Registration:
The Comfort Hotel
73 Main Street
Portrush
Co Antrim
Tel: +44 (0)28 7082 6100

Dinner at the Comfort Hotel

Lecture Theatre 9

9.30 am to 10.10 am

Chair: Professor Anne Moran, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ulster

Speaker
Dr Roger Austin, School of Education, University of Ulster
‘Key issues for educators, researchers and policy makers on ICT for bridge-building and social inclusion’

11.20 am - 12.50pm

Chair: Professor Rosalind Pritchard, School of Education, University of Ulster

Plenary session on the practice of using ICT to cross cultural and linguistic boundaries; presenters will offer case studies which will include a critique of the impact of ICT-enabled work on teachers and pupils and the technologies which have been used. These sessions will also consider how such work has been evaluated and whether the main outcomes of contact rest in improved understanding or whether they have been able to raise the standard of student achievement.

Speakers:
Carol Fletcher and Robert Hart, Intuitive Media Ltd, Online Learning Communities for Children and Young People.
‘Online Learning Communities – Crossing Cultural Divides’.

Angela Rickard ,National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
‘Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education 2000 – 2006’.

Rapporteur:  Dr Alison Montgomery,  UNESCO Centre, School of Education, University of Ulster

Chair; Professor John Anderson, Department of Education, Northern Ireland

Speakers; Peter Heaney, Steelstown Primary School, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
‘Using VLE (Think.com) and videoconferencing to complement and support primary school children, within the UK and Europe, presenting, sharing and affirming aspects of their cultural, social and physical environment’.

Marie Martin, Video Conferencing Advisor to Classroom 2000, Adjunct Faculty Carlow University, Pittsburg PA, USA ; and Dr Susan O’Rourke, Chair of Special Education and Instructional Technology Programs, Carlow |University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
‘The Role of Video Conferencing in Bridge-Building’.

Coffee Break

Chair; Professor Alan Smith , School of Education, University of Ulster

Crossing boundaries in the Middle East through technology.

Speakers;
Elaine Hoter, Talpiot Teachers College, Tel Aviv, Israel
Miri Shonfeld , Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel
Asmaa Ganayem, Al-Qasimi Academy College of Education,
Baka-Elgabia, Israel
‘Constructing bridges between cultures in conflict through an online teacher education course’.

Sharon Ayalon & Avital Drori, Centre for Educational Technology (CET) Israel
‘Strangers no more: How Internet contributes to respectful dialogue between estranged groups in Israel’.

Chair; Dr Roger Austin

Public Lecture.

Speaker; Professor Stephen Heppell,
‘Welcome to the Sharing Age: why the 21 st century is not the 20 th century, and what this means for learning everywhere’

Rapporteur:  Jackie Lambe, School of Education, University of Ulster

Venue: University of Ulster , Coleraine Campus

Lecture Theatre 9

9.15 am – 10.30 am

Chair; Dr Ruth Firer

Speaker; Professor Stephen Heppell
The Digital Divide in a Digital World: how new communication technologies can address inclusion, and what we need to do to let it’.

Coffee

Case Studies from Ireland and the Philippines
Chair: Dr Victor McNair, School of Education, University of Ulster

Speakers; Jay Vincent Plaza , Co-Founder, HotCity Wireless and Dr Joyce Malyn-Smith, Director, Strategic Initiatives in Workforce and Human Development,  Education Development Centre, Barangay San Vicente , Philippines .
Power Users of ICT: Supporting digital inclusion of the youth towards Global Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange through the use of a low cost wireless infrastructure in under resourced communities

 Ciaran O’Leary, School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology.
‘LOAF: ICT Undergraduates and Second Level Schools in Partnership’.

Case studies from Northern Ireland on ICT and local citizenship
Chair: Alan McCully, School of Education, University of Ulster, Coleraine ( UUC)

Speakers; Una O’Connor, School of Education, University of Ulster, Coleraine.
‘ICT in Local and Global Citizenship: Its current role and its potential for the future’.

Lorraine O’Neill and Rachel Morrow, PGCE student teachers at the University of Ulster, 2005-6;
‘Street history; using ICT to connect the past to the present’

Rapporteur:  Barry Burgess,  School of Education, University of Ulster

Lunch – Bannview Dining-room

2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Lecture Theatre 12

Lecture Theatre 9

Delegates have a Choice of sessions. Either a practical ‘hands-on’ session on how to use collaborative software.

Presenters
Speakers: Nigel Quirk-Bolt and Nigel Metcalfe National University of Ireland, Maynooth
‘Demonstration and practical guide to using Moodle in collaborative project work, drawing on the experience of the dissolving Boundaries programme and Local Traditions and Ceremonies project’.

OR

Chair:Roisin McLaughlin, Lecturer in International Development, School of Education, University of Ulster
Speaker; Desmond Keegan, Ericsson, 'Bringing mobile learning into education and training'.

Dr Cheryl Morgan, Chair, iEARN UK, Eliane Metni, iEARN Lebanon,

‘United beyond our Diversity, A Global Panorama - Tiles of Unity’

Lecture Theatre 9

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Chair: Eddie McCardle, Registrar of the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland

Speakers;
Professor Niki Davis, Director of Iowa State University Centre for Technology in Learning & Teaching
‘Inter-cultural competence for future leaders of ICT in education’

Bonnie Thurber, The Collaboratory Project, North-western University, Evanston, IL, USA.
‘The Practice of Connecting Learners in Global Projects:
KidSpace: Connecting Learners in the Global Community

Rapporteur:  Dorothy Black, School of Education, University of Ulster

Conference dinner and entertainment at the Royal Court Hotel, Portrush

Venue: University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus

Lecture Theatre 9

9.00 am – 10.15 am

Chair: Dr Conor Galvin, University College, Dublin

Implication for policy makers at national and international levels. What are the main barriers to the wider and more effective use of information Communication technology for cross-boarder, inter-cultural work? What steps can be taken by national and international agencies to promote and support work of this kind? In particular, what are the respective roles of the private sector and international organisations such as UNICEF?

Speakers;
Michelle Selinger & Zika Abzuk, Corporate Responsibility, Cisco Systems
‘Policy Issues in Public/Private Partnerships in ICT for Education’.

Amber Oliver, UNICEF
‘UNICEF’s Voices of Youth: Reaching the hard to reach?’

10.15 am – 10.45 am

Coffee

Chair: Dr. Pádraig Kirk, Senior Inspector, Evaluation Support and Research Unit, Department of Education and Science.

Creativity, problem-solving and inter-cultural education using ICT

Speakers;
Gary McCausland, Dreamlab, Northern Ireland;
Phil Jones, Director Live Education
Maureen Burns, Director Live Eucation
‘Education and Industry partnerships in teacher professional development’.

Anthony Russell and Martin Doherty, Ultralab, Anglia Ruskin University,
‘Digitally Creative, cross-community summer schools in Northern Ireland’

David Farrell, VP Ballyclare Secondary School, Japanese Studies Officer, Northern Ireland; Chair, ALL Japanese Language Committee, UK
‘Robotics and Problem Solving: a case study of ICT links between Northern Ireland and Japan’.

Chair; Dr Roger Austin

Strategic government perspectives and vision.

Speakers;
Department of Education, Northern Ireland
Department of Education and Science, Dublin

Rapporteur:  Linda Clarke, School of Education, University of Ulster