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Mr Gerald (Gerry) White, Dip. T., Adv. Dip. T.(distinction), B. Ed., M. Ed., MACS, FACE, is currently Chief Executive Officer of education.au limited which, is a company limited by guarantee and owned by the Australian education and training Ministers.

Gerry has had the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of information technology and telecommunications in education nationally and internationally. Gerry as Chief Executive Officer provides leadership and direction in the development, enhancement, standards and use of online distributed and managed national education networks. His current work involves oversight of a number of major national projects, worth $12M, and the formation of national and international alliances.

Gerry has been a teacher, Mathematics Consultant, Deputy Principal, Curriculum Management Consultant, and School Principal with the South Australian Education Department, then Deputy Director of Catholic Education and National Coordinator of Information Technology and Telecommunications in Education for Catholic education across Australia.

Gerry has worked in education for over thirty years, specialising in curriculum and technology in education. His Master's graduate thesis examined the integration of computers with curriculum in schools including the impact of computer location and configuration on educational use.

Gerry founded the Computer Education Group of South Australia in 1984 and was Chairperson for five years. He was also a member of the Australian Council for Computers in Education for many years. In 1987, Gerry became Chairperson of the Australian Computers in Education Conference. Gerry was President of the SA Chapter of the Australian College of Education (ACE) and was admitted as a Fellow of the ACE in 1991. His Fellowship was awarded as recognition for his outstanding work in the field of technology in education. Gerry served for several years on the National Council of ACE as a technology in education adviser. Currently, Gerry is a Director of the Internet Society of Australia and works with the South Australian Chapter of ATUG.

Gerry is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at numerous national and international conferences. Some recent international presentations of note include keynote addresses in Barcelona for the International Online Educa Conference (May 2003), at the Eminent III conference in Stockholm (November 2003), CeBIT (May 2004), Asia Pacific Forum Science Meeting in India 2004, Online Educa Conference in Berlin (2003, 2004) as well as at the annual COSN conference (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) and the South_East Asian Summit (2005).

Anne Bartlett-Bragg, UTS, Dip HRM (Monash), BEd in Ad Ed (UTS), MEd in Ad Ed (UTS), currently lectures at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and is involved with the design, development and delivery of e-Learning qualifications and subjects at UTS un the Faculty of Education, including the AQTF qualification, the Diploma of e-Learning.

Anne is currently the Executive Director of the Learning Technologies User Group (LTUG), the newly formed global Social Software Associates, and also has a consultancy business, A2B Learning, which specialises in the integration of technology enhanced learning solutions. She is a regular speaker at both national and international conferences, and has recently published several academic papers.

Anne is particularly interested in the forms of communication that e-Learning is constructing and how current pedagogical practises can more effectively engage the learner through the use of both synchronous and asynchronous technologies. She is working on her PhD that will investigate the development of digital dialogues through the use of weblogs or webpublishing technologies.

Paul Bray is based in Sydney and is the General Manager for the Re-Engineering Australia Forum Ltd (REA). Paul has used his 10 years of Technology teaching experience in NSW schools to advantage in establishing REA's latest initiative that aims to excite young people about careers in manufacturing and engineering.

Michael Coghlan was teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in the classroom when he decided to become a volunteer online ESL teacher in 1997. His first assignment was to teach Listening Skills to a group of mixed level students around the globe. This at a time when most people were still struggling to manage browsing pages of text on the Internet, and 28.8 bps was a fast Internet connection. From this he learned that if the motivation was there students could effectively use the Internet as a tool for learning, and that the greatest potential of the Internet in education lay in its ability to bring people together to communicate. He and a group of like-minded ESL/EFL students and teachers were founding members of the Webheads online community, a community which still thrives to this day.

In 2000 Michael assumed the broader role of professional development in elearning for all staff in the South Australian TAFE system, and is still currently in that role. He has designed and delivered online courses in ESL, eModeration, and Using Online Technologies, and is an online instructor for the Graduate Certificate in eLearning delivered by TAFE South Australia. He has facilitated national elearning projects, written widely on issues to do with elearning, and presented at several international conferences, both physically and as a remote presenter.

As a Flexible Learning Leader for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework in 2003 Michael researched the use of online voice technologies. Not surprisingly, he is a passionate believer in the power of online voice communications to inspire and motivate students.

Jonathan E. Finkelstein is the founder and Executive Producer of LearningTimes.org and the President of the LearningTimes Network. He has been designing and producing online conferences, communities, events and collaborative technologies for education for over ten years. Jonathan works closely with a wide range of educational institutions to grow and maintain online learning communities and to foster human interaction live online. Many of his online programs have been recognized with industry awards. Jonathan's forthcoming book, Learning in Real Time (Jossey-Bass, 2006), translates his many years of experience facilitating live online learning into a resource guide for educators.

