Term 3, 2009 Issue
Welcome to another edition of Insite.
A very exciting time ahead with the QSITE Conference being held in a few weeks. The theme of the conference is "Beyond The Flashing Lights." The keynote speakers are Mark Pesce and Richard Eden. The workshops include a great variety of presentations on digital portfolios, game making and new initiatives for the classroom. It's not too late to register! See you at Churchie September 30 - October 2!
In this Issue:
- QSITE State Conference 2009
- QSITE Awards
- Conversations on the Back Channel
- What’s New in Open-Source
- ABC3 Promo Competition
Term 1, 2009 Issue
Welcome to Insite
In this Issue :
- QSITE State Conference
- QSITE Award Winners 2008
- QSITE Website Competition 2009 as a subsidiary of ThinkQuest 2009
- QSITE Social Networking For Members - Ning, Facebook, Twitter, Diigo and LinkedIn
- QSITE Professional Development Survey
- Upcoming Conferences - Apple ITSC Brisbane, MYSA Brisbane
QSITE State Conference 2009
Sept 30, Oct 1 and 2
QSITE State Conference 2009: "Beyond the Flashing Lights"
Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane - September 30 and October 1 and 2 2009
Plan now to be involved! Get these dates in your 2009 Planner. Call for papers and presentations now open! Further Information http://www.qsite.edu.au/conf2009
- Wednesday 30th September (pre-conference workshops)
- Thursday 1st October - Friday 2nd October 2009 (Conference)
QSITE 2008 Award Winners
Amanda Marrinan - Year 2 teacher at St John Vianney's School
Emerging Leader of the Year
Jesseca Oram - teacher at Aldridge State High School
QSITE Outstanding Leader of the Year and
ACCE Leader Of The Year
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).
Making IT Happen Awards
QSITE also honoured 2 of our dedicated executive members who have made such a difference to both QSITE and ICT education in Queensland.
John Oxley (outgoing QSITE President) and Lyn Allsop (QSITE Treasurer)
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.
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.
More information http://www.qsite.edu.au/webchallenge09
QSITE Ning, Facebook, Twitter, Diigo & LinkedIn
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.
QSITE Professional Development Survey
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. Chapter members who may have already indicated to their respective chapter PD coordinators their intention to offer sessions this year, are asked to duplicate this intention through the survey. The results will also inform us for the QSITE conference later in the year.
All members are invited to complete the following online survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=vZQAr8XzbGuNbX_2b46BNvYg_3d_3d
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.
Other Upcoming Conferences
Apple's Innovative Technology in Schools Conference
ITSC, is a unique professional development opportunity for educators from around Australia. As connected learning and teaching is the focus of educators world-wide, ITSC provides a forum to gain fresh ideas for the classroom and foster communities around the region.
23-24 May 2009 Brisbane, QLD Queensland Academy for Creative Industries Kelvin Grove
http://www.apple.com/au/education/itsc08/
MYSA conference
“Switch On! Jump In! Take Off!” on 21- 23 May at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre
The conference has an ICT focus with keynotes including Marco Torres (USA) and Mike Anderson (NZ)
More information is available at http://www.mysa.org.au/
August 2008 Issue
This edition of InSite includes some great ICT projects and competitions that encourage real, rich and relevant learning in our classrooms and details of upcoming conferences to inspire teachers.
April 2008 Issue
Welcome to our first INSITE edition for 2008. A chance to catch up on all the news from the QSITE ChapterNews, upcoming conferences and all the QSITE projects happening in Queensland.
