Networking and community building
A workshop which will provide information about an online survey tool and how to use it. Including discussing survey forms that others might be using.
Presenter:
David Barrow, Communications Manager, New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations. David is an experienced communications professional from New Zealand with many years involvement in the central government sector, but now in the community & voluntary sector. He is passionate about the web as a key business tool for any organisation and, like many of us, considers himself a 'digital immigrant' with the onset of the latest social networking technologies. He acknowledges that the speed of technology developments means that we are experiencing a veritable wave of opportunities, initiatives and issues for using ICT in our sector.
Finding the right internet domain name is more important than you think - if you want to be found. Find out:
What makes a good domain name
How to register a domain name
How to identify the most effective name to represent your organisation.
Presenter:
Darrell Burkey is the founder and President of Computing Assistance Support & Education Inc(CASE), a non-profit organisation providing ICT support to community development organisations. Darrell has been involved with the community sector in the ACT since 1992. He holds degrees in Professional Photography and Information Technology (software). Darrell was an IT trainer for the University of Canberra and is currently a Unix Systems Administrator at the Australian National University where he received the Vice-Chancellor's Staff Award for Community Involvement. Darrell has contributed to research on issues relating to the equitable access to technology in Australia and is a member of the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia.
Making Cents is a highly successful program offering resources online for teachers and parents to help Australians understand and manage their money. The presentation will highlight the successes and challenges of this project including:
Success of uptake and use of the resources
Reaching isolated areas
Ease of access to resources
Working with partners.
Presenter:
Sandra Ross, Director, Community Services and Programs, Regional YWCA NSW. Sandra began her career as a teacher, then consultant with the Department of Education and Training in the Computer Education Unit. She moved into the corporate world as Education Marketing Manager for an international computing company eventually setting up her own consultancy Chalk & Chips: computer education solutions. Since then she has remained in the not for profit sector. YWCA NSW supports vulnerable people at those critical transition periods in life when they are more prone to fall through the gaps. Recognising that most young Australians have not been exposed to financial education, the YWCA NSW and Citi Australia joined forces in 2003 with the NSW Department of Education and Training to develop MakingCents- a curriculum based financial education program. This is the program she will feature in her presentation today.
This presentation considers the impact ICT can make on the life of seniors, those who are isolated, people with special needs, Indigenous Australians and carers.
Presenter:
Nan Bosler OAM BEd MLGMgnt. Nan Bosler has been involved in volunteer work for almost 60 years and has worked with, and for, people of all age groups with particular emphasis on the needs of older people and those with a disability. Nan is the foundation president of the Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association.
She was over 50 when she first went to University and has tertiary qualifications in Adult Education, Community Organisation, Local & Applied History and Local Government Management.
She represented Australia internationally in 2008 and presented at the Information Society and the Elderly Global Perspectives Conference in South Korea and an international three-day seminar, Women in motion for the right to Education, a seminar organised in Uruguay by The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) and run by its Gender and Education Office (GEO).
She retired from paid employment in 1996. She is, or has been, a member of many committees, including ACCAN, Telstra Consumer Consultative Council, the Broadband for Seniors Consortium, and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, Seniors Portal Editorial Board and Community Care (Northern Beaches) Board.
This workshop will cover:
What others do
Knowledge vs networks
Finding time for you own professional development plan
Tools and strategies.
Presenter:
Marlene Manto, Innovations Coordinator in South Australia, for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Marlene has been involved in Flexible Learning and e-learning for more than 15 years. In her role, she works with project teams who are trying to embed e-learning and also manages and facilitates professional development programs and workshops on many subjects related to e-learning, across the state. She studied for a degree in Vocational Education and a Post Graduate Certificate in Flexible Learning while bringing up 4 children and trying to keep a level of order in a very busy home environment.
Find out how Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau assessed its information and technology future. The presentation offers information from the perspective of a community organisation manager and university researcher.
Presenters:
Stefanie Kethers, Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University. Stefanie has contributed to numerous interdisciplinary projects focussing on her main research interest, supporting human cooperation, at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and at CSIRO and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Stefanie is currently part of the "Doing IT Better" project team. “Doing IT Better” is a three-year project to build information and communications technology (ICT) capacity in the Victorian community services sector.
Stefanie received her doctorate degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2000 with a thesis on modelling and analysing cooperative processes. She also holds degrees in Computer Science, and in English Studies. Stefanie has published about 20 scientific papers and has reviewed papers for several international conferences and workshops.
Jinny McGrath, Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau
Find out how this initiative has:
Improved strategic planning for ICT technologies
Improved managed of ICT
Provided support to access resources
Increased collaboration to maximize benefits offered by ICT technologies.
Presenter:
Patrick Edwards, ICT Gateway Coordinator, Bishops Action Foundation New Zealand. Pat is a Telecommunications and Audio visual technician with 22 years in these fields; he also has experience and good hands on working knowledge in IT system setup and design, Telecom solutions and different land line plans, electrical layout and design, electrical hardware supply and installation. Originally from UK, Pat arrived in Taranaki in Feb 2000 after 11 years service in the Royal Air Force where his role was to support Telecommunication requirements to the UN and other peace keeping forces around the world. Since arriving in Taranaki he has held various roles and positions one of which was establishing an ICT company which achieved national status and employed up to 45 staff and contractors (within 3 years) offering a full range of services to both residential and cooperate clients.
Connecting Up IT? Of course you are! This the era of social networking, online donations, remote working, web conferencing and network openness. Sadly, however, today’s networks are often so open that cybercriminals are having a ball out there.Come to this presentation and find out, through a live demo--- safely done, but using real malware --- how a modern cybercriminal attack works, and how even well-informed users can be tricked. At the same time, learn what you can do to protect your own users, PCs, servers and networks.
Presenter:
Paul Ducklin is Head of Technology, Asia Pacific at Sophos in Sydney. He has been part of the anti-malware research scene for almost 20 years. He joined Sophos in 1995 from the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Paul is an experienced and entertaining presenter, regularly giving talks at events world-wide. He loves his subject, enjoys sharing his knowledge -- he was singled out by one IT journalist as "the most passionate security presenter" at RSA2008 in San Francisco -- and doesn't believe in PowerPoint.
The workshop provides an insight into how a program used wikis to engage young people who had become disengaged with school. It includes the good, the bad and the fantastic of:
Engaging stakeholders
Designing the brief
Building the wiki.
Presenters:
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Podcasts: We will be podcasting all of the keynote presentations after the conference – but there will be some that will be available the following day. You can find them all in iTunes -- or on our blog at http://www.connectingup.org/blog.
