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Dr Daniel Groody Mary Ward justice Lecture 2012

Dr Daniel Groody Mary Ward Justice Lecture 2012

What are the connections between theology and migration?

Three levels of engagement

1. Pastoral level reach out to those in need.
2. Spiritual level what are the migrants thinking feeling the inner journey
3. Theological level great realization and homeland


Migration and the Word liking it to the Eucharist. 

1. The entrance rite the foundational territory
2. Liturgy of words - the debated territory's

  • Social , political and legal landscape

3. Liturgy of the Eucharist the theological territory and the ministry of reconciliation
4. The liturgy of the world one border one body

  • 212 million migrants in the world at the moment one in 35 people, roughly the poop'n Brazil
  • 95 % of the world live on $50 a day. No wonder people are moving. 


Migration is very complex migration is a very simple issue

Complex issue
The scholarly part of me needs to register these different situations I play out ikn my mind.

 

There are six groups invovlved in immigration issues 

1. Vigilante groups. Protect personal property along the border fill the gaps when law does not work
2. Department of homeland and security - someone needs to enforce the laws
3. Political leaders - who do we let in?
4. Corporations - hire cheap labour
5. Church leaders proclaim a God of life a civilization of love.
6. Human rights advocates

Rights Associated with the Groups

1. Vigilantes focus on  Property rights,

2. Department of Homeland and security focus on sovereign rights,

3. Politicans focus on cultural rights by

4. Corporations focus on  economic rights,

5. Church focusses on natural rights

6. Human rights organisations focus on human rights.

Now how do we priorities these rights.

 Three groupings:

Property and sovereign rights want enforcement,closed borders,  use language of aliens, they rely on civil laws  - the invisible mind and  fear the other.


Human and Natural rights want legitimizatio,  open borders, use language of workers rely on economic laws - the invisible hand look at the usefulness of the other

Economic and cultural rights want guest workers porous borders, use language of people, rely on natural laws the invisible heart look at the heart of the other.

Other thoughts

The current laws we have are not aligned to the other laws

Who is the other? And how do we respond to others those we don't know

Challenge of the inner migration we are aliens and strangers in our world.

Types of Spirituality
1. Spirituality living out what we most value
2. Christian spirituality living out what Christ values
3. Discipleship migrating with Christmas a pilgrim people.

"Migrants view of academic they did not care that I know they cared that I cared."

"Scholars care that I know and do not care that I care."

"God loved the world and he migrated to us and now we live our life so we can migrate back to him."

Theology of foundations of immigration - did not understand and missed some of this. 
1. Imago dei - The image of god 

  • Crossing over the inhuman and human divide

2. Verbum dei The word of god 

3. Mission dei - the mission of god crossing over the human/ human divide

4. Visio dei - the vision of God crossing the country kingdom divide.

5. Imitation dei - the imitation of god the crossing per the level and death divide.

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Now listening to Dr Maryanne Lough - Dying to live in Australia and Dying while living in Australia Jesuit Refugee Service

"Where is our voice as well as our deeds on this issue."  

Some interesting ICT quotes I gathered from a recent meeting

Hi all,

 

"Why do I need an LMS I have a 100 of them they are called teachers."

"Re email- portal. If you don't want a response put it on the Portal."

"19 century building, 20st century teachers and 21st century students."

"There is not a day when people say pd is important but when you go to the calender?

"There is a point where a teacher feels like they are a secretary hence they want others to do it."

"How did you go when staff had to walk to a printer. I told them I am trying to keep them alive."  

"Build it and they will come - but they don't."

"Have a discussion with your parents. Worse case scenario you will lose it. Worse case scenario for your parents and you, you  could do yourself harm."

 

cheers Martin

Why do I run?

Why do I run?

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Why do I run? it's about running and life

...well I run for different reasons because it depends on where you are in the yearly and life running cycle. I believe all runners go through the same cycle and it does not matter about age. It comes back to what you want to get out of running.

