Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events , 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 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne [email protected]

12 noon Crime & Justice Experience City Circle Tram Russell Street (Between & LaTrobe Streets), Melbourne [email protected]

12 noon 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 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

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Learning Opportunities and Museums – Key Issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourne, 15-17 September 2008

Tuesday 16 September – Morning Session

ONSITE: The Age Theatre Foyer, Lower Ground Level, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, .

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 1854 Fellow, State Library of Victoria &

 Beyond the Classroom: beginning teachers immersed in informal settings Dr Janette Griffin, Senior Lecturer, Education, University of Technology,

 Exploring New Learning Directions Jenny Horder, Manager Learning Services,

 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, 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,

 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 , 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,

 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)