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=Much Ado About English= = IFTE CONFERENCE 2011 = =April 18 - 21 2011= =University of Auckland= =Auckland, New Zealand=
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====**Presenters -** Use this wiki to create a page for your workshop. Simply click the **EDIT** tab at the top and locate your workshop title from the programme below. Highlight the workshop title and click on the **Link** button above, the choose **Add Link** to create a link to a new wiki page. Then click **Save**.Then click on your workshop title, this should link you to a page of your own. Feel free to upload your resources, or any links that workshop attendees might find useful for other users.====

**PS. Only highlight a __few keywords__ in your title, otherwise the index to the right is going to get really long!**
====If you are feeling brave, why not get someone to film you and upload the video to YOUTUBE and embed your presentation on your workshop page after. You may like to encourage attendees to add to your page as well.==== ====**Delegates** - Use this wiki to access resources shares from your workshops and others. You might like to share any notes you have typed up. Why not create a Google doc and share it on the workshop page? ==== ||


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= **Programme Index** = Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them! || Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them! || Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them! || 2. Alison Wong in conversation with Kate De Goldi 3. Screening of The Comics Show [Shirley Horrocks] || Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them! || Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them! || Writing for publication in professional journals. || Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them! || Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them! || A bagged lunch will be available for participants as they head off for the Easter break. || Rachel Cunneen & Steve Shann || Reading the world - school to university - making the transition from school to university English. Mythopoetics in the English Curriculum A Dialogue || Jan Chapman || Pre-service English teachers: what are the pleasures and challenges of learning to teach poetry in diverse cultural settings? Are Year 12 students interested in English and do they value it? || Andy Goodwyn || Classroom concerns: Examining beginning English teachers issues of practice. That Excellent Teacher of English. || Faye Parkhill Liz Probert || Using subtitled movies for Rapid Reading and Improvement. Not research again- all they do is copy stuff! The increasingly important need to develop students’ information literacy skills. || Larissa MacLean Davies || Literacy tools for literary understanding: An investigation of heuristics in the English classroom. Magwitch madness: exploring archive fever in texts and curriculum in Australia and New Zealand. || Ken Watson || New Technologies in Neuro-Science and Social Theories of Expertise Transforming Our Writing Pedagogy Great Grammar Hoax. || Louann Reid Kelli McGraw || Global Perspectives: Teacher Educators discuss opportunities and challenges. [|The English teacher practitioner –rewriting our role] || Jude Maw || Literacy for Low-level Learners. When Worlds Collide. || Yvette Isherwood || Lights, camera, action. Beyond the Text: a taxonomy of tasks. || Jo Morris || Out with the Old, In with the New. || Summar Austin || Thematic Teaching with a Digital perspective. @Digi-English Made Easy. || Gabrielle Smith || Slave in name only. || Douglas McClenaghan || Imaginative recreation in an Australian literature classroom. || & Neil Pitches || “Bringing Literacy to You” - Transformative possibilities for teacher PLD || ** OR Google Notes - feel free to add to them! ** ||
 * **Monday April 18th** ||
 * 9.00 - 10.45 || **Powhiri** and morning tea. Waipapa Marae ||
 * 10.45 || **Welcome** from NZATE President Leanne Webb. ||
 * 11.00 - 12 00 || **Opening keynote**: Professor Stuart McNaughton, Head of The Woolf Fisher Research Centre, The University of Auckland.
 * 12.00 - 1.30 || **Workshops, papers and seminars: Session One** ||
 * 1.30 - 2.15 || Lunch ||
 * 2.15 - 3.45 || **Sharing our practice**: Panel presentation. Mina Pomare and Chris Selwyn will focus on meeting the needs of Maori immersion students in the English classroom
 * OR Workshops Session Two.** ||
 * 3.45 - 4.15 || Afternoon tea ||
 * 4.15 - 5.15 || **Keynote:** Professor Carol D Lee, North Western University, USA.
 * 5.30 - 7.30 || **Welcome event** in Owen Glenn Building. A “wine and cheese. ||
 * **Tuesday April 19th** ||
 * 9.00 - 10.30 || **Sharing our practice:** Panel presentation. Claire Amos, Hamish Chalmers and Karen Melhuish will focus on working with new digital technologies within the English classroom.
