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1. If you want a digital revolution, try collaboration	3. VoiceThread: the greatest digital story telling software since creation!
2. Blocking the Revolution and other bad deeds of establishment lackeys	4. me.edu.au professional networking service for educators
1. If you want a digital revolution, try collaboration Thursday 10.45  ASMS LC single   I was a school principal for most of my teaching career and after numerous initiatives, innovations, disasters and successes in school development, have worked out that real progress comes from collaboration and learning-as-you-go. This is especially true when it comes to ICT development. This session is a blunt argument of this point of view with a demonstration of some tools that help collaboration to work.	Abstract: School leaders face a daunting task in coming to terms with the digital revolution. A large and diverse set of issues has to be dealt with. The issues are interdependent, the state of play in terms of technology and learning goals is evolving rapidly, the home-school IT interaction is complex, not to mention budget and building issues. Elaborate Strategic Planning has failed to address this task on a school-wide basis. There is a renewed attention to learning-organisation development in which teachers focus on specific learning outcomes, rather than the elements of a complex Strategic Development Plan. In this approach to staff development, teacher collaboration is central. And serendipitously, collaboration is being supported by the wave of new Web 2.0 tools. This presentation discusses these broad issues of development strategy and then relates these to some grassroots school tactics for development, demonstrating some online tools that are being used to support professional networking among teachers: in particular, me.edu.au.
Links Aviram and Talmi Schmoker eLearning Europa me.edu.au/b/jtravers  my blog in me.edu A movie tour of me.edu.au [probably blocked in DECS schools]	The Paper Replacing Strategic Development with Collaboration, with a little help from online tools.   (1500 words, doc)
2. Blocking the Revolution and other bad deeds of establishment lackeys Thursday 2.55 pm    Room Flinders N220b	Abstract: At 2.55 pm, when people are a little sleepy, this sermon is for members of the Church of Digital Salvation and involves hand clapping and chanting. The Digital Revolution holds great promise but is resisted, like all revolutions, by those who benefit from, or feel safe, in the old ways. Their concerns are not irrational, and revolutionaries are sometimes dangerous. But techniques such as excessive internet blocking are symptoms of this reaction and betray a fundamental distrust of open approaches to information access and learning. This talk is a look ways to recognising the real reasons people resisting educational change and how to respond in positive ways. As well as looking at the serious threat of blocking, the talk will touch on why schools are naturally conservative, why the digital revolution really is a threat to life as we know it, and how civilization can survive without Latin, cursive handwriting and formal grammar in the curriculum.
3. VoiceThread: the greatest digital story telling software since creation! Friday 1.00 pm ASMS LC 1-2	My collection of VoiceThreads: mainly instructional
A little example
4. me.edu.au professional networking service for educators Friday 2.00 pm ASMS LC 1-2
A quick overview of the features of me.edu.au