<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi All<div><br></div><div>Now have approval from school to attend conference so I feel I can plug it a bit</div><div><br></div><div>We (the committee, especially Mel Cashen) have put together something worth attending...</div><div>Food is well organised (yes my stomach is close to my heart)</div><div><br></div><div>Keynotes are exciting</div><div><br></div><div>Especially great is the Careers Forum on 2nd Day for Students FREE</div><div>Students will be able to attend the Adam Elliot keynote (9am) and then Forum for 1 hour <span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">facilitated by Shanton Chang, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Also includes key expert panel representatives from industry.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">A wide range of ICT options will be covered. Mel and the VITTA Office staff have put a lot of effort into making this worthwhile for students (& Teachers). Book on </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: Calibri; ">(03) 9495 6836 or email </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="mailto:conference@vitta.org.au" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">conference@<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">vitta</span>.org.au</a></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Seriously, we have put a lot of effort into the conference and I am looking forward to meeting F2F with many whom I only see on the Lists or online.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I will be on twitter and I want to spend some time talking to people about "going forward" into 2014, 2015, about VCE IT and where we want the new study design to be going, about CS4HS, about ACARA, and about PLN on twitter etc. If you have opinions about ICT then talk to me in August and followup with the emails, tweets, blogs that will come out of it.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">#VITTA2013</span></div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/conference-information/vitta-conference-2013" target="_blank">Provoking Learning with ICT</a></div><div>12 and 13 August 2013</div><div><img width="96" height="89" id="b7ca2ac6-9fd0-4371-af77-8a687e6fcacd" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:03FAAEA8-159F-4F4A-BF17-CD988ECA0CC8"></div></div></body></html>