QSITE State Conference 2011

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE     -     FULL PROGRAM

Venue Location

General Information for Accommodation, Dinner and travel.

28th September 2011 - Pre-Conference Workshops

29th - 30th September 2011 - Conference

Location: St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School -  11 Ruthven Street Corinda

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Keynote Speaker - Tom March - 29 September

"It's Broke. Let's Fix it" - inventing Next Era Education

We are entering an era when self-motivated students with personal devices and broadband access can learn more than they could in school. Although we have seen it coming, almost overnight society hsa changed around us, undermining cultures focused on standardised outcomes and the myth of uniform excellence. In other words, cultures like "school." the world surrounding schools has moved from a "one-size-fits-all" mentality to one where digital customisation enables a world "all-fit-to-one's-size". Given this new reality, four critical pieces will transform the 20th Century construct of schooling into the Next Era of Education that can focus on the joy of learning, individual excellence and significant achievement. Learn how you can get students and staff started today.

Tom March Bio:

Tom March began his career in education as a high school English teacher who loved using technology to engage students in authentic learning activities. This, plus a willingness to take risks and to work hard, saw him recognised as a Teacher of the Year finalist for San Diego County after just five years in the classroom. Graduate school and University lecturing led Tom into a Fellowship where he worked with Professor Bernie Dodge to develop the WebQuest. Since those early days, Tom has been "working the Wed" and contributing "Bright Ideas for education" by designing online curriculum, developing tools like Filamentality and Web-and-Flow, as well as fresh conceptual frameworks like ClassPortals and CEQ•ALL ("Seek All"). These days, Tom focuses on supporting systemic change toward the Next Era of Digital Education - "NextEraEd" - where 1:1 digital access can shift us from Assembly line schools to places where the joy of learning thrives. Tom March frequently keynotes, writes, and facilitates workshops focused on making learning more Real, Rich and Relevant through research-based pedagogies interpreted for actual classrooms.

 Keynote Speaker - Paul Holland - 30 September

 “Collaborative Creativity – using technologies to be very human.”

Creativity flourishes in the very young. Actually creativity flourishes in all of us if given a chance, but in the very young it is exceptionally visible. School has not yet shaped them into logical creatures who constantly battle against ‘being wrong’. The institutionalisation of ‘avoiding being wrong’, if not started in the school, is reinforced by it. This is poison to creativity, which sings the song of risk and reward. It is the song all creatives hear and are captivated by. It song we are born to hear.

This presentation references the work of world figures in the field of creativity including Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and Sir Ken Robinson, who identify the key aspects of creativity and how to maximise their impact in all our lives.

As a professional body there are two great challenges in the school that call to us to take up arms in the cause of creativity. One, we are well equipped to engage. It was why QSITE was created. The other is one where all educators, no matter what their position on the uses of emerging technologies, must take a stand.

Creativity is a very human state of being that craves the freedom to take risks and the opportunity to collaborate. We sense that the emerging wave of social technologies can provide platforms for this kind of interaction.  However, as in the world of business, which desperately seeks innovation as a means of staying competitive, an organisational culture that allows the risk takers and the dreamers to flourish is essential to allow ideas to flow.

So it is a double challenge. For we specialists it is to craft opportunities and shape the use of social technologies enabling connectivity, cooperation and collaboration to amplify creativity in compulsory education. For all educators it is to ensure that a generous culture of curiosity and questing without the stigma and fear of failure underpins all we do at school, and that young creative minds are allowed to pursue their paths of enquiry and dreams.

Paul Holland Bio:

Paul began teaching in the 1970’s and was fortunate to be in that first wave of teachers who introduced microcomputers into schools. In the mid-eighties he was selected to manage a group of educators designing software and courseware for primary and secondary schools. During this time Paul joined CEGQ as an individual member and soon became active in all aspects of the professional body. In his departmental role Paul designed and produced Pieces of Eight, one of Australia’s most successful educational software packages for schools.

Paul served as President of CEGQ and was in that role when the organisation became QSITE. He was also President of ACCE. In the nineties he joined the private sector and has had a successful career in management and technology as a General Manager, CEO and Managing Director.

 Workshop link - Sarah Prestridge

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 Keynote Speaker- Travis Smith

The Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education invites you to the annual conference for 2010.The conference will be of interest to Primary and Secondary Teachers, Administrators, ICT Coordinators, Network Managers, Teacher-Librarians, and teacher support personnel.The scheduled sessions of the conference will range from lecture style presentations and demonstrations to hands-on workshops.

Download a copy of our brochure.  DRAFT PROGRAM here and Pre-Conference Workshops here.

Some conference Session information available here.

Conference Dinner - AZURE Restaurant and Function Centre Harbour Beach, Mackay

See you there in July!

Accomodation Options - See below

Please contact Veronica Malagueno for any accomodation enquiries or bookings:

Veronica Malagueno | Business Events Executive
Mackay Tourism and Mackay Convention Bureau
Ph: 07 4944 5855 |  Fax: 07 4952 2034
businessevents@mackayregion.com | www.mackayregion.com
PO Box 5754, MMC Mackay QLD 4741

What is the WCC2010

• 21st World Computer Congress
• 1,000-3,000+ delegates
• Delegates from 66+ Countries
• 100s of exhibitors
• 50+ IT journalists
• 20+ sub-conferences
• 16 parallel sessions
• 8 streams of content

The World Computer Congress is the International Federation for
Information Processing's main global event. The Congress is held every
2 years by a host nation.

