about Newsletter June 10

The video record of the March 2010 EDtalks symposium is being uploaded regularly in the symposium channel on the EDtalks website, with the four speakers from the "Living and Learning in the cloud" theme; Donald Clark, Mark Osbourne, Toni Twiss and the late Paul Reynolds, going up in June.

Jenny Keeton has been engaged as a part time production coordinator so the EDtalks collection of videos by and for educators will be further enriched over the winter.

UNESCO funding is behind a series of motivational and inspirational videos CORE Education will be filming featuring young leaders from a range of cultures.

CORE Education Digital Production and Programme Manager Jedd Bartlett applied successfully to the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO Contestable Activity Fund for funding.

Jane Nicholls and Christina Ward recently received a CORE Education professional development scholarship to travel to the UK to develop digital media skills.

Jane’s report back:

CORE Education Digital Media Production and Programme Manager Jedd Bartlett presented papers on ICT professional development at the AACE Global Learning Asia Pacific 2010 conference in Penang, Malaysia during May.

This first Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) conference in the Asia Pacific region was attended by 520 delegates from 48 different countries.

Early morning presentations at conferences, meetings with key educators and potential partners from the US and UK and visits to vastly contrasting educational facilities filled a recent three-week international sojourn for CORE Education Director Research Dr Vince Ham.

While torrential downpours and flooding stopped some delegates from making it through to Christchurch, the 10th annual KidsCongress was definitely a success, organisers say.

The event organised by kids for kids – KidsCongress – marked its decade this year with the theme “Take a Break and Celebrate”.