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Jason Clarke
Skipped university, bought some long pants and landed a job with the Victorian State Opera. He resigned three years later from his position as senior stage manager after again being overlooked for the role of Carmen.
Taking what he had learnt about stagecraft, Jason entered corporate communications producing films, exhibitions, multimedia and live events for clients including Ford, Kodak and Microsoft. A swag of local and international awards soon adorned the Clarke Trophy Room.
A five-year freelance spree saw Jason grow into a creative and strategic thinker for Australia Post, Telstra and BHP among others. During this time he accepted an invitation to become the Creative Director of what was then Australia;s largest multi-media production network, AAV Australia. Jason took AAV to new directions in environmental interpretation and science education, providing the creative vision for some of Australia's most successful education and tourism projects including: the Philip Island Nature Reserve, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Science Centre (Hobart) and the Melbourne Aquarium.
Today, Jason is the founding father of the Minds At Work equation. Jason brings to his business partnership with Michelle Loft, 20 years of creativity and innovation over a broad range of objectives, budgets and environments. Jason can be heard on ABC 774 Melbourne each Monday when he joins breakfast host Red Symons for an on air battle of wits. He also runs the Creativity and Innovation stream inside the MBA at the Mt Eliza Business School. He is married, has one son and lives in Melbourne. He has abandoned any operatic aspirations.
Minds At Work is a dynamic collective of working thinkers. We are deeply and actively involved with our clients and their developments. Through ongoing programs, workshops and presentations, we address cultural and creativity issues within organizations. Minds At Work has worked with oil industry executives, teachers, lawyers, children, CEOs and secretaries, police and stock analysts. Brainstorming sessions, planning sessions, creative discussions, keynote addresses and conference workshops are standard fare. Behind everything Minds At Work does is the desire to unlock people’s innate creativity; to slake the thirst for new solutions and to empower people to think creatively for themselves.
Keynote Address: Libraries: Dusty archives or resource centres for social transformation?
The first thing any self respecting tyrant does after capturing a territory is to burn down the library and for good reason, for a library is a catalogue of thought, a marketplace of different ideas, a smorgasbord of perceptions and worldviews. No wonder tyrants find them so scary, but are our libraries still a powerful resource for social transformation, or are they little more than dusty archives?
Amanda Credaro
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science (University of Sydney)
- Graduate Diploma of Education (University of Sydney)
- Master of Applied Science – Teacher Librarianship (Charles Sturt University)
- Master of Education – Information Technology in Education (Charles Sturt University)
- Diploma of Riding Instruction (Australian Equestrian Academy)
- Justice of the Peace
Previous Employment (pre TL-ship):
- Geologist
- Book Reviewer
- Photojournalist
- Science Teacher
- Home-School Liaison Officer
- Project Officer (Distance Education)
Publications:
Approximately 40 articles in peer-reviewed and refereed journals; a further 90-odd web-mounted articles; editor and webmaster of Biblia’s Warrior Librarian Weekly; numerous Letters to the Editor (including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Blacktown Advocate); plus Biblia’s Guide to Warrior Librarianship (monograph). A further 3 books in low orbit at the time of writing.
Areas of Interest:
- The instructional use of Children’s Literature
- Resource-based learning
- Information retrieval
- School administration
- Adult learning
- Policy documentation and application
- Affective domain issues in both teaching and learning
- The use of the Internet as an instructional tool
- Motivating the reluctant reader
- Library Humour
After Dinner Speaker: Is there any correlation between Warrior Librarianship and real life?
Enjoy an evening of fine food, brilliant conversation, perhaps a small glass of sherry; followed by an entertaining discourse on the lighter side of our profession.
