by Sandy Phillips | Apr 14, 2014 | Professional Learning
TeachMeets are meetings/un-conferences where teachers share good practice, practical ideas and personal insights into teaching with technology. All participants are encouraged to be ready to volunteer an idea, a tool or a website that they have delivered in their...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 8, 2014 | Digital Pedagogy, Learning Styles, LOTE
Peter Smythe listens to his students and actually changed his way of teaching. This is a great video hosted by AITSL which shows a secondary maths teacher working a flipped classroom model...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 3, 2014 | Assessment, Mathematics
Schools often hear about how Australian schools are ranked internationally and contrary to popular belief they are not ranked on NAPLAN data. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) evaluates education systems worldwide by testing at...
by Sandy Phillips | Apr 1, 2014 | Cybersafety, Parents, Research
Chatterbox is essentially an online chat program for parents, where they can learn about Cybersafety, pre-submit questions, share stories and advice. Chatterbox can be downloaded and accessed at home or on a mobile device. Each episode starts with a video followed by...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 31, 2014 | Cybersafety
Classroom Resources Links to downloadable classroom activities, videos, interactive learning modules and quiz, advice sheets and other useful resources to use in the classroom....
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 27, 2014 | Arts, Challenge, Curriculum, Digital Learning, Digital Stories
Screen It is the Australian Centre of the Moving Image’s (ACMI) nation-wide competition for primary and secondary students. It encourages and fosters young moving image makers and this year – to celebrate the competition’s 10th anniversary – students are asked...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 20, 2014 | Curriculum, Digital Learning, Global Projects, Online Projects, Online Resources
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) has a campus in iTunes U. iTunes U is a section of the iTunes Store where educators can access courses from many international colleges, universities, and schools. They are also able to publish their...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 11, 2014 | Challenge, Class Activities, Cybersafety, Digital Literacy, New technologies, Wellbeing
You can find full episodes on both iView and Vimeo of the TV show – Don’t blame Facebook http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/dont-blame-facebook/ There is something NQR about. But it might appeal to others. Would you use it as a teaching resource? Basically it...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 4, 2014 | Digital Pedagogy, Digital Technologies, Video
Every so often you come across something simple but handy. Does your school allow YouTube? Andreas Hofer is creating some videos to help use the Google tools. He is hosting them on YouTube. This film g-learning #2: Sharing (and embedding) a YouTube Video from a...
by Sandy Phillips | Mar 3, 2014 | Creativity, How To, Learning Styles, Online Resources
Created as part of the FUSE Project by the DEECD and the School Library Association Victoria (SLAV) and the State Library of Victoria (SLV) was the Question Generator. It is a really simple way to get students to think of new questions to help investigation and...
