[Yr7-10it] EdFest15, a conference to start the 2015 school year 27 Jan

[Roland Gesthuizen]

G'day Oz Teachers,

Hope you are all having a good break. Some of you based in Melbourne may be interested in this event on Tuesday, details below. Good lineup of speakers. New look website for ABC Splash and Scootle Community websites are worth exploring online too for hundreds of free activities, resources and topic ideas. Just click on the links below.

Amanda and I will be kicking off our season five for the ACCE Learning Network. Drop us a line if you have any topic ideas or would like to join us on the panel. You can view past episodes at http://acceln.wikispaces.com

Regards Roland

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> From: Education Services Australia <info at esa.edu.au>
> Date: 21 January 2015 8:18:07 pm AEDT
> To: Roland Gesthuizen <gesthuizen.roland.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> Subject: Join us Jan 27 for #EdFest15, a conference to start the 2015 school year
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> Education Services Australia would very much like to wish all Australian educators a happy new year. We hope you have had an enjoyable and restful holiday period. In the January edition of the ESA News we feature a number of resources and events to help kick-off a big year in teaching and learning, starting with our free online conference EdFest.
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> EdFest is an online professional learning event for Australian educators which will be broadcast live to the Scootle Lounge. 
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> Join presenters from ESA, ACARA, AITSL, the Asia Education Foundation and more for a premier professional learning event to commence a big year in teaching and learning.
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> Take advantage of some or all of this FREE full day education event from ESA and share with your staff, curriculum teams or PLN online. We also encourage participants to engage in the online conversation in the Scootle Community EdFest Network and on twitter via . Click here for more information
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> The day-long event will feature a wide range of topics to help support your introduction to the 2015 Australian school year. See the full program, presenter bios and interviews
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> SPOTLIGHT
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> Join the EdFest Network 
> Join the EdFest event conversation in the Scootle Community EdFest Network for special access to presentation materials, presenter information and interviews, plus the opportunity to connect with presenters and other like-minded educators from around the country.
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> New year, new Splash.
> ABC Splash have started the new year with a new look and made it easier for you to get around the site and find what you need more easily. ABC Splash now has over 2000 resources, mapped to the Australian Curriculum for English, History, The Arts and STEM.
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> YOUR COMMUNITY
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> Daniel Donahoo is an author, game and app developer and the director of Project Synthesis. Daniel will keynote EdFest with his presentation, Play based learning across F – 10.
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> 1.    Describe Scootle Community in five words
> Advocacy, Diverse, Quality, Aspiring, Engaged
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> 2.    What is your favourite educational hashtag to follow?
> My favourite educational hashtag is #hackeducation (mostly capturing the work of Audrey Watters who keeps it real).   
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> 3.    Do you have a TED Talk or video that has inspired you lately?
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> Recently, I'm finding I have inspiration-fatigue. I've moved away from watching TED talks and I'm looking for things that offer us a deeper understanding and connection to ideas. I link into folks who offer vlogs or ongoing content/stories/ideas to follow. My favourite remains Ze Frank. Another video driven playful musical experience I'd recommend is inbflat.
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> YOUR RESOURCES
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> Leading Professional Learning
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> This AITSL Illustration of Practice shows examples and strategies to lead effective teacher professional learning among staff within a setting to enact the National Professional Standards for Teachers.
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> Australian Curriculum website version 7.2 released
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> The new look Australian Curriculum website features improved navigation and functionality. Watch a video featuring EdFest presenter Laraine Lucas explaining a number of exciting new site features.  
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> Asia and Australia: Professional Learning Program
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> The program provides a series of activities and links to the Asia Education Foundation website which support teachers to train others to teach a range of English genres using Asia as a context.
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> GREAT LINKS AND FREE DOWNLOADS
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> LEARNING PATH 
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> The Australia Day Learning Path is a collection of resources related to Australia Day and the Day of Mourning which might be useful in constructing classroom activities. There are also resources on Empire Day, the event that was celebrated before Australia became a nation.
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> WATCH THIS
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> Code the Future is an Australian project connecting developers with teachers and schools committed to providing students with computer science opportunities. In this video teachers and programmers discuss why they think kids should learn how to code.
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> APP REVIEW
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> Smiling Mind is an Australian not for-profit organisation encouraging modern meditation for young people. It is a unique web and App-based program featuring mindfulness education resources and programs for the classroom. Hear more at EdFest.
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> Community Blogs
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> EdFest Presenter Interviews
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> Ahead of the January 27 online professional learning event, EdFest we asked some of the events' presenters to answer a few questions in the Scootle Community EdFest Network about what teaching and learning tools and trends they are excited about in 2015 and what we can expect to hear in their presentations.
> Community Events
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> Scootle Community Events Calendar
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> Tuesday Jan 27
> EdFest15 - blog.scootle.edu.au/edfest15
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> Monday Feb 2 
> Young ICT Explorers - Registration Opens
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> Monday Feb 9
> #CommunityChat - Back to School
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