Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008
Monday 15 September
SITE VISITS Confirmation with each museum is essential
11am Heide Museum of Modern Art Train to Heidelberg Station and Bus 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen 291 to Heide [email protected]
11am Immigration Museum City Circle Tram 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne [email protected]
12 noon Old Melbourne Gaol Crime & Justice Experience City Circle Tram Russell Street (Between Victoria & LaTrobe Streets), Melbourne [email protected]
12 noon Shrine of Remembrance St Kilda Rd trams St Kilda Road, Melbourne [email protected]
12 noon The Johnston Collection Tram No 48 / 75 Stop 11 [email protected] or call 03 9416 2515
1pm Koorie Heritage Trust City Circle Tram 295 King Street, Melbourne Call 03 8622 2600
2pm Jewish Museum of Australia Tram Route No 3 / 67 Stop 32 [email protected] or call 03 8034 3601
2.30pm Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Tram No 1 / 22 Stop 18 111 Sturt St, Southbank [email protected]
City Museum at Old Treasury Melbourne Spring Street (top end of Collins Street), Melbourne
MEETING
4.30pm MA Education Network General Meeting City Museum at Old Treasury Deakin Room
WELCOME RECEPTION
6pm – 7.30pm Welcome Reception City Museum at Old Treasury Hosted by the City Museum at Old Treasury JJ Clark Room
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND MUSEUMS | Presented by envi education network vi ctoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria)
Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008
Tuesday 16 September – Morning Session
ONSITE: MELBOURNE MUSEUM The Age Theatre Foyer, Lower Ground Level, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton Gardens.
9am Registration
9.10am Welcome Brett Dunlop, Manager Melbourne Museum Chair Linda Sproul, Manager Public Programs
9.15am The trouble with History… Session 1 Tim Sullivan, Deputy CEO & Museums Director, Sovereign Hill Invited Speakers The world’s your oyster, but here’s your budget! Patrick Watt, Manager Education & Public Programs, National Sports Museum
Under Construction: heritage, learning and interpretation at Old Parliament House, Canberra Edwina Jans, Heritage Interpretation and Deb Sulway, A/g, Old Parliament House
10.15am Morning Tea
10.45am School students are people too! Session 2 Lyn Beasley, Manager school visits, National Museum of Australia Short Papers Learning in the Colony of Victoria’s New Public Museums Kathleen Fennessy, freelance historian, former Redmond Barry 1854 Fellow, State Library of Victoria & University of Melbourne
Beyond the Classroom: beginning teachers immersed in informal settings Dr Janette Griffin, Senior Lecturer, Education, University of Technology, Sydney
Exploring New Learning Directions Jenny Horder, Manager Learning Services, Australian Museum
A view from the outside: Optimizing the learning opportunities of art museums for secondary school audiences Dr Donna Mathewson-Mitchell, Lecturer – Professional Studies, Charles Sturt University
11.45am To bee or not to bee Session 3 Luke Simkin, Manager Live Exhibits, Melbourne Museum Showcase Bernard Caleo, Public Programs Officer, Melbourne Museum Selection The Melbourne Story – visceral museum experiences that promote learning Jen Brooke, Manager Humanities Program, Melbourne Museum Liz Suda, Program Coordinator, Humanities, Melbourne Museum Charlotte Smith, Senior Curator History and Technology, Museum Victoria
Researching and programming for the Mind and Body Gallery Carolyn Meehan, Market Research and Evaluation Daniel Avano, Science Program Coordinator, Scienceworks Adrienne Leith, Senior Programs Officer, Melbourne Museum
12.30pm Session concludes
Walk to the State Library of Victoria
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND MUSEUMS | Presented by envi education network vi ctoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria)
Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008
Tuesday 16 September – Afternoon Session
OFFSITE: STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, Corner Swanston & La Trobe Streets, Melbourne.
1pm Lunch
1.50pm Welcome Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, CEO, State Library of Victoria Chair Andrew Hiskens, Manager Learning Services, State Library of Victoria
2pm Learning 2.0 Session 1 Lynette Lewis, Yarra-Plenty Regional Library & Mary Manning, School Library Association of Invited Speakers Victoria
Responding to the National Curriculum Challenge David Arnold, Manager Education, National Museum of Australia
Young Readers Project Paula Kelly, Reader Development and Onsite Learning Manager, State Library of Victoria
3pm Refreshments
3.15pm Object’s onsite and offsite learning opportunity – Cultivate8 Session 2 Sherryl Ryan, Education Consultant, Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design Short Papers Why Australian museums and heritage sites need a national history curriculum Louise Zarmati, PhD student, Deakin University
Offsite Conservation Partnerships Shelley Waldon, Placed Teacher, Discovery and Learning, Melbourne Zoo
The voice of the teacher – what motivates teachers to bring their students to your museum? Pennie Stoyles, Public Programs Manager, Scienceworks
Research, records and reading rooms – how the National Archives of Australia connects with content and classrooms Michelle Fracaro, Education Project Officer, Public Programs, National Archives of Australia
4.15pm Online learning - ergo and inside a dog Session 3 Linda Angeloni, Content Producer ergo website, State Library of Victoria Showcase Selection Lili Wilkinson, Manager, Inside a Dog website, State Library of Victoria
Mirror of the World and The Changing Face of Victoria Samantha Tidy, Education Programs & Offsite Learning Manager, State Library of Victoria Stephanie Rose, Education Officer, State Library of Victoria
The Physical Library in the 21 st Century Hamish Curry, Acting Library and Online Learning Manager, State Library of Victoria
5.30pm MA Education Network Committee Meeting, Irving Benson Room
7.30pm Seminar Dinner Beer DeLuxe Federation Square, Corner Flinders & Swanston Streets, Melbourne
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND MUSEUMS | Presented by envi education network vi ctoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria)
Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008
Wednesday 17 September – Morning Session
ONLINE: AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE (ACMI) Cinema 1, ACMI, Flinders Street entrance, Alfred Deakin Building, Federation Square, Melbourne.
