by Sandy Phillips | Apr 1, 2015 | animation, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital technology
A key tool used in animation production by Pixar (think Toy Story) has been released for free for non-commercial usage on Windows, OS X, and Linux. For teachers working with students on high level computer graphics, animation, media, science, architecture, or any...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 30, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Technologies, Professional Learning, Video
The Digital Deck presents digital resources, providing an overview, how to get started, and ideas for the classroom. For the full version of Digital Deck, visit http://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?J7QNR9 Digital Deck 5: What is… Debut Video Capture? Debut is an...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 27, 2015 | Challenge, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital technology, Gaming for learning, Pedagogy, Programming
Get your students involved in The Great Victorian Coding Challenge – register your school by visiting the Victorian Education Department website – Click Here Students will be challenged to develop their creativity using the computer program Scratch. Scratch is...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 26, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Digital Stories, Digital technology
The Australia Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) are presenting a Screen It 2015 Videoconference Series This free, video conference series allows students and teachers to discover what makes a winning Screen It entry. The sessions are being repeated (for those of you...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 23, 2015 | Challenge, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Technologies, How To, New technologies, Pedagogy, Professional Learning
The Department’s Virtual Conference Centre is providing eight iPads for Learning Online Professional Learning sessions in Term 2. These sessions are for teachers and leaders who are using iPads in their teaching and learning with sessions including: Tuesday 21st...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
During the week I presented ed.ted.com/ as a resource for teachers. Here I have selected a great resource – How to build a fictional world created by Kate Messner. It is a high quality resource that within the context of ed.ted, 462 teachers have taken and...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Harmony Day (21 March) celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. Recipes for Harmony brings the world to children, introducing them to amazing people, cultures and foods in an...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 18, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Pedagogy, How To
Most of you will know TED talks, but did you know there is a fantastic tool for teachers to support them to create their own digital lessons?. It allows you to take an online resource and building your own teaching and learning around them for your students....
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 12, 2015 | Challenge, Digital technology, Uncategorized
The Australasian ‘New Pedagogies for Deep Learning’ (http://www.newpedagogies.org/) cluster is a group of schools in Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand. The cluster has developed a project to engage students from across the globe in authentic action...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 11, 2015 | Geography, Health Education
Seth Dixon is a Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geography, Rhode Island College and writer who recently published and article for National Geographic Education. In that article he presented his ten favourite resources including articles and videos about food and the...
