by Sandy Phillips | Jun 15, 2016 | Class Activities, Cybersafety
The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner is working with us (DET)to offer a range of Virtual Classrooms. Presentations 40 minutes in length. Students will interact via a Todaysmeet session. The presentation will assist students to: o think before spreading...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 8, 2016 | Professional Learning, Science, STEM
FREE Science by Doing workshop for secondary teachers Science by Doing is an online science program for Years 7 to 10 available free to all Australian students and teachers and supported by professional learning modules and a research based professional learning...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 7, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Outreach Virtual Classroom ‘Making good choices online ’ The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner is working with us (DET)to offer a range of Virtual Classrooms. Presentations are usually about 30–40 minutes in length, allow student participation under...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Virtual Reality is an exciting and rapidly expanding new creative technology offering a great range of employment opportunities. Year 10 to 12 students can apply now for ACMI’s free Hothouse VR workshop – the deadline has been extended to 5.30pm Monday 6 June. For:...
by Sandy Phillips | May 31, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Online Projects, Student activities, Thinking
Bena Kallick, Arthur L. Costa’s 16 Habits of Mind, has inspired a great site crafted by Nigel Coutts. The site describes the Habits of Mind and presents films which model the attitudes and behaviours Why not get your students to create their own. I must say the...
by Sandy Phillips | May 30, 2016 | Challenge, Class Activities, News
Little Lunch has won the Prix Jeunesse International Award for Best Fiction Program for 7-10 year olds in Munich. It was also a win endorsed by child viewers. Little Lunch was the only show in its category to be one of the top three shows for both adult and child...
by Sandy Phillips | May 26, 2016 | Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Digital technology, Student activities, Video
Hothouse is a week-long intensive program for Victorian students in Years 10, 11 and 12, aimed at nurturing creativity and moving image skills. Each year, ten students are selected and dropped into a fast-paced studio to gain hands-on production experience, contacts...
by Sandy Phillips | May 20, 2016 | Curriculum, Pedagogy, Web Conferencing
This webinar will be of interest to secondary school students and teachers studying STEM subjects. This first conference will be presented by Harris Eyre. More information and registration. The Convergence Science Network (@ConverSci) & John Monash Science...
by Sandy Phillips | May 19, 2016 | How To, Learning Styles, Pedagogy, Professional Learning
For the first time, we were equipped with the tools to create digital portfolios with learning evidence in the form of descriptive feedback, images, audio and video. Many teachers and students are using a Global2 blog as their digital portfolio. This article was...
by Sandy Phillips | May 19, 2016 | Class Activities
‘Making’ with Schuyler St Leger Thursday, May 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM AEST – 1:00:00 PM AEST Register here A 14-year-old with a passion for taking things apart and rebuilding them will present his own seminar during Education Week. Schuyler St Leger from...
