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The ULearn conferences encourage the sharing of presenters’ material and other resources such as related web links and professional readings for the benefit of conference delegates. The presenters’ material area also enables comments (discussions) to occur between presenters and delegates pre- and post-conference.

Please read the information for presenters before uploading your material. Use your conference login to post your content online. Conference delegates will be able to browse and search for presenters’ material by using this knowledge base.

It is important that your material meets the privacy and copyright clearance conditions. If you are unsure about any aspect of your material, contact ictpdonline@core-ed.net for assistance before you upload it.

Colin Gover and Maurice Young of Marina View School plan to provide participants with experience in how to make an MVTV show. The MVTV crew will take you through the process of making the show. Become a learner and join a group of children to help put the show together and learn lots of new skills to take back to your school so you can make your own TV show.

You will have the chance to be a producer, a scriptwriter, a camera person, a video editor, make the weather, this week in history, a presenter, sound technician or lighting crew and many more roles. Maurice and Colin, along with the MVTV crew, will show you how MVTV grew from small beginnings into what it is today. It is a show of the children, by the children, for the children. It is recorded live three days a week, shown to the entire school and uploaded to our school website to be viewed in NZ and the world.

Colin has been the Marina View School’s ICT Director for the last 7 years. He was co facilitator as Marina View School was an ICT Lead School and has presented workshops at conferences for many years and recently presented at the ACEC Conference in Australia. Maurice has been principal of Marina View School since 2004. From trusting that exciting things would develop, and supporting the ideas and the people, Maurice has seen how technology can truly make an impact on the Marina View School community.

Kids Using Technology in Education (KUTE) is an annual event organised by The Auckland Computers in Education Society (ACES). On a Saturday morning every October, students congregate in a central Auckland school hall to share their learning through ICT with their school community. This year KUTE will be held onsite at Sky City during uLearn07. This is a highly interactive breakout where conference attendees will have the opportunity to talk directly with students from a number of Auckland schools who will be demonstrating, sharing and answering questions about their learning through a variety of ICT supported experiences. These include Game Making, Animation, Photo Editing, Blogs, ComicLife, Podcasting, TV Broadcasting, Inquiry Learning and also how students are effectively utilising an LMS to support their learning. Participating schools include Summerland Primary, Marina View Primary, Kristin School, Pt England School, Cornwall Park Primary and Baverstock Oaks School.

Read more about KUTE and other ACES events on their website at www.aces.org.nz

Tony Ryan is an educational consultant and writer, and offers professional support to school organisations throughout the world on issues such as change leadership, lifelong learning and quality classroom practice. He has presented numerous keynotes and workshops at state, national and world conferences in the past 10 years.

He has been engaged as a teacher-in-residence in over 400 schools throughout several countries. In this role, he teaches extensively, and offers guidance to teachers with their everyday practice.

Tony is a prolific author of books on effective thinking and learning. These books include The Ripple Effect, Thinkers Keys for Kids, Mindlinks, Brainstorms, Thinkfest and The Clever Country Kits. His latest CD-Rom features an extensive update of Thinkers Keys.

He is the Chairman of the Board of School Aid, a non-profit organization that encourages 10 000 schools around Australia to co-ordinate their fund-raising activities for major local and global disasters. School Aid also provides invaluable assistance to schools in the encouragement of active citizenship opportunities. See more on www.tonyryan.com.au

Ewan McIntosh is an educational technologist and teacher of French and German. Based in the Edinburgh area he frequently gives talks and workshops around the world, trying to find new and better ways of using emerging technologies in education.

Ewan currently works as a new technologies consultant for various groups, including the BBC, British Council, General Teaching Council of Scotland, the National Press and Learning and teaching Scotland.

In particular, Ewan advises on how social media can be harnessed for public service and education management, and used to improve learning. He will also bring to ULearn07 his knowledge of Web2.0 technologies in education across stages and curricular areas

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Ewan is a frequent blogger, and more information and previous talks are available on his blog.

Ewan is presenting a pre-conference workshop; 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.”

Visit the ULearn07 site for enrolment details.

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