[Lias] Open Edge: Open Education Forum - Fri 9 Oct SCEGGS, Darlinghurst, NSW

[Donna Benjamin]

Hi all!

Open Edge is less than 2 weeks away now, the program is up
<http://open-edge.info/program>, and registrations are open - please do
come along - and help us spread the word!

Open Edge: Open Education Forum - Fri 9 Oct SCEGGS, Darlinghurst, NSW
Only $49 - http://open-edge.info/open-edge-fri-9-october 
Thanks to sponsorship from Linux Australia, DELL computers and Aarnet.

Details below, including the full list of speakers. I'm sure you'll
agree it's a pretty impressive line-up.

It's going to be a great day, I'd welcome your participation.

- Donna

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donna benjamin       Open Edge: Open Education Forum
forum facilitator           SCEGGS Darlinghurst, NSW
http://open-edge.info        Friday 9th October 2009


Open Edge: Open Education Forum - Fri 9 Oct SCEGGS, Darlinghurst, NSW

This one day forum will address questions and issues about 'open
education' in Australian schools. Open education refers to open
educational resources, and draws upon open technologies that facilitate
collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching
practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their
colleagues.

The Open Edge Forum will bring together school leaders, practitioners
and policy makers to discuss strategies for fostering open education in
Australian schools. Understanding and embracing innovations like these
will be critical to the future of education in Australia.

Using online technologies, this workshop will be linked into other
similar events occurring around the globe. Hear what colleagues in the
US, UK and Portugal are doing in their schools using open education
initiatives. Presenters will outline current directions in Australia and
overseas concerning:

open content
open source software
open learning platforms
open licencing
open pedagogy
open standards
open networks


Presenters
Confirmed presenters and facilitators helping to frame the Open Edge
forum:


Senator Kate Lundy - http://open-edge.info/senator-kate-lundy 
Labor Senator for the Australian Capital Territory
Senator Kate Lundy has represented the Australian Capital Territory in
the Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament as a member of the
Australian Labor Party since 1996. Senator Lundy has participated in
every Senate Inquiry relating to telecommunications and Information
Technology over the last fourteen years, and spearheaded Gov 2.0
initiatives such as her Public Sphere events which facilitate online
public collaboration on policy development.


Bryant Patten - http://open-edge.info/bryant-patten
Director, National Center for Open Source in Education (NCOSE, USA)
Bryant Patten has spent the last 20 years developing educational
software for a variety of clients. He has managed the engineering
departments for several companies, including his own, and has won
several awards for software design. He is currently bringing Open Source
software solutions to schools to help maximize their technology dollars
and close the digital divide between students of diverse economic
backgrounds.


Delia Browne - http://open-edge.info/delia-browne 
National Copyright Director of the Copyright Advisory Group,
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth
Affairs.
Delia Browne is an extremely experienced intellectual property lawyer.
Prior to her role as the National Copyright Director of the Copyright
Advisory Group, Delia worked at Minter Ellison providing specialist
copyright advice to the education sector.  Delia has considerable
experience in law reform and lobbying.  



Greg Black - http://open-edge.info/greg-black 
Chief Executive Officer, education.au
At the beginning of 2007 Greg Black became the Chief Executive Officer
of education.au limited, a ministerial company that provides leadership
and direction in the development, enhancement, standards and use of
online distributed and managed national education network services. His
current work involves oversight of a number of major national education
and business projects.  


Leslie Hawthorn - http://open-edge.info/leslie-hawthorn 
Program Manager, Open Source Programs Office, Google Inc.
Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google's Open Source Programs
Office, where she's the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code
community. She recently conceived, launched and managed the Google
Highly Open Participation Contest, the world's first global initiative
to get pre-university students involved in all aspects of Open Source
software development.  


Kathryn Moyle (phd)- http://open-edge.info/kathryn-moyle-phd 
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra and
Director, Secretariat of the Australian ICT in Education Committee
Dr Kathryn Moyle is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at
the University of Canberra where she is the Director of the Learning
Communities Research Area at that University. She also holds a national
role as the Director of the Secretariat for the Australian Information
and Communications Technology Education Committee (AICTEC). Her primary
roles include undertaking research into education issues in Australia
and overseas and teaching post-graduate students both in Australia and
in China.  


Stuart Rushton - http://open-edge.info/stuart-rushton 
Educational Administrator and IT Strategist
Following his first career as a RAAF pilot (1964 to 1984), Stuart has
taught physics, maths and computing in Rudolf Steiner schools for the
past 25 years. He has a deep interest in all aspects of technology in
education.  


James Dalziel - http://open-edge.info/james-dalziel
Professor of Learning Technology & Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre
Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University
James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the
Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie
University in Sydney, Australia. James leads the open source "LAMS"
project.  


Julian Ridden - http://open-edge.info/julian-ridden 
Consulting Evangelist, Moodle.com.au
Julian Ridden is also known as the Moodleman in local edutech circles
and is now working as a Consultant and Evangelist for Moodle.com.au,
Australia’s premier Moodle partner. Julian has more than 12 years
experience in education (specifically in online e-learning) with a wide
range of both corporate clients and educational institutions as well as
experience in project management, systems implementation, networking,
support and training. 