Ms Gulcin Cribb, Director of Library Services, Bond University
Employment history:
- Director, Library Services, Bond University (2001 to present)
- Executive Manager, Physical Sciences and Engineering Library Service, the University of Queensland (1995-2001)
- Manager, Library Multimedia Services, the University of Queensland (1986-1995)
- Lecturer in library science at Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey (1980-1981)
- Subject specialist librarian at the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London (1979-1980)
Gulcin has extensive experience in the areas of innovation, information literacy, flexible learning, library-faculty-industry partnerships, marketing, multimedia, digitisation and virtual libraries. She was one of the original founders of AVEL (Australasian Virtual Engineering Library). She coordinated the Australian Digital Theses Program for the University of Queensland. Gulcin led a project to investigate the use of information technology in teaching and learning at the University of Queensland in 1994. She organised a series of academic staff development programs on the use of multimedia in teaching and learning over a two-year period. She is passionate about lifelong learning and development of information literacy skills for all in the community.
Educational qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts (English Literature and Linguistics) Ataturk University, Turkey
- Graduate Diploma in Library Science (QUT)
- Graduate Certificate in Management (UQ)
Publications:
Gulcin has published over 30 articles and presented conference papers on innovation, resource discovery, information literacy and use and management of new technologies in university libraries in both Australia and overseas. She won the best paper award at the 1998 Annual Conference and Exposition of ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) in Seattle, Washington.
Membership:
- Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
- Member of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
- Member of the Australian Tertiary Education Management Association (ATEM)
- Member of the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW)
Ms Wendy Abbott, Associate Director, Customer Services, Bond University
Wendy's current role incorporates leading and managing customer services staff with coordination responsibilities across the Library service for information literacy and marketing. Prior to joining Bond University Library, Wendy had many years experience in academic libraries including several roles at Griffith University. Her positions there included Information Services Consultant, Health/Science ; Manager, Information Services, Gold Coast Campus; Library Manager, Nathan Campus; and Faculty Librarian, Environmental Sciences. Wendy has always had a special interest in information literacy education and has been working on strategies for embedding information literacy education in the curriculum in undergraduate programs. This has included the development of web-based learning programs in conjunction with academic staff and fostering a learner-centred approach for information literacy education. Wendy has authored and co-authored a number of articles and conference papers on the subject of information literacy.
Keynote address: The Wave of the Future -- Ms Wendy Abbott and Ms Gulcin Cribb
Teacher-librarians have been a driving force in promoting information literacy as a priority for personal and organisational success in the 21st century. Librarians of all persuasions have recognised the trends and are responding by adopting educational roles. In evolving their roles as teachers, librarians are in the vanguard of professionals helping to shape the information literate community for the new millennium.
Professor Michael Hough
Professor Hough holds joint Professorial Fellow Appointments – as a Professor of Management: in the Graduate School of Business and Professional Education; and as a Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education – both at the University of Wollongong, NSW Australia
His main interests are in Futurism and the new Knowledge Technologies; Strategic Thinking, Development of Organisations; Quality Management and its applications to all aspects of the service sector; and in the application of new technologies (especially Information and Communication Technologies) to Organisational practices.
He is a Past National President of the Australian Council for Educational Administration and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and of the Australian Institute of Management. He is a Gold Medallist of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders.
He is currently the Chairman of the South Coast Scouts Association; Chairman of the Board of the Illawarra Information Technology Centre, and Chairman of the Employment Resources Limited Board. He is a Director of the Flagstaff Group for persons with disabilities.
2004 "Wollongong Citizen of the Year".
Keynote address: Thinking strategically about libraries and the future of schooling
The keynote will review and update thinking by reviewing the change pressures which are acting on societal agencies such as Schools and their Libraries, and explaining the new types of Knowledge revolutions which are driving major societal, economic and political changes in what is increasingly being called a Knowledge & Service economy.
Examples of the major “Knowledge Technology Revolutions” will be given and their change implications for education, schooling and libraries will be particularly explained and emphasized.
The keynote will emphasise the strategic implications of these change forces, and will conclude with a detailed illustration of the changes that Information and Communication Technologies offer in developing the electronically capable school.
The probable role of the School Library will be particularly highlighted in the details of this final section.
Mr Terry Kearney, BEd, DipT, Assistant Director-General, Office of State Schooling.
