Sessions+&+Presenters

Dont forget to tell us your presenters names! || **Brief session outline indicating focus of show case:** Please scroll down to see all sessions offered. || If you would like to see some of the work students at Lake Boga have done in this area please go to... [] || As with Chloe and Bianca they would be able to work cooperatively in a team with students from another school. || First name, Last name, birth date, and school (we don't need the teachers birth date).** || Dekoda, Karlee and Eva. || Xtranormal is a website. You can create a script, choose an animated character and a background, then you wait until it has loaded and you are free to watch your clip. Schools across the world use Xtranormal for projects and all sorts of work. Our school has used Xtranormal on several occasions. First you need to create an account, which is free. It is very easy and time efficient. Thank you and you will really enjoy our workshop. Phil, Carter, Lach,Lachy || Students at Strathfieldsaye have been working with Movie Maker, creating cartoons and recording their performances when they act out scenarios. To create cartoons, students will create a background and characters to animate. Using Audacity they will show you how to do voice overs on their cartoons. Shooting scenarios for a short movie will also be covered to expose others to the variety of uses Movie Maker. || Check out some of the work that we have done on our wiki at http://011game.wikispaces.com/
 * **Student lead showcase:**
 * 1.**Blogs-** Lake Boga: Bianca & Chloe || We are very interested in blogs. We have had experience with creating blogs for the Lake Boga school website and are able to include videos (recorded on the flip cameras), voice recordings, photos, attaching surveys etc. We regulary use Audacity and Movie Maker as part of our school day and would certainly love to be able to help other students to incorporate these into blogs.
 * 2. **Animations using Pivot and/or Scratch-** Lake Boga: Sam, Ben and Jack || These three boys are really into animations. They have been using PIVOT and SCRATCH to create animations as a way of publishing their writing. They all feel that PIVOT by itself would not be enough for a 2 day workshop and have suggested that they could do either PIVOT and SCRATCH.
 * 3.**SuperClubsPlus-** Quarry Hill: Peyton, Anna and Catherine || On Superclubsplus we will be talking about how safe it is and about the homepage, emails, The Hub, The Tech Team, Forums, Library, how to do things, surveys, the age group, warnings, protection and Mediators
 * Students interested in participating in SuperClubs and a teacher from their school will need to be registered with SuperClubs a week before the Kids Congress. The following information about the students and teacher needs to be forwarded to Sue Horlsey, horsley.susan.r@edumail.vic.gov.au
 * 4.**Xtranormal-** Quarry Hill:
 * Students interested in participating in xtranormal will need an email address to register for the site. Registration will take place during the session so please make sure you bring your email address with you.** ||
 * 5.**Google Sketch up-** Maiden Gully: Emily, Joe, Camille, Jarrod || These 4 students taught teachers from local Bendigo schools how to use Google Sketch Up in Term 3, 2009. They will now teach you the basics of designing your "dream house" or various buildings. You might even have a go at designing the Sydney Harbour Bridge! ||
 * 6.**Comic Life-** Girton Grammar: || The students from Girton Grammar School will show you the wonderful world of Comic Life. To begin with we will explore all of the possibilities and create our own comic. On the second day we will join together to create one exciting comic related to the Cyber Safety theme. ||
 * 7.**Movie Maker-** Strathfieldsaye:
 * 8.**Game Maker-**Strathfieldsaye: Jorja, Riley, Meaghan, Amy and Callum || The students at Strathfieldsaye have been working with Game Maker to create their own computer games. We will show you how to use this program to use to showcase your learning and present your information. Game maker is a program which is on the Netbooks. We will use the theme of the congress to make a game about cyber safety.

Game on! || (Cancelled) || The Kennington students will demonstrate how to create a Photostory. This will include the inserting of photos, the adding of background music and also text. Participants will then have the opportunity to create their own Photostory. || Megan, Sammy, Saraya and Jackson || The students from Lockwood Primary School will be teaching Kahootz 3. We will be making a movie which will include moving objects, voice recordings, music, written text and linking scenes. || Bryce, Zachary, Kacie and Emily || Demonstrate the use of A Voki Talking Avatar on our class Wiki. Demonstrate interactively how to upload backgrounds, voice threads and create an individualised Voki. Explain the origins of the name Voki. Students with Netbooks are encouraged to bring them to this session. || (cancelled) || Google everything! This session will look at safe and effective searching using Google, using Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Docs. Use Google Docs to work on projects with people from anywhere in the world at the same time. This Google fest will culminate in an 'Amazing Race' using Google Search, Google Maps and Google Earth. || Tyler, Kodie, Tracey, Ricky || Ever wanted to know how to create your own movie? Is Hollywood calling you? Make a movie using Monkey Jam and Movie Maker. Using backgrounds and figurines, create a movie with animation, soundscape, credits and other effects. || (Spring Gully) || Have you used SuperclubsPLUS? This is the next site to use after Superclubs. This will be the first sneak peek that Australian schools have had of [|Goldstarcafe]- be the first to try it out! (It is available only for students in years 7-10 and will be perfect for you to use in high school next year.) GoldStarCafe is made by the same people who make Superclubs. It is similar to Superclubs but has many more features to cater for older students. The new features include a credit system, new and harder stars (gems) to earn and much more! This session is available for grade 6 students only.
 * 9.**Podcasting**- Epsom Primary ||  ||
 * 10.**Super Dooper Music Looper**- Comet Hill / Eaglehawk ||  ||
 * 11.**Photo Story-** Kennington: Luke, Matt, Eric
 * 12.**Kahootz 3.0-** Lockwood:
 * 13.**Voki-** Kyabrum:
 * 14.**Movie maker,** **Audacity, Debut-** Echuca South: Tammy, Courtney, Joel and John || Students will demonstrate the skills in Audacity and Debut combined to create fun student profiles. Audacity is a program where students can record their own voices or sounds to be used in other programs. Our workshop will showcase how to use Audacity in conjunction with Debut. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own photo profile with sound. ||
 * 15.**Google-** Spring Gully
 * 16.**Monkey Jam**- Talbot
 * **17. GoldStarCafe-** Narissa Leung
 * Students intrested in participating in GoldStarCafe will need to be registered with the site a week before the Kids Congress. The following information about the students will need to be forwarded to Narissa Leung leung.narissa.j@edumail.vic.gov.au F****irst name, last name, birth date, and school.** ||