Seminar Program

Friday 8 August

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Time	Seminar Room 1	Seminar Room 2	Seminar Room 3	Seminar Room 4
10.15am	Primary music/drama: a hands-on dynamic approach Tania Rusbridge, Aussie Kids Rock	Portfolio websites made easy Basekite Australia / Edukite – Portfolio Websites	Walk in my shoes: experience how it feels to have a language or literacy impairment Lucia Smith, Pelican Talk Speech Therapy Resources and Consultancy	First aid training goes online Premium Health

11.15am	Introducing the VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority	Optimise your ICT: Studywiz making sense of ICT in the classroom Mark Yaxley from Studywiz by Etech Group	Chess and education Chess Kids	International competitions and assessments for schools Educational Assessment Australia

12.15pm	My Class Record: recording for VELS Createl Publishing	Taking the first steps with an IWB Pearson Interactive	Bee Bot: robots for early years Educational Experience Australia	Maximise your opportunities to get a job and develop your career Jodie Priest, Bright Start Solutions

1.15pm	Planning for literacy within an integrated unit of inquiry for middle and upper primary students Claire Gescheit, Literacy Coordinator, Mt Scopus College	DVC Marcom Digital Content Library Save Time Visuals	Using online leader, teacher and student questionnaires to drive change Certain Knowledge	The rewards, benefits and expectations of teaching in the Catholic sector Catholic Education Office

2.15pm	Strategies for VCE success Mental Blank	Creative technologies to capture student learning Apple Australia	Introducing and developing special programs for high and low achieving students Cindy Twyford, Manager, Teaching and Learning Programs, Brighton Secondary College	Legal liability and teacher’s duty of care, how to get a job, industrial conditions for teachers Australian Education Union

3.15pm	Global perspectives: change your school for good Global Education Project Victoria	Intellectual diets for web 2.0 hungry digi–kids Centre for Strategic Education	Through the looking glass: delivering professional learning Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria	Teaching opportunities in Victoria, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong ANZUK Education and Edstaff

Saturday 9 August

Time	Seminar Room 1	Seminar Room 2	Seminar Room 3	Seminar Room 4
10.15am	Real-time formative assessment: changing the way we teach Interactive Whiteboards Australia	Enhancing literacy learning: newspaper resources for middle school learners The Age	Introducing the VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority	Helping your students prepare for the VCE English exam David White, Education Consultant, Senior English and Assessment

11.15am	Discover and learn about technologies transforming the use of the internet in education with www.edna.edu.au Education.au	A global curriculum not a national curriculum - panel discussion Moderated by Tony Mackay, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic Education	Financial fundamentals for education professionals Edsuplan Teacher Financial Service	Simple woodwork in your primary classroom. Woodwork Room, Learning by Doing

12.15pm	Moodle: open source software for collaborative education Pukunui Technology	The challenges of leadership Margaret Murray, Summer Heights High a.k.a. Elida Brereton, Camberwell High School	Teach in the United Kingdom Smart Teachers	German language and the Goethe-Institute Goethe–Institut Australien

1.15pm	Animated and interactive software for literacy learning P-4 Sunshine Books	Effective professional learning strategies Lauriston Institute	Supporting beginning and CRT teachers Victorian Institute of Teaching	Seeing the world differently: SOSE activities for the middle years Daniel Strauss, Glen Waverley Secondary College

2.15pm	Essential skills for teaching and learning in the digital age Centre for Strategic Education	Leadership and education Monash University, Faculty of Education	Play-based curriculum for the early years of schooling Kathy Walker and Associates	Classroom management and engagement Helen Rix, Education Consultant

3.15pm	Digital content: the way of the future The Learning Federation	Working on the frontline: teachers as middle managers Teacher Learning Network	Primary Connections: linking science with literacy Australian Academy of Science	Powerful and arresting excursions 1. Sustainable energy for the future Powerworks 2. Courtroom Drama @ Old Melbourne Goal National Trust of Victoria