 * OR Workshops: Session Three** ||
 * 10.30 - 11.00 || Morning tea ||
 * 11.00 - 12.00 || **Keynote:** Professor Pamela Grossman, Stanford University, USA.
 * 12.00 - 1.00 || 1. A presentation from The Ugly Shakespeare Company:
 * 1.00 - 2.00 || Lunch ||
 * 2.00 - 3.30 || **Workshops, papers and seminars: Session Four** ||
 * 3.30 - 4.00 || Afternoon tea ||
 * 4.00 - 5.00 || **Keynote:** Glenn Colquhoun, poet.
 * Early evening guided walk in the Domain or along the waterfront. ||
 * 6.30 - 9.00 || **Lit Quiz** in //Fale Pasifika. Register for this event and come ready to make up a team and meet new people.// ||
 * **Wednesday April 20th** ||
 * 9.00-10.00 || **Keynote:** Professor Debra Myhill, University of Exeter, UK.
 * 10.00 - 10.30 || Morning tea ||
 * 10.30 - 12 00 || **Sharing our practice:** Panel presentation. Ros Ali, Jennifer Glenn and Shaun Hawthorne will discuss key practices in teaching writing. Shared Google Notes - feel free to contribute
 * OR workshops: Session Five** ||
 * 12.00 - 1.00 || **AGM: NZATE**
 * 1.00 - 2.00 || Lunch ||
 * 2.00 - 3.00 || **Keynote:** Professor Barbara Comber, Queensland University of Technology.
 * 3.00 - 3.30 || Afternoon tea ||
 * 3.30 - 4.30 || **The writers’ panel:** Glenn Colquhoun, Kate de Goldi, Alison Wong in conversation with Emily Perkins. ||
 * Guided walk in domain, university grounds or waterfront. ||
 * 7.00.p.m. || Conference dinner at Maritime Room, Viaduct Harbour. ||
 * **Thursday April 21st** ||
 * 9.00 - 10.30 || **Workshops, papers and seminars: Session Six** ||
 * 10.30 - 11.00 || Morning tea ||
 * 11.00 - 12.00 || **Closing Keynote:** Professor Hilary Janks, The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
 * 12.00 - 12.30 || Drawing the threads together- a summing up of the conference. ||
 * 12.30 - 1.00 || **Poroporoaki** or farewell.
 * ** Session One: Monday April 18th, 12noon – 1.30 p.m. ** ||
 * ** Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired ** ||
 * 1P || Gary Snapper
 * 2P || Sue Dymoke
 * 3P || Melanie Shoffner
 * 4P || Ronnie Davey &
 * 5P || Sarah Beck
 * ** Seminars – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired ** ||
 * 6S || Carrie Wastal
 * 7S || David Taylor || Web of Deceit: Is the internet making your students stupid? ||
 * 8S || Janet Alsup, Marshall George &
 * 9S || Alison Cleary || Culture Counts Power sharing in the classroom. ||
 * ** Workshops ** ||
 * 10W || Leith Daniel || Bugs, Buffy, and Santa’s Giant Sack: Using Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror in the English classroom. ||
 * 11W || Bridget McLeod
 * 12W || Garry Collins || Learning Language with The Lady of Shalott. ||
 * 13W || Leanne Lamb || Students Taking Control – Turning A Reader’s Passion into Credits. ||
 * 14W || Jackie Manuel || Teenagers and Reading: Promoting Transformative Pedagogy. ||
 * 15W || Joanne O’Mara || “How to Heal a Broken Wing”: exploring rich, literary picture books through process drama. ||
 * 16W || Hamish Chalmers e-presentation and task design template from workshop || Visual English - Students utilising digital tools to create teaching texts ||
 * 17W || Anne Hamer
 * 18W || Selina Marsh Shared Google Notes - please add || Weaving Pasifika Poetry Web into your classroom. ||
 * ** Session Two: Monday April 18th, 2.15 p.m. 3.45 p.m. ** ||
 * ** Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Mina Pomare and Chris Selwyn. Meeting the needs of Maori immersion learners in the English classroom (see page 15 for details) **
 * OR ** ||
 * ** Workshops ** ||
 * 19W || Phil Maw &
 * 20W || Julie Bain, Karen Farrow, Louise Cullen & Paul Gough || @Multi platform storytelling in English classrooms: Inspiration, concerns and practice- experiences of four teachers across different Australian Systems. ||
 * 21W || Dorothy Vinicombe
 * 22W || Michelle Hesketh &
 * 23W || Brenton Doecke &
 * 24W || Derek Wenmoth
 * 25W || Jane Hall || // More than meets the eye // – close reading visual text with a media eye. ||
 * Film || Shirley Horrocks {Director} || **// The New Oceania //**, a film about Albert Wendt. ||
