Category Archives: ICT in education

SIF Association AU Annual Meeting Wrap up

During the week of 28 November 2011 the SIF Association AU held it’s inaugural Annual Meeting in Melbourne, alongside the !dea11 Conference. The week’s activities highlighted the growth of the SIF Association AU Community with a host of formal and … Continue reading

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#ideaevent Twitter archive available – Thanks @leogaggl

I went to create an archive of all the tweets for #ideaevent at twapperkeeper and found that our good friend Leo had already done so.  Thanks Leo – I hope you and others found them useful. The archive is available … Continue reading

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Linking Learning in Schools Forum

@ !dea11: Thursday 1 December 11am Facilitator: Katrina Reynen Teacher – Anne Mirtschin, Hawkesdale P-12 School Principal – Ben Johnstone-McCloud, Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College Chief Information Officer – Dave O’Hagan, QLD, DOE Data expert  – Greg Curtis, TAS Vendor  – … Continue reading

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Larry Johnson @!dea11: Wed 30th November 4:15pm

Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Larry founded and has lead the NMC publication the Horizon … Continue reading

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Personalising learning possibilities – new research from Telstra

Personalisation in learning is often talked about, and thoughtful use of technology offers some real potential here. The !DEA conference is very fortunate that experts in this area from Telstra have chosen to launch new research into this area at … Continue reading

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IDEA Program Committee

The following people have been helping shape IDEA11 Prof. Shirley Alexander Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching, Learning & Equity) University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Michelle Forbes Project Support Officer Education Services Australia (ESA) Jerry Leeson Project Manager Education Services Australia (ESA) Dennis … Continue reading

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IMS at IDEA11

Rob Abel and Chuck Severance will be at IDEA11. A lot of the stuff below will be discussed at IDEA11. Dear IMS Community- If you are at EDUCAUSE next week in Philadelphia, please be sure to come to the IMS … Continue reading

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Speaker Spotlight: Dan Ingvarson National School Interoperability Program (NSIP)

Daniel grew up in a family where education was the central theme with his grandparents, parents and extended family working as either teachers, School Principals or in Tertiary Education Departments. Daniel started working in IT and education in 1987 and … Continue reading

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Speaker spotlight: Pauline Farrell

Pauline Farrell is the Executive Manager of Blended eLearning Solutions (BeLS) at Box Hill Institute. Pauline project managed both the GPS Learning Pathways and Student Web project which has created significant change within the organisation. Pauline has won numerous awards … Continue reading

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Speaker spotlight: Mike Seyfang

In this series of posts we hope to give you a bit of an insight into the speakers at !dea and the sessions they will be participating in.  Kicking the series off we are going to look at Mike Seyfang … Continue reading

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