Highlighted Speakers
| Dr Steve Dillon | Armin Kroll | Derek Wenmoth | Wayne Rankin |
| Brenda Frisk | Lee Whitmore | Lee Harvey | Dan Invargson |
Dr Steve Dillon is founding director of the save to DISC (Documenting Innovation in Sound Communities) Research Network which examines and documents the qualities and relationships between music, meaning, cognitive and social benefit, health and well being.
Steve is a senior lecturer in Music and Sound and music education in the Faculty of Creative Industry,Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses upon meaningful engagement with music making in schools and communities.
Steve is Project leader for the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction design (ACID) Network Jamming Research Creating new instruments and ways of learning for media performance.
http://www.jam2jam.com/ | http://www.savetodisc.net/
VITTA is proud to present this iPhone development workshop for teachers interested in programming for mobile devices. Armin Kroll and Daniel Bradby will guide teachers through the Apple SDK to build a simple iPhone application.
The iPhone has become one of the most popular mobile devices within a very short period of time. Young people use the iPhone or iPod Touch for more than just listening to music, making a phone call or playing games. These multi-purpose devices are changing the way we consume information and interact socially. Currently more than 50,000 applications are available in the Apple AppStore for the iPhone and iPod Touch. To produce this many applications Apple has provided a great set of development tools.
This workshop is a journey into the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). We will demonstrate how an iPhone application is structure and how to use the SDK to build a simple iPhone application. After the workshop the participants should be able to explain the process involved in developing an iPhone application and even get started in building their own first iPhone app.
Please note that only 24 places are available.
Derek is currently director of eLearning at CORE Education, a not-for-profit education research and development organization based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Derek is involved with a wide range of e-learning activities from exploring the innovative use of the latest technologies and researching e-learning practices, to helping establish policy and strategies to enable the implementation of e-learning.
With a background as a teacher, principal, teacher educator and education policy advisor, Derek’s role at CORE perfectly combines his passion for teaching and learning together with his long held fascination with the use of technologies in education. Derek is a regular speaker at conferences both nationally and internationally, and maintains a blog on matters relating to e-learning and other aspects of interest to educators; http://blog.core-ed.net/derek In recognition of his work in this area, Derek was designated one of 2008’s “Global Six” by the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Edutopia which recognizes individuals making a difference in education. http://www.edutopia.org/daring-dozen-2008 Wayne Rankin is the Creative Director of the Rankin Design Group. As a successful designer, Wayne is an advocate of the highest standards of excellence for professionalism and quality. He firmly believes that design and digital technology are an incredibly powerful and persuasive medium for communicating information, the combination can create a sensual, emotional experience across all forms of space and media. Wayne applies this vision and philosophy to all of his projects...from stamps, print, multimedia, exhibitions,etc. to the Internet! And has been pushing the boundaries of digital imaging since the mid eightees. His experience using computers for new media projects began in the early 1990‘s. He is the recipient of many awards both in print and new media and has had work published in many Australian and International publications. He co-founded the Australian Graphic Design Association [AGDA] in 1988, and served as National and Victorian president for four years. He was a member of RMIT’s Multimedia Industry Council; a member of the Premier’s Task Force on Communications and Multimedia Development for the State of Victoria; and, sat on the Multimedia Content Advisory Group for Education Victoria. He was also a member of the National School of Design’s Advisory Committee at Swinburne University of Technology. Wayne was a director and founder of The Swish Group Limited, one of Australia’s largest new media companies in 2000 . During his role as creative director, he was involved with the team at Swish in developing numerous innovative award winning solutions for clients utilising the power of ideas, design and technology. He is the co-author of the following books for Peachpit Press: Brenda is responsible for Nextspace’s business development and education strategies. Under her direction Nextspace is working with leading businesses; as well as primary, intermediate, secondary school communities and tertiary institutions to up-skill teachers and give students access to the latest technology. Brenda has extensive experience in both the commercial and education communities and has worked with digital technology from secondary to tertiary to adult education. She is a passionate and committed educational leader who has presented and facilitated workshops over the years throughout North America, Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Before moving to New Zealand from Canada in 2005, Brenda owned her own digital design company and developed a successful digital multimedia programme for high schools. She holds a Masters degree in Communication and Technology, Bachelor degrees in both Education and Human Ecology, vocational certification in adult education and numerous digital media certifications. In 2005, she received the SMARTer Kids Foundation Innovative use of Technology Award for Alberta, Canada, for her work in multimedia and education
Lee Whitmore is Director of Education at AVID TechAs a professional in the creative digital media industry, music, audio and video, specializing in education technology Lee is deeply committed to the active role the arts plays in developing positive life experiences for children. Lee specialised in Music technology and professional development.
And co-author of the interactive training DVD’s for Software-Cinema USA
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Lee Harvey providing the keynote on musical education and the national curriculum.
Daniel is an ICT elearning evangelist who has been involved in some of the landmark events of growth of the Internet, including: His session "Reasoning, Resilience and Responsibility in 2020" raises many big questions. How do we prepare for life beyond 2020? Dan Invargson will lead a discussion about the emerging technology landscape for the next decade. He will guide and challenge educators to consider the needs of a student entering school in 2009, the journey of their learning, the expectations, skills and expertise required for entering tertiary education or workplaces beyond 2020. The discussion will centre on skills of Reasoning, Resilience and Responsibility as the are supported by the activities of todays Gen Y and how that relates to the skills needed to remain relevant in the global world of 2020".
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