For me it started around 1984 with the Bunyip Burrawang 8 km east of Bowral in the Southern Highlands. I was living with two teachers Bernard and Tonia and we just ran. Tonia would run in the morning and Bernard would run in the morning and evening. I was an afternoon and night time runner. Running became a lifestyle thing – running in Bowral was the overseas trip I never had.

When I moved out of Bowral in 1990 and returned to Sydney it was then I realised what I got out of running – through what I was missing. I was entering a different stage of my running and life cycle. This was a subtle change which I identified retrospectively.

Running once completely dominated my life now running was just becoming part of my life. Running was just something you did everyday or every couple of days depending on what life was throwing at you at the time. It is just like going out and getting the milk and bread each day. You notice it when you do not have a run and eventually you just have to go out and get the milk and bread yourself.

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Why Do I Run - Slowing Down

There is another thing that happens – you slow down. It is a challenge to run and cope with slowing down - I sort of like that challenge. The slowing down in running was a real grieving process; so much so that I just had to throw away my watch - which I did for everything in my life. I could not run a sustained 4 minute km any more and this was really frustrating. At races instead of finishing in the top 20% I was in the middle of the pack or rather I was sliding out the back of the pack till in 2009 I actually got last place in a race – which is another story.

Ironically I am very proud of that last place. You can still enjoy running and slow down.

In the grieving process you try other things in my case triathlons in the 1980s and 1990s and longer slower runs in the 2000s. All these strategies were based on changing and raising the bar and working with in the body and minds limitations. The key thing is that I always wanted to keep running.

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Running is Social

The next thing I noticed about running was the social side of it. Well with the internet it is even more social than it was. Once back in Sydney and with a young family I would run by myself mostly at night. I just love running at night, perhaps second to a nice warm day when I don't have to rush back for work and life. I have been known to drive a 320 km round trip for a nice 6 km run with a friend in Kiama. In the early days in Bowral training was more social than races.

I would turn up at a race and just leave at the end. I never really connected. This all changed with the internet , specifically Cool Running. A Community of Practice , or an online running community began to evolve where you would go to races and you could connect and share ideas with people about running. For me the social side of running is very important I don't hesitate to spend a few hundred dollars, when I am injured, to fly to QLD just to be there with the running community for the Gold Coast Marathon. With running I connect with all walks of life, make great friends and I just like being around runners.

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The process of running

Running is a challenge, it does not matter how fast or slow you are, once you establish a goal you just go for it. Running is like life where you have goals, you plan, you train you make mistakes and you learn from these mistakes.

In the 1980s it was all about running sub 4 minute kms for as long as I could. 1986 was a golden era. I call this the Beatles factor. When you are on top you are only there for a while For example, Ron Clarke set a string of world records in a few weeks in May in the mid 1960s. When the wave comes you need to be prepared and just have to ride it. My speed wave came in 1986 where I consistently ran sub 4 minute pace for 5, 6, 10 12 and 14km and I was also able to run sub 4 minute pace for the run leg of triathlons.

I started to change my goals and try and run faster in the longer events so in this period I also set my marathon PB (3:42). The goal was to finish the marathon and it was to become my PB. My half marathon PB came in 1991 but that is another story and it was not sub 4 minute pace.

After the marathon the goal changed to running a marathon in each decade of my life. For me the marathon was never about running faster it was just running it. The 1986 marathon scared and scarred me so much I did not run my second marathon for another 12 years in Canberra. Though I did have a firm goals of running theOlympic course in 2000. This marathon was the only marathon I actually trained to a schedule for and it was technically the best marathon I have run and the second fastest. The whole process of the training and the racing fell into place – unlike the first marathon which was a shambles. Every time I see the blue line in Sydney I get emotional.

So finally on the process of running the goals changed to running longer and this lead to my interest in the Six Foot Track Marathon and my firs ultra marathon where I ran from Gosford to the Opera House and came a proud last place and loved every minuteof it.

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Soul Running

Besides the challenge and goals of running the other thing about running for me is that it is good for the soul. Sometimes I want to run and other times I don't feel like running but every time I finish I am glad I went for the run.

In fact my family can see when I need a run- how can I put it – I become high maintenance and they say – "Just go for a run".

