ICTEV2009 State Conference: ICT for Tomorrow's Learning

ICT in Education Victoria called its 30th annual state conference, ICT for Tomorrow's Learning. The conference focused on weaving ICT into every facet of education, connecting students and teachers in their learning through a broad range of resources and skills.

Information and communication technologies assist us all in our daily lives and specifically in our teaching and learning more today than ever before but what will they do for us in the future? This conference is designed to focus on ICT for tomorrow's learning for all. The teacher who is just beginning to integrate ICT into their classroom through to the teacher who is looking for future implementations of ICT in their own learning and the learning of their students. We are constantly learning and no matter how much we learn there is still more. ICT for Tomorrow's Learning is focused on the learning of your students now and into the future.

Conference Program

7.30am	Registration opens
8.45am	Keynote address - Bruce Dixon, Ideas Lab Emerging Trends that Redefine Education in the 21st Century As we head towards the end of the first decade of the new millennium, high expectations have been set for schools to meet the needs of the continually discussed 21st century Learner. To give some perspective on this, it is worthwhile to explore the trends that are emerging, that will leverage technology and have the “potential” to genuinely transform education in substantial, meaningful and sustainable ways. Bruce’s presentation will present a context and framework within which teachers and school leaders can re-imagine what technology might make possible for schools in the future.
10am	Morning tea
	Note: sessions with * are netbook friendly and are particularly relevant for teachers undertaking the 1:1 program or trial.
	Sessions starting at 10.30am
Rm 1	Information session for presenting at ACEC2010 Conference
Rm 2	Using nings, twitter and smartart to improve critical literacy and creativity in the classroom - Gail Casey NOTES 1 - NOTES 2
Rm 3	Bringing the globe into your backyard - Anne Mirtschin* NOTES
Rm 4	Kids teaching kids: student-created screencasts and Mathtrain.com - Tony Richards and Eric Marcos*
Rm 5	GoogleApps - Jenny Ashby
Rm 6	Through the looking glass, ICT adventures with poetry - Victoria Hall NOTES
Rm 7	How you can use digital audio to develop oral language and help students make sense of their learning - Lois Smethurst* NOTES 1 - NOTES 2
Rm 8	A dinosaur's reflection of 25 years of educational computing: past, present and future - Dr John Turner NOTES
Rm 9
Rm 10	Creating a website with Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks - Susan Bell NOTES 1 - NOTES 2 - NOTES 3 - NOTES 4 - NOTES 5 - NOTES 6 - NOTES 7 - NOTES 8 - NOTES 9 - NOTES 10 - NOTES 11 - NOTES 12
Rm 11	2Do It Yourself - Rachel Mustovic, 2Simple Software
Rm 12	Beginners guide to digital story telling with Adobe software - Adobe
Hall	Symposium - Classrom based research projects from the Ideas Lab - Dr Tony Jones
Lab A	Creating digital stories - Rachel Corben*
Lab B	Web based f2f and online learning P-6 - Colleen Calamante*
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	Sessions starting at 11.20am
Rm 1	Learner's conceptions of computing - Dr Paul Chandler NOTES
Rm 2	The potential of using mobile phones in the classroom - Jarrod Robinson NOTES
Rm 3	ICT Leadership - do you have what it takes? - Therese Keane NOTES
Rm 4	Podcasting with the Ed Tech Crew - our adventures in podcasting - Tony Richards and Darrel Branson*
Rm 5	Are you teaching students with literacy problems? Yvonne Lynch and Jo Evans NOTES
Rm 6	Quest Altantis: learning, playing and helping in a virtual world - Lucy Barrow NOTES
Rm 7	Digital Excellence Award Program - Christine Trimnell NOTES
Rm 8	Digital stories: more than flipping videos - John Pearce and Suzanne Brebner*
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	Sessions starting at 12.10pm
Rm 1	Trade Presentation - Discover Promethean new software, new possibilities, Lauren O'Grady, Edsoft
Rm 2	Trade Presentation - Write! Read! Publish! 3 Easy steps with NewsMaker, Lynda Rifai, Eye Power Games
Rm 3	Trade Presentation - Elluminate Live! Create your Classroom of Tomorrow Today!
Rm 4	Trade Presentation - Engaging the Video generation with Dartfish ... Emmy award winning software used on Channel 9, Glen Murdoch, Dartfish
Rm 5	Trade Presentation - eLearning - get into it now with Editure, Rene Hahn
Rm 6	Trade Presentation - ITeach Interactive - Creating and assessing interactive lessons using FuseCreator and Quizcom, Michael Puddy
Rm 7	Trade Presentation - Nextbyte and Apple - Digital Education Revolution - Forward Thinking 1:1 David Patrao, Guest presenter
Rm 8	Trade Presentation - "How we got our unreliable & problem-plagued IT system to work properly!" Neil Sproal, Principal
Rm 9	Trade Presentation - Preparing for the digital classroom, Tony De la Rosa and Peter Davison, Xirrus
Rm 10	Trade Presentation - Ziptales an Australian literacy site for primary students, Valerie McRoberts and Richard McRoberts, Ziptales
