ICTEV 2009 Conference - ICT for Tomorrow's Learning
Conference Program - Session Abstracts
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Sessions starting at 10.30am |
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Information session for presenting at ACEC2010 Conference
The ACEC 2010: Digital Diversity conference in Melbourne from April 6th to 9th, 2010 is a great opportunity for teachers and educators to submit a proposal to present at a national conference. If you can share your story, you will complement other excellent contributions from across Australia. The conference theme is 'Digital Diversity'. The conference will examine the diverse ways that ICT can maximize each student's potential through their personal learning styles. It will investigate how ICT can allow all people including those with diverse skills and thinking strategies become lifelong creative learners. We aim to include a broad range of contributions to make ACEC2010 in Melbourne a conference to remember. This session is specifically for those teachers who might be interested in submitting either a referreed or non-refereed paper as well as submissions for non-refereed papers, workshops, panels and posters for ACEC 2010 in Melbourne from April 7th to 9th, 2010 with pre-conference sessions on 6th April. As this is a national conference there are quite specific guidelines and timelines which need to be adhered to, and this session is designed to detail these and to invite questions and discussion. A must for anyone who would like further information within an enjoyable forum!
Audience: General
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Gail Casey, Kardinia International College
Using nings, twitter and smartart to improve critical literacy and creativity in the classroom
This session will take a close look at how Gail Casey has been using online social networking environments in Geelong, Australia 2008 and in 2007 while teaching ESL in South Korea. It will include samples of student work, online resources and Gail’s class materials. Student reflection, peer assessment and the use of SmartArt for planning and recording student ongoing improvements will be covered.
Audience: Secondary teachers
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Anne Mirtschin, Hawkesdale P-12 College
Bringing the globe into your backyard
Students live in a world where they want to connect, communicate and create. Global projects where students work on projects with students across the globe in either synchronous or asynchronous time use strategies that build skills of productive collaboration, virtual teamwork and develop a range of thinking processes. Global projects are a great way to also prepare our students to compete in a global workforce. This session will discuss some of the projects that schools may get involved in, show the projects that my students have worked on, including the flat classroom project, where associated improved learning outcomes, with tips being shared on successful collaboration. It will outline some of the Web 2.0 tools that might be used. VELS learning focus: Students work as a virtual team to solve a problem in their school or community. Students learn to respect the differences in other's approaches to using ICT for solving problem, designing products, and respect cultural diversity among users of ICT.
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Tony Richards and Eric Marcos, Lincoln Middle School
Kids teaching kids: student-created screencasts and Mathtrain.com
This presentation focuses on a ‘kids teaching kids’ model and how it helped spark student interest and enthusiasm inside and outside the math class. Middle school students created math video lessons and collaborated via a Moodle-powered class website, called Mathtrain.com. The student-created math videos were also the foundation and ‘episodes’ of the class podcast on iTunes and were posted on Mathtrain.TV, as well as YouTube, Google Video and TeacherTube.
VELS: All VELS levels
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Jenny Ashby, Epsom Primary School
GoogleApps
Collaboration has never been more easy than with GoogleApps. Learn how to use Google Docs, presentations and spreadsheets in a classroom setting and across classes and perhaps the world. Collaborate with staff across schools in networks and much more. GoogleApps lets everyone work together. Online and offline. Have your work available anywhere on any platform. Bring your laptop and have hands-on experience. Create a Google doc. Participants must register on Google before the session and email Jenny Ashby so that documents can be shared in the session (Jenny - ashby.jenny.j@edumail.vic.gov.au). Have you ever thought spreadsheets are boring? Well take a look at Google spreadsheets and you’ll soon change your mind and go away and share with others these great tools we all have access to in our schools.
VELS: All VELS levels
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Victoria Hall, Surrey Hills Primary School
Through the looking glass, ICT adventures with poetry
What a load of Jabberwocky! How can a digital camera, a computer and a few websites engage students to want to become poets? This session looks at using ICT to explore the poetry of Lewis Carroll; in particular a range of sequential activities that focus on the poem ‘Jabberwocky’. Through the poetry unit, discover practical ways to use ICT in critical literacy activities that focus on spelling, word building strategies, grammar and punctuation. Have fun with words and explore the creativity that the combination of ICT and poetry can inspire.
Audience: Middle years teachers
VELS: VELS levels 4-5
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Lois Smethurst, Berwick Lodge Primary School
How you can use digital audio to develop oral language and help students make sense of their learning
Digital audio can be used at all levels, in a variety of ways with students. It enhances the learning experience by giving students, who are still developing their writing skills, an opportunity to demonstrate their true level of thinking. ‘Audio E-Learning’, used regularly, develops a repository of audio evidence demonstrating the development of an oral language and thinking. It can be as simple as attaching a microphone to the computer and recording a sound file or as complex as podcasting or blogging with a mobile phone. There is excellent, free software where voice becomes the main form of communication.
Audience: Primary to early secondary
VELS: VELS levels 1-5
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| Rm 8 |
Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Dr John Turner
A dinosaur's reflection of 25 years of educational computing: past, present and future
With ever changing technologies and environments beset by curriculum and political imperatives, how often in educational computing do we take stock of what has actually changed, what hasn’t but needs to for hopes to be realized, and what is not being addressed but needs to. This reflection of 25 years of involvement, hopes, dreams and realities will hopefully help us understand a bit better some of the scenarios we face in educational computing. T S Elliot summed it up well: ‘Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow’.
VELS: All VELS levels
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| Rm 9 |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
**THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED - WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
Arthur Lane, Woodend Primary School
Web design for e-portfolios
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| Rm 10 |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Susan Bell
Creating a website with Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks
With the release of CS4, Fireworks has been upgraded to complement Dreamweaver and integrate with Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. It is now easier than ever to create images, gif animations and written content into a quick and interesting website. In this workshop you will learn how to use the tools in Fireworks to create a mockup for a website and test your pages in Dreamweaver. Suitable for beginners and those wanting a hands-on workshop that can be used with their students. Lesson plans, examples and notes will be provided.
Audience: Upper secondary
VELS: VELS levels 4-5
Software required: Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4 - Download here for free trial software
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Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Rachel Mustovic, 2Simple Software Australia
2Do It Yourself
2Simple, winner of BETT 2009 ICT Company of the Year, is renowned for being passionate about creating powerful software for primary school children. This session will raise the bar to new heights, using our programs to integrate ICT into the primary classroom across the curriculum, with VELS in mind. From children (and teachers) using 2Do It Yourself to create their own games, puzzles and quizzes to share on an IWB, the web, blogs or email to trying out our new online tools, we will put the focus back on learners generating and self differentiating their learning and allow teachers to rediscover their creative juices!
Audience: Primary teachers, IT coordinators, principals
Software required:
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| Rm 12 |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevant software required
Adobe
Beginners guide to digital story telling with Adobe software
In this session we will use Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements to guide the class through utilising the Adobe tools for this classroom practice. At the end the class will be able to walk away with knowledge on these simple to use products allowing them to dazzle their class in style.
Audience: General
Software required: Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements - Download here for free trial software
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| Hall |
Symposium 45 minutes - starting at 10.30am
Dr Tony Jones, University of Melbourne
Classroom based research projects from the Ideas Lab
In 2008 DEECD established the Ideas Lab at the Hume global Learning Centre in Broadmeadows. Partners with DEECD include the University of Melbourne, Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft. One aim of the Ideas Lab is to improve teaching and learning in evident and quantifiable ways by bringing technology into classrooms. As part of this process six teachers from schools in the Hume area are undertaking research projects in their schools and classrooms. The teachers are being supported to experiment with new ideas in their classrooms, and to document the processes and results. In this symposium the teachers will briefly outline the project they are working on, and a discussant, Tony Jones, will comment on the projects and their links to national and international ICT in education research.
Audience: All teachers interested in classroom based research, especially in Grade 6 to Year 9.
