Posted by Garry Collins on September 9, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?
Literary Spring Breakfast
ETAQ?s Brisbane PD event for Term 4 will be a Literary Breakfast to be held at the Botanical Caf? in the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens on Saturday 27 October. Our guest speaker is journalist, author and ABC radio presenter Antony Funnell. The flyer and registration form will be included in the next mailing and can also be downloaded from the Events Page of the ETAQ website at http://www.etaq.org.au/?page_id=106
This will probably be the most pleasant PD event you will attend all year.
Video of state conference keynote address
Video of Dr Jen Scott Curwood?s keynote address at the state conference is now available on the ETAQ website at http://www.etaq.org.au/?page_id=953 . The password is: affinity_sp@ces . The address was entitled ?Literature and Literacy in Online Affinity Spaces: Lessons from The Hunger Games?.
Digital story competition
Members are reminded that the due date for entries in the new Digital Stories Competition has been extended to Friday 12 October. A flyer can be found here http://www.etaq.org.au/?page_id=824 . The Spring vacation would provide an ideal opportunity for digital story tellers to put the finishing touches to their entries.
AATE national conference
If you?re heading to the ?Five Bells? AATE conference to be hosted by ETANSW at Sydney Grammar School on 3 & 4 October, you have probably already registered. If not, it?s not too late.
And if you have, it?s also not too late to consider adding one of the Master Classes on Tuesday 2 October to your conference experience. Details can be found here http://www.englishteacher.com.au/FiveBells/Program/Masterclasses.aspx . The offerings are:
- Game authoring and media literacy,
- Making Movies with a Mobile,
- Teaching the Present: How Popular Culture Can Revolutionize Your Classroom,
- Rediscovering rhetoric: the lost craft of persuasion,
- Series and Storyworlds; a process for developing and writing episodic narratives,
- A writer?s creativity: teaching creative writing
- Teaching Shakespeare through performance
- Writing crime fiction
- Speketh so Pleyne: Plain English for English teachers
- The Film Maker?s Tools
- Faculty programming using a conceptual framework
Garry Collins
President, English Teachers Association of Queensland (ETAQ)
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Sunday, September 09, 2012
Source: http://www.etaq.org.au/?p=978
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