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Thursday 28 September 2006

7.45am – 8.45am

Registration

7.30am - 8.45am

Breakfast session (Symphony Café Ground Floor, Michael Fowler Center): Pre-conference welcome breakfast

New to eFest? Want to get advice on how it all works and what will help you get the most out of your eFest visit? Then come along to this informal breakfast session and the eFest organizers and previous eFest visitor volunteers will be on hand to answer your questions over coffee and a continental breakfast.

8:45am - 9:00am

Assembly and briefing for Pōwhiri

9.00am - 9.30am

Pōwhiri

9.30am - 9.35am

Compere introduction / housekeeping: Dr Nicky Page

9.35am - 9.50am

Opening address : Martin Eadie - Executive Director, ITPNZ

9.50am - 10.20am

Morning Tea

10.20am - 11.25am

Keynote speaker: Stephen Downes - National Research Council, Canada

11.30am - 12.00pm

Concurrent session
Vendor Square Affair 1	Paper Square Affair 2	Paper Civic Suite 1	Paper Civic Suite 2	Paper Civic Suite 3
SMART interactive classroom solutions: shared surfaces which dissolve the classroom walls Pablo Garcia, Manzana	Policy and research context and priorities for tertiary e-Learning Danny Wolters	2006: a library iPodyssey Stephen Harlow	Spokes characters online – do they help or hinder? Phillip Andrews	Building effective learning communities for rural students Terry Marler

12.00pm - 1.00pm

Lunch

1.00pm - 2.00pm

Keynote speaker: Mark Strom, CEO Bible College of NZ / Director, Scintillare Corporation

2.00pm - 2.30pm

Invited speaker: Janice Shiner, Chief Executive TEC

2.35pm - 3.05pm

Concurrent sessions
Vendor Square Affair 1	Paper Square Affair 2	Conversation Civic Suite 1	Conversation Civic Suite 2	Conversation Civic Suite 3
Class response systems: enabling active student involvement and flexible teaching practice deliver extraordinary learning gains Pablo Garcia, Manzana	e-Learning preference of international students: the Shandong University of Technology (SDUT) study Deniss Yeung	Social innovation in mobile learners Steve Lowe	Lecture notes online: just e-desks-in-rows? Exploring whether e-Learning leads to constructivist teaching practice John Hitchcock	Networked education Richard Wyles

3.05pm - 3.30pm

Afternoon Tea

3.30pm - 4.30pm

Concurrent sessions
Vendor Square Affair 1	Paper Square Affair 2	Paper Civic Suite 1	Conversation Civic Suite 2	Conversation Civic Suite 3
Introduction to Windows Vista David Rayner, Microsoft NZ	m-Learning for work based apprentices: trials, tribulations and triumphs Selena Chan	Software, scenarios and storytelling: eCDF project “tools for delivering scenario-based e-Learning both locally and across the internet” Dr Terry Stewart and Carey Ong	Blogs and learning Marica Sevelj	Information literacy e-Learning modules: reusable and portable across a College of Education, a Polytechnic and a University Bronwyn Hegarty, Wendy Ritson-Jones & Dawn Coburn

4.30pm - 5.05pm

Invited speaker: Meegan Hall - Cultureflow

5.05pm - 5.35pm

Invited speaker: Frank March - Digital Strategy

5.35pm - 5.40pm

Housekeeping

6.00pm - 8.30pm

Evening Drinks: Loaded Hog, Queens Wharf. Sponsored by Catalyst IT Ltd

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Day One

Thursday 28 September 2006