QSITE Conference 2018 Day 2 Program
QSITE connects and supports educators, institutions and their stakeholders so they may fully explore the opportunities Information Communication Technologies bring to Queensland education and its classrooms every day.
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QSITE Annual Conference 2018
Program: Day 2
A more detailed PDF copy of the two-day creativITy ’18 Conference Program is available via PDF. It contains biographies and a brief summary of all the presentations and workshops.
Program – Friday, 6 July
8:30 – 8:45
Level 2 – BR219
Welcome
8:45 – 9:15
Level 2 – BR219
KEYNOTE: Creating preferred futures through the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies
Both nationally and internationally there is a focus on the importance of developing students’ skills in problem-solving, collaboration, creativity and innovation. In the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, the key ideas, the key concepts and the links to the general capabilities provide opportunities for teachers to enhance students’ knowledge, understanding and skills through thoughtful teaching, learning and assessment plans. Julie will explore the current educational landscape and how best to use the Australian Curriculum and related resources to create a preferred future for students’ education in Digital Technologies.
Julie King
Curriculum Specialist, Technologies
Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority
(ACARA)
Julie oversees the development and writing of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies F-10. She has worked as a teacher, distance education writer, curriculum advisor and curriculum developer. Julie has developed and presented a range of professional learning workshops and presentations for technologies educators and professional teachers associations, most recently on the Australian Curriculum: Technologies. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is an independent statutory authority responsible for developing and implementing a national Australian curriculum, the national assessment program and reporting on school performance via MySchool.
9:20 – 10:10
Level 1 – BR110
Keynote Chat: Chat with Julie
Julie King
Level 1 – BR111 – All year levels
Basic video production with Adobe Premiere Pro
To make the most of this session, make sure you have a laptop with Adobe Premiere Pro CC installed.
Tim Kitchen
Level 1 – BR113 – Year 11 and 12
Digital Solutions for QCE
Kylie Docherty
Level 3 – BR328
Mountain Creek SHS: 2013 – now
Graeme Breen
Level 3 – BR327 – All year levels
Game On! The Use of Gamification in the Classroom
Julie-Anne Angell
10:15 – 10:45
Ground Floor
Morning Tea
10:45 – 12:40
Level 1 – BR110 – Years 5 – 6, 7 – 10
Microbits
Attendees need Computers please, not iPads – devices with a mouse pointer and a USB device is required to use the software we will use here.
Peter Whitehouse
Level 1 – BR111 – Years 7 – 8
Learning to Code with Codesters.com
Hands on coding workshop for Year 7-8 Digital Technologies Participants please bring a laptop or iPad to participate in online activities.
Kylie Docherty
10:45 – 11:35
Level 1 – BR113 – Years Prep – Yr 4; Yrs 5-6
Using ICTs for increasing student engagement
Attendees are welcome to bring along a device (with access to the Internet) to view and access the ICT tools during the presentation.
Belinda Couper
11:45 – 12:40
Level 1 – BR113 – Years 11 – 12
Corona – More Than Just A Beer: A Potential Approach to the Digital Solutions Unit 3 Project
Paul Herring
Level 3 – BR328 – All year levels
Getting creative with Assessment in Digital Technologies
Bring your current assessment instruments, bring your ideas and together we will unpack the achievement standard, identify the types of evidence you should collect while getting creative with engaging assessment tasks for your students.
Ben Paparoulas
10:45 – 11:35
Level 1 – BR327 – Years 7 – 8
Getting Creative with the Digital Technologies Curriculum: Game and Controller Design
Leanne Nott and Marie Moo
11:45 – 12:40
Level 1 – BR327 – All year levels
Photoshop Tips & Tricks for Teachers
To make the most of this session, make sure you have a laptop with Photoshop CC installed.
Tim Kitchen
12:40 – 1:30
Ground Floor
Lunch
1:30 – 2:20
Level 1- BR110 – All year levels
Digital Systems Hands-on Inside a Computer’s Brain
A/Prof. Karsten Schulz (PhD)
Level 1 – BR111 – All year levels
Pythonator – Making Python Coders out of Gamers
Attendees to this workshop should bring a Mac, Windows or Linux laptop to try these exercises. Android tablets and iPads are not suitable. They should download and install ython 3, PyCharm Edu 2018.1.2 and Minetest 0.4.17.1 prior to attending. Additional instructions on website https://www.triptera.com.au/wordpress/2018/06/17/pythonator-at-qsite
Tim Cummings BE(Hons) BSc. and Caroline Rasmussen
Level 1 – BR113 – Years 11 – 12
In loving memory of Information Processing and Technology
Jason Zagami
Level 3 – BR328 – All year levels
1 Image = 1000 Thoughts
Julie-Anne Angell
Level 1 – BR327 – All year levels
Make Photoshop Puppets come Alive with Adobe Character Animator
To make the most of this session, make sure you have a laptop with Adobe Character Animator, Photoshop CC, Premiere Pro CC and Media Encoder installed.
Tim Kitchen
2:30 – 3:00
Level 2 – BR219
KEYNOTE
James Curran
Academic Director of the Australian Computing Academy
Associate Professor, School of IT, University of Sydney
Director, National Computer Science School
James Curran is the Academic Director of the Australian Computing Academy and an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney. He is Director of the National Computer Science School, the largest computer science school outreach program in Australia. Last year, over 10,000 students and teachers participated in the 5-week NCSS Challenge. James is a co-founder of Grok Learning, an Edtech startup that aims to teach children everywhere to learn to code. He was a writer on the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, the new national computing curriculum. In 2014, James was named ICT Leader of the Year by the ICT Educators of NSW and the Australian Council for Computers in Education.
3:00 –
Level 2 – BR219
Lucky Draw for Prizes and Close
must be present to be eligible for prizes
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