Ascilite 2009 workshops (Sunday December 6)

Full Day = 9am - 4pm, morning tea, lunch (12noon) and afternoon tea included

Half Day morning = 9am - 12noon, morning tea included

Half Day afternoon = 1pm - 4pm, afternoon tea included

Pearson eCollege will also offer ongoing workshops throughout the conference (9am - 4pm Mon and Tues, 9am - 1pm Wed) in OGGB computer lab 10

Time	Title	Presenter(s)	Room	Description
Sunday – full day (9am-4pm)	Groups, teams and communities: design patterns and principles for technology-mediated collaborative learning	Kashmira Dave, CoCo, University of Sydney, Peter Goodyear, CoCo, University of Sydney, Yael Kali,Technion, Israel Institute of Technology	217	This is a full-day workshop focussed on design issues that arise when students are asked to work collaboratively: whether in small or very large groups. The adoption of new technologies and working methods, in tertiary education, creates opportunities and challenges – especially when learning activities can slide between physical, virtual and 'blended' spaces, and where collaboration can also involve a mixture of face-to-face and technology-mediated interactions. The workshop introduces a number of design ideas, taken from work on design principles, patterns and pattern languages, and provides an opportunity for workshop participants to use some of the associated methods to capture and share aspects of what works well in collaborative learning.
Sunday – full day (9am-4pm)	Towards Moodle 2.0	Stuart Mealor	260-026 OGGB Lab 10	This Workshop will focus on the new features introduced in Moodle 2.0 for Teachers. It is not a technical workshop. The aim is to introduce teachers and course developers to the functionality in Moodle 2.0 that will directly impact on teachers, course design, and learners. As well as practical content, this workshop will be structured to enable discussion and interaction around specific topics and functions of Moodle 2.0.
Sunday – morning (9am-12noon)	Exploring Mobile Space: Pedagogical affordances of Wireless Mobile Devices.	Thomas Cochrane, James Clay, and Roger Bateman	215	Objectives of the workshop: To explore the potential of wireless mobile devices to enhance tertiary education today, outlining both research-informed principles, as well as giving participants' practical hands on experience of how to use the capabilities of wireless mobile devices within a pedagogical framework.
Sunday – morning (9am-12noon)	How can e-Portfolios Support 21^st Century Learning?	Lisa Gray. JISC e-Learning Programme Manager JISC Executive University of Bristol	221	e-Portfolios are not a new concept. In various guises, digital presentations of skills and competences, online records of achievement, and action plans with opportunities for reflection have been in use in education for nearly a decade. So what is new about e-portfolios? This workshop will explore what we mean by e-portfolios and how e-portfolios can support 21st century learning. Drawing on the work of UK-based JISC-funded projects and other significant e-portfolio developments in the UK, it will provide a snapshot of learning enhanced by e-portfolios in higher, further and continuing education.
Sunday – morning (9am-12noon)	Publishing in AJET and in peer reviewed journals related to educational technology	Associate Professor Catherine McLoughlin, ACU National Canberra	205	At the end of this 3 hour workshop, participants should have a clear understanding of the most important strategies for successful publication in AJET and similar journals. By the end of the workshop will know how to: - plan for publishing by targeting appropriate journals in educational technology and related fields; - find out what editors and referees really want: what criteria are applied in assessing the worth of a paper; - transform a conference paper into a journal publication - edit and review your paper; - plan a paper and match their writing style with that of the journal chosen - understand the review process in AJET, and how to increase their acceptance rate
Sunday – morning (9am-12noon)	Collaborative Learning Technologies	John Hamer, Paul Denny and Helen Purchase Department of Computer Science University of Auckland	260-005 Case room 2	Contributing student pedagogy (CSP) encourages students to contribute to the learning of their peers and to value the contributions of their peers (Hamer et al., 2008). This workshop will explore the challenges and benefits of using CSPs, introducing two existing systems that support its use: in peer-assessment and in student-generated MCQs.
Sunday - afternoon (1pm-4pm)	The Pedagogy and Practice of PebblePad: a workshop of conversation and exploration	Shane Sutherland, Development Director, Pebble Learning	260-036 OGGB Lab 12	PebblePad is the most widely used personal learning system in UK higher education. This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to explore the pedagogy; principles and practice of the system in a lively hands-on session. All participants will receive a free PebblePad account.
Sunday – afternoon (1pm-4pm)	Learning Space Design – Let's be Creative!	Jacquie Kelly, JISCInfonet	219	This workshop introduces participants to a creative visioning technique that is particularly effective in the design of technology-rich learning spaces that meet the requirements of the 21C learner and learning providers.
Sunday – afternoon (1pm - 4pm)	Learning Design	Sue Bennett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong and Coordinator of the Cognition and Learning Design Laboratory Shirley Agostinho, Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong Grainne Conole, Professor of E-Learning, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK	260-028 OGGB Lab 11	This purpose of this workshop is to: 1. Introduce participants to the concept of reusable, adaptable learning designs 2. Provide participants with hands-on experience in using latest research based learning designs and design tools
Sunday – afternoon (1pm-4pm)	Facilitating Immersion in Virtual Worlds: Issues and Considerations	Dr Helen Farley, Research Fellow, Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT), Lecturer in Higher Education (ICT) Teaching and Education Development Institute (TEDI), University of Queensland	307	Objectives of the workshop: 1. Improve our understanding of how virtual worlds facilitate immersion and discover why it is so desirable in an educational context. 2. To be able to identify and classify those issues that facilitate immersion and conversely, those factors that inhibit it and gain some understanding as to how these might be manipulated or mitigated. 3. To design and critique an immersive educational activity or series of activities, to be held in a virtual world. 4. To identify the resources needed to support immersive experiences in virtual worlds. 5. To work towards formulating a strategy for approaching the design of immersive educational activities in virtual worlds.
Sunday - afternoon (1pm-4pm)	Retrofitting University Learning Spaces: From Teaching Spaces to Learning Spaces.	Dr Geoff Mitchell, Director, Integrated Help Services, Queensland University of Technology Barbara White, Senior Lecturer, Information Technology, Charles Darwin University Ms Romana Pospisil, Educational Designer, Edith Cowan University	260-057 Case room 1	The workshop is aimed at academics, educational technologists, librarians and learning designers engaged in, or responsible for, the re/development of learning spaces. Participants should be familiar with the general learning spaces literature and have had some experience in the design process associated with the re/development of learning spaces.