Oct 20
ACMI Teacher Talks The Australian Centre for the Moving Image offers Free Videoconference Sessions for Teachers. Duration: 20 mins + 5 min Q&A. Admission: Free, registration essential. Each month ACMI hosts a short, after-school professional development talk designed to get you thinking about something new, exciting, innovative or quirky in education. Explore multimodal literacy, moving image …
Sep 22
The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge has been amazing this year with 2 huge session reaching almost 10,000 students. Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors. Andy is best known for The Treehouse series, the JUST! books and The Day My Bum Went Psycho. Over the last 20 years Andy’s books have been New …
Sep 22
Earth Science Week is celebrated from 9-16 October 2016. “Our Shared Geoheritage” is the international theme of Earth Science Week 2016. Geoheritage is the collection of natural wonders, landforms, and resources that have formed over eons and come to this generation to manage, use, and conserve effectively. Earth Science Week is an international celebration initiated …
Jul 29
It is time to start planning for SciFest and National Science Week. The SciFest video conferencing festival is in August and provides a great link to National Science Week. Now in it’s third year SciFest is a great opportunity to engage your students in a variety of science workshops and events. Tuesday 2 August SciFest …
May 09
This post by Ben form Fizzics Education has a video and radio interview discussing the video conferencing. This video covers the variety of educational virtual excursion festivals available for schools arranged by Virtual Excursions Australia. VEA is a network of museums, galleries, libraries, environmental centres, aquariums & more. Ben Newsome on Australian Festivals from …
Apr 22
To celebrate the Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney 200th anniversary, the Australian National Maritime Museum and Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney will offering a joint video conference for year 3 and 4 students History and Science. Cook and Banks: Charting the rumoured great Southern Land is a free video conference which will outline Cook and Banks voyage on the …
Feb 21
The Australian National Maritime Museum offers a great range of video and web conferences for schools throughout the year. They are starting the year with 2 events the Women in Science Symposium and Frank Hurley – the Man Who Made History. Women in Science Symposium at the Australian National Maritime Museum Tuesday 8 March at …
Jan 28
We had a big year of events 2015 with Virtual Excursions Australia delivering hundreds of session reaching 10’s of thousands of students across Australia and the world. We finished up the year with the reVEAl conference in December bringing 120 delegate together. reVEAL had delegates join at the Australian Museum in Sydney, the Australian Centre …
We are pleased to announce the Virtual Excursions Australia conference reVEAl on Tuesday 8 December. reVEAl will be FREE to all presenters and delegates. ACMI in Victoria and the Australian Museum in NSW will be hosting the reVEAl. We will have presenters and delegates in each venue connected with via video conference. People can also …
Sep 30
ClickFest is an annual video conferencing festival run in November each year. ClickFest is an exciting initiative from education organisations across Australia. It highlights the diversity and scope of video conferences available to schools across Australia. Sessions are delivered free or at reduced cost to schools, providing a great opportunity for teachers to give it …
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