ICT in Education Victoria

Professional Teachers' Association

  • A vibrant, expert presence within the Victorian educational community
  • Promotion of information and communication technologies within all levels of education
  • Advocacy of the positive role information and communication technologies play in enhancing teaching and learning

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Games Based Vocabulary Learning - Monday August 5th

Games are just one way we learn, so why not use them to learn vocabulary. In this interactive workshop we will explore how games can be used to develop vocabulary in the classroom, as well as how to use games as part of your assessment processes. This workshop covers some of the basics for developing computer based games for vocabulary acquisition in the classroom, with a variety of tools being utilized.

Participants should be able to implement a number of ideas from this workshop almost immediately once they return to school.

The Changing Space of Learning: Connecting your class with the outside World - Monday June 17th

The innovative use of technology is changing learning spaces. Technology and associated online tools have the power to change the pedagogy of learning and classrooms as we know them. In this one day workshop, you will gain an insight into classrooms where learning is increasingly digital, virtual, global and 24/7.  Essential 21st century digital skills will be studied together with a range of free online digital tools (both synchronous and asynchronous).

iPad Workflow: Using apps to create not consume - Monday June 3

The iPad with its amazing amount of applications opens many new opportunities for learning. However the never ending search for the *best of breed* ipad education app can be tiresome and not educationally productive.

In this one day workshop Lauren Sayer, Head of Teaching and Learning at the Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute will  share how they have successfully declutterred their ipads from 450 to 100 apps across a K-12 area through the development of 'Learning Workflows' where work is created in one app, then built on in another App and so on.
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