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Mike Leishman will present
Wikis for group and classroom collaboration
A Wiki is a great tool for collaborative activities. In this session, Mike Leishman will illustrate how Wikis are used at Newman College in the context of Science, and as well will discuss the Wikis he developed for the Applied Information Technology and Computer Science courses, and for Kids’ Programming.
Mike will be specifically looking at PBWiki, and the Web 2.0 tools that can be integrated within it.
This is a BYO Computer workshop.
Intended Audience: Upper Primary, Middle School and Secondary, but the presentation may also be of interest to any teachers interested in using wikis.
Mike Leishman will also present
Scratch Programming for Beginners
In this workshop participants will look at the programming structures available in Scratch and try example programs as illustrated in http://kidsprogramming.pbwiki.com/Course%20by%20Mike%20Leishman
Participants are encouraged to bring along any additional examples relating to the sections in the Wiki.
This is a BYO Computer workshop. Please install Scratch on your notebook computer before coming to the Conference.
Scratch may be downloaded from http://scratch.mit.edu/
Intended Audience: Upper Primary through to Senior Secondary
Mike Leishman will also present
Making a multi-scene animation using Scratch
One of the problems with Scratch is that there is only one scene to work with. This is very difficult to contend with especially if you have been using applications like Flash. By the end of this session, all of your fears will be gone and you will have a good understanding of how to get around this limitation.
This is a hands-on session and you will need to have Scratch installed on your notebook if you want to get the most out of the short time we have to do this.
This is a BYO Computer workshop. Please install Scratch on your notebook computer before coming to the Conference.
Scratch may be downloaded from http://scratch.mit.edu/
Intended Audience: Upper Primary through to Senior SecondaryMike Leishman will also present
Command line PHP programming for beginners
Attendees will look at the programming structures available in PHP and try example programs as illustrated in http://kidsprogramming.pbwiki.com/php_course_ml
Attendees will need to download and extract the PHP binaries to their notebook before attending the session. http://www.php.net/downloads.php
While we are doing this, any additional examples relating to the sections in the Wiki would be appreciated.
This is a BYO Computer workshop. Please install PHP on your notebook computer before coming to the Conference.
PHP may be downloaded from http://www.php.net/downloads.php
Intended Audience: Upper Primary through to Senior Secondary
About the Presenter
Mike Leishman is the Secondary Coordinator and Web Master of ECAWA and Manager ICT at Newman College. His qualifications include a Master of Science - Computer Science (Curtin) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science majoring in computer programming.
Mike Leishman is also an ACCE fellow, ECAWA educator of the year 1997 and ACCE Educator of the year 1998. He manages the IT department of one of the largest Catholic K-12 schools in WA. Mike has been a teacher of computing studies for more than 20 years and in that time has taught most subjects in the IT area.
