SPERA Conference Proceedings 2008
The Face of Learning – Generation M: The Mobile Generation
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mal Booth
Creative use of new and emerging technologies at the Australian War Memorial
Mark McCrindle
Changing generations, Emerging Trends: Understanding today’s learners
Andrew Douch
Paving the ICT Desire Paths: Redefining ‘Classroom’
Stephen Crump and Colin Boylan
Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: Finishing the Jigsaw
Lorraine Towers and Amy Hutchinson
The Sound and the Vision: developments in interactive distance education facilitated by satellite broadcast in NSW and the NT.
Stephen Crump, Kylie Twyford and Margaret Littler
Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: The Policy Footprint
Brian Devlin, Peter Feraud and Alan Anderson
Interactive distance learning technology and connectedness
REFEREED PAPERS
Don Boyd, Tania Broadley and Emmy Terry
Connecting with Hot Topics: Streaming Professional Development to Regional and Remote Western Australia
Colin Boylan and Andrew Wallace
Learnscapes: A space for place-based education
Tania Broadley and Sue Trinidad
Web Collaboration and Cybercells: Using an Innovative Approach to Connect Rural Communities
Stephen Crump and Colin Boylan
Interactive distance e-Iearning for isolated communities: Finishing the jigsaw
Brian Devlin, Peter Feraud and Alan Anderson
IDL technology and connectedness
Barry Fields
A Comparison of Behaviour Support Provisions Provided by Small Rural Schools and Large Urban Schools
Sonja Kuzich and Rosa Napolitano-Lincoln
I’m going to be a ‘real’ Teacher! Philip Roberts: Developing a place-based social justice approach to the development of rural staffing policy
Melanie Smith and Sue Trinidad
The Western Australian experience: Blogging in the bush
Len Sparrow, Sandra Frid and Melanie Smith
Interactive Whiteboards at a Remote School as a Catalyst for Teacher Professional Learning
Calvin Taylor
Rural Locality and Mobile Technology Usage: Observations from an Ethnographic Study
PANEL DISCUSSION
Mark McCrindle, Mal Booth, Sally Drummond and Nick Cross facilitated by Don Boyd
Woo Wonka and the Google Factory
NON-REFEREED PAPERS
Charles Bradley
Political process involved in achieving world-class open and distance learning schooling for the mobile generation in the bush
Phil Brown and Lesley McGregor
Victorian Rural Educators’ Network Vince Connor: Action Research: Stage 6 Mathematics and Science Lesson Study
Sally Drummond
Turning point: Engaging youth in mobile learning
Kate Haddow
Technologies Changing the Face of Distance Education – Interactive Distance Learning and Online Environments
Graeme Lock, Bill Green, Jo-Anne Reid, Maxine Cooper, Simone White and Wendy Hastings
Designing a National Research Project in Rural/Regional (Teacher) Education
Theodore Munsch
Distance Education: Is It Art or Is It Science?
Philip Roberts
Re-thinking teacher stress and satisfaction as an issue of place
Fay Rola-Rubzen, Rosa Napolitano-Lincoln and Wendy Newman
Rural women in Leadership (WiRL)
Mark Weir
Place-based Education Connections
Phillip Wells
Diving into Learning