A video chat between Dr Rebecca Vivian of CSER Adelaide University and Heather Catchpole from Refraction Media about how teachers and staff teams can harness digital tools to take it online.

Video seems to be the natural thing to communicate with parents and students, but they may have low bandwidth connections or a data limit that they don't want to exceed. Most videos are made in High Definition. How can I make my videos smaller on phones or laptops? Watch this handy video to learn the top tips.

In this series of videos, Megan Townes shares a host of simple ways teachers can create video content to share with tehir students using popular Microsoft programs.

Setting up Google Classroom for online learning is quite a bit different than the setup for a traditional, face-to-face classroom. This video by teacher John Sowash will show you 5 tips for using Google Classroom for remote instruction.

1. Create a NEW course (don't reuse your existing course)
2. Combine your students into one section (in most situations)
3. Organize your content by weeks, not units (better for self-paced learning)
4. Enable posting and commenting (it's not as scary as it sounds)
5. Put your face in the course (you won't like it, but it's important!)

A 1 hour webinar presented by Megan Townes from Microsoft. Megan explains how Microsoft Teams brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. Teams is designed to enable discussion, and its features allow for easy assignment distribution. It helps school administrators and staff stay connected and allows for real-time sharing of announcements. More information on this support page.

A handy playlist of YouTube video aimed at helping you get familiar with how to use Microsoft Teams by Alice Keeler. If your school uses Office 365 you definitely need to be using Microsoft Teams. Communicate with your class including via video conference, assign assignments, and give feedback on student work.

Helpful and easy tips for making your videos better and content even more engaging.

In this first episode, Australian educators talk about what they are doing now to prepare for potential school closures. Two guests also discuss how they have been working this way for the last 6 weeks.

Apple Education learning video series. This series is presented by the Apple Education Leadership and Learning teams. Each video is designed to help educators use Apple products and their built-in features to enable remote learning for all students.

In this Tech Train video the author explains what Narration in PowerPoint is, and why you'd want to use it (if you're a teacher it's especially useful). Next the author shows you exactly how to set it up, how it works, how to pause it, and how to include things like slide timings, animation timings and even pen annotations.

PowerPoint includes features for automatic captioning of your presentations. Captions appear while you speak. The captioning tool will also translate your presentation while you speak.

Scootle learning paths are collections or resources (videos, units of work, interactive games and learning objects) that you choose for your students. Click the image on the left or the title to watch a video that shows how to create learning paths in Scootle. Search for resources by learning area, subject, topic or Australian Curriculum content description code eg: ACTDIP026.

To access learning paths you create, your student do not need an account. They simply go to the student login link at the top of the Scootle website and add the pin number from the learning path you give them.

This short video shows how to annotate a PDF document. The example given is to mark an online worksheet however the same techniques can be used to annotate an article, highlight passages or keywords or write comments.

The Novel Coronavirus explained by ABC News (America).

Get the latest information from the Australian Government Department of Health about COVID-19

The people at RobotLAB http://www.RobotLAB.com know how scary it can be with the #CoronaVirus out there. Please keep your tech clean at school, and lower the chance of transferring the virus!

Time to Come In, Bear: A Children's Story About Social Distancing written and read by children's author Kim St. Lawrence.

This is not actually a video, its an animated gif from an article from a New Zealand publication called The Spinoff. It's a nice example of how data is being visualised in various ways to help people make sense of social distancing guidelines and other information designed to stem the spread of COVID-19. The article author Dr Siouxsie Wiles is an Associate Professor and head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.

Behind the News (more commonly known as BTN) is a long-running news programme broadcast on the ABC made in Adelaide and aimed at school-aged children (8–13 years of age). BtN is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students with the hope of helping them understand issues and events outside their own lives.

Behind the News explores news using the current language, trendy music and popular culture of youths. The programme explains the basic concepts that underpin the issues and events, while also providing background information in the hopes that children will take an interest.

Bias is hard to avoid, but it can be really damaging - leading us to make poor choices without fairly weighing up the facts. This episode looks at bias in the media and why it can be particularly damaging. In a time of information overload, understanding the news has become more important than ever. This series helps to navigate the news, sort fact from fiction, and recognise how their world views can be shaped by the media. This video is part of Behind the News’ ‘Fake News Explained’ Media Literacy series. To watch the other episodes in the series head here: https://ab.co/2pcfWSX .

This video forms part of the Media Literacy series originally broadcast during Media Literacy week in October 2019. Teaching resource notes

Over the coming weeks Taronga will be bringing its two beautiful zoos directly into your living room! Tune in daily to see your favourite animals, meet our friendly keepers and learn what goes on behind the scenes at Taronga while our zoos are temporarily closed.

10am Educational Videos: Can be found on Tim Faulkner’s Facebook, Instagram pages and on the Australian Reptile Park’s YouTube Channel. 2pm Live Streams: Can be found on the Australian Reptile Park’s Facebook and Instagram. More information of the main website.

Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem. We focus on rigorous science to educate the public & advocate policymakers to achieve conservation, protection, and restoration of coral reefs.

The original remote learning Mathematics videos for high school Maths students are again useful for those learning at home.

A data science explainer video from Dr McIver of the Australian Data Science Education Institute. adsei.org

A data science explainer video from Dr Linda McIver of the Australian Data Science Education Institute. adsei.org

A simple Data Science explainer video by Dr Linda McIver of the Australian Data Science Education Institute adsei.org. This takes the viewer through the data on #covid19 infections in Australia and why we need to use social distancing to slow down the rate of infections in order for our health system to cope. Suitable for kids, but relevant to adults as well.

