Breakout Sessions
Breakout Session 1 - Monday 14 July, 2008, 11:15am – 12:30pm
Breakout Session 2 - Monday 14 July, 2008, 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Breakout Session 3 - Tuesday 15 July, 2008, 11:15am – 12:25pm
Breakout Session 4 - Tuesday 15 July, 2008, 12:35pm – 1:45pm
» Download Full 4 Session Breakout program (pdf, 85kb)
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Breakout Session 1 - Monday 14 July, 2008, 11:15am – 12:30pm
| Presenter | Session Title | Session Info |
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| Susan Mackie (Keynote presenter) | Everyday Creativity Overview | Facilitated by Susan Mackie, Chief Executive Officer of the de Bono Institute, this overview workshop will feature an in-depth overview of Six Thinking Hats® together with an interactive session on Lateral Thinking™ during which you will learn about the lateral Thinking™ tool. |
| Michael Ryan is from the Faculty of Education, QUT presenting information based an extensive career in education | Effective Metaphors: Practical applications of theory in the design of teaching | The purpose of this workshop is to introduce some big ideas about post-compulsory teaching-with-technology. We’ll investigate some productive ways of thinking that counter the unfortunate, predominant metaphor of “teaching as information delivery”. These include teaching as “conversations”, “communities of practice” and “excursions into professional discourses”. Michael will provide some practical examples from his own university teaching and invite participants to share similar experiences. We should finish up with some well-grounded techniques that can be implemented simply and effectively. |
| Bojan Blatnik | Interactive English as Second Language (ESL) Resources | This hands on workshop will explore a wide range of free Internet ESL listening and pronunciation resources through highly interactive activities. Only 20 places available for this workshop |
| Human Resource Manager (SBIT) | Performance, Learning & Innovation Planning & You | The objectives of the Performance, Learning & Innovation project team have been to develop and implement a system and process for Southbank Institute of Technology to enable the achievement of driving performance and innovation across the Institute. This session will inform participants of the process, and techniques and ways they can engage with their supervisor during this process. |
| Megan Shepherd is the Acting Business Manager at Recovre in Queensland specialising in training on building staff morale, team work and handling challenging conversations | Workshop One - Exploring Teamwork in the Workplace | Exploring Teamwork is an interactive workshop that shows participants how to build and sustain a high performance team, as well as how to develop teamwork skills at the individual level. Participants will learn an integrated set of skills, knowledge, and plans to renew team spirit, enhance performance, and improve team leadership.
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| Karen Lau is a teacher in Diploma of Editing (Publishing) program at Southbank’s Morningside campus where she teaches copyediting, structural editing, planning budgets and schedules for editors, editing non-print media, and research. | Assessments using wikis and blogs | The workshop will be on assessing students using:
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| Berwyn Clayton (Keynote presenter) | Building confidence by minimizing risk in assessment | This interactive workshop will engage participants in discussions about some of the key issues in
competency-based assessment including:
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| COTAH Community of Practice | Games and Employability Skills | The workshop is based on the use of 'games in teaching linked to employability skills'. It will include
a demonstration of a few games that have been used in our teaching context & sharing ideas. Then
it will investigate how teachers can use a fun interactive way to teach in their content area, and at
the same time also develop employability skills which are embedded in the new training packages….
being conscious of teacher delivery time and effectiveness. Teachers will develop a game/s that they
can take away and use for their teaching. Only 30 places available for this workshop |
» Download Breakout Session Guide for Breakout Session 1 - Monday 14 July, 2008 (pdf, 91kb).
