by Sandy Phillips | Jan 10, 2014 | Online Resources
Thanks to Eric Redmond @coderoshi for tweeting this. I would love to see how students answered thin in 1817, 1970 and now. Maybe an activity for students….
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
We are all well aware that our students are using the internet as part of their everyday lives. We can almost guarantee that each of our schools are committed to supporting students to be active and informed citizens who use the on-line world in a smart and safe way....
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
All the world’s best movies, from Casablanca to Star Wars, started with text. Plotagon is an interesting online tool that is driven by the text created by your students. Its beauty is that whilst your students are using the genre of scriptwriting they can see the...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hoping everyone is enjoying their summer holiday. For anyone overseas Global2 is the Department of Educations and Early Childhood Developments in Victoria, Australia’s blogging community. And yes Christmas is generally hot. Global2 began life in 2005 (As...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 20, 2013 | New technologies
As we approach the new year it is a great time for reflection. Here is one for those of you who also like to contemplate what might be in the future. All of the DEECD Digital Learning Team would like to wish you and your families a safe and wonderful Christmas and New...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
An important, and often overlooked part of using any online space is retiring or relocating it when it is time – sort of like sending your blog to the blogging “farm!” Chances are that your students’ individual blogs can follow them right...
by rcrellin | Dec 11, 2013 | Digital Pedagogy, Research, Uncategorized
The 2013 Trends in Online Learning – Virtual, Blended and Flipped Classrooms (USA) report outlines the effectiveness and impact of technology in a variety of learning modes and provides an insight into future applications of technology enabling student learning and...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Kathleen McClaskey’s and Barbara Bray for sharing this through creative commons. You are able to comment directly at http://www.personalizelearning.com/2013/03/new-personalization-vs-differentiation.html Personalized Learning Chart Version 3 from...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 9, 2013 | Creativity, Online Resources, Web 2.0
Another great publishing tool available for education – made possible through student managed email accounts. (all Victorian government schools have them) Back to purity, back to simplicity. We rethought digital interfaces and built Readymag from the ground up...
by Sandy Phillips | Dec 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
The blog post on Tuesday featured a government report around young people and risky behaviour. I followed up yesterday with an approach taken by a creative company in addressing a social issue. Now for some classroom application. Dumb ways to die used creative...
