Welcome to Ulearn
Thank you for participating in Ulearn09. The conference organisers are already preparing for Ulearn10 to be held in Christchurch from Tuesday 5th( pre conference day) to Friday 8th of October 2010.
For a review of the benefits of attending Ulearn10 read Tony Ryan's blog post.
Ulearn blog
Head over to the Netsafe blog to read all about their time at Ulearn …
“A few weeks ago NetSafe attended CORE Education’s annual conference for educators, Ulearn 09, held down in Christchurch.
Our approach this year was a little bit different – we actively sought out people already exploring the boundaries of cybersafety in schools and listened to how they are working to create New Zealand’s digital citizens of the future.” Read more >>
The preparations for Learning @ School 2010 are in full swing.
The Ministry of Education sponsors this annual Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICTPD) conference at the Energy Events Centre in Rotorua, to be held from 23-26 February 2010. There will be a powhiri and a special reception for all of our conference presenters on 23 February.
Today the call for presenters was made. You can read more at the Learning@School blog. Add the blog to your aggregator and you will be kept up to date with all the news in the lead up to the conference.
Tony Ryan was moved by his time at Ulearn 09 to compose the post “10 laws of u-learning”
“As part of my ULearn contribution, I’m now going to offer to you The Ten Laws Of ULearn-ing (well… from my perspective, anyway). While you’re welcome to adapt these to your own conference / session / talkfest anywhere in the world, I have specifically drawn these up for the magic that is ULearn.”
Head over to his blog to check out what these 10 laws are >>
The ULearn conferences encourage the sharing of presenters’ material and other resources such as related weblinks and professional readings for the benefit of conference delegates. So far there is material from over 100 workshops.
Please use this material for your own educational purposes, and respect the author’s copyright.
You can use the comments function below a presenter’s listing to communicate with them post-conference.
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Anita Phillips is the lead ICT teacher from Cobden School. She has never been to Ulearn before but this year she has come to learn about new innovations and to get enthusiastic about teaching and ICT again.
So far she has found the conference fantastic and thought provoking. She attended break out one by Tony Ryan which was about Innovative teachers. The key message that she picked up from this was that we need to have a zest for life and for learning.
So far she has been inspired to return to her school and introduce the kids to the world of technology no matter what age they are. She wants to let the children explore things for themselves and question how things work.
