Computers in Education Group of South Australia - Senior Secondary Information Technology

CEGSA / DECS Learning Technologies offers these workshops in conjunction with the CEGSA State Conference

To register for these workshops, go to the Workshops page

Pre-Conference Workshop

CREATING WEBSITES AND WEBSITE PROGRAMMING

Facilitator: Jodi Gordon-Moulds

Audience: Stage 1 and 2 teachers, particularly those teaching Information Technology Studies and Information Technology Systems.

This one day workshop will cover HTML/Dreamweaver and JavaScript

Creating Websites

- Intro to Dreamweaver (and web page construction/design methods)
- HTML/XHTML overview
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and Dreamweaver

Website Programming
- Introduction to JavaScript (and Object Oriented Programming)
- Programming Concepts in JavaScript
- Coding and Debugging JavaScript using Dreamweaver

Venue: Thebarton Senior College

Date: Monday July 6

Time: 9am – 4-pm. Please make sure you are at the venue ready to start at 9am

Cost: CEGSA members and State Conference attendees $103.50, non-members $128.00

A light lunch, and morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Post-Conference Workshop

INTRODUCTION TO ACTION SCRIPT 3

Facilitator: Leon Marsden

Audience: Upper primary and secondary teachers

Multimedia Programming is an exciting educational pathway for both students and teachers. This course is designed for teachers who wish to move to the next step in multimedia and begin to interact with the environment. In this course we will be looking at structured programming concepts and controlling elements on the screen through code. As the course is an introduction the focus is more on skills development than problem solving. You will develop the first steps into object orientated programming and you do not need to have a strong programming background at all to participate.

NOTE: It is suggested that you have a good grasp of the Flash environment with drawing of elements, motion tween and layers. We will be starting with creation of a button and are more concerned with the coding site of Flash rather then the user interface. At the conclusion of the course you will be given some resources and tutorials to help reinforce your learning from the day.

Venue: Thebarton Senior College

Date: Thursday July 9

Time: 9am – 4-pm. Please make sure you are at the venue ready to start at 9am

Cost: CEGSA members and State Conference attendees $103.50 non-members $128.00

A light lunch, and morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Comments:

I agree Peter. However having people relatively close by who you can visit or even observe teaching can be a great support especially for new teachers or those inexperienced in the subject.

Why are we wanting to focus on regional geographical groups vs groups based on interest, expertise and need.

To me it seems that we should be organising people on the basis of need/interest/espertise. I think that F2F meetings are initially extremely important to establish relationships and then having regular 'hub' meetings via electronic means (synchronous and asynchronous), with the occassional F2F meeting to rekindle and strengthen and broaden the relationships.