Session+Activities

=UnConference Session Activities:= Need more info on the session? Check here to find a more detailed description of each session.
 * //**Presenter:**// || //**Session Name**// || //**Sesson information**// ||
 * ** Session 1: 10:15am ** ||  ||
 * ** Glenn Buchanan ** ||  **Using Adobe Captivate**  || **Adobe Captivate is a simple to use application that has a wealth of uses within the classroom. It is predominantly a tool to create flash movies that have the ability to be interactive. Online quizzes and demonstrations can be created with this tool. During this session, an overview of some common uses will be explored and demonstrated. ** ||
 * **Julie-Ann Angel** || ** Proloquo2go in the classoom ** || **Looking at how to use the iPad app Proloquo2go in the classroom, to support students with disabilities that have receptive and expressive language difficulties. ** ||
 * **Vicki Rowe** || **Maths and IWBs** || We will be looking at how I use IWBs in my classroom for maths ( I am no expert!!!). Concentrating on Stage 2 but things can be adapted to other stages. My main focus will be on games and websites.Please bring along a USB so you can copy my folder of the games (& others) that we will be looking at.If you have any great games or websites that you would like to share with the group please bring those along too. ||
 * **Jenny Good** ||  **Adobe Portfolios in the Classroom**  || **PDF Portfolio is a part of the Adobe Acrobat ProExtended program. A platform for student assignments or projects with the ability to easily combine many forms of data within one portfolio i.e. documents, files created in other programs, weblinks, images, audio, video etc. It is also an effective organisational tool for both teachers and students. ** ||
 * **Vicki Harris & Mark Cosgrove** ||  **Cyberbullying strategies for prevention**  || **Using on-line tools (Answer Garden, Linoit and PowerLeague), participants will discuss strategies designed to reduce incidences of cyber bullying incidents. ** ||
 * **Matt Gown** ||  **QR Codes**  || **Learn about what are QR codes. Learn how to scan and create QR codes. Some suggestions about how to use in **
 * education. ** ||
 * **Ben Jones** ||  **Gaming consoles across the curriculum**  || **How to use Gaming Consoles (Wii/PS3/xBox) to enhance learning in the classroom. This workshop will explore what Games Based Learning is and how it can integrate in to your curriculum (K-12 ** ||
 * ** Session 2: 11:30am ** ||  ||
 * **Glenn Buchanan** || ** Playing with Adobe Acrobat **  || **There is a lot more to Adobe Acrobat than meets the eye. In this session, we will look at using this application to not only produce Acrobat documents (PDFs) but also make them into forms that can be filled out. We will look at producing electronic portfolios and using this program in meaningful classroom activities through annotations. ** ||
 * Vicki Kempton || ** Using iPads, iExperiment, iLearn, iTry **  || **Wondered how the ipad or itouch works. What can you do with them? A practical hands-on introduction to the itouch and ipads where you will look at its features and functions. A range of tips and tricks will be shared as well as places to go to access further support. (Primary and Secondary) ** ||
 * Matt Gown || ** Adobe Premiere Elements ** || **Learn basic video editing. Import downloaded video. Cut out unwanted video. Put transitions between clips and add titles. Export finished video ** ||
 * Leanne Macmillan || ** Wiki, News and IWB in Kindergarten **  || **Developing and enhancing explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy through class based wikispaces ** ||
 * Pip Cleaves || ** Digital Citizenship: Its not that scary.. ** || **In this discussion we will share our experiences, planning and understanding around Digital Citizenship, the Domains, and the new K-8 resources that will be released in November. Come along and learn what others have done, and prepare for the next step at your school. Be prepared to share your journey. It will be suitable for K-12 educators with an interest in this essential 21st Century skill area ** ||
 * Ben Jones || ** How to easily create an epic **  || **How to EASILY create an epic: augmented geo-locational interactive mobile game! A simple way to integrate technology, fun & experiential learning (K-12) ** ||
 * Jennifer Heinjus || ** Bubblus.com, Quiz boxes and Pikistrips **  || **Investigate the potential of these programs to enhance student engagement. We will look at online brainstorming with Bubbl.us, a simple to use quiz template and examples with Stus Quiz boxes and Pikistrips for student created comic strips using pictures and captions ** ||
 * John Gill || **Introduction to MS OneNote** || **Microsoft OneNote is part of MS Office 2007 and 2010 suites. This workshop will introduce participants to this application and give a brief hands-on overview of its features. There will also be a discussion on how this application could be used in classrooms and in administration ** ||
 * **Session 3: 12:15pm** ||  ||
 * Glenn Buchanan || ** Using Celtx in a quality English room ** || **Celtx is designed for the professional writer. Originally developed for the production of film scripts, it is now a premiere development tool for any script development and creative writing activity. We will investigate some of the features that make this program a winner in the English / Drama classroom ** ||
