School Holiday Professional Learning

Yes, I understand it’s the last week of term and we already have enough on our minds (I myself finished stuffing the last of the portfolios into envelopes late on Sunday evening), but it seems people everywhere are offering technology-based professional learning during the holidays.

For those who are interested in simple, no more than one day out of my break PD, the following options are on offer:

Learning with Web 2.0 is being offered by the Catholic Education Commission NSW at St. Mary’s Cathedral College, Sydney on Monday 2 July. It’s a great opportunity for dioceses to share what they’re doing, while contributing to the shared wisdom at the same time. Learn about everything from blogs, to social bookmarking (e.g. our fantastic del.icio.us pages), to podcasting, to Second Life – all in an educational context. Admission is free, but donations will be taken to support an Educational Technology project in East Timor. I plan to go, so I hope others can join in and form a little St. Michael’s group. Online registration needs to be done now.

CEO Holiday Programs are also on again. These include:

• Introduction to your Mac
• Photostory in the classroom
• Podcasting in the classroom
• Building shared resources in CENet
• Learning Technologies Q&A
• Telling the story with video
• Creating web dilemmas
• Working with images
• Exploring Web 2.0

These are running on the 5 and 6 July. Some are half, while others are full day courses. Go to the Professional Learning page on Staffnet and search for “holiday”.

For those who want to take things a little more seriously, there are two conferences on offer, but it would be cutting it extremely fine to register (at least for the first one): The NSW Computer Education Group has its annual conference in Newcastle on Sunday 1 and Monday 2 July.

The NSWCEG are also co-sponsoring with the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) the two-day workshop 21st Century Leadership and ICT at the Mercure Hotel, Rosehill on 12 and 13 July.