Going for a run is good for my Domestic Tranquillity Index (DTI) – the irony is that running can be good and bad for your DTI. Fortunately, in my life it is a good thing because everyone knows it is just part of my life.

It is the core of my being these soul runs.

I just head out with no plan and run. Sometimes it is with semi-trailers along Pennant Hills Road at night or through the bush in the suburbs around where Ilive. Time is not a factor. I just take my phone and run . One day I came from the city which is 21 km and it took over 2 hours. I could have run it faster. I was so frustrated I just went out for a bush run at 7:30pm and got home at 11:30pm.

It was a perfect soul run.

Once I become centred the positive outlook spreads into all aspects of my life.

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Running helps you be positive

Not many people admit this. I also run because of the recognition I get and how it helps my mental state. I have been inspired by others and sometimes people are interested in what I do and this is good for the self esteem.

On the morning after I did my first ultra marathon I was inundated and overwhelmed by the messages I got. I woke up to a text from Tim "aren't you the guy who ran from Gosford to the Opera House?" Sure I was really proud of my achievement but what touched me the most was the support and recognition I received from a whole range of people. Some were inspired by my effort and others inspired me to do more.

From these running experiences and sometimes the recognition you get self confidence. I don't mean arrogance just a belief that life is not to bad. You can push yourself to a certain limit, come out the other side and have a story to tell. I hobble around work the next day after a long run with the surreal feeling of accomplishment and no one really understands what is going on in your head or what I did the day before.

Usually I feel good about myself and this positive outlook rubs off on those around you. You can see the calmness in runners who have experienced this.

There is a clearness in their eyes, a composure in their stature and it helps in their decision making and lifestyle.

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Wellness

I did not start running for health reasons but I continue running for health reasons. Or I prefer to use the expression wellness.

It is a fine line between running too much, effecting your immune system and getting sick when you are preparing for a big race. In my first marathon I stopped sweating and all I wanted to do is have a sleep in the gutter on Anzac Parade. I had had enough.

I seem to have a self preservation button or I just don't push hard enough.  I have not pushed hard enough to have renal failure and I am sure there are other nasties that I don't know about. I did finish the Port Half Ironman in 2005 and went to get a drip but there were too many others lines up so I just crashed on the grass instead - I probs should have had a drip.

Those extremes aside, in the 1990s I was in hospital for abit and I kept setting off the heart machine because my heart rate was too low for the threshold they had set up. I am sure my fitness helped me through the time there. Also I notice if I get a cold or the flu the I recover pretty quickly.

Due to my running I do try and eat well. I have not been that good on this front – a work in progress. For me the determining factor on my eating is keeping the weight below 80kg. I sort of use running as an excuse for eating junk.

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Heightened Awareness

Some times when I am running I notice the run is over. I know where I have been but have no recollection of crossing roads stopping for cars dodging bikes and dogs. For this post, however, heightened awareness is where I am completely in touch with the environment around me the wind on my face or on my back, the texture of the spiderwebs I run through, the sound of birds in the trees or the leaves rustling high above me.

This also includes a real heighten awareness of my body: my heart, breathing and different muscles all come into and out of focus. It is a really interesting sensation and it does not consciously happen all of a sudden I just notice it while I am running.

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The lightbulb moment

One of the things I also like about running is the light bulb moment where an issue I have been pondering or a decision that I have to make just clicks when I am on a run.

In my case decisions about work changes, buying and selling houses or even individual sentences for what I am writing at the time come to me in a crystalised form.

The light bulb moment is a clarity of thinking you get when you empty your mind while running.


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To Learn Humility

Running is challenge no matter what your ability level. There are moments when you have to dig deep and be humbled by witnessing the effort of others. Personally it is humbling when I am confronted by the raw experience of running.

The moments when I push so hard and my heart is coming out of my chest and my legs are screaming are mostly a distant memory. The times I am running in the bush and not sure where to go next and the sun is setting sometimes scares me.

I respect running.


