by Sandy Phillips | May 27, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Online Projects
The Children’s book council of Australia have published the Book of the Year Awards Short List 2015 There are many great books on that list and I am sure you have read many in your classrooms (and the other places you like to read)! This list provides a great...
by Sandy Phillips | May 20, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Mathematics, Online Projects, Wikis
Mark Warner suggested the following idea on the site Teaching Ideas Its a great idea but I am going to suggest to do it using the global2 wiki tool to add to and deepen the learning. Why use the wiki when it is so much easier to do on paper? It enables students to...
by Sandy Phillips | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafes, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world that anyone can add to, sometimes described as the...
by Sandy Phillips | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
What does good teaching look like? AITSL has identified this as a “highly accomplished” example of a teacher who Knows content and how to teach it Knows students and how they learn Peter Smyth is the teacher. Gungahlin College, Canberra is the school....
by Sandy Phillips | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
DET Digital Learning Branch has announced a series of Professional Learning sessions for School Leaders and classroom teachers, to be delivered in Term 2. There will be two different sessions focusing on Digital Technologies and Resources: one hour ‘taster’ sessions...
by Sandy Phillips | May 11, 2015 | Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
Cybersafety – Student Privacy Whiles this advice comes from the Department of Education and Training’s website it is sound advice for all when setting up student email...
by Sandy Phillips | May 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The editors at TeachThought have complied and presented this collection of 50 educational apps for android devices. Particularly handy for schools getting started with such devices. The list includes learning simulations to organizing tools for project-based learning....
by Sandy Phillips | May 7, 2015 | Challenge, Cybersafety, Cybersmart
Students’ Making Good Choices & Great Online Communication Webinars To register for one or both of these sessions go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/detonlinesafety We invite you and your students to attend two web conferences targeted at...
by Sandy Phillips | May 6, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Video
My Story My Content Short Film Competition is an initiative of IP Awareness and Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM). It provides primary and secondary school students with the opportunity to make a 60-second short film or animation celebrating local screen creativity,...
by Sandy Phillips | May 4, 2015 | Digital Technologies, iPads, Professional Learning
It is not too late to join the web conference PD, iPads for Learning : online professional learning program The Victorian Department of Education and Training is presenting 8 online sessions held between April and June 2015 Session 1 : introduction to your iPad...