The congress combines content from commercial, industry, association
and research sectors offering an opportunity to showcase and discover
innovative ideas. The content will range from the latest international
research, to leading commercial and industry-focused insights and
thought pieces, of interest to a wide audience.

The congress attracts expert presenters and thousands of delegates from around the globe.

QSITE and VITTA will have sub-conferences available specifically for teachers and educators.

http://www.wcc2010.com

ACEC2010: Digital Diversity Conference

The Australian Computers in Education Conference 2010 (ACEC2010) is the biennial
conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). In 2010 the ACEC conference will be hosted by ICT in Education Victoria (ICTEV).

http://acec2010.info

If you’ve been to a conference recently you may have noticed
attendees typing away furiously on their laptops or using their mobiles
during the sessions. Chances are that they were not actually off task
but participating in rich conversation online relating to the
conference sessions they were in. Often known as the ‘back channel’
participants use web 2.0 tools like twitter  or coveritlive 
to connect and share their thoughts and reflections in real time –
often with people from around the world who are not actually at the
event as well as those in the same room.

This year’s QSITE conference will be no exception. As well as having an ‘unconference’ strand participants will be invited to share their thoughts and reflections
online through out the event using many different devices. In this
issue of Insite we outline the tools of twitter and CoverItLive.

Twitter is a popular microblogging service where using update their
status or share a thought or question through a ‘tweet’ which is a
message that is limited to 140 Characters. Users choose who they
‘follow’ to receive tweets from these users and can reply to the tweets
from others by adding an ‘@’ before their username. Tweets relating to
a particular topic or event can use a hashtag by adding a ‘#’ before a
word. When a user searches for this take or clicks on it in a tweet,
all of the tweets with that tag will be displayed. For the QSITE 2009
conference we will be using the hashtag #qsite09 
Twitter in Plain English
Follow @qsite on twitter

CoverItLive is a live blogging tool where notes
from bloggers and other participants are shown in real time and
automatically updated. It is often used at conferences and to cover,
discuss and comment on live events such as sporting events or TV
broadcasts like EuroVision. You can embed a live blog in another
webpage such as a blog or conference website as well as using the
coveritlive site directly. At the end of an event, a coveritlive
session can be played back in real time so that you can catch up on the
parts that you missed, reflect on the event or visit the links that
were shared in the session.
CoverItLive Demos

Check out how it was used at the recent JPC conference 

Quick links:

• Go to the Conference website
• See the Program

QSITE State Conference 2008:

"Bridging the Great Divide"

Fairholme College, TOOWOOMBA

3rd, 4th and 5th July 2008

Look at the responses to our survey, download the powerpoint file at the bottom of this page.

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Michelle Selinger Keynote Abstract

Divided by technology

The digital divide can be viewed through many lenses: the divide between the tools used in formal and informal learning, the divide that exists in skills between teachers and learners and the divide between the uses of fixed and mobile technologies in addition to the traditional notion of the divide between those that have access to technology and those that don't.

Each if these will be considered in turn drawing on experience from around the world and a number of challenges will be set for industry, educators and policy makers

Bio

Dr Michelle Selinger spent many years as a classroom teacher, then the same number in higher education as a teacher educator and latterly directing a research centre for new technology in education at the University of Warwick.

She moved to Cisco in 2001 where she now works as the director for education in Cisco’s consultancy group across the Asia Pacific region providing thought leadership around innovation in ICT and education. Prior to that, she was the education strategist for Corporate Citizenship as well as advising on technology in education across the world with a strong focus on emerging and developing countries..

She has worked on a number of European Union initiatives and research projects and is a key member of the working group who developed the recently launched UNESCO ICT Competency Standards for Teachers

Michael Ryan Keynote Abstract

Crossing Over: Using Metaphors to Rethink Teaching-with-Technology

The purpose of this keynote is to "cross the divide" and explore some alternative metaphors for teaching-with-technology. With some notable exceptions, many of us have been trapped into thinking of teaching as "information delivery" and that ICT merely offers better delivery tools.

In this interactive presentation Michael will investigate some productive ways of thinking that counter this unfortunate, but predominant metaphor. These include teaching as "conversation", "communities of practice" and "excursions into professional discourses".

Michael will provide some practical examples from his own university teaching and administration. The liberating influence of these productive metaphors extends beyond teaching to influence the learning by our students and the designs of our policy-makers.

Bio

Michael Ryan is an academic at QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus. He has previously taught mathematics, science and technology studies in state and private schools in Queensland. In different roles, he has served QUICK, CEGQ and QSITE for over twenty years and is a current board member. His professional interests cluster around technology and its relationship to political, professional and social practices. In his teaching he likes to re-purpose technologies in order to design discursive learning environments. His research interests lie with investigating how extended learning networks can be designed and nurtured by promoting trust between collaborating learners who orchestrate their activities over different communication channels.

QSITE State Conference 2008:

"Bridging the Great Divide"

Fairholme College, TOOWOOMBA

3rd, 4th and 5th July 2008