Presenters
As each Presenters biography will attest, our
range of input to the workshops, panel and associated events at
AUPOV will be well informed by educators and developers from a
diverse and experienced background.
Our Presenters will be travelling from many differing parts of
Australia to bring to you accounts of their ambitions, thoughts and
active use of POV technologies.
Tony Herrington is the Associate Professor of Adult Education
and IT in Education at the University of Wollongong where he
teaches and supervise postgraduate students studying in the Masters
and PhD programs. Tony's research focus is around using emerging
technologies to support professional learning. Recently Tony has
been involved in an ALTC funded project investigating the use of
mobile technologies to support the professional learning of
pre-service teachers.
Stephan Ridgway
works as an eLearning Coordinator for Workforce Development @ TAFE
NSW - Sydney Institute. Stephan has been involved with eLearning
within TAFE NSW for around 8 years, responsible for the
development, maintenance and delivery of a wide range of online
resources, delivering staff professional development and providing
support for teaching & learning online. In more recent times
Stephan has been exploring the use of networked learning
technologies such as social software, social networking etc. in the
context of networked teaching and learning communities.
Katrina
Sommers has had a 25 year history in small business
covering a range of industries including Farming, IT Development,
Manufacturing, and Training and Assessment also working for 12
years teaching IT and Business in the Adult Community Eduction
sector. Katrina has also been involved in Flexible Learning
projects since 2000, including Facilitating, Mentoring, Consulting
and Participating in Learnscope projects. She was a Flexible
Learning Leader in 2002. This year she was successful in gaining
funding for the Innovations project POV 09, where they will be
looking at using POV glasses as one of a range of assessment
collection methods for workplace trainees in the warehousing
industry, and using these assessments as learning tools.With her
business partner Les Skennar, she formed Business IT Training
Specialists (BITTS) P/L in 2006. Through this company they partner
with a range of RTO's to deliver training mainly through workplace
traineeships across the Far North Coast of NSW.
Robyn
Jay has worked in all sectors and levels of education and has
supported the uptake of e-learning in VET and Higher Education for
the past 10 years. With a background in adult literacy and special
education, she is passionate about providing opportunities and a
'voice' to learners traditionally excluded from traditional written
text-based educational modes.Robyn is currently the Learning and
Teaching Architect for the L&T IT Portfolio at UNSW, acting as
a conduit between IT and the UNSW Faculties and staff to support
the development of an integrated enterprise-level suite of
educational technologies. Amongst other work, Robyn is currently
rolling out UNSW WordpressMU, Wikispaces and Mediawiki as part of a
6 month evaluation pilot of blog and wiki platforms.
Jayne Bachelor has
worked for TAFE NSW for 10 years with a teaching background in
Hospitality Management and has been involved in eLearning since
2003. Jayne currently works in the Teaching and Learning Initiative
Unit based at Wollongong Campus. This role involves researching the
use of technology and how it can be applied in Teaching and
Learning sharing this knowledge through workshops and online
session with teaching staff across the Illawarra Institute. Jayne
believes that the use of technology in education shifts the
learning from teacher centred to student centred engaging students
and encouraging the development of life skills.
Richard Ross is a licenced
builder, serving his time as a carpenter in the 80's and running
his own building company in the 90's- 2007 and now a building
teacher, Teaching in TAFE, Mudgee College he manages
pre-apprentice, third year apprentices, to Certificate IV building
studies students, using a variety of delivery methods including,
traditional face to face in class, on site practical, SMS messaging
, Smart boards and Moodle for Cert IV. Richard has been involved in
the development of the Cert IV building studies online course since
its inception in 2008 and continues this involovement with further
development of additional units within the course. Richard was also
involved early on in the trials of POV training video's in 2008 and
is exploring the possibilities further, developing training
resources for the carpentry/building industry.
Ian
Squire is a Painting and Decorating teacher, TAFE NSW since
2000 and has been teaching at Wollongong TAFE since 2005. Ian was
contracted by MECAT to write and develop teaching resources for the
Painting and Decorating text book also contracted by Centre of
Learning Innovations (CLI) as an author, content developer and
reviewer for Construction Online. Ian's latest project has been to
develop eLearning resources for the Industrial Painting and
Abrasive Blasting industry. In 2008, funding from the Australian
Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF) helped form the content for a
new online course, Certificate III in Engineering-Production
Systems which now utilises numerous learning technologies such as
Moodle, Wikispaces, Adobe Presenter and Captivate with POV's used
to record student assessments and teacher demonstrations.
