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A technology magazine for teachers

magazine.T4L is an online magazine designed for use in the classroom and staffroom. Whether you’re passionate about tech, or just starting your journey, you will find an easy snapshot of tech solutions for your classroom and links to boost your digital knowledge.

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Read Issue 30 - Technology for all

This issue explores assistive and inclusive technologies to make learning accessible for all in your school or classroom. 

Explore the accessibility features available to all teachers in NSW public schools in the Google, Microsoft and Apple platforms. With hot tips and step-by-step guided videos, you can boost your skills today to support learners with different needs in your classroom.

You'll also meet teachers innovating in this space and be inspired by what their students have achieved.

Issue 29: Connecting Community with technology

Find resources and tools to support understanding and awareness in your classroom around Community and Aboriginal learnings and culture. This issue shares a range of digital ideas and resources for your classroom and connects you with stories from schools and classrooms across NSW that explore ways to connect and deepen knowledge of Aboriginal Community, culture, language and story. 

Issue 28: The ultimate guide to podcasting in your school!

Explore the learning opportunities with podcasting in your classroom! Get your students engaged with podcasting to enhance their speaking and digital literacy skills and build their confidence when it comes to writing, planning, collaboration and production skills. Grab your mics and get recording!

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School Administrative and Support Staff Tech Guide 2024

Our SASS Staff are essential personnel in our schools, to assist them on their journey we’ve created this Tech Guide to help support their professional learning. This is a brand-new resource from T4L – we encourage you to share it with your colleagues!

Refresher: Beginning Teacher Tech Guide 2024 

This new and refreshed edition of the Tech Guide is for teachers beginning their careers, in addition to anyone else who may be keen to explore the latest resources and information available on tech tools and platforms available in the department.

Past issues

This special edition magazine has an abundance of essential information collated to support, guide and inspire our public school teacher librarians, school admin staff and principals to create wonderful spaces and places for our readers.

Narooma High School RoboRebels have taken on the world, get entrepreneurial in the classroom and learn how you can support your students to build their own businesses using tech tools.

Our Term 2 edition focuses on assessment and feedback, as well as essential links to resources to support you in organising online meetings with colleagues.

magazine.T4L celebrates its 21st issue with a how-to edition, making life easier for teachers with step-by-step guides.

Explore the art of creating videos in Canva and learn how to open a window to the world with Google meet.

Teachers share their tips to help you develop your practice, skills and knowledge in the digital space.

Explore the best features of Teams, Google classroom and Apple classroom, and discover their functionality.

Review success stories of 2020, learn about podcasting, explore robots by stage and discover Presenter Coach.

Boost your presentation skills with timesaving hacks and creativity tips using Keynote, Slides and Powerpoint.

Discover open ended tech activities that will get your students building, creating and engineering.

Boost your skills with digital assessment and feedback hacks and check out learning from home resources.

Explore your creative side as we test and showcase inspiring apps that will get you writing and designing.

Discover how PC robotics and a tiny micro:bit can change up the classroom and get your students to problem-solve.

This inaugural issue explores 3D printing in the real world, as well as the top 3D models and printing apps.

Celebrating the DCO program and the profound impact it has made on 1000+ schools and communities across the Rural Access Gap program.

Power up your tech in Term 3! Get up close and personal with microcrontrollers, and unpack our great new T4L Kids resource on designing with Minecraft Education.  

The Beginning Teacher Tech Guide has everything you need to get started and online from day one.

Investigate new innovations in our lab and boost your approach to building a more accessible classroom.

Explore classroom resources designed to stimulate computational thinking and discover app design techniques.

Take your classroom to the cloud with digital classroom hubs for Microsoft Teams, Adobe and Google.

Discover how to get the best out of digital documents with Word, Google and Apple, and learn about micro:bit.

Check out EDUtech 2020, learn about virtual reality, discover 3D printing techniques and explore robotics.

Explore the power of robotics. Check out the new robots in the lab and meet a real-life robotics engineer.

Delve into 3D design tools for the classroom, learn how to teach maths online and discover Google Earth.

Discover how to move from a physical to a digital classroom with confidence, using anywhere, anytime learning.

This issue is dedicated to coding to celebrate Hour of Code, and offers a myriad of resources and activities.

Review recommendations for Mobile Computers on Wheels (MoCoWs) and Mobile Learning Displays (MLDs).

See the following updated ESIS advice on the safe use of 3D Printers in schools.