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The OC factor


The thing about running I like is that it teaches you to balance extremes with moderation. My very first reason for liking running was because it is about running and life. I did not elaborate that it is about balance running and life.

Sometimes running just totally dominates life leaving all other thing of life and work in the background. Some times this is even to the point of having impact on personal health.

I mean this in the nicest way. I think a lot of runners have some Obsessive Compulsive in us - particularly runners as It takes something like this to keep training and racing. Sometimes the running replaces other OC issues as well.

I went completely over the top with running in 2005-2006 running long and faster than normal and a lot more frequently. The extreme nature of this was good while things were going well but it did push my body to the edge. This was in direct contrast to other extreme of not wearing a watch nor tracking my runs, if I ran at all, from 2000-2004. Rarely have I gone to the extreme of not running for an extended period of time

I am not sure of how to balance moderation and extremes with optimal performances but I think the closest was the Sydney Olympic Marathon course run in 2000. All through the 1990s I monitored the different trial versions of the course with the goals of running it prior to the Olympics.

When 2000 came around I, for the first and only time ever, employed a marathon training programme stuck to it and had my best evenly paced marathon to date.

I am still working on the balance.


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I like learning from Injuries


No one runs to get injuries but I like running to understand them. I have been fortunate on the injury front. The odd bike crash, ankle roll on trails and ITB in the 1980s. In 2005-2006 I did not over train for the Six Foot Track race, as I was conscious of that, I just did too much hill running and and did my OP and hip which put me out for a year or so and turned me to 6 km running. Six km running has been a marvellous discovery.

I am struggling again at the moment with a left forefoot injury from going hard on the bike and running in the Nepean Triathlon. Not that I like injuries but I don't mind them because they make me take stock of running and life and focus on the bigger picture - the main one being running for many years to come yet.

Injuries make you pay closer attention to your body, your training and race goals. That time enables me to focus on other areas of my life which get neglected and need attention.

So I like running because what I learn from injuries but I don't like injuries.

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Why do I run ? - I like training


I planned to do 13 reasons and I keep thinking of more so there is a while before my planned last one.

I am surprised I did not think of this one earlier. It was so obvious. I actually like training. I notice it more when I cannot do it.

Training is the organising principal of my day, my week and even my holidays. I look at the week ahead and then determine which days I can run and at what time of the day I can fit them in.

Hopefully my days of graduating to walking are a few years away yet.

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Weight management


Now people get annoyed with me when I say this because I really don't have a weight issue but I feel duty bound to be around my BMI and I spend most of my time above the top end and just over where I should be which is 79kgs.

All this aside I actually feel better with my weight just below 80kg. I have often played mind games with this. No VBs, coke and junk food unless I am under 80kgs. If I am not exercising and my weight goes up I get really frustrated and there have been times when this has happened, for example, just before I started back running properly in 2004 as these photos indicate - this change happened in 6 months.

I am actually now quite shocked to see how much I let myself go.

Now do you you see why I like running?

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Part 15 Why do I run? - cross training aerobic fitness for other sports


For the last month I have mainly been paddling and running. My running gives me the aerobic fitness to do these and other sports without must issue except for muscle soreness when I use muscles I normally don't use.


Recently Ultra168 asked for thoughts on cross training:

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What non running specific training do you do during the week which has the sole purpose of improving your running?

The biggest benefit I have found has been cycling helps my hill running without the damage to my body that hill running does. Also when training for longer distances I sometimes go for a long ride to tire myself and then go for a run to simulate the fatigue at the end of a marathon or the six foot track.

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I like 6 km running


I sort of fell into running 6km after some prolonged injuries 2005-2008.

It turns out to be an ideal distance for me and helps me to continue to enjoy running. If I am having a go I get a solid low 30 minute run and if I am bludging I am out for around 40 minutes.

