Program at a glance

Pre-conference sessions - Thursday afternoon (More)

'30 years of VALBEC' Celebration Dinner (More)

8.30 am

Conference Registration

9.15 am

Opening

Welcome – Official Opening, Sandy Forbes, General Manager, ACFE

Keynote:

VALBEC celebrating 30 years (More)

Dr Bev Campbell

10.20 am

Morning Tea

10.50 am

Session A • choose 1 of 3

A1 • ALLS the story continues: Interrogating the results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey (More)

Panel Chair, Pauline O’Maley, Co-ordinator Community Re-integration Program, Salvation Army; Dave Tout, Centre for Adult Education, and a member of the international numeracy team responsible for developing the numeracy component of the survey and a member of the Reference Group for ALLS in Australia; Chris Duncan, Director, National Centre for Education and Training Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Dr Rob Simons, Head of Research and Evaluation, The Smith Family.

A2 • Positive Psychology in Adult Learning (More)

Wayne Jencke, Innate Intelligence

A3 • Connect, Collaborate, Create: Learning in community (More)

Liz Suda, Melbourne Museum

11.55 am

Session B • choose 1 of 4

B1 • AccessACE clever uses of ICT in ACE lessons learned in blended learning (More)

Josie Rose, Southern Metropolitan Region, ACFE and Michael Chalk, PRACE

B2 • Social capital and economic outcomes of LLN courses (More)

Venny Smolich, Victoria University TAFE

B3 • Community leadership through learning partnerships (More)

Elena Sheldon, Springvale Learning & Activities Centre Inc., Kor Pouc, Sudanese community leader and youth worker, and Leanne Malcolm, City of Greater Dandenong

B4 • Literacy, work, and global economies (More)

Lesley Farrell, Associate Professor, School of Education, Monash University

12.50 pm

Lunch

1.45 pm

Session C • choose 1 of 6

C1 • Utilising new literacies in the classroom: an online teacher resource (More)

Kerrin Pryor, Upper Yarra Community House

C2 • Making reasonable adjustments within an educational setting for adults diagnosed with a mental illness (More)

Bernadette Doyle, Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria

C3 • Community enterprises as sites for adult learning: the Healthy Canteen project 2007-08 (More)

Frances Newell, Victoria University

C4 • Literacy through life theatre (More)

Linno Rhodes, Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre

C5 • Delivering the Certificates in General Education for Adults with a focus on the employability skills (More)

Lisa Bartels and Venny Smolich, Victoria University

C6 • Are you hearing what I am saying? (More)

Chris Tully and Vicki Doukas, Kangan Batman TAFE

2.40 pm

Afternoon Keynote:

Colloquialisms, Medieval English and E-communication (More)

Professor Kate Burridge, Chair of Linguistics, Monash University

3.45 pm

Review & Close

4.00 pm

Drinks

The conference is supported by Adult Community and Further Education