As the Executive Producer of LearningTimes.org, a free, worldwide professional development community for educators, Jonathan helps craft a wide variety of online forums - live and asynchronous - in which education professionals collaborate and learn from peers and industry leaders. LearningTimes.org is complemented by the rapidly growing LearningTimes Australia community, a companion online collaboration environment by and for educational and training professionals in Australia.

Jonathan has led the formation and growth of the LearningTimes Network, a series of over 75 vibrant, online learning communities. The LearningTimes Network, with over 135,000 members across the globe, connects education-minded organizations of all kinds, fostering partnerships between educational institutions, associations, corporate entities, museums and other groups whose missions include reaching a geographically dispersed audience of learners.

Mr. Finkelstein is a Certified Synchronous Training Professional (CSTP), and received his AB degree with honors from Harvard University.

Adrian Miles is a Lecturer in Cinema and New Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, and was formally Senior Researcher in New Media at the InterMedia Lab, University of Bergen. He is an internationally recognisesd theorist and creator of hypermedia and this academic work has been published in numerous peer reviewed publications. He also is a networked interactive video developer and these applied projects have been exhibited internationally.

Adrian's research practice concentrates on hypermedia, interactive narrative, and the development of media annotation tools to facilitate audiovisual research in humanities contexts. He has a specific theoretical interest in link poetics and conceptualising an aesthetics of interactive video. This work utilises the cinema theory of Gilles Deleuze and seeks to apply it in novel ways to rethink notions of interactivity, the user, and the text. His creative practice explores the aesthetics and affordances of networked, distributed video and the possibilities for new forms of distribution and expression that this may enable.

In his teaching practice Adrian uses process based methodologies to explore emergent pedagogies and network literacies across disciplines, including hypertext theory and practice, interactive audiovisual media, and cinema studies.

Adrian Miles is on the Literary Advisory Board of the Electronic Literature Organization, and the editorial boards of inFlect, PostModern Culture, Text Technology, and Scan: Journal of Media Arts and Culture. He is currently on the executive committee of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and is a regular program committee member for the annual conferences of the ACM hypertext SIG, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Digital Arts and Culture conference series.

Jason Trump, B.InfTech MACS PCP, is an Education Solutions Specialist for Microsoft Australia. In his role with Microsoft, Jason is primarily focussed on education-specific solutions for schools, TAFE and universities across Australia.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2001, Jason spent over eight years working in a variety of technology related roles with the Queensland University of Technology three years working for network integration company, NetStar.

Jason holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology, participates actively in a number of IT Reference Groups, and is a member of the Australian Computer Society.

In his spare time Jason enjoys golf, swimming and spending time on Queensland magnificent Sunshine Coast.

Steve Wheeler, BSc (Hons), PG Dip (Psy), Cert Ed, FAETC is currently Senior Lecturer in ICT and Distance Education at The University of Plymouth. He is currently completing a PhD entitled: Transactional distance and the mediating influence of telematic technologies in distance learning.

Steve teaches a range of under graduate and post graduate courses including the Certificate in Education, Post Graduate Certificate in Education, BA Post 16 Training and the Integrated Masters Programme (IMP) where he runs an online course in Educational ICT theory and courses in distance education theory and practice. He is also a visiting lecturer at several US and Czech Universities, and works with a variety of agencies and organisations researching distance education and ICT in teaching and learning.

In 1996 Steve joined the European funded RATIO project (Rural Area Training and Information Opportunities) as Training Manager. His project team set up a network of 39 centres across the South West peninsula of England which were used by local businesses to access telematic training courses and information products. You can read more about his work at http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearning/.

Shaun Wormald, B.Com (Computer Science) and a B.Com (Hons) in Informatics, is the Managing Director of Broadreach Services, a visual communications specialist organization. Shaun has been active within the IT industry for 20 years and has worked in an IT capacity within the following industry vertical area's namely manufacturing, mining, financial services, and health care. Over the past 5 years he has worked in the IP visual communications industry. Shaun's educational experience comes from Broadreach Services' involvement in some large, innovative and successful projects within the education sector.

Laurence Zwimpfer, BE(Hons), MPP(VUW), SM(MIT), MIPENZ, HFNZCS, runs a private company in Wellington New Zealand specialising in the use of information and communication technologies in education. Since 1997 he has provided consulting and project management services to the Ministry of Education and other government and private sector organisations. Prior to that he worked in a business development role at Telecom New Zealand, where he supported schools that were interested in exploring the use of ICTs in learning.

