As far as attitudes are concerned, Helen speaks of the "open source attitude" - a positive attitude towards learning, developing, inventing, creating, sharing, hacking and innovating. A way to do this she asserts is cross-discipline or multi-disciplinary connections - for example bio-computing, and the development of organic machines. Helen advocates a managed approach to this, and spent some time talking about the future of education and the campus of the future.

The 5 points he covered were

1. Audience - from classroom audience, or teacher as audience, to hundreds of thousands
2. Creativity - new publishing tools and options, animations, students sharing products online and for ipods and cell phones,
3. Differentiate - raising the bar; moving from page-based to digital media.
4. Authentic goals - authentic purpose and audience, leading to strong ownership and motivation.
5. It's not about the technology, it's about the teaching - an emphasis on old tools can be a barrier to innovative practice; computer games can make a difference.

Quote - "mobile phones need to come out of pockets and be on all day"

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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.

The photographic record has always been an important element of the conference experience. We have set up a ULearn flickr site that will store photos of the conference. We will be uploading photos here regularly during the conference, and there is a link on the Ulearn07 conference website so you can check them at any time.


If you are uploading photos to your own flickr account, make sure they are tagged ulearn or ulearn07, so they will turn up in any search on Flickr that includes ulearn or ulearn07 as a search term. For example here is the flickr record of ulearn tagged photos at the moment, sorted with the most recent at the top.

Kiwi born and British bred, Helen is also a Mentor on the ART Venture Programme. She writes a fortnightly column 'The MsBehaviour Files' for the Big Idea, with a slot on Kiwi FM and Creative Bizi NZ blog. Helen is a regular speaker with a focus on Collaboration, Education and Knowledge Management.

Helen has been involved in e-learning and Knowledge Management for over ten years. She was founding Editor of Knowledgeboard.com, a global community for Knowledge & Innovation, developed under the European Commission's IST Programme. Voted 'Best of the Web' by the Harvard Business School in 2002, the KnowledgeBoard community went on to win 'Best User Experience' from the International Information Industry Awards in 2003.

To see some of Helen's recent work, there are podcasts and mindmaps from recent keynotes at mohawk media, including the recent conference for media studies teachers.

So 12 months ago we established a wiki, nzedublogs, where NZ bloggers can publish links to the blogs, podcasts, and video blogs that they are publishing.

There are now links to more than 30 teacher blogs and podcasts, and more than 30 student or classroom blogs (5 more were added today from Bucklands Beach Intermediate, including a blog used as parent newsletter), so there are many examples to browse. If you or your class are not there yet, it's a wiki - so go ahead and publish the details yourself. And if you know of other blogs that could be included please encourage the bloggers to add their link to the list.

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

Leadership Strand
Curriculum Implementation; Local curriculum design (Julia Atkin & Christina Ward);
Powerful Professional Learning Communities, (Cheryl Doig & Rob Clarke, Christchurch);
Hard Fun: Fostering An Inquiring Mind (Sharon Friesen, Canada).

Classroom Practice Strand
The social web and the social classroom (Ewan McIntosh, Scotland)
Sometimes the Technology, but Always the Thinking, (Jill Hammonds, CORE)
Designing and Developing Effective Content for Online Environments (Derek Wenmoth et al)
Adventures in Podcasting (Jane Nichols, CORE)
KidPix to the Max (Innes Kennard, VUW)
Movie Making for Secondary.(Nathan Kerr and Robert Douglas, Onehunga)

If you would like to attend a pre-conference workshop ONLY and are not attending the Ulearn07 conference, please write to gdavis@paradise.net.nz with your preferred option and your school or billing address.

If you have registered for the conference and the preconference workshop as well, you can select the preconference workshop of your choice

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

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."

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