ePortfolios Australia Conference 2011 - Main presenters are being live streamed via internet

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Allison Miller

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Sep 27, 2011, 6:21:41 AM9/27/11
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There is less than three weeks until ePortfolios Australia Conference
2011 (EAC2011), the major national tertiary education e-portfolio
event, on 17-18 October 2011 at the Curtin University, Perth, Western
Australia: http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/

This two-day event features an impressive line-up of national and
international speakers, facilitated conversations, master classes and
more than 50 breakout sessions showcasing the way current e-portfolio
practice is making a difference in vocational education and training
(VET), higher education (HE) and adult and community education (ACE).

Themed: Making a difference – showing the difference, keynote
speakers and presenters will demonstrate the ways e-portfolios
supports learning. View the full EAC2011 program here -
http://eportfoliosaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/draft_eac_program_website_v2.pdf

Keynote and plenary speakers will be streamed live over the web over
both days, including:

Monday 17 October 2011 - 9.30 am AWST - Kathleen Blake Yancey,
Florida State University - Kathleen will discuss the ways e-portfolios
are helping to make learning visible and making a difference to
learning.

Monday 17 October 2011 - 10.20 am AWST - Mary Ryan, Queensland
University of Technology - Mary will share a transferable and
customisable model for teaching and assessing reflective thinking.

Tuesday 18 October 2011 - 9.40 am AWST - Ruth Wallace, Charles
Darwin University - Ruth will discuss the implications of learner
identity on improving the use of e-portfolios.

Tuesday 18 October 2011 - 10.20 am AWST - Terrel L Rhodes,
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) - Terrel
will share how e-portfolios give learners a voice and agency in their
own learning through integrated and interdependent learning
experiences.

Access the speakers presentations online* from:
http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/eac2011-program/

The EAC2011 Vendor networking session to be held between 4:30 pm-6:00
pm AWST on Monday 17 October will allow conference participants to
meet and speak with the conference vendors, including: Concord/
SciPoint, Desire2Learn, Mahara/Netspot, PebblePad and VUMI. More
information available from: http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/networking-session/

Conference participants can register to attend as part of their
conference registration:
http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/eac2011-registration-accommodation/

If you are interested in attending the networking session, but not the
conference, please contact Allison Miller (details below).

Follow the conference via:

ePortfolios Australia Twitter: http://twitter.com/eportfoliosaust
ePortfolios Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eportfoliosaust

Conference delegates can share their experiences by using the
conference tag: #EAC2011.

This conference is supported by the Australian Flexible Learning
Framework (Framework), Curtin University, Queensland University of
Technology (QUT), Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) and
AAEEBL.

More information contact: Allison Miller
allison.miller @ flexiblelearning.net.au
0400 732 270
http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/

*No registration is required for the online sessions, however you must
have access to headphones and have installed and configured the web
conferencing software before connecting to the online sessions.
Download Blackboard Collaborate and configure your computer from:
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/meeting?sid=345&username=Test&password=M.AD379BCB0A40D3D8C33C6B16A84C0Bhttps://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/meeting?sid=345&username=Test&password=M.AD379BCB0A40D3D8C33C6B16A84C0B

Allison Miller

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Oct 18, 2011, 10:40:08 AM10/18/11
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On Sep 27, 8:21 pm, Allison Miller <Allison.Mil...@tafesa.edu.au>
wrote:
> There is less than three weeks until ePortfolios Australia Conference
> 2011 (EAC2011), the major national tertiary education e-portfolio
> event, on 17-18 October 2011 at the Curtin University, Perth, Western
> Australia:http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/
>
> This two-day event features an impressive line-up of national and
> international speakers, facilitated conversations, master classes and
> more than 50 breakout sessions showcasing the way current e-portfolio
> practice is making a difference in vocational education and training
> (VET), higher education (HE) and adult and community education (ACE).
>
> Themed: Making a difference – showing the difference, keynote
> speakers and presenters will demonstrate the ways e-portfolios
> supports learning. View the fullEAC2011program here -http://eportfoliosaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/draft_eac_pro...
>
> Keynote and plenary speakers will be streamed live over the web over
> both days, including:
>
>     Monday 17 October 2011 - 9.30 am AWST - Kathleen Blake Yancey,
> Florida State University - Kathleen will discuss the ways e-portfolios
> are helping to make learning visible and making a difference to
> learning.
>
>     Monday 17 October 2011 - 10.20 am AWST - Mary Ryan, Queensland
> University of Technology - Mary will share a transferable and
> customisable model for teaching and assessing reflective thinking.
>
>     Tuesday 18 October 2011 - 9.40 am AWST - Ruth Wallace, Charles
> Darwin University - Ruth will discuss the implications of learner
> identity on improving the use of e-portfolios.
>
>     Tuesday 18 October 2011 - 10.20 am AWST - Terrel L Rhodes,
> Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) - Terrel
> will share how e-portfolios give learners a voice and agency in their
> own learning through integrated and interdependent learning
> experiences.
>
> Access the speakers presentations online* from:http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/eac2011-...
>
> TheEAC2011Vendor networking session to be held between 4:30 pm-6:00
> pm AWST on Monday 17 October will allow conference participants to
> meet and speak with the conference vendors, including: Concord/
> SciPoint, Desire2Learn, Mahara/Netspot, PebblePad and VUMI.  More
> information available from:  http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/networki...
>
> Conference participants can register to attend as part of their
> conference registration:http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/eac2011-...
>
> If you are interested in attending the networking session, but not the
> conference, please contact Allison Miller (details below).
>
> Follow the conference via:
>
>     ePortfolios Australia Twitter:http://twitter.com/eportfoliosaust
>     ePortfolios Australia Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/eportfoliosaust
Unfortunately the live streaming audio did not work for the main
ePortfolios Australia Conference 2011 (EAC2011) presenters however
will do have MP3 recordings for Ruth and Terrel which will go up on
the EAC2011 website: http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/eac2011-program/

You can also view some the:

- EAC2011 hashtagged tweets: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EAC2011
- ePortfolios Australia Facebook posts: http://www.facebook.com/eportfoliosaust

And you may like to check out (and respond to) this blog post
entitled: "EAC2011 - is the ePortfolio dead" (by Mark Drechsler) -
http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=712


> Conference delegates can share their experiences by using the
> conference tag: #EAC2011.
>
> This conference is supported by the Australian Flexible Learning
> Framework (Framework), Curtin University, Queensland University of
> Technology (QUT), Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) and
> AAEEBL.
>
> More information contact: Allison Miller
> allison.miller @ flexiblelearning.net.au0400 732 270begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            0400 732 270      http://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference-eac2011/
>
> *No registration is required for the online sessions, however you must
> have access to headphones and have installed and configured the web
> conferencing software before connecting to the online sessions.
> Download Blackboard Collaborate and configure your computer from:https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/installinfo/meeting?sid=345&...
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