by Sandy Phillips | Apr 30, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Cybersmart, Digital Literacy, Digital Technologies, Health Education, Research, Web Conferencing, Web conferencing
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 Years 4, 5 and 6 students. Each will be hosted by the Department of Education and...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 29, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital technology, How To, Literacy, New technologies, Professional Learning
Digital technologies can present new and exciting opportunities for students. The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) are presenting a series of three script writing workshops for primary and...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 22, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Data visualisation, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies
Better World Flux was created in Australia to raise awareness for the UN Millennium Development Goals . Teachers and students can create, visualize and share stories that are hidden in the World Bank Open Data. This image presents data showing Australia’s own...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 20, 2015 | Curriculum, Leaders, Professional Learning
The Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) is a thought provoking biennial lecture series which brings big ideas around learning into the spotlight. The free five part lecture series will be conducted over 10 years, and will work to elevate the value of learning. The...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 15, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities
Produced by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the ABC this app for iPads and tablets presents the the events of Gallipoli as and where they happened in a 3D map space. From the first sightings of British Naval ships by Ottoman platoons and the unfolding chaos of...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 13, 2015 | Digital Literacy, Uncategorized
Following Nik Peachey on Scoopit I came across this handbook created by David Mcgillivray. The handbook was initially designed for a Commonwealth Games Project but is relevant to educators using digital media (blogs, audio, video and social media).. It has a great...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Thinking about contemporary learning skills, the ability for our students to be able to create and present their ideas in a way that engages an audience has to be a pretty important skill to support their future. Some people seem to have a natural gift for it. But how...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 8, 2015 | Digital Literacy
We see them everywhere on the web. Infographics are used to communicate ideas, products and instructions across the web. Getting students to create one around a topic of interest or a project they are undertaking requires some pretty detailed literacy skills. Some...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 7, 2015 | Digital Learning, Programming, Uncategorized
Robot School presents like a good option for schools with access to iPads to introduce coding to young children. Has any one tried it out?
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Photos for Class is a simple to use tool to access and download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school. In my testing I tried out some not so savory search terms – the ones students are likely to try out! and was presented with photos of...