Breakout Session 2 - Monday 14 July, 2008, 2:45am – 4:00pm
| Presenter | Session Title | Session Info |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Simpson (Keynote presenter) | How Staff Contribute to Culture | Few people would dispute the fact that leaders have a significant role in creating and sustaining team and organisational culture. What has been largely unexplored however, is the role that non-managers play in shaping organisational culture. This breakout session with Steve Simpson will shed light on fascinating research conducted by Steve which looks at specific non-manager behaviours that contribute in positive and negative ways towards culture. This will have a practical focus that will deal with real issues in the workplace. |
| Trish Andrews is a lecturer in higher education at the University of Queensland, Australia and has worked in education for over three decades. Trish is responsible for coordinating staff development for eLearning and the Collaborative Teaching and Learning spaces at UQ. | Using Collaborative Learning Space Effectively | This workshop explores ways to make effective use of collaborative learning spaces. It includes a discussion of what is meant by collaborative learning, addressing staff development needs and the importance of group functioning and assessment. It concludes with some cases studies of UQ staff use of the collaborative teaching and learning centre. |
| Liz Birch & Maria Chiaroni | Blogs and the language learner | This session will explain, demonstrate and practice how to use blogs with beginning and intermediate ESL learners using blackboard. Only 20 places available for this workshop |
| T&L debrief Facilitator: Kathy Davis |
Teaching & Learning CAFÉ discussion | This session will be facilitated for discussion on the current topics presented at the conference. Participants will have opportunity to deconstruct the information in a collaborative CAFÉ discussion forum and engage, listen and be challenged by colleagues. |
| Facilitators available on request | Team Planning Session: Organise your team & use this time to plan |
This is an opportunity for teams to come together to collaborate and plan for the future delivery. Teams can indicate if they would like facilitators in specific areas to support them during the session. Topics could be Collaborative Delivery Techniques, Assessments (projects & integrated), Creative Timetabling, Retaining Students, Team Building or AQTF. (Please note: Although some topics have been identified, we will endeavour to support teams in any areas of planning requested.) |
| Michael Ryan is from the Faculty of Education, QUT presenting information based an extensive career in education | Effective Metaphors: Practical applications of theory in the design of teaching | The purpose of this workshop is to introduce some big ideas about post-compulsory teaching-withtechnology. We’ll investigate some productive ways of thinking that counter the unfortunate, redominant metaphor of “teaching as information delivery”. These include teaching as “conversations”, “communities of practice” and “excursions into professional discourses”. Michael will provide some practical examples from his own university teaching and invite participants to share similar experiences. We should finish up with some well-grounded techniques that can be implemented simply and effectively. |
| Merie Spring NAATI Interpreter - Interpreter Educator & Consultant Merie has had extensive experience interpreting in medical, mental health, legal, vocational, educational & community settings. She has been a NAATI Level 3 accredited interpreter since 1988 & worked as an interpreter for deaf/blind people & those with specific language needs. Her interpreting experience also covers conferences (home & overseas), court/legal settings, national & international deaf events, & employment related training. Merie has done casual interpreting for SBIT; taught in the Diploma of Interpreting; & is currently working with Griffith Uni to develop training resources for medical interpreters |
Working with Sign Language Interpreters – What’s All the Fuss About? | At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be more aware of:
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| Peter de Wet | Blackboard 101 | Blackboard for dummies! This workshop will only run for 40 minutes of the 70 minute breakout session Only 20 places available for this workshop |
» Download Breakout Session Guide for Breakout Session 2 - Monday 14 July, 2008 (pdf, 91kb).
