by Sandy Phillips | Sep 30, 2015 | Class Activities
A great Koorie event is happening in Melbourne on 8 October 2015. The Tanderrum is a traditional ceremony of the Kulin nation. It is a welcoming festival of song, dance, trading and cultural exchange. This is an essential and vital part of Kulin ritual. Students will...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 30, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Engineering, STEM
Thanks to the Home School Scientist for this fabulous list of hands on engineering projects to use in your classroom. See the full list There are many ideas but mine has to be the Chocolate Assembly Line 90 more Just like this ! Paper Building Blocks Build A Truss...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 28, 2015 | Digital Learning, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Technologies, Leaders, Pedagogy, Professional Learning
A Great blog post from Common Sense Graphite introduces the connection between the SAMR model and Blooms Taxonomy and presents a great film for discussion in staff meetings. A quick prompt for deep discussion...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 23, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities, Connected Educator Month
The Edublogs Global Student Blogging Challenge Come get your students blogging and connecting with their peers from around the world! The Global Student Blogging Challenge is a free project that the Edublogs team runs for 10 weeks. The event has occured twice yearly...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 18, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, How To
The new Victorian Curriculum was officially launched this week by the Minister for Education, Minister James Merlino. AusVELs will be available until the end of 2016, after which point schools will need to teach and report against the new Victorian Curriculum by the...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 17, 2015 | Class Activities, Creativity, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Pedagogy, Student activities
Every year, hundreds of students across the nation enter Screen It – The Australian Centre of the Moving Image’s (ACMI’s) epic moving image competition for Primary and Secondary school students. Screen It is designed to educate, encourage and foster the next...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 16, 2015 | Class Activities, Literacy, Web conferencing
Tomorrow at 2pm AEST join the final in the ABC Splash three-part ‘Meet the author’ series: a live-streamed chat with author-illustrator Sally Rippin. You are invited to ask the questions! Start sending them to the ABC here – They will pick five sent before 5pm today...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 10, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety
The eSafety Commission have notified us that they need to change the ‘Secret Security Business’ webinar time previously presented on Global2. We have organised the session to be moved and repeated it to give you and your students the best chance to attend. The new...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 10, 2015 | Class Activities, Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, Digital Resources
Congratulations to all of the students, and their teachers who have made the finals at this years Atom awards. Some amazing films on a variety of topics. Check them out This film makes a great teaching resource in both its art and form, but also its subject matter....
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 9, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, Online Resources
Audiofy turns any article or web page into audio and reads the page to you. It has sixteen voices to choose from and it is currently free.The app could be of great benefit to students with learning difficulties and those studying new languages (including English)....