 * ** Session Three: Tuesday April 19th, 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. ** ||
 * ** Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Claire Amos, Hamish Chalmers and Karen Melhuish (see page 15 for details) **
 * ** Workshops ** ||
 * 26W || Dylan Horrocks || Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom. ||
 * 27W || Fiona Burns || Using blogs for collaborative learning.[[image:http://linkbuildinglinks.org/linkbuilding.jpg link="http://linkbuildinglinks.org/"]] ||
 * 28W || Vanessa Gibby || A Vision of the Future. ||
 * 29W || Lisa Cleland || Using the stairs to excellence: using SOLO taxonomy with unfamiliar texts and essay writing. ||
 * 30W || Shaun Hawthorne || Effective practices in teaching writing.[[image:http://www.primatea.com/loose_tea.jpg link="http://www.primatea.com/"]] ||
 * 31W || Kelly Malone || Crafty Manoeuvres. ||
 * 32W || Catherine Blomkamp || // Being Kiwi // – a junior introductory programme suited to teachers in multi-cultural schools in NZ, focusing on what it means to be a “Kiwi”. ||

Helen Kato Gillian Hubbard || Poetry for the disenchanted: How a marginal Year 12 English class was turned on to writing. Text choice in NZ English secondary school programmes: The perceptions of beginning teachers. || Low Ying Ping & Joshua Ang || English as “more than a skeleton”: Differentiating literacy in secondary English classrooms. Rewriting the canon: Literature curricula text lists. || Anne Cloonan, Kirsten Hutchinson & Louise Paatsch || Blogging about books: the online identities and discourses of teenagers. Twenty-first century literacies: the impact of one-to-one net-books. || Peter Webb || Speaking back to standards-based reforms. Expectations of Heads of Department English || Andy Goodwyn || Critical literacy practices and higher order thinking in a Western Australian Literature course. English or Literacy? Whose identity is it anyway? || Eileen Honan || Pre-service English teachers: What does their Masters level assignment work reveal about developing pedagogical concerns? Rethinking the literacy capabilities of pre-service teachers. || Roy Fox || Literature, Evolution, and Cognition Images, Words, and “Healing”: An Experimental Course. || Sarah Beck || Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives. What do teachers need to know about writing to practice good formative assessment? Implications for teacher education. || Belinda Develter || Teaching Experimental Writing in the English Classroom What is it that makes us human? An NCEA Level 2 visual text study of Moon by Duncan Jones. || {Director} || **// Early days yet, //** a film about Allen Curnow. ||
 * ** Session Four: Tuesday April 19th, 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. ** ||
 * ** Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired ** ||
 * 33P |||| Terry Locke &
 * 34P |||| Claudia Rozas Gomez
 * 35P |||| Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan
 * 36P |||| Graham Parr
 * 37P |||| Tara Tuchaai
 * 38P |||| Sue Dymoke
 * 39P |||| Brian Boyd
 * ** Seminars All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired ** ||
 * 40S |||| Louann Reid
 * 41S |||| Janet von Randow || Much ado about academic literacy: Nine years of diagnostic language needs assessment at the University of Auckland. ||
 * ** Workshops 90 Minutes ** ||
 * 42W || Claire Amos |||| Using ICTs in English. ||
 * 43W || Shane Barnes |||| Much Ado About Shakespeare. ||
 * 44W || Daniel McQuillan |||| Deconstructing film for senior English. ||
 * 45W || Susy Carryer & Massey HS English department |||| Making it Work: Te Kotahitanga in the Classroom. ||
 * 46W || Dylan Horrocks |||| Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom [repeat of earlier session] ||
 * 47W || Hilari Anderson |||| HOT STUFF - drama inspired by the sun, fire and volcanoes. ||
 * 48W || Robin Holding |||| Much ado about making sure all’s well and as you like it for Scholarship. ||
 * 49W || Ngaire Hoben |||| Juggling support and challenge: Becoming an effective mentor to pre-service English teachers. ||
 * ** Session Five: Wednesday April 20th, 10.30 a.m. – 12 noon ** ||
 * ** Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Ros Ali, Jennifer Glenn and Shaun Hawthorne. (see page 16 for details) **
 * OR ** ||
 * ** Workshops ** ||
 * 50W || Sue Dymoke || Writing poetry in the classroom. ||
 * 51W || Neil Pitches || Comprehension instruction for digital natives: How digital shared reading and co-operative learning are transforming two diverse NZ classrooms. ||
 * 52W || Debbie Dwyer || Creative responses in English: What, why, who, and how? ||
 * 53W || Viv Aitken || 'Mantle of the Expert' (MOTE), Dramatic-based inquiry learning: a cross-curricular approach to teaching and learning. ||
 * 54W || Hayden Maskell || We're getting somewhere! - Engaging low achievers and disengaged students through [|Music] Videos and Films ||
 * 55W || Lisa Samuels
 * 55W || Lisa Samuels
 * 56W || Michelle Johnansson || Putting a tick in the “Sione” box ||
 * Film || Shirley Horrocks

Tara Star Johnson || Reflective writing: Enriching practical knowledge of pre-service English language & literacy teachers. Teachers-turned-lovers: Sexual misconduct signposts in the English classroom. || Sean Sturm & Stephen Turner || English teachers are curriculum superheroes: Diversity, transformation and direction in the context of secondary, multi-modal English pedagogy. “Letting Learn”: Teaching Digital Literacy || Gloria Latham || Teenage personal reading: An insight into the habits, attitudes and beliefs of a “cuspal” generation Teaching Reading: Where new narratives in the Virtual inform the Actual. || [90 minutes] || Michael Moore and Don Zancanella || Landmarks in the Evolution of English Curriculum in Vict. Australia 1968-2010. The secret history of English Language Arts Standards in the US. || Elizabeth Noll || Is there a canon for YA Literature, in particular of those YA books used in secondary English classrooms? Much Ado About Vampires in YA Literature. ||
 * ** Session Six: Thursday April 21st, 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. ** ||
 * ** Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired ** ||
 * 57P || Janet Alsup, Jennifer Richardson & Lisa Schade Eckert || Continuing Education and the English Teacher: How graduate programs transform secondary classrooms. ||
 * 58P || Janet MacIntosh
 * 59P || Julie Bain
 * 60P || John Taylor
 * ** Seminars – Either 90 minutes, or 45 minute sessions as paired presentations. ** ||
 * 61S || Brenton Doecke, Sandy Harris, Terry Locke, & Graham Parr || Literature teaching across the world: local and international conversations.
 * 62S || Catherine Beavis & Joanna O’Mara || Literacy, learning, and computer games: Attending to game play [90 minutes] ||
 * 63S || Marion Meiers
 * Link || [|Théorie Musicale] || [|Guitare] [|Piano] [|Chant] [|Musique] [|Batterie] ||
 * 64S || Helen Sykes
 * ** Workshops ** ||
 * 65W || Aaron Wilson || Literacy Learning in Subject Areas ||
 * 66W || Philippa Wintle || Poetry at Level 2: Stuffy and irrelevant or empowering and ‘choice’ ||
 * 67W || Piper Mejia & Glen Sinclair || Where they start from does not limit where we take them. ||
 * 68W || Tara Tuchaai || Practical approaches to developing and evaluating critical reading competencies and higher order thinking in a Year 11 literature course. ||
 * 69W || Jessica Rigold || “The play’s the thing….” ||
 * 70W || Simon Ferguson || Whither the Bard?’ Shakespeare and the NZC ||
 * 71W || Cynthia Orr || Do we have to throw out the baby out with the bathwater? A practical approach to the Level 1 Standards realignment. ||
 * 72W || Mark Amsler & Miriam Meyerhoff || @critical language awareness ||
 * 73W || Leanne Lamb || Tailoring Learning in English – Finding a workable solution for schools somewhere between bespoke and one-size-fits-all English studies. ||
 * 74W || Annabel Harris & Jon Greer || They say-I say-And So. Case studies of needy students and even needier teachers. ||
 * 75W || Sian Evans || Literary theory in the English classroom. ||
 * Film || Shirley Horrocks {Director} || **// Marti: The Passionate Eye //**** . ** A film about Marti Friedlander ||