The distance is good for a number of reasons:

  • These sort of times and distances fall into the suggested exercise duration for each session a few times a week.
  • 5 km is not enough time especially if I have a go. I don't feel like I have had a good work out when I run for 25 minutes
  • If I forget to click my watch and lap the first km I can lap 2 km intervals also 3 km splits and out and back courses are early to think through.
  • 6 minute pace, 6 km and 60 minutes is easy for my brain to calculate things while running.
  • 6km just seems to be the perfect distance where I can train regularly, not get injured and still race up to a marathon

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It helps with mental discipline


Take today for instance I went out and got a new pair of shoes. You can read about that story here.

I am not really one for randomly getting different types of shoes and gear but I am into things that help my running and comfort in the clothes I wear while running.

So over the years I have had different sorts of shorts, shoes skins, tights caps watches, watches heart rate monitors... and each time I have purchased them I like to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of each.

I find the mental discipline required challenging and helpful and I try and carry it across into other aspects of my life and decisions I make.

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It is fun


Running is fun. I go on a holiday and I look where I can run.

I look forward to coming home to go for a run.

I drive through Sydney and notice and even look for runners.

It is always a pleasure to wander by and into a running shop.

Evidence suggests you have a healthy life and can live longer if you are happy and running contributes to my happiness.

Hopefully I am still running for decades to come.

Training is fun, racing is fun, runners are fun to be with socially and while on a run.

Final sessions Panel, student presentation and future gazing

Together creating he 21 st century learnings campus Take a breath and lose a turm ... Forum hosted by Michael Stoddart interesting forum style three questions then to the panel. Four of today's speakers on the panel. Creativity is as important as literacy,  all children are born creative the problem is to remain. Creative as we get old and teachers must unleash creativity. It is a challenge to be creative. With technology you have to be able to think quickly and act quickly.   Creativity is a mind set but challenged that it is also a process. Creative has to be relevant, engaging, how they express themselves. You can have a creative task and non of the above so is this good.  There are certain process in education that work well so how much creativity do you need?  The creative part is the teacher leveraging the engagement with students in a creative way.   I don't think you have to be creative to be a good teacher.  Interesting statement.  Are we going to remove beyond the teachers view of creating their view of the world and allow the students to create their view of the world.    Next wave of questions. Handwriting. As long as assessments are written this issue will not go away.  We will always need to handwrite.  So what sort of assessments should we have to demonstrate learning. I would be more concerned about grammar and language re 1st year university. There is still a lot of power in the written word - the notes of kids.   Next wave- bricks and mortar higher education campus  is so 20 th century. Less than five years.  We are still going to have times when people get together.  I don't think it is an either or situation.  People need people. Social networking sites provide another layer.  Online conferencing and second life is just trying to replicate the face to face. Face to face is my preference to for teaching and it is the same for students.  Student presentation Hornsby Girls high School explored digital art.  Clearly the adobe software helped her on this front.  Own experimentation and online tutorials and online communities. This was combined with support from teachers at school.  Here interest was the winner of Connected Learning Award - her focus is typography ie text art. Text art as a means of text expression. Manipulate text so the letters themselves became the artwork.  Fail. Fail again, Fail better.  Delivering a personalized and engaging online student experience Andrew Robertson senior manager solution consulting adobe global services. Students interact with us in so many ways.  Look at how the organization is structured. Organizations are complex - audiences, grouping information. Challenge.  How do we get people. To understand how this works this is why orientation weeks happen.  Just look at a webpage -farms of links.  Let's share the pain because cannot use the Murdoch CaseStudy. He tries to become a student as a Californian architect.  Google search and then searched the uni site and got a heap of news articles so went back to google. Then he got his 9 year old son to find what what clubs at uni - went straight to google and looked at uni and clubs in google not the uni webpage.  Put the user in the middle not the school organization.  Followed this up with outlining adobe marketing suite. Analysics is all about action.    It is not about reporting. Understand the behaviour of the site.  Next we engage in segmentation.  Bring people together with similar behaviour software tracks movement clicks.... Decision funnel wide at top awareness, interest, consideration, decision and then action.  Check Murdoch university website a lot of work has been done there.  Front page moving pictures - the prime piece of realestate. Don' t have the links in the prime realestate of the web site.  Don't give me every piece of news make it relevant to my search.  Digital marketing suite has tools tools to target students . Tailor the advice to the device they are using.  Take the touch points the people who use them and put them into segments and personalize.  You can put a lot of time into to it but there is a lot of low hanging fruit out there.  Go to http://blogs.adobe.com/digital marketing Sneak preview into future technology Brian Chau and Michael Stoddart Going through an upgrade cycle this year. Interactive media for the classroom. Creativity with speed. Standards based web design. Html5 is a very big deal though still not there yet.  Focus on the web and the app. Phone Gap look this up.  Dream weaver to html5 phone gap to Andriod/iOS add on edge and muse. Where does this leave Flash? Flash becomes the authoring platform not the delivery platform.  Flash can be linked to html5. New feature in dream weaver - fluid layout for many devices.  Flash has a new panel create JS which will create HTML version. Then demonstrated the flash converted file on and IPad.  They re trying to address the question that the products are hard to use.  Aiming to make the complex simple.  Used the photoshop to show this.  Photoshop very good at selecting based on colour to move an object - use the content aware tool task.  Why 3 d in photoshop.  Why is video in photoshop? Every camera takes video.  

