Creative People - Creative Spaces
|
University English Language Centres of Australia (UECA), English Australia (EA) and Macquarie University English Language Centre present PD Fest Sydney 2015.
This full day of professional development includes opening and closing keynotes, four sessions of 45-minute workshops in four streams, exhibitor space, lunch, networking opportunities and an early evening social event.
The theme of the PD Fest, Creative People - Creative Spaces, is aimed at providing professional development for teachers by teachers at UECA and EA member institutions. Workshops are presented in four streams - Teacher Creativity, Learner Creativity, Creativity Online, Creativity Offline.
Program |
||||||
|
|
||||||
| Time | Events | |||||
| 9.30 | Coffee and Registration | |||||
| 10.00 | Welcome David Larbalestier President of UECA |
|||||
| 10.10 - 11.00 | Opening Keynote: Dr Phil Chappell Macquarie University Department of Linguistics The Buzz about Creativity |
|||||
| 11:00 - 11.30 | Morning Tea – Sponsored by IDP: IELTS Australia | |||||
| THEMES |
TEACHER CREATIVITY Room: 321/322 Bringing our own creativity into the classroom |
LEARNER CREATIVITY Room: 415a/b Dipping into the student pool of knowledge |
CREATIVITY ONLINE Room: 315/316 Exploiting the online space and linking it back into the classroom |
CREATIVITY OFFLINE Room: 310 Making use of the mental and physical spaces of the classroom, the outdoors and the community |
||
| 11.30 - 12.20 Session 1 |
Session 1A Georgi Toma (CET) Put Your Creative Hat On! Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 1B Richard Ingold (Navitas) Learner Creativity in the EAP Classroom: Is it possible? Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 1C Lachlan Page (CET) Go with the flow - Mobile phones and virtual spaces in the ESL classroom Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 1D Lesley Speer & Jose Lara (MQ ELC) Book Club Café: Recipe for Extensive Reading Download Presentation - PDF |
||
| 12.20 - 13.10 | Exhibition and Provided Lunch for ALL | |||||
| 13.10 - 14.00 Session 2 |
Session 2A Orlando Savage (UTS Insearch) Adapting the Course Book: Maximising Opportunities for Communicative Practice Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 2B Mark Gillespie (CET) Engaging with difference: Disruptive becomings Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 2C Sue Hodgson (UoN) Enhancing student learning using online tasks Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 2D Michael Burri (UoW) Creative Techniques for Teaching Conversational Rhythm Download Presentation - PDF |
||
| 14.10 - 15.00 Session 3 |
Session 3A Wendy Onslow-Mato (MQELC) Creativity in the development of critical skills in the classroom Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 3B Jock Boyd (Think) The Smart Campus: personal Learning Environments – MULD More Upload Less Download |
Session 3C Bianka Malecka (UNSWIL) Video, blog or flash mob – using technology to personalise students' learning Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 3D Gamze Sayram & MaryAnn Chehade (MQELC) Exploratory Practices on Independent Learning Download Presentation - PDF |
||
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon Tea | |||||
| 15.30 - 16.20 Session 4 |
Session 4A Elaine Rodrigues & Shane Veness (AICE) Can Academic Referencing be Fun? Download Presentation - PDF |
Session 4B Vanessa Beale (UNSWIL) Tapping into Students' Creativity |
Session 4C John O’Connor (UWS) UWS College presents Tech Tools for Creative Spaces |
Session 4D Sam Rodgers (Strathfield College) Sentence Syntax Grids: Structured Group Writing Exercise for Single & Mixed Ability Classes Download Presentation - PDF |
||
| 16.30 - 17:00 | Closing Keynote Sue Blundell English Australia |
|||||
| 17.00 onwards | Networking Event - Drinks Sponsored by Macquarie University English Language Centre |
|||||
|
Creative People - Creative Spaces |
||
|
|
|
|
||