 * Mandy Crocker & Gayle Pinn || ** iPads keeping you iOrganised ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">We looking at their potential in how well they are equip to assist teachers and principals in keeping organised, staying on track with high demand workloads and just organising life so much more easily. iPod touch can video the instructions you need to leave for your class and the regular teacher can still instruct (through the power of video) the students. Principals can use them with their email and calendar synced to their DEC Portal, or apps such as “Action Notes” to stay on top of what needs to be done. Teachers can locate their classroom program using Dropbox, keep notes on students with Teacher Notes ** ||
 * Matt Gown || ** Adobe Photoshop Elements ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn basic photo editing such as cropping, fixing red eye, adding text, removing spots and combining photos. Find out how to order the software for use at home ** ||
 * Therese Coogan || ** 101 IWB resources ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">An IWB is not just a chalkboard or whiteboard. Let’s look at making connections and ****<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">engaging our students on the IWB. You will explore an online resource bankof teacher created innovative ideas to use in your classroom with your IWB ** ||
 * Pip Cleaves || ** Social Media: Who does, who doesn't and why shouldn't I ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Social Media tools are everywhere. Twitter, Facebook, Maang, Youtube, Slideshare, Google+, Grooveshark, Blogs, Wikis, and Edmodo. How do we uses it, how do you used is and how do you want to use it. This session will draw on experiences of participants to guide others on their first, or next step in their Social Media ladder. Bring your laptop / device for some hands on time … if we have time ... ** ||
 * Ben Jones || ** Simply Claymation ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">How to use the software already on your DERvice to make cool Claymation or stopframe animations to tell a story or explain a concept (K-12) ** ||
 * Meagan Rodda || ** Using Twitter to create a PLN ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Twitter to connect with other Educators around the world. Share ideas and resources; participate in discussions on pedagogy and the latest research. Participants will create a Twitter account; learn how to post ‘tweets’; and be given a list of people in different KLA’s to follow to get them started (Secondary and Primary). ** ||
 * Jenny Good || ** Quiz time: Engaging students using SRN ** || **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The SRN (Student Response Network) application is a freely available user-friendly quiz, results collation & analysis tool utilising your classroom PCs/Notebooks/Mobile Learning Devices. Engage your students in a fun electronic quiz environment which has the scope to also integrate & expand the use of other software e.g. Smart Notebook. Uses include revision and competitions e.g. against the clock/beat the buzzer and much more. ** ||
 * **Session 4: 1:45 - 2:30pm** ||  ||
 * Stuart Whytcross || ** Moodle: Conducive to 21st Century pedagogy ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn how to effectively use and implement some of Moodle’s most powerful tools and activities in the classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to create SCORMs, Glossaries and Games. More importantly you will be shown how to effectively use them in a classroom environment ** ||
 * Vicki Kempton || **Web 2.0 tools: Where to** start . || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Web 2.0 what is it, how can I use in the classroom where can I find information? This workshop will provide the first steps to take in looking at Web 2.0 tools you can use in the classroom and an approach on how to decide which ones to use when. ** ||
 * Glenn Buchanan || ** Using Adobe Indesign ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Adobe InDesign is an industry standard publishing development tool. We will briefly look at some of the features of this application and look at how it may be used to produce quality printed material ** ||
 * Wendy Burdekin || ** Prezi: More than a powerpoint ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Participants will be shown the steps to creating a powerful presentation with a tool easy for teachers and students to use. Prezi is an online tool useful for mindmapping, presenting research, compiling background knowledge for a unit etc ** ||
 * John Gill || **Mobile Tablets: After th**e hype ... || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Mobile tablets such as Kindles, iPads, iTouches, Slates, E Tablets, Galaxy Tabs, Motorola Xooms etc are being portrayed as the next ICT tool for our students learning. Is this really the case? This discussion session will look at the Positives, Negatives and Interesting issues involved in introducing these items into a school environment ** ||
 * Therese Coogan || ** Blog Ed ** || ** In this workshop session teachers will access blogED examples and consider the management strategies of managing sustainable blogging. They will gain confidence in the following: **** author blog posts, **** imbed various media, **** create hyperlinks to **
 * organise for effective evaluation in the classroom. ** ||
 * Pip Cleaves || **Swap it, don't stop it... Bloom's taxonomy**  || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Come and investigate webtools matched to our beloved MI/Bloom’s Grids. This session will give you time to consider how you might swap in some new strategies for you use of these grids, give choice to students to plot their own learning or just find some fun new tools ** ||
