ECAWA 2007 State Conference - Presenter

Paul Reid will present
Empowering inquiry based learning with Web2.0 mash-ups

'Web 2.0' and the new models of communication and research that it enables means teachers and students can embed and automate the inquiry based learning process. Instant messaging, blogging, podcasting, Skype, wikis, RSS are but some tools available in the 'participatory social web' that allow students to become become knowledge creators and teachers to become facilitators. And the impact that this has on education could be enormous.

BYO Computer
Intended Audience: Everyone

Paul Reid will also present
Using the new edublogs.org 2.0

Learn about blogging as social networking and an authentic learning method, hear about teachers' best practice, and encounter diverse ways Edublogs.org integrates web 2.0 tools to enhance learning.

Sign-up at edublogs.org beforehand, bring a laptop to this workshop and you'll leave with a brand new edublog and some ideas for what to do with it.

BYO Computer
Intended Audience: Everyone

About the Presenter

Paul Reid is particularly interested in social software and the role technology can play in engaging the digital natives we now recognise are attending our schools.

Having led K-7 Curriculum based ICT at Paraburdoo Primary School and 3 years of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) ESL in a Japanese High School, Paul now works as a Senior Curriculum Officer in the Curriculum Through ICT section of the West Australian Department of Education.

Paul has presented a number of workshops at conferences over the last 7 years and he is specifically interested in engaging with colleagues who share an interest in this area.

In his spare time Paul runs a couple of educational group blogs called Digital Chalkie and AusMacEd, again as a means to link with fellow educators interested in empowering their students through the use of ICTs.