Presentations

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Radio interviews

Tony Ryan, Producer/Presenter at Learning Works, a weekly radio program broadcast in Adelaide on PBA FM 89.7, recorded some interviews with conference presenters and participants.

01	Dave Baker (Keynote)	Numeracy
02	Di Sansom (Participant)	WELL program, Fitzroy Crossing (WA)
03	Geoff Pearson (Presenter)	WELL Program – The Grammar Disk – Pah
04	Liz Hughes (Presenter)	Working in Northam WA with people with disabilities
05	Philip Nichols (Presenter)	Using SMS with newly arrived students
06	Students from UTS Sydney (Participants)	Improving adult literacy in indigenous communities
07	Hazel Davidson (Presenter)	The Bilingual Everyday Australian English Picture Dictionary.
08	Michelle Eady (Presenter)	Literacy - Working with First Nation Peoples.
09	Dr Peter Waterhouse (Presenter)	Literacy - The Strength In Us All

Our thanks to those presenters who have made their material available. We will add material here as it is provided.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Keynote Presentation:

Keynote Presentation: The Strengths in Us All (PDF 500KB)

Dr Peter Waterhouse Managing Director, Workplace Learning Initiatives

Concurrent sessions

1B Creating Community Through Public Speaking

Rob McCormack Victoria University

00. Introduction_to_Epideictic_Rhetoric (PDF 15KB)

01. OP_Shops (PDF 10KB)

02. Example_of_Student_speech2 (PDF 25KB)

03. Student_Slogans_tricolons (PDF 20KB)

04. ANTI-MODEL (PDF 15KB)

05. MODEL (PDF 15KB)

06. ANTITHESIS (PDF 20KB)

07. Introduction (PDF 25KB)

08. Adding_Doubles (PDF 20KB)

09. Adding_Transitions (PDF 30KB)

10. Lists (PDF 25KB)

11. Metaphor_Simile (PDF 55KB)

12. Epideictic_Rhetoric (PDF120KB)

1C Equity, Justice and Human Rights in Australia for Adult English Learners (PDF 2.2MB)

Jennifer Davis, Lilliana Hajncl, AMES Maggie Power Australian Human Rights Commission

1D The Strength of Family Literacy – A View from South Africa (PF 1MB)

Snoeks Desmond

Keynote Presentation:

What counts, who counts: developing understandings of numeracy teaching from international experiences (PDF 200KB)

Dave Baker, London Institute of Education

3A A Quick Test of Literacy? (PDF 100KB)

Mark Butler, Australian Council for Educational Research

3C Using bilingual, bicultural expertise to reduce inequity and build literacy skills in refugee communities (PDF 150KB)

Hazel Davidson, TAFE English Language and Literacy Services (TELLS), Brisbane

3D From a local to international client base, what changes are needed to better meet these adult students’ learning needs? (PowerPoint 1.4MB)

Erica Daymond, Canning College

3G SMS – Student motivation system (PDF 500KB)

Philip Nichols, AMES Swan TAFE

4C Not weighing the pig – feeding him: USIQ, a new course to provide extra help where it is most needed. (PDF 30KB)

Margaret McHugh, Senior Literacy Officer, WA Department of Education and, Training

4D Critical Mathematics for Critical Times (PowerPoint 900KB)

Dr. Keiko Yasukawa, University of Technology Sydney

4E Embedding Literacy and Numeracy into Industry Training in New Zealand (PowerPoint 1.5 MB)

Nicole Murray, Industry Training Federation & Sylvia Heywood, ETITO, New Zealand

4F Working in the policy environment with accredited LLN curriculum: meeting learner needs (PDF 850KB)

Nadia Casarotto & Liz Davidson, Victoria University

5C Team Teaching: The pros and cons and the ups and downs – our personal experience. (PDF 380KB)

Robyn McKenzie & Tracy Grimmer, Chisholm Institute

5E The Literacy & Numeracy Requirements of Entry Level Supermarket Work (PDF 500KB)

Kim Hastwell, Auckland University of Technology

5G Using JING Videos to Assist in Teaching and Learning (PDF 1.7MB)

Accompanying notes (PDF 70KB)

Libby Rowsell & Julia Kearton, Swinburne University of Technology - TAFE

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Concurrent sessions

6A Drawing on ideas of strength based learning: what’s old, what’s new?

Panel

Patricia Konigsberg's presentation (PowerPoint 500KB)

Beth Marr's presentation (PowerPoint 1MB)

6B Perspectives on literacy needs and technology approaches in indigenous communities (PowerPoint 5.7MB)

Michelle Eady, University of Wollongong

6E Mi Life Mi Future (PDF 100KB)

Movie (wmv file 4.3MB)

Barbara Van Leest Goulburn Ovens, Institute of TAFE

6F Social practice, ethnography and numeracies: raising teachers’ awareness of learners’ needs. Ways of enabling (PDF 180KB)

Dave Baker, London Institute of Education

7G Exploring reading in an African language (PDF 700KB)

Session notes (PDF 60KB)

Sandra Land University of KZN, South Africa

8A Addressing the LLN in Vocational Training: Core Skills Support in Regional, Remote and Rural Areas

Skilling staff in LLN delivery in remote and regional locations (PDF 260KB)

Model of LLN Support to Engineering Students – Barossa Valley Campus (PDF 550KB)

LLN in Vocational TrainingProviding Core Skills support in remote and rural areas (PDF850KB)

Deby Wilkes and Penny Skewes, TAFE SA

8C From Local Village to Global Village: developing skills and broadening horizons for refugees from Burma in a Language, Literacy and Numeracy classroom (PDF 1.6MB)

Mandy Homewood, Swinburne, University of Technology (TAFE)

8E Partnerships, Practitioners and Passion Explored (PDF 650KB)

STEPS Mobile Family Literacy Interagency Partnerships (Video 5.7MB)

Leonie Francis & Ros Bauer, TAFE NSW Riverina Institute

8F Neuroplasticity, Puzzles and Literacy (PDF 220KB)

Claire Anderson, Central West TAFE (Carnarvon Campus), WA

9C Investigating agency in the teaching of very low-literate adult ESL learners in Western Sydney: A case study (PDF 300KB)

Sue Ollerhead, Macquarie University

9F Professional Play with a PDA (PDF 1.7MB)

Megan Colley & Anne Willox, Swan TAFE, WA

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