by Sandy Phillips | Sep 7, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety
Victorian school have been active in the Cybersafety space. You do great work and I am inviting you to some webinars and let you know some news. This news was delivered via the School News that goes out to DET Principals last week. There are two Cybersafety sessions...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 2, 2015 | Class Activities
ABC Splash is partnering with the Centre for Youth Literature at State Library Victoria to let you chat with some of Australia’s finest children’s authors! The first author chat in our series of three is with award-winning author Morris Gleitzman on...
by Sandy Phillips | Sep 2, 2015 | Challenge, Professional Learning
Thanks to Marc for sharing this post through the Digital Learning Newsletter. http://diglearning.global2.vic.edu.au/ Do you have students in the Junior part of your school who are really into LEGO? Do you feel that you need to catch up on the latest LEGO resources...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 31, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Technologies, Global Projects, Online Projects
Global Collaboration Day Join 1,000’s of educators for the very first ‘Global Collaboration Day’ – September 17, 2015. Full details on website – Global Collaboration Day use the hashtag #globaled15 Global Education Conference The 2015...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 31, 2015 | Challenge, Curriculum, Digital Technologies
The Global Digital Citizen Foundation has provided these strategies to support students to be able to take stands on issues that matter to them in non confrontational ways. The strategies foster critical thinking and can be used as part of any inquiry based learning....
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 28, 2015 | Class Activities, How To, Professional Learning
Many of us have done it, but it is probably is not a great idea to tell your students to “Google it” as the number of results they receive can be astronomical…..and then what??? Teaching your students to use the features on search engines like Google...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 26, 2015 | Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, How To
The Global Digital Citizen foundation has published some ideas to support teachers to keep students focused when using digital technologies in their classrooms. My favourite “The best classroom management tool: Engaging lessons” Read the article...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 25, 2015 | Challenge, Class Activities
In the excitement of National Science Week last week I missed another exciting event with particular relevance to the digital world – World Photo Day on the 19th August each year. The date behind World Photo Day originates from the invention of the...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 21, 2015 | Challenge, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Student activities
The ABC’s 2015 Heywire Competition is open now and closes on Wednesday September, 16 2015. Enter now! The heart of Heywire is an individual telling a personal story. You must be aged 16-22 on 31 January 2016. You must also live in Australia, but not in...
by Sandy Phillips | Aug 20, 2015 | Digital Resources
Film is wonderful medium to capture moments in history and the mood of the time in which the film was shot. History teachers and anyone teaching social context or change should have a look at the treasure that is the old British Movietone newsreel archive Channel. It...
