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New resource hub for Young Children in Digital Society
Young Children in Digital Society is a new online hub, bringing together evidence-based resources and information for early-childhood educators. Developed in collaboration with children, families, and educators by researchers and organisations interested in helping young children live well and safely with digital technologies.
The resources explain practices that children and their adults can do using digital technologies together. There are videos, infographics, articles, tip sheets, and animations.
https://youngchildrendigitalsociety.com.au/
eSafety have also announced that the Early Years Professional Learning modules have now updated based on findings from the Young Children in Digital Society project.
Training webinars for Term Four 2024
Now available for enrolment
We are offering shorter format Digital Safety webinars to support key priorities of the National Plan to Combat Cybercrime.
The webinars:
Digital Safety – Password Managers
Digital Safety – Security Updates
Digital Safety – Antivirus & Anti-malware
You can view the schedule and book a webinar session on our training page.
Training webinars for Term One 2023
Now available for enrolment
We are offering webinars of our courses on basic troubleshooting, website development, poster design and Excel.
The courses offered:
WordPress Website Development – 101
Beginners Excel Spreadsheets – 401
You can view the schedule and book a webinar session on our training page.
Early Childhood Update – March 2023
Department of Education and Training has released the March 2023 edition of the Early Childhood Update e-newsletter.
Kim Little, Deputy Secretary of Early Childhood Education, highlights Cultural Diversity Week and consultation opportunities for the Best Start, Best Life reforms. Articles also cover support and resources for CALD families; teacher and ESK funding and grants; as well as free interpreting services for funded services.
You can subscribe to receive the updates here: Early Childhood Update | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
New Tip – Where to start with cyber security literacy
Have you ever heard the expression Explain it to me like I am 5? It is a popular phrase because we often need guidance that is immediate and accessible, just like five years olds. Increasing your cyber security literacy doesn’t mean becoming an expert, it just means becoming familiar with the day-to-day patterns and knowing what the general precautions and risks are.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Where to start with cyber security literacy
New Tip – Add the Kindergarten Tick to your email signature
The Victorian Government has introduced the Kinder Tick logo to help families find funded and approved kindergarten programs. Funded services are encouraged to display the Kinder Tick on email signatures, websites, media and anywhere that will help families identify approved programs.
This tip explains how to add the email signature banner in Outlook.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Add the Kindergarten Tick to your email signature
Early Childhood Update – February 2023
Department of Education and Training has released the February 2023 edition of the Early Childhood Update e-newsletter.
With a message from Kim Little, Deputy Secretary of Early Childhood Education, articles on the Victorian Educational Leaders Conference, National learning framework updates, programs for teachers and Free TAFE for early childhood training, bush kinders and information sharing resources.
You can subscribe to receive the updates here: Early Childhood Update | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
Tip – End of the year wrap-up
This tip covers some end of year considerations for staff organising files, managing outgoing staff mailboxes and accounting for changes to file sharing tools etc.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – End of the year wrap-up
Early Childhood Update
Department of Education and Training has released the December 2022 edition of the Early Childhood Update.
With a message from Kim Little, Deputy Secretary of Early Childhood Education, articles on the final days to order Three-Year-Old Kinder Kits for 2023, the upcoming Victorian Educational Leaders Conference and other important updates regarding the early childhood sector.
You can subscribe to receive the updates here: Early Childhood Update | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
New Tip – Password protect PDFs exported from Word
This guide demonstrates how to password protect a PDF created in Microsoft Word or Publisher.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Password protect PDFs exported from Word
New Tip – Password protect Office documents
If your service shares a computer, network drive or cloud storage between staff, committee and volunteers, you might find it useful to restrict some Office documents from modification with a password or encrypt others for confidentiality. This tip will explain both how to encrypt a document and how to restrict modifying a document.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Password protect Office documents
New Tip – How to protect worksheet cells in Excel
Excel documents are often ‘living’ documents that are intended to be viewed and updated collaboratively. To avoid users introducing errors to your documents, Excel’s protection options can lock or hide cells or formulas.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – How to protect worksheet cells in Excel
Information technology support is provided by the State Library Victoria, Community IT Support Team
Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm
| Phone: 03 8664 7001 | Toll Free: 1800 629 835 |
| General Enquiries Email: info@kindergarten.vic.gov.au | Technical Support Email: support@kindergarten.vic.gov.au |
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Latest News
Early Childhood Update – February 2023
Department of Education and Training has released the February 2023 edition of the Early Childhood Update e-newsletter.
