Presenters
Keynote session "Doing it your way" by Adrian Bruce
Adrian Bruce is a multi award winning educator considered by many nationally and internationally to be an exemplary user of Information and Communication Technologies in the modern classroom.
Adrian has taught all grades K to 6, NSW ICT subjects Yrs 7 to 11 and has recently worked as an ICT integration specialist in a K-12 school. Currently Adrian is working full time as a freelance integration consultant, ICT workshop presenter, webmaster of adrianbruce.com & edublogger. Adrian's website gives away around 100 000 educational resources a month to educators all over the world and his blog "The Teachers' Toolbox" currently has just over 55 000 subscribers.
'Doing it Your Way' is a motivational presentation designed to give teachers 'just a brief feel' of the variety and power of freely available educational software and web tools. It also explores variety of processes & strategies that work well in classrooms to integrate ICTs into the curriculum in highly creative and engaging ways.
Participants will leave this session with a plethora of great teaching ideas in their tool-box, an incredible amount of inspiration and realistic goals to implement back in their schools and in their classrooms.
http://adrianbruce.com/teacher-toolbox/
Netbooks - The nasties and the nice - Bill Corbett
Student computers are being given a lot of attention in government spending and we will have to cater for our students having their own devices at school very soon.
"The shortlist for the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) netbooks tender is down to six, with ASI Solutions coming up against Acer, Asustek, Dell, HP and Lenovo.
Seen as a key part of the digital education revolution, the tender is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and will see 197,000 year 9-12 secondary students allocated computing devices that will only work with a DET login and password, and cost less than $500." 23 Feb 2009
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/277534/nsw_netbook_tender_shortlist_down_six
These devices look very similar in specification, but there is at least one major difference in Netbooks that you don't see at first glance and it is not price. After using a Netbook as my main machine for the last year, I will demonstrate that makes the difference between a capable machine and frustration waiting to happen.
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