DEANZ

24 September 2006

Upcoming conferences

Filed under: Conferences — Carol @ 8:41 pm

22 September 2006

How the web went world wide

Filed under: Technology — Carol @ 7:43 pm

I was catching up with a backlog of blogs to read this evening and found this entry on BBC News from 3 Aug. Did you know it has been 15 years since the web went live.

 ”One key date is 6 August 1991 – the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it.”

Could we live without it now?

Read more…

20 September 2006

LAMS

Filed under: eLearning — Carol @ 3:56 pm

The First International LAMS Conference: Designing the Future of Learning
6-8 December 2006
The Conservatorium, Sydney CBD, Australia
http://lamsfoundation.org/lams2006/index.htm

The LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) conference follows the
ASCILITE Conference ( http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney06/ which
is also being held at the same venue earlier in the week (3-6 December
2006).

18 September 2006

HERDSA 2007

Filed under: Conferences — Carol @ 10:58 am

The call for contributions for HERDSA 2007 opens 4 December 2006 and closes 23 March 2007.

The conference (8-11 July 2007) will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. A wonderful city of which I want to see more.

The conference theme is “Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship” and  provides higher education practitioners a collegial and collaborative environment in which to explore:

  • Theoretical frameworks of learning and teaching in higher education
  • Scholarship of learning and teaching 
  • How the theory and scholarship translate into a meaningful student experience

Let’s have a big push to get DEANZ well represented at the conference!

Further details are available on http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2007/

6 September 2006

‘Teaching English in a Mobile and Networked World’

Filed under: Conferences — Carol @ 2:52 pm

John Eyles, Symposium Coordinator, warmly invites you to join this one day ‘online event’ being held by EON Foundation on Sunday, September 24th, 2006. It will be an opportunity to share, discuss and invent how best to use digital media to teach English in a mobile and networked world. It is an informal, experimental and practice based symposium for English language professionals and others.

The aim is to enhance teaching and learning.

It is free to join. Please invite your friends and colleagues!

Symposium Events include:

  • Live webcasts. Forum discussions with international presenters.
  • Developing the concept of a massively multiplayer media rich gaming environment that helps people learn English for international communication, yields practical rewards and at the same time helps solve real world problems.
  • Hands on workshops focused on sharing useful tools, classroom tips, learning activities and flexible learning lesson plans that are simple and effective.
  • Guest presenters from New Zealand, India, China, Thailand, America, Japan, UK and elsewhere. Topics include, use of audio software, image-based-learning, online learning games, social networking software, internationally linked task based projects, the OECD Core Competencies, community based learning and other ‘hot issues’.
  • Playtime – trying out new connectivity tools. Wikis, Blogs, Moodle, Podcasting, video and so on.
  • ‘Newbies’ forum: This forum is for questions and answers about the use of elearning and for anyone who would like to try online discussions for the first time.
  • Simultaneous link-up with Future of Learning in a Networked World conference visiting NZ.

Visit www.TheLivingClassroom.org

If you have questions, would like to give a presentation, promote a product, host a forum, write an article or be involved in some other way please contact John.

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