Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 12.10pm

Trade Presentation - Elluminate Live: Create your Classroom of Tomorrow Today!
Presenter: Allison Kirby Client Support
Come and experience live collaboration/interaction which will allow you to further engage your students and staff, invite guest presenters to your classroom from anywhere in the world, enhance the teaching & learning experience, meet with anyone with all the desired functionality/features be it remotely, with in the classroom, on & between active boards, with the ability to capture the interaction for review, playback (create podcasts and more) and archiving; this is the session to see how, Now!

e-Learning – get into it now with Editure!
Rene Hahn - Editure
A call to all educators – do you want to enhance your knowledge and skills with a fresh and inspiring approach to teaching and learning? Get your school into e-Learning now with Editure’s Mysuite Virtual Learning Environment. Editure (formerly known as myinternet) has had many exciting updates and improvements to functionality. Just for a taste...
Deliver TLF (The Le@rning Federation) Learning Objects and Digital Resources to students online through myclasses.
See the new cost control tools available in SINA.
Find out about myblog and mywiki, the latest additions to Mysuite.
Learn how to use the new My Calendars tool.

Creating and assessing interactive lessons using Fuse Creator and Qwizdom.
Presenter: Michael Puddy ITeach Interactive
Co presenters: Andy Penman, Damien Meunier
So you want to deliver an engaging flash based lesson using your interactive whiteboard and then want your students to continue with that lesson at their laptops or personal computers? You'd like software that tracks the students? responses and prepares reports detailing your students? progress? And you'd like software that sends your students on differing difficulty pathways depending on their aptitude with the set tasks? RM?s Fuse Creator creates high-quality, interactive activities for your students using a simple platform, which you can use over and over on your interactive whiteboard, school or personal computers, websites and VLEs. Fuse Creator is made by the same company that created Easiteach.Qwizdom is the leading student response system within Victorian schools
Qwizdom can be used in a variety of ways within your classroom to engage, entertain but most importantly assess your students. In this session we are going to show the enormous benefits of using the Qwizdom student response system when revising for NAPLAN. Qwizdom allows your students to work through revision questions at their own pace. The beauty of the program is that all data being inputted is being saved and can be accessed instantly throughout the session or at the conclusion of the session in either spreadsheet or graph formats- saving teachers hours in marking time.

Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 12.10pm
Nextbyte and Apple: Digital Education Revolution: Forward Thinking 1:1
David Patrao, Guest presenter
Please join Nextbyte and Apple for this must hear/see/feel session - it'll be the talk of the conference!
Schools across Australia are rapidly embracing technology as the most important teaching tool on campus. The direction for technology in many schools over the next few years is the 1:1 notebook program (that is one student to one computer) The implications of implementing a 1:1 notebook program are numerous. During this session, we will present a variety of case studies that highlight implementation methodology, curriculum development and IT considerations. You will hear commentary from staff, students, parents and principals on the success their schools have enjoyed utilising the Apple hardware and software platform and the results that follow.
There will be an opportunity to pose questions to our panel of 1:1 notebook programme experts. This session will assist in answering questions regarding the implementation of the 1:1 vision and adapting it to specific curriculum, schools and communities. This is indeed an opportunity to sort the current facts from many of the myths that exist surrounding this powerful learning innovation and the way it will change and enhance the relationships between the school, students, parents and the wider community.

Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 12.10pm
Neil Sproal, Principal, Williamstown North Primary School & Tim Stolk, Technical Director, Studytech

"How we got our unreliable & problem-plagued IT system to work properly!"
The lack of reliability and poor performance of the school IT infrastructure and environment is often a major barrier for schools committed to using technology to improve educational outcomes - and a source of great frustration for ICT Co-ordinators, teachers and staff. In this presentation, Williamstown North Primary School Principal, Neil Sproal, explains how they took a strategic approach to resolving this problem, quickly and cost-effectively, and the subsequent benefits the school has gained from implementing Studytech's managed operating environment solution. Tim Stolk, Technical Director at Studytech provides an easy- to-understand explanation of what a managed operating environment is and how it works.

Presentation 45 minutes - starting at 12.10pm

Trade Presentation: Espire: Virtual Desktops – Making 1:1 computing a reality in schools
Presenter: John Robinson, Country Manager
Schools have tight budgets yet they need to provide more computer access on campus to prepare students for the digital age. Increasingly, educators are turning to NComputing as a solution. The NComputing solution is based on a simple fact:- Today’s computers are so powerful that most applications use only a fraction of the computer’s capacity. Virtual desktops tap the unused capacity in a standard PC so that it can be simultaneously shared. Instead of buying a computer for every student, you connect each student’s monitor, keyboard and mouse to a small, durable and inexpensive access device. The access device connects to the shared PC. John Robinson shares how this has helped schools all over the world change the way they teach.