Mid afternoon sessions on digital publishing solutions and QLD Tafe

Did to know there was such a thing but another break now after afternoon tea. Lots of sessions. Michael Stoddart and Brian Chau Adobe digital publishing solutions Adobe- Make file  format and make and give away a viewer for all the different devices. Showed an example of student publishing. If it is too complex we don't need it. The adobe tools are pitched at the professional. You don't have to use ppt you can use in design.  Can apply to iBooks authoring because in a template.  Look at reflections IPad air plays to laptop.  Process  word to I design to iPad digital publishing. IPad solved the distribution problem. After Michael-  Brian showed the creation of and interactive publication . Looking at Adobe's answer to iBook author.  Can add text,video and three d motion by putting in a sequence of  photos taken of an object from different orientations. In browser experience within the document. Check out Form Central. Check analytical after the forms have been created and filled in.  Message it is simple to turn a standard document into a iPad publication and interactive document.   Adobe Creative Wayne Knack TAFE QLD Director of Innovations 30000students across 7 campuses, 300 courses, each slide with a QR Code.  Looks at commencement study test and the Staff proposal  and the forms created to make this possible.  If students are identified early they stay longer in the vocational sector. Test all students on entry manually filled in the test for 4000 students.  Time consuming, slow, manual, to much room for error no ability to analyze data.  Needed something with a low entry barrier and it was You Tube. Enter Adobe- easy to develop they were self marking. Not called a library called a learning hub because so much technology in the space now.  Why? Time efficient , no marking paperless instant and live results. Easy to reedit for redistribution, only need adobe reader, no logins required clever use of form yields data.   So used Adobe Live Cycle. Xxxxxxxxxxand coming up next- Together creating he 21 st century learnings campus Delivering a personalized and engaging online student experience Andrew Robertson senior manager solution consulting adobe global services Sneak preview into future technology Brian Chau and Michael Stoddart MC Peter Mc Alpine Cheers Martin

Dr Claire Macken with her son Finn 21 century technology in higher education

Dr Claire Macken with her son Finn 21 century technology in higher education The two of them did a great combined session looking at 4 points of what uni would be like for Finn. University of 2020 1. flexible beyond the uni grounds so learning in other locations. Death of the mouse all careens will be touch. 2. Higher education connected and personalized.  3. Learning is student centered with student at the center. Great example of augmented really.  Do we need LMS? Google 3 d printing 4. observation , reflection and learning.  Very engaging presentation. Cheers Martin

