QSITE presents…a FREE FOR MEMBERS full-day seminar:

Get ready for the Revolution …there’s more to IT

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Session details

Keynote speakers:

1. Stephen Atherton, Apple Australia
Stephen Atherton is the National Development Executive (Higher Education) for Apple Australia. In this role he engages with the tertiary sector in collaborative research and teaching projects, consulting, and is involved in professional development of tertiary education staff. He taught at a number of schools in Australia where he developed a continuing interest in computers in education. Stephen spent a number of years at the University of Queensland where he managed a wide range of activities associated with the provision of I.T. solutions in teaching and research. He has been an external consultant with Apple Computer Europe and UK and managed the education division of the UK Macintosh User Association based in Oxford. He is a member of a number of computing and education associations in the UK and Australia.

Stephen Atherton’s presentation “Where is IT all heading?” offers a unique view into educational IT’s future.

2. Pat Wagner
Pat Wagner is a former high school English, mathematics and media teacher, school administrator, and author and co-author of eight teacher reference texts. After two years working as an educational consultant in New York, he took on the breakthrough role of online consultancy - mentoring New York school administrators and teachers from his home office in Queensland. He now specialises in and is an advocate for the transformative effect of technology, particularly in relation to the organisational and motivational culture of schools and businesses. He has most recently presented in Philadelphia, Hollywood, New York, Singapore and Canberra.

Pat Wagner’s presentation “Open Source, Open Doors, Open Minds” discusses the dramatic transformation of a Bronx school in which doors and minds have been opened to a global learning space.

ICT Management stream presentations include:

• Blade Technology – Vince Bjegu Hewlett Parkard
• ”Not ITIL, but FITS” – Derek Bartels, Lutheran Education Queensland
• ”Vitualising the desktop and/or servers” – Tim Diamont VMWare

ICT Curriculum stream presentations include:

• ”The Queensland Schools Web Challenge as a focus for teaching and integrating ICTs in Years 4 to 12” – Kym Coleman, QSITE board member, Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School.
• ”What teaching & learning tools do you have in your backpack?” – Gayleen Jackson, QSITE Sun Coast Chair, Education Queensland.
• ”Global Connections - tapping into a world of learning” - Amanda Marrinan, St John Vianney's Primary School.
• ”Web 2.0 is connecting learners” – Amanda Rablin, QSITE Secretary, Brisbane Catholic Education

ICT Leadership stream presentations:

• “Boon or Bane -The Digital Education Revolution”: John Oxley, QSITE President, Moreton Bay College
• “Three Schools and three laptop programs – What’s the difference?” Mona Taimana, Somerville House; Ian Ferguson, Victoria Point State High School; John Pembroke, All Hallows School.
• “Strategic planning for success”: Chris Eske, QSITE Vice President, Anglican Church Grammar School:
• “Systemic Responses to the Digital Revolution”: Lutheran Education Queensland; Queensland Catholic Education Commission; Education Queensland.