With a message from Kim Little, Deputy Secretary of Early Childhood Education, articles on the Victorian Educational Leaders Conference, National learning framework updates, programs for teachers and Free TAFE for early childhood training, bush kinders and information sharing resources.
You can subscribe to receive the updates here: Early Childhood Update | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
Tip – End of the year wrap-up
This tip covers some end of year considerations for staff organising files, managing outgoing staff mailboxes and accounting for changes to file sharing tools etc.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – End of the year wrap-up
Early Childhood Update
Department of Education and Training has released the December 2022 edition of the Early Childhood Update.
With a message from Kim Little, Deputy Secretary of Early Childhood Education, articles on the final days to order Three-Year-Old Kinder Kits for 2023, the upcoming Victorian Educational Leaders Conference and other important updates regarding the early childhood sector.
You can subscribe to receive the updates here: Early Childhood Update | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
New Tip – Password protect PDFs exported from Word
This guide demonstrates how to password protect a PDF created in Microsoft Word or Publisher.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Password protect PDFs exported from Word
New Tip – Password protect Office documents
If your service shares a computer, network drive or cloud storage between staff, committee and volunteers, you might find it useful to restrict some Office documents from modification with a password or encrypt others for confidentiality. This tip will explain both how to encrypt a document and how to restrict modifying a document.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Password protect Office documents
New Tip – How to protect worksheet cells in Excel
Excel documents are often ‘living’ documents that are intended to be viewed and updated collaboratively. To avoid users introducing errors to your documents, Excel’s protection options can lock or hide cells or formulas.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – How to protect worksheet cells in Excel
New Tips: Create Outlook Contact Groups from an Excel spreadsheet
Each year, many kindergarten staff need to transfer the contact details of enrolled families from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook. Within Outlook, staff often also want the family emails grouped into Contact Groups for each session or cohort of enrolments.
These two tips provide two methods of setting up the Contact Groups in Outlook:
Tip – Create Outlook Contact Groups from an Excel spreadsheet (quick copy/paste method)
Tip – Create Outlook Contact Groups from an Excel spreadsheet (advanced import method)
Tip – Update your email name in Outlook
Make sure you are making a professional impression by setting up your email username correctly. This tip will explain how. As well as assisting with recognisability, this process also helps to ensure your mail isn’t mistaken for spam.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Update your email name in Outlook
Tip – Website content creation and gathering
This tip covers how to compose your content for web and how to gather the media resources for your new WordPress website.
You can view the tip here: Tip – Website content creation and gathering
This guide is a sequel to https://kindergarten.vic.gov.au/tips/planning-your-website/
Tip – WordPress create logos and icons
If you are using a WordPress theme, widget or block pattern with place-holder logos you might need make custom or unique icons to replace them. This technique will work for making larger logos too.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – WordPress create logos and icons.
Tip – Reordering columns and combining columns in Excel
Staff often need to maintain a spreadsheet of families and enrolments. Common tasks like adjusting or reorganizing such lists can be repetitive. Here are the first of some time-saving methods suggested from our Excel course.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Reordering columns and combining columns in Excel.
New WordPress Tip: Build a basic WordPress contact form
Put your WordPress website to work collecting feedback, a wait list for enrolments or survey your families. This tip will show you how to create simple contact forms for your WordPress site.
Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Build a basic WordPress contact form.
Information technology support is provided by the State Library Victoria, Community IT Support Team
Monday to Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm
Phone: 03 8664 7001
Toll Free: 1800 629 835
General Enquiries Email: info@kindergarten.vic.gov.au
Technical Support Email: support@kindergarten.vic.gov.au