by Sandy Phillips | Sep 18, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, How To
The new Victorian Curriculum was officially launched this week by the Minister for Education, Minister James Merlino. AusVELs will be available until the end of 2016, after which point schools will need to teach and report against the new Victorian Curriculum by the...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 17, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Pedagogy, Student activities
Every year, hundreds of students across the nation enter Screen It – The Australian Centre of the Moving Image’s (ACMI’s) epic moving image competition for Primary and Secondary school students. Screen It is designed to educate, encourage and foster the next...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 16, 2015 | Class Activities, Literacy, Web conferencing
Tomorrow at 2pm AEST join the final in the ABC Splash three-part ‘Meet the author’ series: a live-streamed chat with author-illustrator Sally Rippin. You are invited to ask the questions! Start sending them to the ABC here – They will pick five sent before 5pm today...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 10, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety
The eSafety Commission have notified us that they need to change the ‘Secret Security Business’ webinar time previously presented on Global2. We have organised the session to be moved and repeated it to give you and your students the best chance to attend. The new...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 10, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, Digital Resources
Congratulations to all of the students, and their teachers who have made the finals at this years Atom awards. Some amazing films on a variety of topics. Check them out This film makes a great teaching resource in both its art and form, but also its subject matter....
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 9, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, Online Resources
Audiofy turns any article or web page into audio and reads the page to you. It has sixteen voices to choose from and it is currently free.The app could be of great benefit to students with learning difficulties and those studying new languages (including English)....
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 7, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety
Victorian school have been active in the Cybersafety space. You do great work and I am inviting you to some webinars and let you know some news. This news was delivered via the School News that goes out to DET Principals last week. There are two Cybersafety sessions...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Department of Education and Training (DET), in partnership with the Australian eSafety Commission, is presenting two free cybersafety webinars, for teachers and students respectively, via the Department’s virtual conferencing facility Adobe Connect. The first...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 2, 2015 | Class Activities
ABC Splash is partnering with the Centre for Youth Literature at State Library Victoria to let you chat with some of Australia’s finest children’s authors! The first author chat in our series of three is with award-winning author Morris Gleitzman on...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 2, 2015 | Challenge, Professional Learning
Thanks to Marc for sharing this post through the Digital Learning Newsletter. http://diglearning.global2.vic.edu.au/ Do you have students in the Junior part of your school who are really into LEGO? Do you feel that you need to catch up on the latest LEGO resources...
