Where: Online in Elluminate. Click here to to join the session.
Did you attend the 2008 Knowledge Bank Conference?
If not, would you like to know how it worked and what we learnt?
Come to the UNConference session to talk about:
- What everyone liked
- The shared content we created
- The links and networks people made
- How we could have improved things
- Other topics you’d like to see explored
- How to set up your own conference
- Where to go from here
Are you interested in Web 2.0 in education and looking at how to take it further? Why don’t you invite your Principal or CEO to join this discussion also?
We would love to see you there and we have picked a time that we hope will suit our international friends also.
Thanks for participating in the conference – you can still contribute to the conference wiki, take part in the LiveBlog and listen to the conference recordings (they’ll be posted up shortly after the sessions).
Learning in a changing world – Web 2.0 and beyond
The Knowledge Bank online conference this year is focused on Web 2.0 in education: what it is, how it’s being used today and its potential to radically change education.
Take a look at the program for more info on each of the sessions:
Tuesday 12 August at 9am: the UNConference – sign up here. Come to the UNConference session to talk about:
- What everyone liked
- The shared content we created
- The links and networks people made
- How we could have improved things
- Other topics you’d like to see explored
- How to set up your own conference
- Where to go from here
Are you interested in Web 2.0 in education and looking at how to take it further? Why don’t you invite your Principal or CEO to join this discussion also? Sign up here.
We would love to see you there and we have picked a time that we hope will suit our international friends also.
Look forward to seeing you.
Tamara, Carole, Mark, Craig and Marina – the Conference Team 9am – Sign up here.
Presenter(s) Carole McCulloch, Tamara Carpenter and guests: Anne Mirtschin, Jess McCulloch, Daniel Gooding, and Heather Robinson
Description
Introducing Web 2.0. Who are you? Where have I met you before?
Ever looked something up on Wikipedia, listened to a podcast, or read a blog? Well then you’ve already met Web 2.0. In this session we will be put forward some definitions, talk through a few of the concepts, and invite four brilliant Victorian educators to tell you how Web 2.0 has changed their classroom practice:
• Anne Mirtschin and Jess McCulloch, Hawksdale College: how we championed Web 2.0 at our school
• Daniel Gooding: how I’m use Virtual Classrooms for teaching LOTE
• Heather Robinson: how we used a Virtual Classroom to bring a fossil back to life
Day 1/Session 2 Web 2.0 is the Future of Education
Date and time Tuesday 22 July, 10.30am
Where Click here to listen to the recording of this session. You can also view the podcast/slideshow of Steve’s session below.
Presenter(s) Steve Hargadon
Description
“I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. I believe that we cannot even begin to imagine the changes that are going to take place as the two-way nature of the Internet begins to flower, and that even those of us who have spent time imagining this future will be astounded by what happens. I’m going to identify ten trends in this regard that I think have particular importance for education and learning, and then discuss seven steps I think educators can take to make a difference during this time.”
Day 1/Session 3 Panel discussion: Web 2.0 is the Future of Education with Steve Hargadon and guests – facilitated by Mark Landy
Date and time Tuesday 22 July, 12pm
Where Click here to listen to the recording of this session.
Presenter(s) Mark Landy (Facilitator) and Panellists
Description
Steve Hargadon identifies ten ways that Web 2.0 will impact on education and looks at the different ways that educators can transform their practice. In this session, Mark Landy leads a panel of innovative Victorian educators to debate the implications of Steve’s ideas in practice.
Day 2/Session 1 KnowledgeBank: Next Generation – Web 2.0 in action
Date and time Wednesday 23 July, 10am
Where Click here to Listen to a recording of the session.
Presenter(s) Jason Callaghan and the KnowledgeBank:Next Generation team
Description
KnowledgeBank: Next Generation will create a cyber safe space and single portal of teaching and learning content to showcase new and emerging technologies supported by Department policy and process. In Term 3, 2008 we’re focussing on Blogging and Podcasting. We’re synthesising current research, collecting the best practice from schools and trying out new ideas to develop policy and showcases to help all DEECD schools use Web 2.0 technologies. Soon we’ll be calling for participants in our Term 4, 2008 program focussing on streaming media (eg: YouTube) and social networking sites (eg: Facebook). We’ll be working to find a way to make these technologies safe for education while ensuring they are accessible for all learners and are academically rigorous.
Come along to this session to meet the team and get a taste of the program in Term 4. You’ll get a chance to participate in hands-on activities (well, in a virtual sense), discuss policy issues, share your ideas and let us know of any great resources or programs we shouldn’t miss. You’ll also hear from a teacher involved in the current program.
Applications for 18 teachers to be part of the Term 4, 2008 Professional Learning Program will open a few weeks after this event – more information here.
Why has the Web now got a number? or coming to terms with the read/write web, knowledge production in schools and learning to deal with technologies that develop exponentially.
Web 2.0 or the read/write web is the latest of a long line of computing-related developments that have prompted considerable interest in schools. Unlike earlier developments, in which responses by schools have followed predictable patterns, the read/write or social Web poses different challenges for schools as well as offering new ways of working for students and teachers.
This presentation will do three things:
broadly map developments in schools and education more generally and make connections for principals, beginning teachers, long-time technophobe teachers, computer enthusiast teachers, parents, students.
locate this account in an analysis of future developments in computing and related technologies
explore the implications of these developments for particular kinds of knowledge production in schools.
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