Terry Kearney has undertaken a number of roles in education including teacher, principal, district director, director and assistant director-general. During his career and in particular in the past five years, Terry has challenged current education thinking to enable the 2010 vision and the ETRF reforms and led teams who have delivered a new perspective on education as evidenced by Varsity College; the creation of the Learning and Development Foundation; Staff Colleges; the Learning Place; Professional Standards for Teachers and Leaders. During this time Terry created a learning framework within the organisation, which underpinned such initiatives like the Quality Teacher Program, ICTs for Learning, Learning and Development Centres and productive partnerships with private industry, universities and parent groups.
Terry believes that it takes a 'whole village to educate a child'. His passion for ensuring every child in Queensland's state schools receives the best possible education influences his current work in enabling the future of state schooling.
Closing Keynote address: Signposts to the future
This presentation will be created through the duration of the conference. It will present a synopsis of the key concepts and ideas presented and discussed. The synopsis will be presented in an insightful, humorous yet provocative style. The provocation will challenge the findings of the conference to the theme 'Flagging the Future'.
Dr Karen Moni
Dr Karen Moni has taught secondary school English in England and Australia, and has also worked in Special Needs Units and as a teacher-librarian in several Queensland State High Schools. Dr Moni currently teaches English curriculum and literacy related subjects in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She is also Program Director of a teaching and research program teaching literacy to young adults with Down Syndrome. Dr Moni has also been the chairperson for the Somerset Conference for librarians and teachers. Her research interests include adolescent literacy, young adult literature, literacy assessment, and teacher education.
Keynote address: Life's a beach!
This presentation will focus on books in the lives of young adults. The paper will contrast a range of perspectives about reading for leisure and reading at school and will explore the notion of the beach as a cultural and critical space for identity construction in literature for young adults.
Mr Matt Ottley, Author/Illustrator
Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he spent the first eleven and a half years of his life. After almost failing high school in Sydney, he worked as a jackeroo on cattle stations in Queensland, before returning to Sydney to study fine arts and music. He is now one of Australia's most popular children's author.
Visit www.mattottley.com for more on Matt.
Breakfast address: Cliché and the Nostalgia Principle (picture books, music, art)
An explanation of the relationship that exists between words and image in the picture book. Matt will talk about the extraordinary potential that this relationship offers to picture book creators and the challenges those creators face in expanding the picture book as an art form.
Dr Chris Perry
Dr Chris Perry lectures at Deakin University in Teacher Education. She combines school based consultancies with lecturing in the area of children's growth and development especially as it relates to the development of student's thinking and learning. A special focus of her research and consultancy is on the development of learners problem-solving strategies and learning style.
Chris has been involved in, and has been Project Director of, a variety of school-based partnership programs that have focused on curriculum development, teacher renewal and change management.
She is the author of 'Thinking it through - activities to develop good thinking skills' and co-author of 'Researching it through - activities for developing skills in defining, locating and presenting information' both published by Oxford University Press. A recent publication is 'Learning in style - activities to recognise, accommodate and strengthen students' styles of learning' published by Hawker Brownlow
Keynote address: A thinking curriculum
Art Costa (1991) says that it is essential that we develop schools as a home for the mind and that in such a school 'development of the intellect, learning to learn, knowledge production, metacognition, decision-making, creativity, and problem solving are the subject matter of instruction' (p.7). This means that schools must develop their curriculum as a thinking curriculum. This type of curriculum is characterised by an integration of the skills of process knowledge and inclusion of content knowledge. Knowledge and thinking should be intimately joined with the curriculum organised around major concepts that the students are expected to know deeply. In a thinking curriculum students are engaged with a whole task. Learning is not chopped up into isolated skills and facts. Students acquire content knowledge as they plan, evaluate, solve problems, make decisions and so on. This Keynote address will outline some of the issues that are involved when individuals, teams or whole schools work toward what they are already doing in their curriculum or what they would like to do in order to develop and effectively implement a THINKING CURRICULUM.
Last updated 23 July 2004