Session One Presentation Abstracts 10.30am
- 11.15am
10.30am - 11.15am
Daniel Ingvarsaon
myinternet Limited
Mind the Gap
The Internet is about being connected to things which change. All
other elements of the school are fixed - buildings, whiteboards, computers,
CDs etc. What's to stop the Internet from becoming another fixed element?
The Thing that will stop this is that the Internet is not a device,
it is the enabling platform.
10.30am - 11.15am
Lyn Regan & Elaine Robertson
Anderson's Creek Primary School
Using
Computers in Learning Centres P-4
A team of teachers from Grades Prep to 4 will present how computers
are used in Learning Centres in the two hours Literacy block. Teachers
will outline how they plan the Learning Centres and classroom management
strategies to supervise groups at the Computer Centres. The teachers
will give examples of the variety of activities used in the Computer
Centres, which challenge each group of children.
10.30am - 11.15am
Lois Smethurst & Jean Haughton
Warragul North Primary School
Creative Multimedia Performance
The integration of the Arts and Multimedia immerses children in technology
in a way that helps them make meaningful connections in their learning,
drawing together discreet learning experiences into a 'big picture'
production. Creative Multimedia Performance enhances language, SOSE
and the Arts Program while developing skills in image manipulation,
simple animation and cooperative computer presentations. It involves
students in all or some of the following: * scripting poetry, plays
and stories * building models, to create visual representation * creating
a multimedia slide show using the digital camera to input pictures of
dioramas, puppets, models and scenes from the play and culminates in
a parallel performance of multimedia and dramatic production for large
or small audience.
10.30am - 11.15am
Paula Christophersen
VCAA
2003 VCE Information Technology
A revised
VCE Information Technology study design will be introduced in 2003.
This session addresses the nature of the changes to the six units in
this study and considers some implications for teaching and learning.
10.30am - 11.15am
Lesley McCarthy
Keilor Primary School
Web Authoring in the Middle Years
Web authoring through its creative, graphic and visual nature, individuality
and open ended learning appeals to all students. It is also an appropriate
task for gifted and talented students due to the exploration of ideas
and skills, the investigation of odeas and concepts and the creation
of a personal multimedia portfolio. Using Dreamweaver 4, I have encouraged
students in Years 5-6 to research and audit websites to produce a checklist
of features which make websites valuable, approporaite and interesting.
using these criteria, they then design, create and publish their own
websites. Incorporating a vast array of graphics, still and moving images,
a creative use of text, colour, tables and movies these students demonstrate
that web authoring is a valuable tool for engaging students in their
own learning task and publishing medium.
Session
Two Presentation Abstracts 11.15am - 12.00pm
11.15am
- 12.00pm
Donna Gronn
Australian Catholic University
Quick and Easy Computer Tips for Teachers (Word / Excel)
Would you like to be able to make 100s charts (using multiple starting
points and counting by different numbers), tens frames (using your students
pictures) and calendars on your computer in less than 5 minutes? If
so this is the session for you. See how you can use Word and Excel to
make aids for your mathematics classroom and apply these skills to other
areas of your teaching. Also included are the uses of the drawing tools
for pattern, tesselation, spatial properties and visualisation.
11.15am
- 12.00pm
Di Ballantyne
Austrade
Backwards by Design - a Transfer of Learning
What do the design of a software program, a Year 9 Student Exhibition
program, and a system wide assessment program all have in common? Quite
by accident I stumbled across a book which describes a process for designing
effective curriculum, and realised that the process that was being described,
was the process through which we had worked when developing each of
the programs listed. I would like to share this concept, and describe
how it is not only a transfer of learning, but a model that has so many
different applications.
11.15am
- 12.00pm
Bernard Holkner
Monash University
Experiences of Professional Development Online
The presentation will report parts of the development, support, implementation
and evaluation phases of a professional development program for teachers
of science. The 'Extended Science Professional Development Online"
project has its origins in a highly successful program that the author
initally refused to redevelop as an online program. While there was
considerable experience in web database, discursive online methods,
and synchronous video available, the fundamental design of the course
required such a degree of participant involvement as discussion, observation
and experiementation, that no 'off the shelf' product could be realistically
employed to satisfy these needs. A product was thus commissioned and
developed to meet the specific needs. Finally a complete redevelopment
of the course into a highly temporal and facilitator driven online program
was undertaken. This program features a range of technologies which
have been integrated into a system that ultimately is directed by the
facilitators in terms of content, timing and depth.
11.15am - 12.00pm
Linda Rosman
Impaq
Making an Intranet Work for your School
A school intranet can tranform the entire way a school routinely operates.
It can have an impact on communication, dissemination of information,
collaboration between all groups in the school community and how curriuclum
is delivered, both in the classroom and online. Such a significant change
to the operational culture of a school reqiures planning and effective
management to ensure that the whole school community can use it with
confidence and ease. With planning in place, an intranet can be effectively
implemented in a school over the course of a school term and fully integrated
into the routine operation of the school within a short time beyond
that. This session will discuss the procedures and issues required to
facilitate an intranet in your school.
11.15am
- 12.00pm
Ron Barassi
Distance Education Centre of Victoria
Flash Maths - a Gateway to Interactive / Engaging Learning
This presentation is a demonstration of exciting learning materials
that clearly show animated mathematical concepts. Learners participate
in an interactive environment where ideas, that are often difficult
for students to grasp, are easily visualised in a user friendly format.
Areas covered include trigonometric ratios and the unit circle. These
prototypes have been developed using Macromedia Flash TM software.