australia to challenge you to build a game using Scratch. Scratch is an intuitive tool to help children from 8 to 16 years old learn to code. Scratch helps students think creatively, reason systematically and work...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 29, 2016 | Digital Resources
This session on Monday 5th December will provide an overview of the new FUSE (https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au). Learn how to search, save and leverage FUSE for your learning and teaching program. This session starts at 3.45pm and is hosted by Sandy Phillips from the...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 17, 2016 | Class Activities, Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Digital Literacy, Wellbeing
You are invited to the ‘Secret Security Business’ Virtual Classroom The DET and the eSafety Commission are inviting teachers to register their upper primary classes for a session titled: Secret Security Business Audience: Years 4, 5 and 6 students. We are...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 16, 2016 | Gaming for learning, How To, Professional Learning
Teachers are invited to attend a Minecraft: Education Edition Workshop Date: Tuesday 22nd November Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm Location: The Peninsular School, Mt Eliza Register: http://aka.ms/learnminecraftEE Overview: Trent Ray (Microsoft Teacher Ambassador) and Dean...
by Sandy Phillips | Nov 2, 2016 | Arts, Class Activities, Digital Technologies, Global2, How To
Divi is one of the templates in Global2. It allows you to achieve the look and feel of a contemporary website. It is contained as an option in Global2. (No need to pay etc.) Just choose it as your template. Within Global2 it comes with some templates that allow you to...
by Sandy Phillips | Oct 27, 2016 | Class Activities, Coding, Curriculum, Data visualisation, Digital Resources, Engineering, Mathematics, Online Resources
The Wolfram suite of products includes powerful learning tools across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and is internationally recognised as the global industry standard for engineers, economists, scientists and mathematicians. The suite has four...
