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The VITTA 2009 Conference Slide to Open has been a busy place for the past three days.  Keynote Speakers Larry Johnson of the Horizon Report and Steve Hargadon of Classroom 2.0 were inspiring, presenting a vision for educational change.   Choice of workshops was varied and provided a balance of ICT integration topics. The session I [...]

Earlier this week at the VITTA Conference in Melbourne, I delivered a presentation on the collaborative project I’m coordinating between Year 7 Humanities class here in Mildura and a class in Newburg Oregon, USA.  Diane Peters and I met at NECC in July and have managed to get the project off the ground with the [...]

Stephen Heppell was a good choice for kicking off the VITTA conference.  His vision of the future of education, coupled with a mass of successful projects make him well worth listening to.  He’s been responsible for projects such as Ultralab, Teachers TV, the Thailand Knowledge Park and is presently working on Building Cayman’s Future.   Stephen [...]

Yesterday I presented a session at the VITTA/SLAV ’Live to Learn: Learn to Blog’ conference held at Ivanhoe Grammar and have embedded it on this page for easy access.  It was a good mini conference and an opportunity to catch up with members of the the technology in education community, both ICT teachers and teacher-librarians.  I [...]

Having attended the School Library Assoc Victoria (SLAV) last Friday and then the Victorian Info Tech Teacher’s Accoc (VITTA) it’s interesting to see the impact of the VELS curriculum reform. SLAV have equipped T-Ls and the schools with the production of the CD-ROMs Making a Difference: research guide and Researching together: Engaging minds. Making a [...]