Post lunch sessions

This edition has notes on three sessions. K-12 breakout integrating digital communication and creativity and skills in education Johann Zimmerman Group Manager World Wide K-12 Where have we come from and where are we going.  Trends, creativity, teacher preparation. Trends printed digital most byod and byotechnology,  cloud computing and virtualization, creativity and critical thinking formative and summative assessment. Friedman January NYT article average is over- need to education beyond what we have expected of the past. Average will not a,low you to get into the middle class. Nothing has grown like the tablet market. Windows on tablet might add a bit more. No matter what it will change how we interact with the students.  Another trend is in global competition. What can education do to make a country better.   Adobe Education Exchange. Launched ISTE a few years ago a repository of context to use and create. Look for the adobe curriculum which is free. 45 000 members in 18 months with 150 leaders with 3 in NSW.   Merry land High School Lila Mularczyk Principal 54 different nationalities  low SES school. Increase attendance since DER started.  Went from well below state average to highest every increase recorded.  Good session Which I have seen at another venue so I decided to pop to the higher education session next do - worth the change even if I felt guilty. Jerome Richard Murdoch University and digital balance Uses adobe marketing suite for digital measurement and optimisational categories.  All liked to learning analytics. What are your objectives , who is your audience what does success look like? Presented a series of case studies based on objectives, audience and success. For example used products to see where international students were going to to get information about Murdoch course and found they were going  to the wrong section and not getting all the needed in formation.  This led to a revamp of uni website navigation and more inquiries and students.  Behavoural targeting a student comes to a certain area and then other similar topics are directed to them.  eg. Did this to re - engage lapsed post grad app claims. This eg increased uptake from lapsed applications by 37 %.  Change the location and color of submit button.  Move grey button to middle and increased uptake. Change colour to red and same location loss of submissions.  Another example found the form. Filed where people dropped out and it was a passport number - simple fix updated entry page with a check list - bring passport. So it is more than the front page drill in and see what is happening.  Next example is on the internal search.  Smile search box is the consistent feature. Search is cyclical beginning of semester -  bookshop as app posed to lorry which has consistent traffic across the year.  Timetable search peak at beginning and end of semester. The first is semester the second the examination.  Did an analysis on time staff spent on search and equated to 500k lost per year used this for a business case to change the search procedure.  Now back to timetable example allow for real time analytical data.  Saw a reduction in search time saving 221 k in productivity.  Mobile web case study. Huge peak in Orientation Week.  So needed a mobile presence and kmew audience time and platform.  Apple iPhone, iPad touch and distant last android alaytics showed no need for android.  So rolled out right now content on its.  In the O week peak iOS app kicked in traffic increased and moved through to other systems.  Next course engagement in crease coursed traffic by 37%. And 2008-2011 54% course conversion rate.   Replace I think with what I know due to digital analytical and measurement.  Brilliant session. Cheers Martin

Post lunch sessions

This s edition has notes on three sessions. K-12 breakout integrating digital communication and creativity and skills in education Johann Zimmerman Group Manager World Wide K-12 Where have we come from and where are we going.  Trends, creativity, teacher preparation. Trends printed digital most byod and byotechnology,  cloud computing and virtualization, creativity and critical thinking formative and summative assessment. Friedman January NYT article average is over- need to education beyond what we have expected of the past. Average will not a,low you to get into the middle class. Nothing has grown like the tablet market. Windows on tablet might add a bit more. No matter what it will change how we interact with the students.  Another trend is in global competition. What can education do to make a country better.   Adobe Education Exchange. Launched ISTE a few years ago a repository of context to use and create. Look for the adobe curriculum which is free. 45 000 members in 18 months with 150 leaders with 3 in NSW.   Merry land High School Lila Mularczyk Principal 54 different nationalities  low SES school. Increase attendance since DER started.  Went from well below state average to highest every increase recorded.  Good session Which I have seen at another venue so I decided to pop to the higher education session next do - worth the change even if I felt guilty. Jerome Richard Murdoch University and digital balance Uses adobe marketing suite for digital measurement and optimisational categories.  All liked to learning analytics. What are your objectives , who is your audience what does success look like? Presented a series of case studies based on objectives, audience and success. For example used products to see where international students were going to to get information about Murdoch course and found they were going  to the wrong section and not getting all the needed in formation.  This led to a revamp of uni website navigation and more inquiries and students.  Behavoural targeting a student comes to a certain area and then other similar topics are directed to them.  eg. Did this to re - engage lapsed post grad app claims. This eg increased uptake from lapsed applications by 37 %.  Change the location and color of submit button.  Move grey button to middle and increased uptake. Change colour to red and same location loss of submissions.  Another example found the form. Filed where people dropped out and it was a passport number - simple fix updated entry page with a check list - bring passport. So it is more than the front page drill in and see what is happening.  Next example is on the internal search.  Smile search box is the consistent feature. Search is cyclical beginning of semester -  bookshop as app posed to lorry which has consistent traffic across the year.  Timetable search peak at beginning and end of semester. The first is semester the second the examination.  Did an analysis on time staff spent on search and equated to 500k lost per year used this for a business case to change the search procedure.  Now back to timetable example allow for real time analytical data.  Saw a reduction in search time saving 221 k in productivity.  Mobile web case study. Huge peak in Orientation Week.  So needed a mobile presence and kmew audience time and platform.  Apple iPhone, iPad touch and distant last android alaytics showed no need for android.  So rolled out right now content on its.  In the O week peak iOS app kicked in traffic increased and moved through to other systems.  Next course engagement in crease coursed traffic by 37%. And 2008-2011 54% course conversion rate.   Replace I think with what I know due to digital analytical and measurement.  Brilliant session. Cheers Martin

