Our youngest presenters at ULearn

ULearn08 features sessions by our two youngest-ever presenters!

Michael Griffin is a Year 9 student at Lincoln High. He was a student tech helper at ULearn07 in Auckland and is a young, practising, digital native. He is being employed at his old school as an ICT assistant.

Liam Merton is a Year 9 student at Otumoetai College. He enjoys PE, English and excels at sailing. He also enjoys using UMAJIN Creative.

Michael and Liam will be presenting two taster sessions during breakout 4. Their session abstracts are as follows:

1. One digital native demonstrates creative collaboration with technology. Michael Griffin is a capable young high school student. Here is your chance to see a digital native in action. Michael podcasts regularly and is also a UMAJIN Creative enthusiast. (Presented by Michael)
2. ‘Blue screening’ in UMAJIN. Creative  ideas for using it with a range of classroom technologies. We will introduce UMAJIN Creative as easy to use, Kiwi-made software, demonstrating the UMAJIN Creative interface and how easy it is to “blue screen” your digital photos. UMAJIN Creative has some cool effects that kids love to use and we will show you some of the documents we have made and explain ways teachers can use it in class room on HP Touch Screen Laptops, Smart Boards and for writing up class projects. (Presented by Michael and Liam)

Come along during breakout 4 to see and hear these two digital natives in action!