Pre-conference workshops

Date	2 October 2007
Time	10am to 4.30pm
Venues	See below
Cost	$150 GST

If you would like to attend a pre-conference workshop only, please write to gdavis@paradise.net.nz with your preferred option and your school and billing address.
If you have registered online already for a preconference workshop and wish to change it now, you will need to contact gdavis@paradise.net.nz to make a change.

Venues: These are shown below for each session under the name of the presenter.
See Map of Senior College or map of Auckland Grammar (Enter Gate 4, ample parking)

Details of your room will be emailed to you. If you have not heard please contact gwenny.davis@core-ed.net

The 9 workshops and their presenters are:

	Presenter	Abstract
1	Ewan McIntosh (Scotland) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	The social web and the social classroom From the most basic knowledge of the web, Ewan will take you through the main ‘Web 2.0’, or social media, tools that have had an impact on teaching and learning in his classrooms, and classrooms around the world. We will start by taking a look at some collaborative learning students and teachers have done with the various technologies that could not have been done without them, and spend some time ‘reverse engineering’ them to see how it was done. There will be an opportunity throughout to play with mobile phones, podcasting, creating simple project-based websites that update themselves, learning blogs, games and gaming consoles. Please bring along any gadgets, phones, cameras or consoles you (or your kids) might have from home. Suitable for Primary and Secondary educators.
2	Jane Nicholls (CORE Education) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	Adventures in Podcasting Oral Language is the basis for all learning and is a powerful tool in itself. Podcasting is a way to harness the power of audio for authenticity - of purpose, audience and context. In this full day workshop you will be introduced to the technology behind podcasting, review some class and professional development podcasts, create your own podcast and design your podcast page.
3	Innes Kennard (Victoria University of Wellington) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	KidPix to the Max This workshop takes a deceptively simple application and turns it into a multimedia production tool. The workshop will bring together digital stories, images, animation and personalised processes while exploring a range of ways of using Kidpix across the curriculum and will then thread these examples into a multimedia extravaganza culminating int he development of a video podcast. Participants will receive extensive notes to support these approaches back in their classrooms.
4	Nathan Kerr and Robert Douglas (Onehunga High School) bio details Venue: Auckland Grammar Technology Computer Suite, Gate 4 Mountain Road Epsom Auckland	Making Movies in Senior Secondary Classes Attendees will explore how tools such as Movie Maker 2 can be used to extend the way students learn and record materials. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own resources and records of learning to inspire them to try this with their own classes. (Bring your TELA Laptop) Level is beginners to advanced.
5	Sharon Friesen (Galileo Project Canada) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	Hard Fun: Fostering An Inquiring Mind Inquiry is an investigation undertaken when a worthy question, issue or problem is posed. Inquiry builds deep understanding and competencies required for life long learning. For teachers, learning how to create classrooms in which inquiry lives and flourishes requires careful planning and preparation followed by pedagogies that lead the students to deep understanding. In this workshop, participants will work through an inquiry-based design process including choosing the topic, selecting resources, determining the most effective use of technology, designing tasks and activities, and designing effective student assessment feedback. Participants will also examine the types of pedagogies required to nurture and sustain the inquiry in the classroom.
6	Julia Atkin (Learning by Design, NSW) and Christina Ward (Facilitator Curriculum Marautanga Project); Rosemary Hipkins (NZCER) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	Curriculum 'Bungy' The spirit of the New Zealand Curriculum, to be released later this year, gives flexibility and freedom to respond to local needs within a global framework. With this increased freedom comes increased responsibility. This workshop is designed to explore the nature of a responsible approach to local curriculum design and to ensure that you have developed processes and tools that equip you to be ‘response-able’. Prior to the workshop we will be contacting you to determine your specific needs and the workshop will be designed to meet these. The closing date for entry to this workshop is September 7th to allow pre-workshop interaction. The target audience for this workshop is school leaders and school curriculum leaders and those who are involved in professional development, pre-service teaching and facilitating school curriculum change.
7	Cheryl Doig (Thinkbeyond) and Rob Clarke (Fendalton School) bio details Venue: Auckland Senior College 66 Lorne St, Auckland	The days of the Lone Ranger are over This workshop will focus on the development and implementation of Powerful Professional Learning Communities. It will provide the theory behind PLCs and practical examples of PLCs in action, especially as they relate to the new curriculum. Course content includes: what is a professional learning community? how do we develop powerful PLCs? aligning PLCs with your core values and beliefs focusing on what counts. using PLCs to develop your own school curriculum (based on the key competencies) assessing for those competencies next steps in collaboration – beyond your own school. At the end of the day participants will leave with a clearer understanding of professional learning communities and some practical strategies for developing them in their on context.