Breakout Session 3 - Tues 15 July 2008 11:15am- 12:25pm
| Presenter | Session Title | Session Info |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Alan Roberts lectures in Business Education within the Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology. Alan has experience as an educator and administrator in commercial, international, secondary, vocational education and tertiary spheres. He is currently Course Coordinator for ED61 – Graduate Certificate in Education and is Teaching Area Coordinator for Accounting Business Management. | The new art and craft of knowledge-age educator: Technological finger painting and collaborative modelling. | This interactive session is concerned primarily with approaches to teaching (pedagogy), not technology. Educators generally are well aware of the extent to which technology is reshaping education and work contexts. While, undoubtedly, there is a measure of challenge simply in keeping pace with 'new technologies' of greater concern is that we develop pedagogical understandings and approaches that will guide teaching and learning. That is, as educators it is important that we collectively come to understand what it is to be an educated person in the 21st Century, and how individuals might optimally be equipped to engage in knowledge-age work contexts. Importantly, as educators we need to ask ourselves are we to be a gatekeeper of the past, or a gateway to the future? |
| Julie Martin & Desley Brown | Glossaries & Wikis | This session will look at three ways of creating glossaries in Blackboard: using blackboard’s glossary capability, using a single page wiki and using multi page wiki Only 20 places available for this workshop |
| Merie Spring NAATI Interpreter, Interpreter Educator & Consultant Merie has had extensive experience interpreting in medical, mental health, legal, vocational, educational & community settings. She has been a NAATI Level 3 accredited interpreter since 1988 & worked as an interpreter for deaf/blind people & those with specific language needs. Her interpreting experience also covers conferences (home & overseas), court/legal settings, national & international deaf events, & employment related training. Merie has done casual interpreting for SBIT; taught in the Diploma of Interpreting; & is currently working with Griffith Uni to develop training resources for medical interpreters. |
Working with Sign Language Interpreters – What’s All the Fuss About? | At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be more aware of:
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| Human Resource Manager (SBIT) | Performance, Learning & Innovation Planning & You | The objectives of the Performance, Learning & Innovation project team have been to develop and implement a system and process for Southbank Institute of Technology to enable the achievement of driving performance and innovation across the Institute. This session will inform participants of the process, and techniques and ways they can engage with their supervisor during this process. |
| Annie Priest, Carmel Carstensen, Jonathan Edwards & Jennifer Davids
SBIT LVT’s within CaGE faculty |
Build your skills and generate new options with an Online Vocational Graduate qualification | Annie Priest, Carmel Carstensen, Jonathan Edwards and Jennifer Davids have a background in Teaching English as a Second Language and Workplace English Language and Literacy and have taught for many years at SBIT in the classroom and out in workplaces. In the last two years they have turned their hand to writing curriculum and developing Vocational Graduate qualifications for online delivery. The Vocational Graduate Certificates and Diplomas present new and practical opportunities for VET teachers to further their careers and this CaGE VGC development team is keen to share these innovative courses with colleagues. Only 20 places available for this workshop |
| Neal McCann, Sean Heyward & Catherine MacIntyre COTAH Community of Practice |
Games and Employability Skills | The workshop is based on the use of 'games in teaching linked to employability skills'. It will include a demonstration of a few games that have been used in our teaching context, sharing ideas and then investigate how teachers can use a fun interactive way to teach in their content area, and at the same time also develop employability skills which are embedded in the new training packages…. being conscious of teacher delivery time and effectiveness. Teachers will develop a game/s that they can take
away and use for their teaching. Only 30 places available for this workshop |
| Sue Feeney, Mary Perry & Anita Steinerts | Learning Difficulties – What can a VET practitioner do to help? | This session aims to increase understanding of the concept of learning difficulties and suggest some useful strategies for VET practitioners when working with students they perceive may have learning difficulties. For the past 18 months, the SBIT Literacy and Learning Centre has been conducting a short session of Qi Gong/Tai Chi/stretching movements at the start of most classes resulting in increased attention to task, clearer thinking and student reports of better concentration and enjoyment of learning. The session will engage participants in various movement activities to explore potential benefits. The session will also incorporate discussion on a range of approaches to learning difficulties. Only 25 places available for this workshop |
| Rod Wakeley, Stan Walsh & Mark Fitzgerald | Business with Bite: An Introduction to the new Dental Clinic at SBIT | SBIT has recently opened a magnificent new Dental Clinic and this presentation introduces participants to the facilities and the range of services provided at this Clinic. Dentist Stan Walsh and dental technicians Rod Wakeley and Mark Fitzgerald will present an introduction to the fascinating world of dentures, crowns, bridges, prosthetic devices and orthodontic appliances. This will be followed by a short demonstration of the kind of work carried out here and an inspection of the new surgery and laboratory facilities. The session will conclude with a question and answer session. Only 25 places available for this workshop |
» Download Breakout Session Guide for Breakout Session 3 - Tuesday 15 July, 2008 (pdf, 91kb).
Breakout Session 4 - Tues 15 July 2008, 12:35am- 1:45pm
| Presenter | Session Title | Session Info |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Thompson & Steve Hartigan (plus resources from Lee Pownall) | Death by PowerPoint, NOT!! | This session will look at ways that classes using powerpoint can be made interactive, encouraging
student participation and engagement Only 20 places available for this workshop |
| Paula Payne, Chris Worfold, Craig Flood, Stephen Newton SBIT Visual Arts teachers |
Creative interactions and collaborations in the visual arts design futures for innovators, art workers and students | Four members of the Visual Arts Team will present a series of four small power points that showcase the way in which professional practice in the visual arts industry impacts on their teaching practice. They will present experiences from beyond the classroom that impact upon their knowledge and skills base in the classroom.