Ian Ralph - http://open-edge.info/ian-ralph 
Manager Information Technology. SCEGGS, Darlinghurst.
Ian Ralph has been in his current role as IT Manager at SCEGGS
Darlinghurst since 1992. Most of his time is taken up with the day to
day management of the School’s large network with the aim of achieving
the best educational use of the resources he manages. Ian’s interests in
open education started in the mid 1990s when he built his school's first
web server on Linux based server - a journey that has continued to the
present day where a significant proportion of the schools systems run on
Linux servers with numerous open source applications meeting the
School's educational needs. In Ian's work with teachers and students he
takes every opportunity to spread the word on the concept and benefits
of Open Education. 


Gerard Roberts - http://open-edge.info/gerard-roberts 
National Practice Manager, Cloud Computing, SMS Management & Technology
Gerard has been working in technology for over 15 years and is currently
the National Practice Manager, Cloud Computing at SMS Management and
Technology, Australia's larges business and technology consulting firm.
Gerard has been working alongside Google as an Enterprise Partner for 2
years.  In 2008, Gerard lead the implementation of the NSW DET GMail
migration program where the state's 1.2 million students were migrated
over to Google's GMail. Gerard Roberts


Russ Blackie - http://open-edge.info/russ-blackie
Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Following 22 years as a Secondary education classroom teacher, resource
manager and ICT co ordinator Russ moved to DEECD Melbourne to work as
resource manager for what has become Connect and with the eLearning team
under Lynn Davie. His current prjects include Netbooks, Software for
Victorian Schools, eduSTAR and Kahootz. 



Roshan Sathe - http://open-edge.info/roshan-sathe 
Certification Trainer, Red Hat
Roshan has over 12 years experience in the Information Technology
industry. He has been at Red Hat for the last 6.5 yrs, most recently as
the lead trainer in the Melbourne office. On top of his expertise in
Open Source operating systems and training, Roshan has also specialised
in Microsoft, Cisco, solaris and Unix systems. 


Randy Orwin - http://open-edge.info/randy-orwin
Educational Technology Consultant, EdTech Ninja
Randy is currently an independent consultant and owner of
k12opensourcehelp.com where he specializes in open source software and
content for schools, technology integration, eLearning and web 2.0
tools.  Prior to being a consultant, Randy spent nine years as a
district level technology director for the Bainbridge Island School
District in the Seattle area. 


Walter Bender - http://open-edge.info/walter-bender 
Founder, Sugar Labs
Walter Bender is the founder of Sugar Labs, a non-profit foundation that
serves as a support base for the community of educators and software
developers who are extending the Sugar user interface. Sugar is designed
to enhance the primary educational experience by emphasizing
collaboration and expression. Prior to that, Bender was president for
software and content of the One Laptop per Child association, where he
developed and deployed technologies that are revolutionizing how the
world's children engage in learning. 

Steve Hargadon - http://open-edge.info/steve-hargadon 
Social Learning Consultant, Elluminate
Steve is Elluminate's Social Learning Consultant, the director of the
K12 Open Technologies Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking
(CoSN), and the founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network. He writes,
speaks, and consults on educational technology, and is particularly
passionate about Web 2.0, social networking, Free and Open Source
Software, computer reuse, and computing for low-income populations.


Jim Klein - http://open-edge.info/jim-klein 
Director, Information Services and Technology, Saugus Union School
District, USA
Jim Klein is the Director of Information Services and Technology for the
Saugus Union School District in southern California, USA, and is the
chair of the Consortium of School Networking K12 Open Technologies
Initiative. Through over two decades of IT experience, Mr. Klein has
become widely renowned as an aggressive technology leader, particularly
in the areas of open source and social media. 


Mike Huffman - http://open-edge.info/mike-huffman 
Consultant, Education Technology
Mike Huffman has worked in the Indiana Department of Education for over
30 years and has spent over 26 years involved in technology. He served
as IT director for nine years, moving the Department's data systems from
COBOL to relational data base and web-based applications. Moving on to
instructional technology Mike has worked with teachers, administrators
and students throughout Indiana to devise ways that technology can have
maximum impact on achievement. 

Irma Birchall - http://open-edge.info/irma-birchall 
Director, Calyx Information Essentials
Irma has been a champion of libraries since her late teens when she set
up and managed for 3 years, a community library in her district in
Belgium. In 2004 she established CALYX information essentials with the
vision of bringing the freedom of open-source software to the library
industry.  Irma has worked with the Koha system since first installing
Koha v 1.3 for a corporate library client in Sydney in 2003. 


Bob Birchall - http://open-edge.info/bob-birchall 
Director, Calyx Information Essentials
Bob is an experienced general, commercial and financial executive with
highly-developed skills in strategic planning, quantitative analysis,
quality improvement and change management. Bob has had organizational
responsibility for the IT function in several organisations, initially
at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Private Hospital where he established industry
leadership in the application of information technology to the processes
of hospital care and administration. Bob has successfully lead numerous
IT projects and since 2007 assumes responsibility for business analysis,
project management and quality control in all Calyx projects.