Two more sessions NBN and DERNSW

Sabine Heindl senior advisor NBN Co and Richard Olsen from the Ideas Lap this is the govt set up company for the NBN.  What does an infrastructure build for education.  What is NBN , enabling infrastructure and changing the way we learn.....promotional video as an introduction.   What will it mean in relation to how the pipes will be use? It is about upload and download speeds. The company is a wholesaler are relationship will be retail.  General coverage 93% wireless and fixed wireless and satellite the rest. Five trial sites on the mainland. End of this quarter the three year rollout plan will be announced.  In the trial sites take, universities and schools - making the most of the opportunities.   What does it mean? It is enabling infrastructure. Mentioned the internet of things - must have read the Horizon Report. 2012 Higher Education.  Sectors health education, community business and entertainment.   New learning relationships , relationships and experiences.   Di Marshall Creativity in NSW Department of Eduucation and communities - what can universities expect.  Year 12 students have their laptop and coming out of school.  Showing the DERNNSW Relationship via video and summary after each clip. Good points about feedback - is leading to reworking of material and their learning and is improving. Cheers Martin

Adobe Education Leadership Forum Keynote Notes

Hi all, Sorry - will appear as one paragraph for some reason when I cut from iPad notes to Posterous. Also excuse typos - just quick notes. Adobe education leaders conference Just some notes from the Adobe Education Leadership Forum 2012 at Sheraton on the Park. Keynote: Jon Perera @jon_perera 5 trends 1. Careers and communities  eg Michael Furdyk 2. Teaching and learning multiple screen, cloud and social computing.  Cloud driven by cost and access.  Inspired,  creating work, publishing, show it off tracking and driving results. Shows new tools Livebinders,  flavored.me, online desktop 3. Changing the world through digital a experiences by big investment in digital creations. http://www.efrontier.com/ 4. Unleash the creativity of students and educators around the world.  Looks at Flash , Html5,   Globaloria,  Epic Citadel, Adobe Edge Preview using Acrobat for eportfolios,  publishing to iPad, Wildhood. Need to consume and create rich content thorough touch enabled devices such as adobe cooler - compelling, cool and immersive presentations. Adobe collage...to production designer all on tablet devices for touch android as well as iPad devices. Photoshop touch new application ...cool a basic intro to photoshop for touch.   5. Solutions for education: Digital publishing Analytics and CMS Digital school collection Elearning suite Eportfolios Touch application suite  Adobe digital school collection for 1:1 schools.  Fair presentation of not only Adobe Products. Change what we teach and why we teach don't just use technology to be efficient.   Questions from floor  Are you not supporting flash. Answer will support video looking at html5. Does adobe have something like Microsoft Partnership answer we have adobe Parternship by Design and the adobe education exchange a community approach. Next presentation Delving into tablet technology. Dale Lopez  Redlands College QLD and Adobe account manager