Michael
Coghlan was teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in the
classroom when he decided to become a volunteer online ESL teacher
in 1997. He is a founding member of the Webheads online community.
He is an eLearning Facilitator for TAFE South Australia, and also
works as an independent elearning consultant -
http://protopage.com/michaelc. He has designed and delivered online
courses in ESL, eModeration, and New Learning Technologies. He has
written widely on issues to do with elearning, and has presented at
several national and international conferences, both physically and
as a remote presenter. His particular current interests are
networked learning, the role of social software in learning, and
the impact of the Internet on society.
Jeff Saul
Jeff Saul is a Communications Specialist with nearly 20 years
experience in the VET sector having worked for TAFE NSW from 1990
until 2008. He gained first hand experience of the E-Learning
community when he was the National Project Manager for NET*Working
2003 the national conference of the Australian Flexible Learning
Framework. From 2004-2008 Jeff was the NSW Coordinator for the
Flexible Learning Framework. Since leaving TAFE NSW in june last
year he has pursued his other passions working in the
not-for-profit, community sports sector but he still retains a keen
interest in the use of technology especially in the areas of
communication and information transfer.
Andrew Park is the CEO of CV
Seek, a new and innovative ePortfolio provider. An innovator in
internet technology in the Illawarra, Andrew was the first to open
an Internet Café in 1996 on the South Coast of NSW.
Continuing onto a core focus on effective blended delivery
strategies, Andrew moved into the VET Sector in 1999. Andrew has
participated in eLearning projects for Access Community Group, TAFE
NSW, Wesley Institute and most recently the J2S Group. Andrew is
the founder of Mtraining, a provider of eLearning and resource
solutions to the VET Sector. Andrew continues to be on the leading
edge for deploying eLearning solutions.
Vicki
Marchant is Manager of the Teaching & Learning Initiatives
Team at TAFE NSW, Illawarra Institute. With 20 years experience in
TAFE Vicki has challenged traditional approaches to vocational
education and training from the outset and implemented flexible
learning from her first year at teacher training , developing and
teaching online courses in 1999 including the opportunity to work
with an international team to design and then facilitate a graduate
certificate course called 'Facilitate and Manage eLearning (FAMe)'
using elearning and a constructivist approach and becoming an
Australian Flexible Learning Framework Flexible Learning Leader in
2001. Vicki has continued to embrace social networking, web
collaboration and publishing tools including POV technologies.
These have been adopted by vocational education to enhance learning
and support more flexible and learner-centred approaches. Vicki and
her team at Illawarra Institute are working with POV and other
media technologies to support learning and assessment in vocational
education and training.
Georgina Nuo
Over the past 8-10 years Georgina Nou has been working in online
environments for educational purposes. Initially teaching English
Georgina then moved to Central Australia to work with Deadly Mob,
an organisation which worked with young indigenous people in Alice
Springs and remote communities. Using Elluminate and Moodle, she
has introduced and developed the possibilities of online learning
to staff and organisations working with people in the Centre and
beyond. Now with TAFESA and the Dept of Reconciliation, she's been
involved with several e-learning projects (including Anangu Online)
which have developed online environments as an integral part of
delivery and learning support for courses like the Indigenous
Diploma of Interpreting and Business Studies across the APY Lands
in SA. This year the 'Anangu Inworld' project is taking a remote
aboriginal community into the environment of Second Life to further
explore new ways of teaching and learning life skills with Anangu
participants. Resources (POV vids, Virtual Library of Toolbox
Tasters, local bands' music) and Moodle activities will be
integrated across platforms, using
the Sloodle interface.
Simon Brown
worked twenty years as a stonemason and part-time trade skills
teacher before an opportunity arose to teach stonemasonry full
time. He embraced the chance to both learn more about his trade,
and to help others gain a qualification in this area. Simon finds
that social networking makes it easy to share e-learning heutagogy
with colleagues around the world. Simon is passionate about
building learning networks between colleagues and students, and he
is constantly learning about new tools and techniques to enhance
his training delivery.
Presenters are encouraged to complete the AUPOV Presenters
Program form here.