9am Showcase Registration
9.10am Welcome Chair
9.15am The Twitch Response Session 1 Brett McLennan, Screen Education Manager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Invited Speakers Ladders of participation, social media and museum audiences Dr Lynda Kelly, Head of Audience Research, Australian Museum, Sydney
Social Media and Cultural Institutions – Engagement, Experience, Environment, Evaluation Associate Professor Angelino Russo, Faculty of Design, Swinburne University
10.15am Morning Tea
10.30am With One Work Session 2 Priscilla Tanner, Ultranet Coach, Hume Region, Department of Education and Early Short Papers Childhood Development
Treasures of the Sea: Audio Trail Mandi Dimitriadis, Outreach Education Officer, South Australian Maritime Museum
On-line and Physical Learning Resources David Milne, Manager Strategic Learning, Queensland Museum
Collections, curators, artists and technology Paul Howard, Senior Curator, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Ice e-mystery: student’s global collaborative polar e-books Andy Baird, Acting Manager, Centre for Learning and Discovery, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
11.30am ACMI Screen Literacy – The ACMI Model Session 3 Christine Evely, Education Programmer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Showcase Selection Exploring Machinimar Vincent Trundle, AV Curriculum Designer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Correspondences – Introduction to the Exhibition Brett McLennan, Screen Education Manager, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
12.30pm Lunch
Walk to the National Gallery of Victoria
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND MUSEUMS | Presented by envi education network vi ctoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria)
Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008
Wednesday 17 September – Afternoon Session
EVENTS: NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA Clemenger Lecture Theatre, North Mousehole Foyer, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
1.50pm Welcome Paula Lindley, Education Officer, NGV Chair Gina Panebianco, Head of Education and Programs, NGV
2pm Artside In: teenage students as agents in the art world Session 1 Tristan Sharp, Senior Co-ordinator Education Programs, Art Gallery of NSW Invited Speakers I really like going to art galleries, I learn a lot – yeah right... Kim O’Loughlin, Curator Public Programs, Auckland Art Gallery
Creative Programming: Effective Collaboration: Inspiring Events. Padmini Sebastian, Manager, Immigration Museum
3pm Refreshments
3.15pm Chair Diane Gardiner, Manager Community Access, Public Record Office Victoria Session 2 Short Papers Creating Innovative Learning Events for Small Museums Robyn Ives for Nina Stanton, Director, The Johnston Collection
Family Learning: engaging the locals Murphy Peoples, Senior Programs Officer, Scienceworks & Margaret Griffith, Manager Public Programs, Melbourne Museum
Civic space as learning place: creating learning opportunities through events at Fed Square Cameron Stevens, Program Manager, Federation Square
Ultimo Science Festival; leveraging partnerships to give our message a wider reach Derek Williamson, Powerhouse Museum
Young Ambassadors Program at NGV Ruth Komesaroff, Youth Access Program, National Gallery of Victoria
4.15pm Chris Nobbs, Senior Education Officer, South Australian Museum Seminar Summation Bronwyn Sugars, Manager Outreach Education, South Australian Education Department
Session 3 NGV Mentor Program 2008, Salvidore Dali Liquid Desire Showcase Selection Susie May, Education Officer, National Gallery of Victoria 4.20pm Ted Gott, Senior Curator International Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Tradition and Transformation- An Interactive Whiteboard Project Jean Pierre Chabrol, NGV Multimedia Manager, National Gallery of Victoria Kate Cooper, Interactive Whiteboard Specialist
Growing Up, NGV Kids Dianne Hilyear, Public Programs, Coordinator and NGV kids Coordinator
5.30pm – 8pm Art Deco 1910 – 1939 Evening Event Persimmon Restaurant, National Gallery of Victoria
MC Gina Panebianco Speaker Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Victoria
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND MUSEUMS | Presented by envi education network vi ctoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria)