by Sandy Phillips | Jul 30, 2014 | Cybersafety, Digital Technologies, New technologies
I started this blog post with intention of sharing a nice resource for teachers to use creatively with their students. We regularly share new and exciting resources which provide opportunities for learning. This resource’s added appeal was that a teacher could...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 22, 2014 | Class Activities, Digital Learning, Digital Stories, Digital Technologies, How To, Online Projects, Video
ABC Heywire is calling for stories by Year 10, 11 and 12 students from regional Australia. Stories can be in text, video, audio or photo format. 30+ winners will get their story on the ABC and win a trip to the Heywire Summit. Entries close 16 Sept 2014. For details...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 21, 2014 | Blogs, Digital Learning, Digital Technologies, Global2, New technologies, Online Resources, Video, Web 2.0, Web conferencing, Wikis
This annual list compiled by Jane Hart from the votes of learning professionals worldwide. Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 – the results of the 7th Annual Learning Tools Survey – compiled from the votes of 500+ learning professionals in 48 countries and...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 18, 2014 | Arts, Curriculum
Arts Centre Melbourne presents presents Instant Rockstar Kids get to be the rockstar and director in this fun and easy music video workshop. Create a song using lots of cool music samples and then use the track to make a great music video....
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 16, 2014 | Cybersafety
Applications for the grants program closes at 5pm on Friday, 18 July 2014 What is the Bully Stoppers Grants Program? On 12 April 2011, the Premier announced the Victorian Government’s Stamp Out Bullying campaign to ensure that action is taken to make schools safer and...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 14, 2014 | Curriculum, Cybersafety, Digital Learning, Digital Literacy, Research
Taryn Degnan from Commonsense Media suggests that: “Every kid knows how to Google, but do they know how to Google well? A wealth of built-in — but sometimes hidden — features can help kids find the information they need much more efficiently than...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 11, 2014 | Digital Technologies, New technologies
In 2013 the Horizon.K12 Advisory Board voted for the top 12 emerging technologies as well as the top ten trends and challenges that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five...
by Sandy Phillips | Jul 9, 2014 | Digital Pedagogy, Digital Technologies, New technologies, Pedagogy
The K-12 Edition of the Horizon Report explores the key trends accelerating educational technology adoption in schools, the significant challenges impeding it, and emerging technologies poised to impact teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Download the full...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 30, 2014 | How To, Online Resources
Victorian government school teachers can explore the current eduSTAR education software currently available for them and their students. Log in with your eduMail details to search for software by learning area, and download core software and install it on multiple...
by Sandy Phillips | Jun 23, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, History, How To, Online Projects, Online Resources
Historypin is a web 2.0 tool that allows students to explore it contribute to it and curating stuff on it. The site allows students to take images, build a story, set it within real locations (Google Map allows placement anywhere in the world) and authentic sharing...