VELS: VELS levels 4-6
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| Lab A |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Rachel Corben, Auburn South Primary School
Creating digital stories
This workshop will demonstrate the ease in which early years students are able to publish their creative writing within a digital format. This hands-on 90 minute session will explore the use of digital recording devices such as iPods, simple music programs such as Garageband or Audacity and scanners to create digital stories which include sound tracks, sound effects and a recording of the child narrating their own work.
Audience: Early years teachers
VELS: VELS levels 1 and 2
Software required: Garageband, Audacity
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| Lab B |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 10.30am
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Colleen Calamante, Heathmont East Primary School
Web based f2f and online learning P-6
‘From all sides of the globe people recognise that survival now depends upon our capacity for cooperation, interdependence, conservation, and respect for a diversity of nations and people’ (cited in Jean Gibbs 2006). Young people’s altruistic character is exemplary. SuperClubsPLUS is a web based social learning network (Prep - Year 6) which inspires empathic young people to construct knowledge, using their own creativity to produce, create and contribute to meaningful action and discussions on local and global issues. In my ‘mind’s eye’ I see young leaders, the personification of cooperation and collaboration. I’m thrilled to also see young people with such a ‘wicked’ sense of humor. I feel safe in the knowledge that the future of our planet will be in the hands of young people, who have warm hearts and an active belief in caring and sharing for our local and global community. It has been a genuine privilege to witness many young students unique and caring identities developing both face to face and online on SuperClubsPLUS. Participants will be able to enter and exit sessions at differing levels and learn independently of the facilitator. The presenter will setup cooperative forums that will enhance the thoughtful, evaluation of web based and face to face learning online. The session will include access to SuperClubsPLUS online, plus examples of how I used SuperClubsPLUS and visual communication skills such as Claymation and photography with Year 5 and 6. A DVD will be provided for participants with an overview of the session with relevant websites and literature.
Audience: All primary teachers
VELS: VELS levels 1-4
Software required: Participants need to bring their own digital camera & cable to download images to their laptops; Photoshop Elements (free demonstration software avaiable), Photobucket, Windows Moviemaker
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Back to conference program
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Location
The Atrium, Wadhurst Campus
Melbourne Grammar School
Domain Road, Melbourne Victoria
Melways Ref: 2L; A2
Date
Saturday 30th May 2009
Pricing
Regsitration includes:
Keynote address
All conference sessions
Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and
cocktail party
Conference satchel
Registration fees:
ICTEV Member $199
ICTEV Regional Member $170
Non Member $259
Online Conference Registration
Full Time Undergraduate Student** $55
** Photocopy of current full time undergrade student card and payment to accompany conference registration form to secure this special rate.
Download Student Registration Form
Annual General Meeting
The 2009 ICTEV AGM of members will take place at lunchtime at the conference in Room 1 of Wadhurst. Members make sure you are part of the decision making process.
Trade exhibitors
All trade exhibitors are located in the atrium of Wadhurst, allowing delegates to peruse a range of curriculum resources at their leisure. Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and cocktails will be within the surrounds of the Trade Show.
Prizes
There are three categories of prizes to be won at the end of the conference. All prizes will be drawn at the Cocktail Party. To be in the running for the prizes you must visit 12 of the stands in the Trade Show, at the end of your visit, ask for your passport to be stamped or signed. When you have visited 12 stands, pass your passport and evaluation sheet in to the Registration Desk prior to 5pm for entry in to the prize draws.
Cancellations
There is no refund if less than one week of notice is given to the ICTEV Office. Cancellation prior to this will incur a $60 cancellation fee.
Parking
Parking will be available at CARE parking, 13-21 Palmerston Crescent, South Melbourne. The carpark will be open from 7am until 8pm.
The venue can be reached by public transport, with the closest train station being 'Flinders Street'. The St Kilda Road tram can take you from the station to the corner of St Kilda and Domain Roads. To check further public transport details: www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au
Catering
The annual conference is fully catered with continuous tea and coffee facilities. Those with special dietary requirements should complete the appropriate section on the registration form, or contact the ICTEV Office.
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