Dr Geoff Romeo - Click here to download paper
Dr Romeo is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash
University, Melbourne. He has been with the Faculty since 1991. Prior
to this he was a teacher with the Education Department of Victoria.
In 1989 he was an International Teaching Fellow, and taught for 12 months
at Galveston Elementary School in Arizona, USA. His research interests
include the use of ICT in education, at all levels, to improve teaching
and learning, online teaching and learning, the development of primary
and middle school curriculum, action research and education in general.
Dr Romeo is the immediate past president of ICT in Education Victoria,
and a past member of the Australian Council for Computers in Education
and the Standards Council of the Teaching Profession.
Dr Romeo is active in delivering and organizing Professional Development
for schools, organizations and teachers, and has presented at conferences,
seminars and workshops in Australia, United Kingdom, USA, Denmark and
Chile.
Dr Romeo recently received the 2004 award for 'Outstanding Leadership
in ICT' from the ACCE.
Ms Pamela Paton
Ms Paton is the Director of the WA college of Teaching and
will officially open the ECAWA 2004 State Conference on Tuesday the 5th
of October.
Ms Pamela Paton joined the College Secretariat on 25 February 2004.
Pamela has worked in State education since 1968 as a primary teacher (Wagin
DHS, Victoria Park PS and Latham PS) and as a Deputy Principal and Principal
(Southwell PS).
Her substantive position is Manager - Leadership at the Fremantle/Peel
Education District, a position she has held for five years. Other roles
Pamela has held include Language K-12 School Development Officer, PSP
Coordinator, PSP Leading Language teacher, presenter for the EDWA School
Leadership Program and the Performance Management Policy, WALNA Data Club,
and Senior Consultant in Schools Division, EDWA.
Pamela has considerable experience in curriculum and leadership, having
co-authored curriculum materials for First Steps, presented many curriculum
based topics in WA and overseas, co-authored book chapters and articles,
and presented school leadership topics here and overseas. She has a Bachelor
and Masters of Education. Pamela has twice been on teacher exchange to
Canada.
In 2002/2003 she was awarded an inaugural Curtin University/IPAA Fellowship.
Most recently Pamela has been at Murdoch University completing research
into the leadership of small schools
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Mr Dougiamas will be the second keynote speaker on Tuesday the 5th of October.
After a varied career which included software development, support, teaching and postgraduate degrees in both Computer Science and Education, Martin developed an open source Course Management System called Moodle, including a community of developers and users to support it at http://moodle.org.
Martin also runs a company (Moodle.com) that partners with other companies around the world to provides commercial services to insitutions using Moodle,and has consulted to
Universities and schools in Australia, China, New Zealand England, Ireland
and the United States.
Martin Dougiamas grew up in central Australia, attending School Of The
Air, which was long distance education via CB radio.
Martin describes himself as a tallish bloke with a wife, two kids and
a beard.
Dr Jim Mullaney
Dr Jim Mullaney will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday the
6th of October.
Jim Mullaney has worked for the last five years as a consultant in education,
firstly with the Catholic Education Office, and then running his own consultancy
- FuturePD. Before that he worked as a Science and Computing teacher and
was responsible for setting up the Year 8 Learning Teams at Mandurah Catholic
College.
At present he is involved in a variety of tasks including several QTP projects, a Federal Government PD initiative, a cooperative learning project with the Moorditj Noongar Community College, and consults widely in industry.
Mr Mal Lee
Mal is a Director of SNC, an Australian company developing fully web-based, database driven administrative and communications solutions, and providing product independent educational consultancy and teacher training to teachers globally.
A business-person, an education writer and consultant, Mal is a former director of schools, secondary college principal and a member of the Mayer Committee. A Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Administration (FACEA), Mal has been closely associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schooling for the last decade.
Mal is the creator of IWB.Net and co-authored the internationally ground breaking research on the whole of school use of interactive whiteboards by Richardson Primary.
Mal brings to this presentation not only a business, school administration and educational perspective, but also a practical understanding of the many elements to be addressed to achieve the wise whole of school harnessing of interactive whiteboards, as well as the technology available.
As part of the Interactive Whiteboard ‘Conference within a Conference’, Mal Lee will deliver a keynote address ‘The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution – The Teachers' Perspective’ of the implementation of Interactive Whiteboard programmes in schools.
This will be followed after the morning tea break with a special presentation designed to be of particular value to principals and other school leaders entitled ‘The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution – The School Leaders' Perspective.’
After the second presentation, participants will have the opportunity to view and try the range of Interactive Whiteboards that are on the market, and the associated software, with demonstrations by experienced teachers.
The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
This presentation will explore why within the decade most classrooms in the developed world will be using some kind of interactive whiteboard (IWB)
The session will examine the educational and economic reasons for building your ICT and education strategy around IWBs - and not personal computers - and provide a practical insight into the preparations required for a whole of school deployment.
Most importantly the session will examine how you can enhance the pedagogy
of every teacher in your school, and improve student learning.