 * Jenny Good || ** Flip cameras: Diversify your practices ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Flip Video Camera is an inexpensive and innovative media for classroom use. Recording assessment evidence, experiments, practical tasks, role-play, interviews, self-evaluation & so much more! Publish to a class or school blog/wiki/website. We will explore the features of the Flip Video Camera and the Flip Share editing software to enhance delivery, student input and engagement in the classroom in all areas of the curriculum and beyond ** ||
 * **Session 5: 2:30 - 3:15pm** ||  ||
 * Pip Cleaves || ** Social media: Get your hands dirty and your mind keen... ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dive in, Dip your toe, or delve deeper into the Social Media pool. Come to this session with questions, ideas you want to try and a device to join up with. Think twitter, Facebook, Maang, Google+, YouTube, SlideShare, RSS Readers…Pip’s addiction will finally come in handy as she gives you the ‘how-to’ for many of the tools she spends a little too much time on ** ||
 * Alison Wason & Michele Roscarel || ** iDevices- Apps for literacy and numeracy in the classroom ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">This workshop will provide a brief outline of how iPads and iPods have been implemented at Ungarie Central School. We will then provide a hands-on focus on a variety of apps suitable for literacy, numeracy and specific KLA teaching and learning activities from K-12. This project is now in its third year at UCS ** ||
 * Jennifer Heinjus || ** IWBs - Notebook transparency and Smart Recorder ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">These easy to use tools can be utilised to quickly and effectively enhance classroom teaching practice and extend IWB knowledge. The Digital Ink Layer, Transparency Layer and the Smart Recorder can be used with any application on the IWB, allowing teachers to enhance learning outcomes and produce multimedia events without having to learn a new set of computing skills ** ||
 * Matt Gown || **You Tube, Teacher Tube and View Pure**  ||   ||
 * Therese Coogan || **Connecting your school through cross school BlogEd and VCs**  || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The cross school blog is now available as a safe social networking environment for collaboration. Using cross school blogED and Video Conferencing will create an integrated learning for students, teachers, classes and schools across DEC. We will consider the possibilities and concentrate on the resources available to ensure participants have the confidence to create cross school blog and join Video Conference events ** ||
 * Ben Jones || **Simply Claymation - stop fram animation with DERvices**  || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">How to use the software already on your DERvice to make cool Claymation or stopframe animations to tell a story or explain a concept (K-12 ** ||
 * James Fallon HS Teachers || **Technology and classroom management**  || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">A demonstration on the DERvice for use in the classroom. Including Data Log and eBckpack; Visual Literacy; Podcasts and using technology in design classes ** ||
 * Cristy Jacka & Becca Meldrum || **Wikis for Learning projects**  || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Wikispaces provides teachers and students with an online tool that allows students to easily work together and contribute to collaborative learning projects while teachers monitor and interact with students as they work. It also allows teachers to easily communicate with parents. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">We will share successful classroom wiki strategies with participants and show how increased family involvement is leading to better educational outcomes for our students. We will also expand on how our school uses wiki’s as a collaboration tool for staff ** ||
 * ** Final words : 3:20pm** ||  ||
 * Ben Jones || **Simply Claymation - stop fram animation with DERvices**  || **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">How to use the software already on your DERvice to make cool Claymation or stopframe animations to tell a story or explain a concept (K-12 ** ||
 * James Fallon HS Teachers || **Technology and classroom management**  || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">A demonstration on the DERvice for use in the classroom. Including Data Log and eBckpack; Visual Literacy; Podcasts and using technology in design classes ** ||
 * Cristy Jacka & Becca Meldrum || **Wikis for Learning projects**  || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Wikispaces provides teachers and students with an online tool that allows students to easily work together and contribute to collaborative learning projects while teachers monitor and interact with students as they work. It also allows teachers to easily communicate with parents. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">We will share successful classroom wiki strategies with participants and show how increased family involvement is leading to better educational outcomes for our students. We will also expand on how our school uses wiki’s as a collaboration tool for staff ** ||
 * ** Final words : 3:20pm** ||  ||
 * ** Final words : 3:20pm** ||  ||