ICTEV 2009 Conference - ICT for Tomorrow's Learning
Conference Program - Session Abstracts
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Sessions starting at 1.45pm |
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Speed Sharing Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** Speakers get 5 minutes to talk about 20 slides.
Victoria Hall, Surrey Hills Primary School
Using ICT for student reflection across the curriculum
This series of slides focus on ways that I have used ICT to record students’ thoughts and reflections on their learning in the classroom. The students’ shared language of reflection is the primary focus and examples of annotations of photographs, individual and small group work and project work are shown in Integrated Studies, Science, Mathematics and English. ICT is used for formative and summative assessment and is valuable student centered tool for recording both process and product.
Audience: Middle years teachers
VELS: VELS levels 4-5
Dr Paul Chandler, University of New England
Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle school years
The Australian Children’s Television Foundation is in partnership with the University of New England on a project to develop an urgently needed writing pedagogy to prepare students to be effective authors in a world where communication is increasingly digital, multimedia and online. The pedagogy, to be developed collaboratively with teachers, includes an online community providing ongoing teacher professional collaboration and students; sharing of their work and ideas. This brief presentation will introduce the project and garner interest from teachers who would be interested in collaborating with the project team (particularly those who are using Kahootz).
VELS: VELS levels 3-5
Dr John Turner
A window into Web 2.0 curriculum possibilities
A quick overview of what Web 2.0 entails with some curriculum possibilities and examples that can be taken on quickly, cheaply and for good learning.
VELS: VELS levels 2-6
Lyn Pedler, Black Rock Primary School
The Nessy Learning Program
The Nessy Learning Program is a new 21st century, multi-sensory, structured, phonic based, interactive literacy resource for the whole classroom, small group teaching or 1:1 teaching to enable all students to be successful learners. It comprehensively covers the three literacy areas of writing, spelling and reading. There are 120 lessons covering the different sounds and letter patterns which are carefully integrated with off and on computer games and printable worksheets. Nessy is an excellent and enjoyable program suitable for students of all abilities aged 5-16 in the classroom but also for struggling students.
VELS: VELS levels 1-6
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Maria Haggett, Lavalla Catholic College
Value addng to the classroom program with online learning in a country setting
The teaching program at Lavalla for the Years 10, 11 and 12 has been value added through the development of an online learning program which covers web pages, learning management systems (such as Blackboard or Moodle), blogs, msn tutorials, virtual classroom technologies and podcasting of classes in this presentation. Maria will discuss the development of this program and reasons for its introduction. She will further explore the issues in authoring online resources and detail such issues as the technology involved together with the human resources of developing appropriate programs for online sue and the time that needs to be committed.
Audience: Particular relevance for country schools
VELS: VELS level 6 - VCE
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Dr Tim Kitchen, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School
From tools of knowledge to tools of creativity
Modern educators are starting to realise that they are no longer the keepers and dispensers of knowledge, they are gradually moving to a facilitation role, using a range of ICT for research and assessment. However, to meet the needs of the current generation of young learners and remain relevant, today’s teachers need to use ICT not only as a tool of gathering data and information but more importantly, as a tool for creativity and fun. The more opportunities for fun and creativity in the use of ICT, the better the learning environment in all subject areas.
Audience: All teachers
VELS: All VELS levels
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Alberto Rizzo, Melbourne Grammar School
Rethinking metaphors for educational innovation and change
The introduction of computers in schools was hailed as a great innovation that was bound to have a transformative effect on the quality of education in Australia. In my 30 years of teaching, I have witnessed many stories of successful implementation of innovative educational technologies but many, many more failed attempts. Over the past eight years at my school, I have played the part of change-agent in a number of innovations which were successfully taken up, essentially by helping to ‘stitch together’ various agendas and opposing logics. This short presentation is drawn from my Ph.D. dissertation where I use Actor-Network Theory to interpret how getting people to take up a technical innovation and change their practices is a political, strategic act that involves forging alliances and networks. The job is to ‘translate’ what the innovation means at the local and individual level. This is what good managers have always done, but what is new is that it is applied to education and ICT where we have always tended to focus on the quality and efficiency of teachers or of the technology first and always ignored all the rest of the context.
Audience: ICT leaders
VELS: All VELS levels
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Debbie Martin, Sandringham Primary School
Sue Storr, Sandringahm Primary School
Making IT move! Using animation in the classroom
Animation can be simply moving a pen around a fruit bowl or it can be a claymation bear appealing for help to save the planet. It has a real appeal to students and is a way to enhance their writing skills and develop their ICT skills as well. Share our journey with our first animations and see the potential animation has as an engaging and stimulating learning tool. Please note that this is our first trial, so we are beginners and not experts but are happy to share what we have so far.
Audience: Classroom teachers, Visual Arts, ICT teachers.
VELS: VELS levels 3-4 |
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Duncan Exton, Greythorn Primary School
Blogging as a specific thinking apparatus and home/school relationship builder
Use blogging as a time to specifically focus on thinking skills. Through our classroom and individual students blogs we have created a community of thinkers. Using a combination of video, animation, images, quotes and discussions based around philosophical ideas blogging has been the forum for these student musings. The classroom blog leads the discussions and focuses the community of thinkers. It is also a terrific point of entry for the wider school community to access student thoughts and activities. This session will be a presentation of our classroom’s experience with blogging that will give attendees ideas about the ways in which blogs can be used in order to focus on thinking curriculum and also the ways in which blogging can breach the home / school divide by providing up to date and fascinating insights into the classroom experience.
