by Sandy Phillips | Apr 8, 2015 | Digital Literacy
We see them everywhere on the web. Infographics are used to communicate ideas, products and instructions across the web. Getting students to create one around a topic of interest or a project they are undertaking requires some pretty detailed literacy skills. Some...
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 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 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...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 6, 2015 | Class Activities, Digital Technologies, Web conferencing
Do you have a sister school or an expert you want to invite to speak to your students? or work with your staff? You dont have to get into a bus, car (or plane sadly!) You could use Vitural Conferencing. Virtual conferencing can be accessed via the internet and allows...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 4, 2015 | Challenge, Science
Science concepts, ideas and questions and the capacity to get involved – every science enthusiasts’ dream. I can’t stop singing the Periodic Table song (6.7M of us cant be wrong!) but I am not doing it as well as a 4 year old who has submitted their...
