[Yr7-10it] Fwd: Creating multimedia texts and the Australian English curriculum

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Sounds like an interesting conference for English teachers, details below.
Please forward this message on to anybody who you think would be interested.

Regards Roland
*Roland Gesthuizen* | eLearning Leader
Keysborough College
Acacia Campus | T +61 3 9798 1877
www.keysboroughsc.vic.edu.au
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From: Paul Chandler <chandler.paul.d at gmail.com>
Date: 27 February 2012 19:26

Conference: Creating multimedia texts and the Australian English curriculum

Date: Monday 28 May 2012, 9am - 4pm

The aim of this conference is to start educators talking, thinking and
responding to the 'creating multimodal texts' objective in the Australian
Curriculum for English. Multimodality permeates learning in the 21st
century. The question remains about how equipped are we, as educators, to
support students to create and respond to the diversity of multimodal texts
that bombard them every day.

This conference features expert practitioners who have already developed
effective practical classroom approaches to new multimodal literacies.
Their expertise covers areas of new literacy pedagogies, and theoretical
and policy perspectives. Prof. Len Unsworth and Dr Angela Thomas head an
impressive line-up of presenters, and will draw on insights from the
ground-breaking research project into 3D multimodal pedagogy, which was
supported by the Australian Children's Television Foundation, and was the
inspiration for this conference.

The program offers participants an opportunity to talk, think and respond
to a range of ideas and strategies that will enrich the converstaion about
'creating multimodal texts'

Venue: Deakin University, Melbourne City Centre, Level 3, 550 Bourke
Street, Melbourne

Book now so as not to miss out!  Book by conntacting Sarah Parry on
sarah.parry at actf.com.au or 03 9419 8800

For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/6rgndev  or
http://lanyrd.com/cgdxm