8	Jill Hammonds (CORE Education) bio details Venue: Auckland Grammar Technology Computer Suite, Gate 4 Mountain Road Epsom Auckland	Sometimes the Technology, but Always the Thinking Teachers who think that technology makes for better teaching, have it wrong. The technology can only ever support good teaching. The teacher is still the most important technology in the classroom, because it's what's happening inside student heads that makes the difference. Effective teachers will reach out for the technologies if they value all the opportunities that are available to enrich learning. Technologies enable students to work globally and be in touch with a wide range of people. They can bring rich information to the classroom at little cost, and provide people with whom the students can interact to process and utilise the information. But always we must encourage student thinking.THINKING therefore, is the key to effective learning, and thereby effective teaching. In this workshop we will: Look at types of thinking and how to build these into classroom programmes to begin in term 4 Look at ways to develop greater thinking fitnessand facility Draw on the theory, the strategies, from thinking theorists, and the application to the classroom and the curriculum. Use some technologies and various software that will deepen thinking that occurs in the classroom Explore some of the ideas gained from my attendance at the International Conference on Thinking in Sweden in June 2007 – particularly getting students into the thinking pit and scaffolding the processes for them to think their way out. This will be a participation workshop where you learn by doing and discussing, by contributing ideas, and establishing a community of thinkers that can continue to learn from each other beyond the workshop session. Please come with ideas about what you will be doing in your classroom, school or cluster this term, as the basis for some of the thinking activities in which you will engage.
9	Derek Wenmoth; Dr Sandy Britain, Helena Mill, Brent Simpson bio details Venue: Auckland Grammar Technology Computer Suite, Gate 4 Mountain Road Epsom Auckland	Designing and Developing Effective Content for Online Environments Unsure of how to make the most of your LMS/OLE? Want to build activity-based structured learning content with ease? Need to save your content locally AND export to your LMS Make interoperable content packages to run your content on any LMS Save time and effort by re-using and customizing existing learning content Tired of having to re-built web content, or start from scratch with your online course material each time it changes? Wondering how you could incorporate another piece of online content into your online course? Then this workshop is for you! In this workshop participants will be introduced to an exciting new way of developing online content for use within an LMS/OLE, that will ensure the content is able to be moved between systems and has a life beyond the system it happens to be provided in. Participants will be introduced to eXe, an XML authoring tool, that allows the user to select from a list of components called iDevices which enable the user to create structured learning content. The eXe tool is designed to be easy to use for practitioners who have limited knowledge of creating content for the web. Content can be imported into many LMS/VLE applications either as SCORM packages, stand-alone web sites, or even exported as iPod notes. This workshop will cover basic eXe usage as well as explore how users can create their own iDevices using the iDevice editor. If you are interested, but haven't tried the software yet, you can find out more at http://exelearning.org. All participants will receive a CD ROM containing a copy of the eXe software and associated workshop files. Workshop requirements: your own laptop - preferably with some of your favourite resources and course materials on board! a simple plan for a theme/topic/lesson you are going to be teaching at some time in the future some supporting resources for that theme/lesson/topic, and some ideas about the sorts of activities you'd like the students to be engaged in Workshop Programme: Digital content and interoperability – a brief introduction to the broad field(s) of online content, Open Content initiatives, re-use, interoperability and content packaging Introduction to basic Content Design - Discussion around basic principles of Content Design as they apply to developing resources for online presentation including a basic instructional design activity. Authoring for interoperability - an introduction to the concepts and practices of content authoring for the web. Interoperability is explored as it is relates to the reusability and sharing of content. A variety of tools and techniques for authoring elearning content are discussed An Introduction to eXe - A brief presentation on the background of the eXe project as a tool for the offline creation of structured, educational web content. eXe is free open-source software created in New Zealand and being used worldwide. Tutorial - The tutorial will follow the following outline: Installing the eXe application from a CD Accessing available help resources: WikiEducator, IRC, etc... Open the Workshop .elp file (included on disc) Entering content Adding pages Explore the range of iDevices Create an activity Styles, change styles using the Styles iDevice editor Moving content around Saving e.g. storage, sending and sharing files etc Exporting Content; Overview of export formats, Webpage export and preview, SCORM export, iPod notes. Moodle import Evaluate: In small groups discuss likes and dislikes of the application. Demonstrate issue tracker from website by entering group issues. Conclusion and wrap-up – a brief session to end where participants will share what they have achieved, and have the opportunity to ask questions to attend to any final matters before the workshop concludes.

When you register for the conference ULearn you are able to select to attend a pre-conference workshop and this will then be added to your invoice. If, when the presenters and abstracts are published, you decide not to attend, the cost of the pre-conference workshop will be refunded in full.

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The 9 workshops and their presenters are: