by Sandy Phillips | Jul 17, 2015 | Online Resources
Just a reminder to Victorian Government teachers that when they use FUSE they have their own desktop to create and share resources with their students. Once they login (with their Edumail details) they can upload their own content to share it directly with their...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 16, 2015 | Online Resources
The ABC has teamed up with Education Services Australia to link new learning resources directly to the Australian Curriculum. To date, they offer resources in the areas of Science, English, Mathematics, History, Geography, The Arts and STEM. To learn more about ABC...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 13, 2015 | Blogs, Digital Technologies
The template you are using is about to expire. What is that all about? You might have seen within the back end of Global2 a message that the template you are using is due to expire in a set (and decreasing) number of days. With the increased uptake of mobile phones,...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 9, 2015 | Pedagogy, Professional Learning
Over the holidays I have featured some resources on Global2 that you might not find time to view in a hectic school term. This talk Bring on the learning revolution has been presented as the follow-up to Sir Ken Robinson’s fabled 2006 talk Do schools kill...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 8, 2015 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Pedagogy
Over the holidays is a great chance to take some time to relax but also check out some of these Ted Talks. Compiled from Open Colleges here are 50 Ted Talks every educator should check out These are the best TED Talks for any educator because they make us laugh, warm...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 6, 2015 | Student activities
PBS presents a really engaging writers studio for students. It features a really simple sign in process which collects NO personal information about students. They create a non identifying login and a simple password is set up for them. They get to select some support...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 3, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Student activities
The Design Squad site targets kids ages 8 and older and features creative activities, video, interactive games, and contests. The goal is to give kids a stronger understanding of the design process, and the connection between engineering and the things we all use in...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 1, 2015 | Curriculum, Health Education, History, Literacy, LOTE, Mathematics, music, Reading, Science
Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with ‘topics’ as country reforms its education system Marjo Kyllonen, Helsinki’s education manager – who will be presenting her blueprint for change to the council at the end of this month, said: “It is not...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 26, 2015 | Class Activities, music
Even if you have only one iPad there are still lots of ways you can use it with your students, especially if you can plug it into a data projector and speakers. Midnight Music have presented 18 practical ideas for teachers. Go to teh link for the full list of ideas....
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 24, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities
Schools are invited to participate in the 2015 Victorian CANstruction project, a unique philanthropic, artistic, engineering project supported by GASCO. This project enables teams of up to 10 students the opportunity to learn more about Maths and Science principles...
