LIST OF PRESENTERS/WORKSHOPS

Wayne Morris (Future Edge)
Bernie Wills
Rachel Roberts
Jes Roddy
Chris Hayden
Petera Hudson
GISMAPED
CWA New Media
E-Cast
Renaissance Education
Phillip Cranston & Natalie Cowie
ACTIVboard NZ
Russell Perry
Marg MacLeod
Warren Hall

ICT and school culture (two sessions)
Native, immigrant or dinosaur? Are you helping or hindering your school develop a 21st century pedagogy?
Wayne Morris (Future Edge Ltd)
Our students have changed. Today’s students are no longer the people the education system was designed to teach. Our students today are almost all ’native-speakers’ of the digital language of computers, video games and the internet. Those of us who were not born into the digital world but have become fascinated by and adopted many of the aspects of the new technology are excited by the possibilities. And then there are the dinosaurs – those who cling to the old with a reasoned logic and see little reason to change. There is a disjuncture between what and how our students are learning successfully outside the classroom and how they are learning in the classroom. The focus needs to shift from 21st literacy for students to 21st century literacy for teachers. Are you helping or hindering your school develop a 21st century pedagogy?
Focus: All educators
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MOODLE Learning management system (two sessions)
Bernie Wills (Awatapu College)
The Awatapu College – Freyberg High School ICTPD Cluster have setup a MOODLE site as a major part of our programme and to act as a vehicle for on-going collaboration after the contract runs out at the end of this year. We will look at the discussions that lead to this being part of our programme and why we choose MOODLE . We will explore what this MOODLE thing is, how our teachers have implemented it and how it could be useful to you. We will create a course which we can use on the day and also connect you with staff from our schools who wish to join in and share their experiences.
Focus: All educators
Presentation/hands-on

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Flickr
Rachel Roberts ICT PD Facilitator, http://www.bardwired.blogspot.com/
"As an elearning graduate Rachel has followed her 'calling' in learning and educational technologies. She has been a classroom teacher in both Primary and Secondary schools. Rachel works with Taranaki schools and has been facilitator for Bard Wired - Central Taranaki Primary Schools Cluster and is currently E-Principal for TaraNet VC distance learning Campus."
Flickr is the world’s biggest photo album but it’s more than just a place to put and take pictures. The flickr platform allows its users to contribute, share, interact, learn from each other in so many ways. It’s a powerful tool with a huge (untapped) potential for classroom use. Look at examples of classroom use, share practical ideas and explore some of the cool features associated with Flickr
Focus: All educators
Hands-on
Blogging on with Bard Wired
Rachel Roberts ICT PD Facilitator, http://www.bardwired.blogspot.com/
Go on a blogging journey with the Bard and discover how blogging emerged as a tool for documenting one cluster’s experience into a personal learning environment for the Bard. Share lessons learnt along the way and pick up tips to complEment your Web 2.0 Toolkit.
Bring your laptop.
Focus: All educators
Hands-on

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Google applications
Jes Roddy (Facilitator Wellington College ICT Cluster)
Google offers much more than a search engine. This workshop will look briefly at Google Docs - which can be used in collaborative learning exercises - and Google Books and Scholar. Then we will look at the immense power of Google Earth and Google Maps. Participants will learn how to create their own map complete with pictures, video and annotation. These maps can be made available for students and used as a 2D blog. Participants will also learn how to add pictures to Google maps, overlay pictures on a map and good sources of ready made overlays that can display a wide variety of data from tectonic boundaries to poverty levels.
Focus: All educators
Presentation
Bringing PowerPoint back to life, especially in uses to support Literacy
Jes Roddy (Facilitator Wellington College ICT Cluster)
PowerPoint has been criticised for its use in reducing complex ideas to a series of bullet points. But it doesn't have to be used in this way. This workshop will look at a number of ways in which PowerPoint can be used to encourage creativity. We will look at non-linear ways of using PowerPoint as might be used in a decision maze, then look at ways in which the animation features of PowerPoint can be used in poetry writing. Interactive games of various sorts can be made with PowerPoint (a Template will be made available) and how we will look at how PowerPoint can be used in an ePortfolio. Finally we will compare PowerPoint with other presentation tools such as Photostory.
Focus: All educators
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Cool Tools 4 ICT Teachers (two sessions)
Chris Hayden (Auckland Grammar School)
This workshop aims to introduce busy teachers to a set of Cool ICT tools which make life easier for lesson preparation and classroom learning. The emphasis will be on free and online resources for Creating, Thinking, Finding and Sharing. As part of this workshop, attendees will also try out some Web2.0 tools for education, and make use of online learning resources. The goal is to empower attendees in the use of ICT within their own classroom setting.
Bring a digital camera and laptop, if possible.
Focus: All educators
Hands-on

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Social Networking (two sessions)
Petera Hudson (Lead Facilitator, Cullinane College Pansector ICTPD Cluster)
Bebo; IM'ing; Txt'ng; Skyping; Facebook'ing - Our kidz use these social software thingees... What are they? Why aren't we using them? Can we use them? Why would we want to use them?
We will have a look at some of the most popular social software packages and ask the questions above.
Focus: All educators
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Bringing Animation to Education and PowerPoints to Life (two sessions) (Hands on)
Allan Webb, (Manawatu College)
An introduction to MARVIN, the world’s fastest growing avatar (character based) animation and education resource development platform in the world – and virtually free to all NZ teachers and schools. We will build a project based on avatars in minutes, adding backgrounds, sound, speech and animation and instantly playing back the result. Will import a PowerPoint presentation and bring it to life with animation, using this extremely simple to use tool. Bring your laptop, preferably with MARVIN already installed.
Laptop Needed
Focus: All educators
Hands-on

