Miniconfs/Education

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This one day Education Mini-conference will focus on educational uses of Free and Open Source initiatives used around the world including tools for teaching and school management.

It has talks and workshops directly useful to educators, administrators, developers and those interested in supporting education initiatives and/or influencing their direction and uptake.

You can email Tabitha if you require further information.

The education miniconference is scheduled for Tuesday 19 January.

Proposals

The call for proposals is now closed.

The Schedule

The education miniconf will be on Tuesday 19 January. The basic break up of the miniconf is as follows:

Times	Duration	Detail

09:00 - 10:00	60	Keynote speaker
10:00 - 10:30	30	Morning Tea
10:30 - 12:15	125	10:30 Welcome and housekeeping 10:35 The Open Source Secondary School - Mark Osborne 10:55 Art education and open source - Maksim Lin 11:10 Sugarlabs: A word from the founder - Walter Bender 11:30 OLPC and Sugarlabs - Improving education on a global scale - NZ Volunteers group
12:15 - 13:30	75	Lunch
13:30 - 15:15	125	13:30 Koha - Nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi - Chris Cormack 13:45 Kidsmart Rollout: Early childhood project - Carl Klitscher 14:00 The use of FOSS in teaching Software Engineering - Ashley Maher 14:15 Moodle features workshop - Jonathan Newman, Stacey Walker and Jonathan Harker
15:15 - 15:45	30	Afternoon Tea
15:45 - 17:30	125	15:45 Mahara development workshop - Penny Leach, Richard Mansfield and Evan Goldenberg 16:45 TBA 17:00 Structuring a multi-day technical training course - Jacinta Richardson 17:15 Voice and vision interaction - John Graves 17:20 Closing of the day