Pre-conference bios
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Mark Treadwell
Mark is a Director of Dataview, a high-tech company which focuses on developing technology solutions for companies as well as for education authorities and schools. Dataview is involved in several MOE projects which centre on the interoperability of Student Management Systems (SMSs) and Online Learning Environments (OLEs). |
Mark Treadwell has been lecturing, providing teacher seminars, and speaking at national and international conferences for over 15 years. Mark speaks
on a wide range of topics including curriculum information and communications technology, thinking, teaching pedagogy for the 21st century, authentic assessment, competencies, wisdom and values.
Westley Field is the Director of the
‘Skoolaborate’ Initiative. He is also Director of Online Learning and Manager of IT at MLC School in Sydney.
Innes Kennard Innes Kennard is currently a schools’ adviser in rural Wairarapa, part of the VUW College of Education team. Most of his teaching has been in rural areas, places as diverse as Eketahuna and Dunsandel. He enjoys getting into the classroom on a regular basis. He has had extensive involvement in the use of technologies in and around the classroom over many years and am constantly intrigued by the relationship between learning, thinking and ICTs.Innes enjoys poetry and mathematics and is especially fond of Jill and their two ‘digital native’ children, and rather fond of cats, chardonnay and crayfish. |
Mel Stopford Mel Stopford was one of the first eFellows – teachers who were selected to be part of the eFellowship programme, co-managed by CORE and the Ministry of Education. At the beginning of 2005 Mel took on a research role at CORE Education and in this she was able to continue in her field of interest, sustainability in teacher professional learning. Over ten months she completed her “labour of love”, a pilot project exploring the usability of the PLOT (Professional Learning Online Tool) programme in New Zealand.Mel offers schools a quality programme for professional learning encompassing the PLOT website and face-to-face workshops with PLOT authors, Joan Dalton and David Anderson. She is a passionate advocate for quality professional learning and has considerable experience working with both ICT PD and EHSAS clusters across New Zealand.  Jane Nicholls works for CORE Education as online editor with the New Zealand Curriculum online project. She is also an ICT facilitator for the Otepoti cluster of schools in Dunedin. Jane has spent over 15 years as an educator in both Australia and New Zealand. During 2006 Jane completed a Post Graduate Diploma in ICT in education, and in 2007 was awarded an eFellowship. Jane continues her study at a doctoral level and enjoys working with teachers and schools in the areas of effective pedagogy and ICT. |
Suzie Vesper Suzie Vesper was a facilitator for nine primary schools in the Lower Hutt area from 2006-2008. She is now a national facilitator and technical help and support person for CORE Education. Suzie maintains both a curriculum links website and a wiki on software and web 2.0 technology. She is also a regular blogger. |
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Julia Atkin, Christina Ward and Mary Anne Mills
 Christina Ward’s expertise with online forums or 'communities of practice' is being utilised to the full in her current role co-ordinating the Ministry of Education's New Zealand Curriculum Online. During the early phases of the curriculum project her role was to encourage participation in discussions about the redevelopment and to improve access to the information emerging from the curriculum project. In the lead up to the launch of the New Zealand Curriculum last November, Christina reconceptualised and managed the redesign of the New Zealand Curriculum website on TKI. In keeping with the move to broaden access to emerging information, and to support schools as they implement the NZC, Christina's focus is to develop this online environment and ensure the education sector can keep in touch with curriculum related information and to share their experiences with others. Christina has been involved in a number of Ministry of Education projects, working on the exemplar project and Social Studies Online before her contract with CORE began at the beginning of 2004.
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Julia Atkin is an independent education and learning consultant who works across education settings in Australia and internationally. Her work with educators over the past twenty years has focused their reflection and dialogue around two key questions: What is powerful learning? and What is it powerful to learn? Julia is passionate about developing educational services that:
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Faye Chilvers Faye Chilvers has held the position of Director of Information and Communications Technology at Bucklands Beach Primary for the last 10 years. She has a passion of teaching with ICT using a range of multimedia and communication equipment in her classroom. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Education Technology (Unitec) and is finishing a PGradDip in ICT from Otago University. She has presented at Unitec conferences and Apple Education conferences. |
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Pam Hook and Julie Mills Pam Hook and Julie Mills are partners in the educational consultancy Hooked-on–Thinking. They provide professional learning in areas of curriculum modification and design for primary, intermediate and secondary schools across New Zealand, and also direct and facilitate professional learning for two ICTPD clusters and two EHSAS clusters. They have extensive teaching experience covering primary through to tertiary sectors and have both held management positions. Pam and Julie regularly present at national and international educational conferences. |
Jill Hammonds Jill Hammonds is an ICT PD national facilitator working for Core Education. While much of her work relates to the cluster programme operating throughout the country, her real passion is to get with a group of teachers and share her love of learning in the 21st century. She has taught New Entrant to Year 8 classes and has lots of practical ideas and solutions to the barriers facing many junior class teachers, and will inspire and support those who are yet to believe that ICTs have an important role to play in the junior classroom. |
Marg McLeod and Derek Wenmoth Marg McLeod is the project director of the national support services team for CORE’s contract for the New Zealand Ministry of Education's ICT Professional Development Clusters programme (ICT PD). With experience in successful school leadership and a variety of ICT initiatives Marg brings a wealth of expertise to the ICT PD clusters.Marg has been interested in ICT and how it impacts on student learning for many years. As an English teacher in the 1980’s she researched the effects of word processing on student writing. In 1991 she helped deliver the first Ministry of Education contract in ICT professional development, moving computers across the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools in Nelson and Marlborough. In her most recent role as Principal of Wellington Girls College, Marg has implemented change management for 21st century learning, emanating from the development of media rich environments and the examination of the impact they make. This experience has further reinforced her belief in the important role of senior managerial leadership in embedding changes in teacher practice. She is also keen to see school leaders move the education paradigm to a much more personalised approach.  Derek Wenmoth is currently director of eLearning at CORE Education, and is involved with a wide range of e-learning activities from exploring the innovative use of the latest technologies and researching e-learning practices, to helping establish policy and strategies to enable the implementation of e-learning.
With a background as a teacher, principal, teacher educator and education policy advisor, Derek’s role at CORE perfectly combines his passion for teaching and learning together with his long held fascination with the use of technologies in education. Derek is a regular speaker at conferences both nationally and internationally, and maintains a blog on matters relating to e-learning and other aspects of interest to educators; http://blog.core-ed.net/derek In recognition of his work in this area, Derek has recently been designated one of 2008’s “Global Six” by the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Edutopia which recognises individuals making a difference in education. |
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Stuart Hale Stuart Hale is a primary-trained teacher. He has specialised in ICT for the last 20 years and has brought that specialisation to:
In 2005, Stuart worked with over 500 teachers in hands-on workshops that explored the creative application of today's computers. |
Dave Ballard Dave Ballard has been a secondary school science and chemistry teacher for 19 years. He was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology in Education in 2001 and has since gained a Master in Science (Science Education). In 2005 he established a Digital Learning (Laptop) programme at Tauranga Boys’ College and this year introduced a Year 9 cross-curricular inquiry learning class.Dave has taught in the UK, Canada and New Zealand high schools and in 2006 was awarded a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Scholarship (MInTS), where he worked at the Port of Tauranga, providing IT support in the Commercial Division of the Port. |
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Chris Allott-McPhee (CAM) Chris Allott-McPhee (CAM) works as a senior advisor for the Ministry of Education's eLearning Team. Quality education and experiences for students and teachers, particularly in rural settings, gets her out of bed in the mornings! It has also given her some exciting and interesting experiences of her own to share. |