Each presenter has a diverse and cohesive arts practice which projects beyond the learning environment. In fact, between them these artists/teachers have projected themselves and their works locally, nationally, internationally and into cyberspace. Through these professional interactions they collect and collate knowledge, valuing their pasts and designing futures for themselves and others. |
| Megan Shepherd is the Acting Business Manager at Recovre in Queensland specialising in training on building staff morale, team work and handling challenging conversations | Workshop Two – Effective Communication in the Workplace | This highly interactive workshop is designed to teach participants effective communication
strategies for use in the workplace. Participants will learn how to improve their active listening skills, how to better facilitate open conversations and communicate assertively. The course will also offer valuable skills and insights into how to reduce conflict, manage potential aggressive behaviours and other barriers to effective communication.
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| Dr Alan Roberts lectures in Business Education within the Faculty of Education at QUT. With experience as an educator & administrator in commercial, international, secondary, vocational education & tertiary spheres, he is Course Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Education & Teaching Area Coordinator for Accounting Business Management | The new art and craft of knowledge-age educator: Technological finger painting and collaborative modelling. | Alan’s interactive session is concerned primarily with approaches to teaching (pedagogy), not technology. Educators generally are well aware of the extent to which technology is reshaping education and work contexts. While, undoubtedly, there is a measure of challenge simply in keeping pace with 'new technologies' of greater concern is that we develop pedagogical understandings and approaches that will guide teaching and learning. That is, as educators, it is important that we collectively come to understand what it is to be an educated person in the 21st Century, and how individuals might optimally be equipped to engage in knowledge-age work contexts. Importantly, as educators we need ask ourselves ‘Are we to be a gatekeeper of the past, or a gateway to the future?’ |
| T&L conference debrief Kathy Davis |
CAFÉ discussion | This facilitated session will provide opportunities for participants to discuss the topics presented at the conference. Participants will have opportunity to deconstruct the information in a collaborative CAFÉ discussion forum and engage, listen and be challenged by colleagues. |
| Facilitators available on request | Team Planning Session: Organise your team & use this time to plan | This is an opportunity for teams to come together to collaborate and plan for the future delivery. Teams can indicate if they would like facilitators in specific areas to support them during the session. Topics could be Collaborative Delivery Techniques, Assessments (projects & integrated), Creative Timetabling, Retaining Students, Team Building or AQTF. (Please note: Although some topics have been identified, we will endeavour to support teams in any areas of planning requested.) |
| Mark Harris SBIT Educational Leader |
Should I stay? Or should I go? The retirement intentions of an ageing VET practitioner workforce and its impact on VET organisations | In this session Mark will utilise the findings of the research; in particular in relation to ‘attitudes of VET practitioners toward work and retirement’ and the ‘potential impact on workforce planning’. He will discuss the options available for VET organisations to ensure the effective utilisation of an ageing VET practitioner workforce. Contributions within this section of the research saw 60% of the Institutes VET practitioners participate in the survey. |
| Gaille Last, Sylvia White and Michelle Barlin | 'An introduction to the skin and body Spa; unveiling SBIT's new Spa facility' |
'This session introduces participants to the important role played played by workers in the growing beauty and spa industry in alleviating the stress of contemporary life . The presenters are all professionals in the beauty industry and lecturers in SBIT's very popular Diploma of Beauty Therapy program. They will provide an educational introduction to skin care and body treatments. This presentation will be followed by a question and answer session and a short tour of the fabulous new Spa facility at SBIT. Participants will also be rewarded with a small pack of beauty samples and have the chance to win larger prizes donated by the Spa's suppliers.'
Only 25 places available for this workshop |
» Download Breakout Session Guide for Breakout Session 4 - Tuesday 15 July, 2008 (pdf, 91kb).
Last updated 3 June, 2008