Rm 11	Trade Presentation - 2Simple Software's most popular programs, 2Simple Software
Rm 12	Trade Presentation - What is new in CS4 for the classroom, Adobe
Lab A	Trade Presentation - Espire: Virtual Desktops – Making 1:1 computing a reality in schools
Lab B	Trade Presentation - Espire: A case study of changing the server and network storage in a large Secondary College
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12.55pm	Lunch and Annual General Meeting
	Sessions starting at 1.45pm
Rm 1	Speed Sharing: Using ICT for student reflection across the curriculum - Victoria Hall Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle school years - Dr Paul Chandler A window into Web 2.0 curriculum possibilities - Dr John Turner - NOTES The Nessy Learning Program - Lyn Pedler
Rm 2	Value adding to the classroom program with online learning in a country setting - Maria Haggett NOTES
Rm 3	From tools of knowledge to tools of creativity - Dr Tim Kitchen NOTES
Rm 4	Rethinking metaphors for educational innovation and change - Alberto Rizzo NOTES
Rm 5	Making IT move! Using animation in the classroom - Debbie Martin and Sue Storr* NOTES 1 - NOTES 2 - NOTES 3
Rm 6	Blogging as a specific thinking apparatus and home / school relationship builder - Duncan Exton* NOTES
Rm 7	iPodTouch in the classroom - Triple i - Jenny Ashby
Rm 8	Unreal Footy = creativity in Maths (and it's free) - Phill Cristofaro NOTES 1 - NOTES 2
Rm 9	Starting from scratch - John Annable* NOTES
Rm 10	Ziptales an Australian literacy site for primary students - Valerie McRoberts and Richard McRoberts, Ziptales
Rm 11	Virtual learning communities - Adrian Camm NOTES
Rm 12	Apple and Nextbyte: Investment in our future, investment in our children
Hall	Keynote Presentation
Lab A	Creating digital soundscapes - Rachel Corben*
Lab B	Blogs for the Grade 1 classroom - Sandra Hall NOTES
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	Sessions starting at 2.35pm
Rm 1	Speed Sharing: Nings and things in clouds - John Pearce Evaluating, educating and supporting involvement of all teachers in curriculum use of digital technologies through a unifying process - Dr John Turner NOTES 1 - NOTES 2 - NOTES 3 - NOTES 4 Good primary mathematics software for curriculum learning is as necessary a tool as the right hardware to display and teach from - Mary Delahunty SuperClubs PLUS - Christine Trimnell NOTES
Rm 2	Students' evaluations of computer tools and language literacy development - Odette Radi NOTES
Rm 3	The latest trends in cybersafety - Greg Gebhart*
Rm 4	Making meaning - Paul Stewart and Jade Smith
Rm 5	Is identity misinterpreted? - Colleen Calamante
Rm 6	Media makers - Janet Gangell and Nick Booth
Rm 7	Wii Classroom: Nintendouses in education - Blake Curran
Rm 8	Do you have students who are struggling to read and write? - Jo Evans NOTES
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	Sessions starting at 3.50pm
Rm 1	A voyage of discovery - enterprise reflections on a school computer rebuild Roland Gesthuizen and Daniel Stefyn
Rm 2	Building learning relationships 24/7 - Shane Noonan, Jade Smith and Nives Tudorovic
Rm 3	Developing a 21st century classroom - Anne Mirtschin*
Rm 4	Learning difficulties and contemporary tools - Fran Dorgan and Russell Woodford NOTES
Rm 5	The tipping point - pandemics - Colleen Calamante
Rm 6	There's more to blogs than blogging (and more to wikis too) - John Pearce and Rick Kayler-Thomson*
Rm 7	One to One Netbooks - Anne Baird
Rm 8	The 1:1 journey so far - Narissa Leung*
Rm 9	Switching: without wires - Tony De La Rosa and James Shields, Xirrus
Rm 10	An introduction to using Flash for creative communications - Dr John Turner NOTES 1 - NOTES 2 - NOTES 3 - NOTES 4 - NOTES 5
Rm 11	Second Life in schools - Alberto Rizzo, Dale Linegar, Magdi Ghobrial with assistance of students from Melbourne Grammar School and Debney Park Secondary College
Rm 12	Flash tools for the classroom, Adobe
Hall	1 to 1 learning: Leading the way - Bruce Dixon Ideas Lab
Lab A	KidZanimation - Sallianne Griffith*
Lab B	IWBs, PCs ... finding free online resources to make the best use of them - Tania Hunt and Lesley Jackson NOTES
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	Sessions starting at 4.40pm
Rm 1	Engaging eLearning strategies: role plays, debates and more - Dr Michael Henderson
Rm 2	Laptops, iPhones and Netbooks: whole school elearning and mlearning - Neil Carmona-Vickery and Gary Bass
Rm 3	Blogging beyond the backyard - Anne Mirtschin* NOTES
Rm 4	Nintendo in the classroom - Jarrod Robinson
Rm 5	Go beyond iMovie - a basic introduction to the beauty of Final Cut - Dr Tim Kitchen NOTES 1 - NOTES 2 - NOTES 3 - NOTES 4 - NOTES 5 - NOTES 6 - NOTES 7 - NOTES 8
Rm 6	My classroom's changed! It's 1 to 1 ... - Simon Shaw* NOTES 1 - NOTES 2
Rm 7	Enriching reading comprehension with ICT - Brette Lockyer
Rm 8	Technology is worthless if users are denied access to it - Pat Minton and Mary Delahunty NOTES
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5.25pm	Cocktail party