by Sandy Phillips | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over 1400 schools across Australia have registered for the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence, Friday 15 March 2013. What a fantastic response! This annual day provides a focus for schools who want to say Bullying. No Way! and to strengthen their...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Australian Social Trends draws on a wide range of data, sourced both from ABS and other agencies, to present a picture of Australian society. This publication aims to inform decision-making, research and discussion on social conditions in Australia. It covers social...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Edublogs app is designed to be used with Edublogs and Edublogs Campus blogs. Global2 is an Edublog Campus. All you need to do to use it with a Global 2 blog is: Download the Edublogs app –https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/edublogs/id526466328?mt=8 Launch the...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sound Infusion encourages intercultural dialogue in a fun, flexible and informative way to support school curriculums through innovative web 2.0 based technologies. Online support material include videos, photos, text-based information and web-links that allow users...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand. Policy Online monitors over...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hothouse Tall poppies grow here. Hothouse is a week-long intensive program for Victorian students in Years 10 to 12, aimed at nurturing creativity and moving image skills. Ten students are hand-picked each year and dropped into a fast-paced production studio, to gain...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Education brings wide-ranging benefits to the society. For instance, more educated people tend to live longer… What is the ultimate purpose of education? Early philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato pointed out that education was central to the moral...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Check out the music children listen to, and you will hear rap and hip-hop songs about sex, violence, women as objects, and domination. Sometimes the questionable language is explicit and sometimes it’s implicit, veiled in metaphors. Ask children if the content...
by Sandy Phillips | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
ACER is conducting the third cycle of the Staff in Schools survey (SiAS) in 2013. SiAS is an Australia-wide survey to collect information directly from school teachers and leaders about their background and qualifications, their work, their career intentions, and...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Ovetta Wiggins, Published: January 28 As she punched numbers into a calculator, Luka Fernandez had a lot to figure out. How much could she afford to pay for a car? Should she buy cable? Where should she live?These are the types of questions facing many adults as...