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Geographic Information Systems (NB this is an all-day programme)
GISMAPED
GISMAPED provides a range of workshops all designed to provide quality professional development for Y5-13 teachers of Social Studies, History, Geography, Science, and schools involved in the GLOBE programme
Focus: Geography and ICT staff
Hands-on

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Websites for involving students
Lesley Mackintosh and Elizabeth Robb (CWA New Media)
This workshop will explore websites developed by CWA to support teaching and learning, including Studyit, TKI, Living Heritage, Science Learn, Biotech Hub, Digital Conversations, and more. We will especially focus on sites that encourage and provide for active student participation.
Hands-on
All Educators
Science & Maths Learning: Sparking fresh thinking
Lesley Mackintosh and Elizabeth Robb, CWA New Media
This workshop will explore websites developed by CWA to support maths, science and technology teaching and learning, including The Science Learning Hub, Biotech Hub, Science New Zealand, Studyit, TKI, Digital Conversations, and more.
Focus: All educators
Hands-on

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E-cast
Cathy Vercoe, E-Cast
Developed in New Zealand, e-cast education is a powerful on-line teaching and learning tool. It provides real time and real life teaching resources through recorded and live videos streamed and downloaded from domestic, sky and international television channels. Schools throughout New Zealand can access this unique service and select relevant content from television programmes and videos covering all subject areas including languages, the arts, science, cultures, current events, sport and history. Programmes can be viewed and assessed online and e-cast members can download a high quality copy to the school’s network where it can be kept for immediate or future use.
Focus: All educators
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Keynote Presentation Software
Stuart Hale, Renaissance Education
Cinema-quality presentations for everyone. Using Keynote, you can easily create engaging presentations using styled text and cinematic slide transitions—you can even add your own photos, music, and movies. When your project is complete, you can share it as a presentation, turn it into a movie, or create a printable document. Amazing presentations, easy to use, create cinema-like transitions and
effects, soundtrack, slideshows, share as PDFs, movies, podcasts, opens and
saves to PowerPoint docs.
Focus: All educators (Mac)
Presentation
Numbers Spreadsheet Software
Stuart Hale, Renaissance Education
Powerful, compelling spreadsheets made easy. Numbers calculates your data and can display it in 3D charts and graphs. It’s also flexible enough to resize or move your layouts around. It comes with several Apple-designed templates that already have the calculations plugged into them, so all you have to do is enter your own data. Or you can create a new spreadsheet of your own and give it a professional look. Has multiple layouts, 3D graphics, Apple templates, opens and saves to Excel documents !
Focus: All educators (Mac)
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Effective Web 2.0 in the Secondary Classroom (two sessions)
Phillip Cranston/Natalie Cowie (Katikati College)
This presentation will look at the relative merits of Blogs, Wikis and other Web2.0 tools like Google doc’s in the classroom. We will demonstrate how they can be used as tools to enhance student engagement and participation. We will teach you the tricks you need to know to make a successful blog/wiki and give you some time and support to develop your own. For a sneak preview go to our classblogs:
english@kkc - http://ncowie.wordpress.com/
CReAtive Minds - http://blog.kkc.school.nz/mrcranston
Focus: All educators
Presentation/hands on

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Strategies for the big screen: Interactive Whiteboard Ideas for Secondary Teaching.
Hilary Miller, Teaching and Learning Adviser for ACTIVboard NZ.
Practical ways to use an interactive whiteboard to create engaging and effective learning experiences for secondary students. Cross-curricular examples from NZ classrooms, and strategies for differentiation to personalise activities for your learners using 21st century tools.
Focus: all educators
Demonstration/hands-on

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Tips to Maximise Word Processing Efficiency
Russell Perry, ICTPD Facilitator, Flaxmere Cluster
A very busy, boisterous session with a top-notch Word user: guaranteed to learn at least half-a-dozen things that will speed up your word processing. If there’s something that you want to do much better in Word, bring it along and we’ll tease it out for you. (Attendees: please note that the session is based on Word 2003. International advice suggests schools refrain from implanting Office 2007 unless hardware is very capable.)”
Laptop needed
Focus: All Word users
Hands-on

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Charting The Future – Innovation in Education
Marg McLeod – Core Education
What are the Have tos? How do we get there? Presentation and Discussion. Come to this session to be challenged in your thinking and prepared to participate in some reflective discussion.
Focus: All educators

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EXE
Warren Hall - CORE Education
EXE runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux and allows teachers to easily create a wide variety of activities that can then be made available online. The types of activities that can be created include cloze activities, true/false or multiple choice quizzes, image galleries, gathering of external web pages and many others. The pages created can be exported in a wide variety of formats for publishing on a school LMS or website. EXE can be used offline so creating material while not on the school network is no problem and it makes it reasonably easy to create good looking content with little experience. Teachers can concentrate on the content they wish to deliver and let EXE take care of the code required to deliver it in an online environment.

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