Slide to Learn Mobile Event - Conference - Virtual and in Person - Australia

http://slidetolearn.ning.com

July 1, 2010 to July 2, 2010 – Shepparton High School, Victoria, Australia

If you have considered the possibilities for learning with the iPod touch in your school, but weren’t sure where mobile learning fits into your school’s eLearning plans, this is the event for you.

This will be a series of hands-on workshops, keynote presentations and break out sessions from which you can choose, to access this once only opportunity to find these inspirational educators working together.  Planning is in its early stages. A number of strands have been described to ensure our participants a complete experience in mobile learning. These are:

1. Showcase - sessions offer a range of examples of current practice around Australia and the world
2. Personalize - these devices offer lots of options for personalised learning
3. Create - sessions offer ways to create with/for the iPod Touch eg Podcasts, multimedia, creation using apps;
4. Manage - sessions offer advice/ideas on management - personal and program/school management, using iPods for productivity;
5. Connect - using the iPod touch to connect to the internet, contact with others and collaborate;
6. Learn - sessions showcasing the fact that it is not the iPods that offer the learning but rather the way they support good effective pedagogy that enhances the learning. Sessions would show how iPods are embedded in good pedagogy and context.

The kind of workshops you can expect include:

• Meet the iPod touch
• Literacy and numeracy with the iPod touch
• Implementation planning for school leaders
• Personalising Learning with iPod touch
• Improving staff productivity
• The iPod touch and music
• The iPod touch for higher order thinking
• Creativity with the iPod touch
• Digital storytelling
• School Showcases
• Creating simple podcasts
• 1 – to – 1 iPod touch
• And also, as of January 28th, the iPad!

Some workshops will have the capacity to join in virtually using Elluminate.

We also have some very special guest presenters confirmed from the US. Tony Vincent from Learning in Hand, an internationally recognised expert in creativity with mobile learning, and Susan Wells and her team from Culbreth Middle School in North Carolina, where they have gone 1 – to – 1 with the iPod touch this year.

The event will run over two days in the first week of the Victorian school holidays in July. There will be many resources made available here on this Ning for participants to be able to connect both before and after the event.

At this point, we would like people to register their interest in the event (see time/date details above) by completing the following form:

Click here to register your interest - http://slidetolearn.ning.com/page/register-1

Update on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 6:42AM by I Education Apps Review

Slide to Learn Registration has Opened:

Click here to go to the online registration form

This will be the cheapest PD you will find. At only $75 per day, you are getting AMAZING value for money.

Get your registrations in NOW!

Comments

[Louise Duncan]

Hi,
Great to see that IEAR has found our event in Aus! Event registrations will open in the next few days and our program will be available on the Ning next week. This event is being run specifically by teachers from across Australia who are using this mobile technology with students in our classrooms. We look forward to be able to share what we have discovered from many expert sources. I have been following your reviews here at IEAR since the iPod touch arrived in my classroom in August 2008, great job!