Learning and Teaching Resources
We have a number of online resources and tools. These include digital learning content, examples and support for learning and teaching with ICT, and a guide to cybersafety.
Connect provides access to relevant, informative and exciting online educational resources from around the world. Primary and secondary students and teachers can search for websites, images, audio and video as well as other online resources. All resources are recommended and reviewed by educators, and tagged according to audience. See topic lists of websites under VELS domains. Connect has four separate homepages: Early Childhood, Primary Students, Secondary Students and Teacher Resources
eLearning and ICT Showcases celebrate effective eLearning practice in Victorian schools for teachers and school leaders. Currently there are 14 showcases highlighting learning with ICT in early, middle and later years, including showcases on interactive whiteboards, animation, as well as the Science, Mathematics and LOTE Digilearn showcases. The eLearning Planning and the 1- to-1 Learning showcases support the leaders and teachers to plan and implement aspects of eLearning. In the showcases, you can find video footage, student work, learning sequences, comments from teachers and a variety of other resources.
ePotential ICT Capabilities Resource Continuum is an online tool created for Victorian teachers to assist them to develop their ICT Capabilities.This resource identifies and supports the ICT professional learning needs of teachers, guides eLearning Planning and links to multimedia resources showing models and videos of classroom practice. It includes a continuum to help you rate yourself and reflect on your ICT Capabilities. You can explore teacher and student work samples and advice, as well as professional learning resources. Find where you are on the continuum and explore the resources, including teacher and student work samples, advice for getting started and professional learning resources.
Digilearn leads to a portal for accessing The Learning Federation and other digital learning objects and resources, including historical images, video, audio files and documents. There are over 7000 individual items of digital content to support student learning on this site. Your Edumail login and password are required to preview and download the resources on Digilearn.
ICT Domain Page has ideas and support for implementing the ICT domain of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS), with practical advice, resources and examples of how teachers have used ICT across VELS domains. There are also links to ICT assessment maps and sample tasks, ICT professional learning opportunities and support for teachers, including links to ICT teacher associations and current research.
Kahootz 3.0 is animation software that is relatively easy to use provides students with dynamic tools to create digital curriculum content, to collaborate with peers and share their completed products. Exciting new features provide students with more ways to create stories, inventions, habitats, games, movies and soundtracks to support learning in all VELS domains.
The Department's Software for Education (S4E) program has details of software available to Victorian schools at reduced prices.
Working with the Web is the Department's framework to support schools to develop guidelines for safe internet use. It includes school internet acceptable-use kits, cyberbullying and cybersafety resources, information about legal and ethical requirements in online spaces, copyright and privacy, as well as forms and templates for schools to use. Working with the Web