A simple Data Science explainer video by Dr Linda McIver of the Australian Data Science Education Institute adsei.org. This explainer discusses exponential growth and why it matters when dealing with Covid19. Data Science for kids.

Phenomenom is designed to slip more serves of vegetables into every classroom. This free digital toolkit for teachers includes an online library of videos and audio podcasts that act as springboards for curriculum-aligned PDF lesson plans. There is a Teacher Guidebook and if you are in planning mode? Search by Australian Curriculum Code for content linked to learning areas.

Shemaps is STEM programs and resources for teachers and schools. Live in Orbit is their online STEM show where different scientists share knowledge about their fields with children at home. Episodes can be viewed daily at 9am AEST here or you can watch past shows here. You can also stay in touch with events via the Shemaps Facebook page or enter the Map my school contest for a chance to win a drone.

Logie winner for 'Most Outstanding Children's Show', Little J & Big Cuz provides a young Indigenous audience with relatable characters, as well as offers an insight into traditional Aboriginal culture, country and language. There are also a host of activities and resources for teachers and parents on the website.

Video and printable resources and lesson materials. Related to PDHPE and Digital Technologies curriculums.

Love Letters for Computers is a free resource including a series of videos, resources, classroom materials and a teacher journal that will help you plan how to integrate computer science into your curriculum for children in kindergarten and first years of primary school. It’s built around the philosophy of Hello Ruby: an unplugged, creative and playful approach to introducing computer science.

Computational thinking is both central to computer science and widely applicable throughout education and the workforce. Computational thinking, which is complementary to coding and computer science, provides students a necessary skillset for solving complex problems and is relevant throughout K-12 education in all subjects.

Dr Tim Bell is a leading expert in Computing Science based in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury. In this webinar he discusses ways other than coding that we can teach and learn about Digital Technologies.

This video is a collaboration between the University of Adelaide's CSER project, ACARA's Digital Technologies in Focus project (DTIF) and CSIRO STEM Professionals in School Program.

DLTV instructional videos that discuss teaching algorithms and decomposition in Years 1-10

If you're using our DT@Home resources, ACA have made explainer videos for some of the activities so you can see them in action: they're great to watch for either teachers or students.

This video gives students the opportunity to provide a solution to a real world problem. How can shopkeepers keep a count of the number of people in their store. It is an authentic task for the Covid 19 pandemic. It could also be used across curricula for easily collecting data. Block code and Python solutions.

This video gives students the opportunity to expand on the simple solution to a real world problem in the previous video. How can shopkeepers keep a count of the number of people in their store if they have multiple entry exit points. It is an authentic task for the Covid 19 pandemic. It could also be used across curricula for easily collecting data in teams. It explores using the micro:bit Radio functionality - you will need at least 2 micro:bits. Block code and Python solutions.

This short video gives a basic explanation of how to do simple formulas in a spreadsheet and how to use some of the built in functions such as SUM and AVERAGE. It helps students work out how much toilet paper they need to get through the Corona19 pandemic.

Do you have a square to spare? This quick video explains a simple way to set up data collection in your home. It is part 2 of the series designed to encourage students to not hoard the paper.

This final video explains how data that has been collected can be analysed using a spreadsheet. It provides students with answers as to how much toilet paper their household needs each week.

Let's look for data on the cost of a Big Mac in different countries, check that the data is OK, then plot it on a map to see where Big Macs are cheapest.

We need the minimum wages figure for each country, so that we can work out how long you have to work to earn enough money to buy a Big Mac. The question is: "Can we rely on these data?"

The Minimum wage by country data is laden with extra data that we don't need, and also has some data that is not in the form that we need. Let's fix this.

Big Macs seem cheaper in come places than others. But that all depends on how much you earn! This final analysis shows how many hours you need to work in several countries to earn enough to buy a Big Mac in that country. Guess which country "wins"?

What's a sensor? How do they work? This is the first of three videos that will help you come to your sensors .

This link includes the recordings and slides/handouts (where available) from all of the webinars the Digital Technologies Hub have hosted. Their intention is to provide professional learning to teachers and increase the capacity to teach the Digital Technologies Curriculum.

This video was produced by Year 9 students. Their intention was to teach their primary school peers about algorithms, so that they would understand how computers need specific algorithms in order to correctly execute code. A great idea for teaching Digital Technologies content.

Connecting Digital Technologies to food and fibre vodcast from Martin Levins, DTIF. In this video Martin explain the links that can be made with Digital Technologies and food and fibre through making a moisture sensor with a micro:bit and some simple recycled materials.

A webinar presented by Bruce Fuda and Nicky Ringland of the ACA exploring data representation F-10 in the Australian Curriculum.

Inventor and designer May-Li Khoe and virtual reality designer Nat Brown introduce the four features that all computers share. Video by Khan Academy and Code.org.

ABC Education videos tagged Digital Technologies including a wide variety of topics suitable for primary and secondary students including:

• Pixels and image quality
• How computers compute
• Combatting hackers

Find out more at https://www.microbit.org/get-started/first-steps/set-up/

Short video clips of approximately 2 minutes each that explain processes and functions of the BBC micro:bit and how to get started.

This video is a panel discussion recorded in VR from the recent IEEE VR conference (approx 1hr 30 mins). It features author and academic Erica Southgate and covers issues such as ethics and privacy in virtualreality and augmented reality, EdTech and biometrics .