About the Far North Queensland Chapter
About Us: Sparkey "under a palm tree" is the mascot of QSITE- Far North Queensland Chapter. Our membership covers a vast area of northern Queensland. Our Chapter strives to conduct a variety of technology workshops and information services to assist in promoting the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies in the classrooms. This Chapter hosts and sponsors events, develops resources and specially caters for teachers from Cairns, south towards our colleagues in the Townsville Chapter area and north to the Cape, Gulf and Torres Strait. We need to use the geography of cyberspace to reach the QSITE members and professionals in our area.
New Energy: The Far North Queensland Chapter continues to grow in membership and strives to raise the profile of QSITE in Far North Queensland schools, as well as taking a leadership role in celebrating the good pratcice of Far North Queensland teachers and their students.
Contact us and join in: We welcome contact from you. If you need some help, would like to host an event for your staff or neighbours or generally join in, contact Mark Holland mholl45@eq.edu.au or Kylie Jones kjone106@eq.edu.au.
Far North Queensland News
QSITE Conference 2010 - July 1st - 3rd - Mackay
Registration & Payment Online here
Would you like to make a presentation at this year's conference? - Please make your proposal here
Connect with other QSITErs online
You can connect with other QSITE members through these Web 2.0 sites:
QSITEr’s Ning http://qsiters.ning.com/ – for member social networking, sharing of practice, discussions etc. This will grow to replace the social networking that has been available through the QSITE website.
Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52638038917 – social networking and to promote your QSITE membership through your social
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=82530 – professional networking
diigo http://groups.diigo.com/groups/qsite_group – for sharing website and resources
Follow @qsite on twitter http://twitter.com/qsite – to stay up to date with QSITE activities, announcements and 140 character conversations
Why not make this an opportunity to learn about some Web 2.0 tools and to connect and share with your fellow QSITErs.
Share your ideas for QSITE PD in 2009
QSITE in 2009 will continue to facilitate Professional Development (PD) opportunities for its members as it has always done. As well as “face-to-face” PD sessions run in the various chapters, QSITE this year would like to attempt to “walk-the-walk” so to speak and experiment with some virtual delivery. We have some tools we would like to try.
To facilitate the program this year we would like to formally survey members. We would like to know what members want in terms of PD for themselves and their schools, but also what they personally might be prepared to offer back to members. I would ask chapter members who may have already indicated to their respective chapter PD coordinators their intention to offer sessions this year to duplicate this intention through the survey. The results will also inform us for the QSITE conference later in the year.
The only required fields are name, email & chapter. All other fields are optional.
Thanks to everyone for your assistance. A special thanks in advance goes out to those who intend to offer their experiences and/or their expertise back to the community.Thank you for helping QSITE to engage, connect, share & lead.
QSITE Leader of the Year wins ACCE Award
Congratulations to Monika Stinton who has just been announced as the joint winner of the ACCE Leader of the Year, along with Dr Paul Newhouse (ECAWA - WA).
Our Educator of the Year, Amanda Marrinan, narrowly missed out on receiving the ACCE Educator of the Year Award. Joint winners of this award were Sue Urban (CEGSA) and Roland Gesthuizen (ICTEV).2009 Web Challenge Announced
The Queensland Schools Web Challenge for 2009 is officially launched...
QSITE is once again hosting the Queensland Schools Web Challenge which is annual website competition for students.
The 2009 Queensland Schools Web Challenge is operating as a subsidiary of the ThinkQuest Australia Local Competition, which is being organised by the Australian Council for Computers in Education.The ThinkQuest Website Competition is an international website competition organised by the Oracle Education Foundation and funded by Oracle. This year, ACCE is hosting the inaugural ThinkQuest Local Competition in Australia. This competition will be officially launched on Monday 16th March 2009. The URL of the website will be sent to the QSITE mailing lists and added to the Web Challenge page once it has been completed.
Teams that compete in the Queensland Schools Web Challenge will automatically enter in the Australian ThinkQuest competition, so there are two opportunities to win prizes!
QSITE will continue to provide prizes for all members of teams who are Winners, Runners-up, or receive Judges or Encouragement Awards) from Queensland (who may also win prizes from the national competition) and all students will receive a Certification of Participation.
Students may also have the opportunity to submit their websites to the ThinkQuest International Competition.
Important Dates:
Launch of the ThinkQuest Australia Local Competition: 16th March 2009Entries Due: Friday 28th August 2009
For further information, see http://www.qsite.edu.au/webchallenge09, or contact Kym Coleman K.Coleman@iggs.qld.edu.au .
