Teaching and Learning with Vision Conference

Mark your diary for TLV12

Carol — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:23:12 +0000

It’s official – TLV12 will be held 7-9 November at the Radisson on the Gold Coast.

The committee is meeting today to plan another fabulous conference. We’ll update the website in the coming weeks. As always we’ll have Super Early Bird (saving of $200) and Early Bird (saving of $100) – so stay tuned…..

If you have any speaker or activity suggestions that you didn’t give us in the survey then please add them to the comments section here.

See you in November.

Quotable quotes

Carol — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:23:05 +0000

As I was trawling through the 2000 tweets from the #tlv11 backchannel to archive all of the links mentioned, I also copied a number of quotes that I found interesting, amusing and generally spot-on! I repeat them here for your enjoyment – with apologies for not noting who quoted them and for probably missing some other very good ones. Feel free to add your own teaching, learning or education quote in the comments section.

You can watch the slideshow and control the speed, watch the video if you want music, or just read the quotes which are listed at the end of this post.

Slideshow:

Quotable Quotes from TLV11

View more presentations from Carol Skyring

Video:

List of quotes:

Education is the slowest learner in the world.

Technology works that draws us together.

Twitter is not a new behaviour it is like a postcard, technology just extends its reach.

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

Learning is knowing something differently.

Don’t you think that 11 yrs in we should know how to do 21st century learning? Or at least been brave enough to embark on it!

If you cant make real buildings, make virtual. Even better, let kids make them.

Never recreate learning spaces from your memory – always imagine new places.

Games can connect pleasurable moments with learning.

Do it first, make trouble, inspire change!

Kids won’t stop learning, they will just go somewhere else…let’s let kids learn!

Kids in UK schools carry “sacrificial phones” = old ones from their parents – when they get caught they hand in that! Brilliant!!

Life doesn’t start after school….it happens in school too!

Sounds like we should focus on developing learning environments instead of developing content.

If we’re preparing students for life, they should be practising life.

Why do we think students are at University to become academics?

Instead of banning our students from using wikipedia as a research source could we set them an assignment to create and edit articles?

We learn best when it matters to us.

Standardized tests are immoral.

Give them the skills, expect them to do it, and they will.

Archive of shared links

Carol — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:13:46 +0000

There were hundreds of great links shared at the conference. I’m curating them here. To date I’m only up to 29 fabulous links. It’ll take a while to get them all and I’m sure I’ll run out of steam, so if you can lend a hand please let me know, or send me a link & I’ll add it.

These are links that people following the backchannel have shared either as mentioned by presenters or from their own resources that relate to the topic. You can see the archive of tweets at the conference twub.

Thanks to Darren Howell for kindly sharing his archived list of #tlv11 tweets.

Winner of the $100 voucher

Carol — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:13:45 +0000

Thanks to everyone who completed the post conference survey. The winner of the $100 Coles/Myer voucher was Sandra Lewis. I hope Sandra will buy herself a fabulous Christmas present!

Thanks to Transition Systems for donating the voucher. If you missed the Vaddio presentation at the Transition stand, then check them out online. This is a great system to overlay onto your video conferencing or standard classroom.

TLV11 photos

Carol — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:42:04 +0000

The incriminating evidence is now available! Click below to view conference photos in the following sets:

Wednesday 2 November – set up & Welcome Reception
Thursday 3 November
Friday 4 November
All photos tagged tlv11

A few of my personal favourites….

Getting reception required some tricky solutions:

Did everyone collect on that QR Code offer?:

A typical Couros brother photo:

A great time was had by all

Carol — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:23:30 +0000

TLV11 is over and what can I say! Well – maybe I’ll let others say it. We had a very rich and vibrant twitter stream and here are a few comments from there:

Thanks to everyone who helped to organise, the speakers, the sponsors & exhibitors, the delegates and all of the tweeps who joined us from around the world. The presentations, twitter archive and other resources will appear on this website during the week – so pop back regularly.

If you’d like to be updated on TLV12, please sign up via the ‘Get Updates‘ button.

Power of Networks: How Sharing & Openness Transform Learning

Carol — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:00:18 +0000

The extended joint keynote from Dr Alec Couros, Associate Professor Educational Technology & Media, Faculty of Education, University of Regina and George Couros, Division Principal of Innovative Teaching & Learning for Parkland School Division, Canada will be just one of the highlights of conference.

Alec and George will be discussing social networking services and the fact that they often get the bad rap of ‘time-wasters’ or tools that kids use inappropriately. Yet in reality, there are many social networks built upon passion, kindness, transparency, sharing, and collaboration.

This thoughtful and personal keynote presentation will lead participants through an exploration of these powerful human networks; the implications for practice, information & media literacy, and the shifting role of our schools.

Picture (CC) Gavin Llewellyn. www.onetoomanymornings.co.uk

One week to conference

Carol — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:45:37 +0000

It’s just one week until we all converge on the Gold Coast for the best conference this year! If you haven’t booked yet – there’s still time to do so. Maybe organise 3 colleagues and take advantage of the group of 4 booking and save $100 each. Register now.

So, what will we be getting up to? Here are a few things:

QR Code Challenge. QR Codes are going to be BIG at TLV11. To give you a fun experience and some ideas about how QR Codes could be used for teaching and learning, we’ve put together a QR Challenge. Read more.
Workshops. There are three workshops on Thursday afternoon:

Location Based Mobile Adventure – In this very interactive workshop you will learn how to direct and deliver a contemporary and innovative learning experience using a web-based mobile storytelling platform and a mobile app for 3G-enabled mobile devices. Read more.
TeachMeet Professional Learning – Come and join a TeachMeet and learn how to organise your own TeachMeet. Read more.
Web Tools and App Swap – There are thousands of Web tools and apps for mobile devices that can be used for teaching and learning. This workshop will be a show and tell. Come along and share your favourite tools and explain how you use them. Read more.

Program. The final program is now available – we’ve had a couple of speaker changes due to personal reasons. You’ll hear four fabulous Keynote Speakers and a range of Featured and Case Study speakers.

We look forward to sharing ideas with you and having a great conference.

A taste of the Gold Coast

Carol — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:46:18 +0000

Just to get you in the mood on these long cold days. The Gold Coast in November will be fabulous!

Early Bird Closes 31 August

Carol — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:21:59 +0000

Just 21 days left to save $100 with an Early Bird registration.

This is a great professional development and networking event – one where you’ll take away a raft of new ideas.

Check out the Speaker Page to see the fabulous line up of Keynotes, Featured and Case Studies we have lined up.

Early Bird closes 31 August so be quick and register now.