8:30am

Registration

9:00am

Welcome - Mobile Learning with No Limits
Renee Hoareau, VITTA Executive Officer

9:10am

Keynote Plenary
Synch or Swim
Michael Phillips Outstanding School Leadership Award Winner - Principal, Ringwood SC
A major theme of this keynote is around Leadership for Learning that keeps ahead of the wave.

Disruptive technological change is rapidly shifting the balance between traditional models of teaching and learning and those that are more blended. The factory model of learning has finally closed for business.

Directions for learning are limitless as:
• distributive technologies allow 1-to-many;
• collaborative technologies encourage many-to-many;
• personalised learning is possible through 1-to-1;and
• distributive feedback technologies promote 1-to-many or many-to-many.

All of this is possible now in every classroom in every school.

9:40am

1A Lab 1

AUS-VELS, Digital Content
Sandy Phillips, Digital Content Manager, DEECD

Digital resources created for teachers and students and how they support authentic use of mobile technologies.

1B Lab 2

"ipads, ipods, netbooks, notebooks – mobile learning at Keysborough College"

Heather Lindsay/Keysborough College Principal
With Jonathan Boyd, Year 9 Teacher Team Leader
This presentation will describe the variety of mobile learning occurring at Keysborough College. Participants will hear about the ways the college has gone about introducing various devices to teachers and students and some of the challenges that have been faced.

Keysborough College is a multi campus school for students in years 7-12. Technology is playing a major role as students move into new flexible learning spaces.

1C Lab 3

Science Classroom without walls

Gary Bass, McLeod College

1D Lab 4

GoogleApps for Educators

Roland Gesthuizen, elearning coordinator, Keysborough Secondary College

11am - 12pm

Concurrent Sessions 2

2A Lab 1

Acer Iconia Tab A500 / Samsung Galaxy Tab

An introduction to tablets. A Telstra representative will demonstrate functions and applications available on Acer and Samsung Tablets.

2B Lab 2

Web content for mobile devices
Kevork Krozian, Ringwood Secondary College

Accessing pre built web sites with your mobile device is just a matter of point and surf.
How about your own mobile browser friendly content ? How hard is it to build ? What considerations are there to take into account? Come and hear some ideas to assist you.

2C Lab 3

Mobile Learning: the latest research on how to make a difference

Cecilie Murray, Director, Delphian elearning

Come and learn about what happens in a mobile learning classroom with a range of technologies. Recent research in more than 60 Australian schools reveals the benefits for teachers, students and parents. This session examines international and local research and practical experiences of students and teachers in a range of mobile learning projects in the K-12 environment from 2007-2011. Students are demonstrating improved attitudes to school, greater engagement and participation in learning, and enhanced performance. But what makes the difference when implementing in your school?

12pm-1pm

Lunch

1pm-2pm

Concurrent Sessions 3

3A Lab 1

iDigistories: Creating with iPads and other iDevices

John Pearce/Salty Solutions

An oft heard criticism of iPads, iPods etc is that they are great consumption devices but as a creative tool they struggle to make the grade but as with most new tools it doesn’t take long to disprove these first impressions. One area where iDevices can be a really powerful creative tool is in the area of digital storytelling. When you combine the capability to capture audio, images and video on the fly with editing tools such as StripDesigner, Comic Life, AudioBoo, SonicPics and Videolicious and Reel Director you have all you need to tell a story on the fly. Adding the capability to blog these stories live from your device and you have a great tool for telling your story to the world. This session will explore just how easy it is to create your own digistories.

3B Lab 2

Content apps for the iPad

Clare Rafferty, Ringwood Secondary College

Flash enabled apps and other useful iPad apps – In this session we will explore the Flash enabled apps and 10 of the top apps that students and teachers are using currently at rsc. As well as a range of ideas that these apps could be used for, there will be time to play with apps for those that bring their iPads along with them.

3C Lab 3

Apps and Data

Cecilie Murray, Director, Delphian elearning

If you are an innovative thinker, keen to add value to your students’ use of apps, consider apps that provide data. This session is a hands-on experience with mobile learning apps that provide data in the classroom. App-titude educational apps will be used to demonstrate the potential of this concept where teachers can view and manage automatic assessment of student progress from an online assessment system that provides graphs including leaderboards, classroom participation and performance results. If you and your students are building your own apps, you can gather data from a customised online assessment system for your school.

4A Lab 1

Creating applications

Andrew Hansen, Science Curriculum Coordinator at Ringwood SC

Professional podcasts and digital resources can look and sound like a Cecil B. DeMille epic. Do they have to? What do students want / need from us in terms of digital resources? What do they do with them? What do they expect? Having tried to rival Hollywood and then talking to my own students about their needs let me share some ideas about what can be done to support students learning. This session will be heavily focused towards MAC however some discussion about Windows applications will also occur. Participants should bring their laptop as we will be spending as much time trying things as we can.

4B Lab 2

iPad apps across the curriculum – how to apply apps in the classroom

Tania Sheko, Learning Enhancement Coordinator and Teacher Librarian, Whitefriars College

This session is a showcase of iPad apps which can be used to enhance learning in the secondary classroom. Curricular areas include music, art, literature, science, psychology, maths, problem solving and more.

4C Lab 3

Reflecting, sharing, responding and work flows

Jenny Ashby, ICT Specialist, Epsom Primary School

This session is for the advanced idevice(ipad/ipod) user who would like to have students sharing their learning from their idevice and developing reflections on learning via their device.

Work flows that lead to great ways to reflect on and share learning will be experienced by participants as they follow activities that they could use in their own classes. This would be suitable for all curriculum areas and for levels 2 through to 12

Apps to be used include posterous, comic touch (life) , spoken motion, duplicam, photo gallery, dropbox, mail, keynote, audio recorder, blogpress, sonic pics, mover+, safari, echofon (twitter), movies, evernote and photos.

We'll be learning at the speed of need.

3:10pm

Plenary Speech ~ Renee Hoareau, VITTA Executive Officer

3.30pm

Finish