VELS: VELS levels 3-4
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| Rm 7 |
Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Jenny Ashby, Epsom Primary School
iPodTouch in the classroom - Triple i
Access to the internet can be in your pencil case. No need to log in and go through numerous windows to find some information. ICT doesn’t take over the task but just delivers. No setting up, touch and you are there. How did we use the iPod Touch in the classroom? How are they different to a laptop? What are the best uses? iApps from iTunes, movies and communication make this a gadget with many uses. Motivation, engagement, collaboration and best of all it’s cool. Jenny Ashby will give a quick summary of the iPodTouch project that was undertaken by three primary schools and the eLearning Unit, DEECD in 2008. Hands-on time for participants will be included in the session.
Audience: Teachers
VELS: VELS levels 3-5
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Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Phill Cristofaro, Brunswick East Primary School
Unreal Footy = creativity in Maths (and it's free!)
Unreal Footy is much more than just fantasy football. It’s an online virtual learning environment specifically designed for primary and secondary schools and uses the mathematics of sport to teach students skills in calculation, prediction, chance and data, problem solving and communication. Unlike other fantasy football programs, students have to make calculations manually and use real life data week-to-week to develop their Maths, English and ICT skills. Unreal Footy supports open-ended problem based learning and facilitates communication through online forums. Teachers and students customize the program collaboratively to suit their needs and draw on higher order thinking skills to develop the program.
Audience: Preimary teachers, secondary Maths / English / ICT, ICT Managers.
VELS: All VELS levels 3, 4, 5
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Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
John Annable
Starting from scratch
The Lifelong Kindergarten group from MIT have come up with new software which steps into the gap left by LOGO. It’s called Scratch. It is fully scripted programming allowing children to produce their own multimedia events, games, interactive art and much more. Scratch differs from earlier programming languages in two important ways. Firstly the language elements are contained in jigsaw type pieces which slot together to form the script - no more errors of syntax. Secondly the software and resources are free and fit into the Web 2.0 sharing philosophy. The workshop will show the capabilities of Scratch plus the vast amount of resources available on the web for teachers to use and also give teachers a chance to have an attempt at programming their own games and events. Every participant will get the software and a resource package free.
Audience: Year 3 - Junior secondary
Software required: Scratch - free download
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| Rm 10 |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Valerie McRoberts and Richard McRoberts, Ziptales
Ziptales, an Australian literacy site for primary students
Ziptales is an Australian literacy site for primary age children. It targets VELS Levels 1 to 4, covering the English Standards - Reading, Writing and Listening. It also addresses Communication, ICT and Thinking. As well as the nearly 200 stories, there are videos, puzzles, poems, comics, documentaries, DIY projects and 'How to write' lessons - 300+ content modules. All stories come with reproducible worksheets, another 600+. Ziptales is 'digital literacy', designed to engage children. It is a genuine use of the internet for core curriculum. The stories cover a wide age range. The content is interactive - suitable for electronic whiteboards, small group, whole class or individual configurations.
Audience: Primary teachers
VELS: VELS levels 1-4
Software required: Wireless enabled laptop
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Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Adrian Camm
, Mooroopna Secondary College
Virtual learning communities
A traditional definition of community is ‘a specific group of people, often living in a defined geographic area, who share a common culture, values, and norms and who are arranged in a social structure according to relationships the community has developed over a period of time ...’ However, with increasing connectedness through the use of the internet and Web 2.0 tools these definitions are now outdated. If ‘community’ is redefined in line with the 21st century it might sound something like ‘joint ownership or participation; an interacting population of various individuals in a common location’. We are now seeing increased uses of social networking tools and online spaces for truly immersive forms of learning and for a level of collaboration that is erasing traditional confines and borders.
Audience: Educators teaching Years 7-12, all subject areas.
VELS: VELS level 5 - VCE
Software required: Ning
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Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
Investment in our future, investment in our children
Workshop
David Patrao, Guest presenter
Technology shapes the way your students interact with the world. So it only makes sense to teach them with the tools and media they’re already using. With Apple, it’s easy to do. Creating digital content is truly simple, web research is quick and secure; and virtual collaboration is safe for young learners.
The Mac is a recording studio. A film editor. A communicator. A video conferencing tool. A number cruncher. A dictionary. A graphic designer. A podcast producer. And that’s just a partial list. It’s the best way to inspire creative thinking and collaboration inside the classroom — and the best way to reach mobile, media-savvy students outside the classroom. Next Byte and Apple will demonstrate how it is possible to introduce this technology into the curriculum as well as your School's current technology infrastructure.
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| Hall |
Keynote presentation
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| Lab A |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** 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 soundscapes
This workshop will look at the use of music programs such as Garageband and Audacity to allow the students to create ‘ digital soundscapes’. Using visual stimuli such as poems, picture books, murals or paintings, students create digital compositions that reflect the feelings and emotion evoked by the piece. This concept can be integrated with work being covered within the classroom by using the students’ own work as the stimuli.
Audience: Primary music teachers
VELS: VELS levels 1-4
Software required:
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| Lab B |
Hands-on workshop 90 minutes - starting at 1.45pm
** Participants must bring their own laptop to this workshop and have checked or installed all relevent software required
Sandra Hall, Sacred Heart Primary School
Blogs for the Grade 1 classroom
The session would look at using a blog as part of a Grade 1 classroom, examine the blog that I created for my class and how it was incorporated into our daily program. The session would then allow participants to then setup a class blog that they could use with their own junior school class. We will examine the features of a blog, such as making a poll, inserting pictures, using TeacherTube, adding podcasts, to add interest to your class blog. Also examine how parents became involved in the class blog and how children accessed the blog from home.
Audience: Early years teachers
VELS: VELS levels 1-2
Technical requirements: Wireless enabled laptop
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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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