by murch | Jun 6, 2009 | Blogs
Rationale for student blogs:- To give students a platform to connect, communicate and collaborate with an authentic audience that includes students, teachers, parents, local community and a global community. Blogging is a tool that allows students to make their work...
by heatherblakey | May 22, 2009 | Arts, Online Resources
Most teachers are familiar with YouTube and Teacher Tube. Vimeo is another piece of freeware which enables you and your students to showcase your video work. Vimeo promotes itself as being a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the...
by heatherblakey | May 22, 2009 | Global Projects
Netbooks is a blog container that has been created to contain Global Projects that are being undertaken as a part of the Victorian Government Netbook Project. In a 1-to-1 learning program, each learner has a portable, networked, digital device such as a notebook,...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Online Resources
Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are three of the ongoing projects belonging to Tux4Kids. Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are free software applications that you can download and run on your home or school computers. If you would like to know more, you can read...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Arts, Literacy, Online Resources, Web 2.0
“Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world.” Tux Paint is an attractive drawing package for students and it runs on a variety of platforms. It is...
by slav | May 13, 2009 | Gaming for learning
A very interesting article was recently published in The Age Green Guide entitled Games ‘valuable learning tool’. Written by Jason Hill, the article says, ‘Education experts say computer games boost a range of skills in children’. April 9,...
by slav | May 1, 2009 | Gaming for learning
For anyone who showed an interest in using video games for educational learning, there seems to be a plethora of information around about libraries, schools and gaming. You may have to refer to one or more of these sites to get gaming on your school agenda. Here is a...
by kerry | Apr 21, 2009 | Global Projects, How To
Interested in participating in a Global Project and looking for something manageable? Try ‘Educating for Global Citizenship’! It’s a wiki set up to allow students and teachers from around the world to share their experience about what makes a safe...
by kerry | Mar 31, 2009 | Blogs, Global Projects
Have you joined a Global Project yet? You could try the Teddy Bear Exchange Project with iEarn like 2KM from Leopold PS. Visit their blog to read the emails they’ve shared with a school in Canada! Try these sites for other Global Projects: Oz Projects ePals...
by Marie Coppolaro | Mar 28, 2009 | Online Resources
Connect is an awesome site for early childhood, primary and secondary students implemented by the Victorian Department of Education and Early Education. Links to each of the age groups contain an Aladdin’s cave of wonderful resources. The primary students...