He chairs e-Learnz, an Incorporated Society of Tertiary Institutions with an interest in eLearning. He is a Trustee of the 2020 Communications Trust and the Computer Access New Zealand Trust. He is a member of the National Commission for UNESCO in New Zealand and also represents New Zealand and the Pacific as a Member of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme. He maintains an active role with Wellington Girls' College after 12 years on the Board of Trustees.

He is a Harkness Fellow with degrees in Engineering from Canterbury University in Christchurch, Public Policy from Victoria University in Wellington, and Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Lujean Baab, Ed.D. is Director of Distance Learning for Northampton Community College (NCC) in Bethlem, PA, USA. During the past academic year, Distance Learning at NCC provided over 3000 students access to more than 150 courses through which they could complete 12 degrees online. Dr. Baab's research interests include the factors affecting a student's sense of community in distance learning and addressing teaching and learning styles in distance and traditional learning classrooms. Dr. Baab has presented at several conference on distance learning and educational technology and continues to conduct research on best practices for teaching at a distance.

Claire Bartlett, B. Ed (Primary), Postgraduate Certificate TESOL, M. Ed TESOL (expected completion July 2005), Diploma e-learning (expected completion September 2005), is the Diploma of Education (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) coordinator in the Remote Area Teacher Education Program at TNQTAFE. She has worked in RATEP for the last three years with adult students from as for north as Poruma and Moa Island in the Torres Strait to Charleville and Roma in the south west. Over the last three years Claire has developed a model of blended delivery that focuses on using technology to meet the diverse learning needs of the Diploma of Education students. These technological delivery modes have included video streaming, online chat, discussion forum, email and teleconferencing and are combined with face to face block residentials and print based learning guides. Claire is currently completing a Diploma of e-Learning through TNQTAFE and is in the process of developing and facilitating an online component of the Diploma of Education (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) course. Claire is also in the final stages of her Master of Education TESOL. Her research focuses on identifying effective flexible delivery strategies that meet the needs of Diploma of Education (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) RATEP students.

Peter Enderby is the Faculty Flexible Delivery Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality within the Hunter Institute of TAFE. In 2004 he was a Flexible Learning Leader with the Australian Flexible Learning Framework where he examined dispersed development models.

His recent work has concentrated on providing solutions for trade teachers within the Tourism and Hospitality sector who are moving to new forms of delivery. His current focus is on sustainable e-learning solutions that capitalise on the strengths of the organisation that are easy to learn, easy to maintain and allow maximum end user customisation.

He has worked extensively with Butchers, Bakers and Chefs and at the moment is implementing a new multi campus project dubbed H20 because it involves the extension this work to the twenty core modules for all hospitality students. The work within the faculty has attracted attention from several national companies looking for workplace delivery solutions and is being recognised as ground breaking for the respective industries.

Peter utilises Janison Toolbox as his delivery platform extensively customising its look and feel as well as its content model. His content development strategy incorporates existing resources, and many free and open source tools. He holds a Degree in Communication, a Masters Degree in Hospitality Management and a Graduate Diploma in Education. He is motivated by a desire to provide the best possible educational opportunities for all students irrespective of geographical location or personal circumstances.

Wayne Knack is the Director of Learning Futures. Wayne brings considerable experience in IT, education and business systems to this position. Wayne is a Member of the Australian Computer Society (MACS) and is the Australian Computer Society National Director of the Professional Development Board in Australia.

At Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE, Wayne is involved with the development of e-learning in the Institute and has worked with TAFE Queensland Learning Technology and IT Projects. He holds positions on a number of TAFE Queensland Information Technology steering committees including TAFE's online enrolment system ISSE and the new CAP replacement, ISAS. As Director of Learning Futures he is working to build new Internet based systems and improved Information Technology platforms and services.

Prior to joining TAFE in 1990 Wayne was the Subject Master in Art at the Townsville Grammar School and taught music within the Australian Music Education Board (AMEB) curriculum. Wayne has been a partner in a publishing business and also software development business.

Anne Mason, TTC BEd PGDipArts (Education), is currently a Primary teacher at The Correspondence School in New Zealand and has twenty years of classroom and distance education teaching experience. In 2001-2, Anne was a member of The Correspondence School's eSection, a two-year pilot project funded by the NZ Ministry of Education to investigate online teaching and learning approaches. Anne's enjoyment in online teaching led to study about online learning communities, and in 2004, she gained an e-Learning Teacher Fellowship from the Ministry of Education in New Zealand. The fellowship programme releases ten teachers each year to research an innovative and learning-focused project. Anne investigated the factors and teacher's strategies that contributed to student delight in an online learning community. Anne has developed an understanding about online learning communities from her research, postgraduate study and online teaching experience. She has also become an advocate for a learner-centred, digitally minded approach.

Peter MacQueen Ass. Dip. Rur. Tech. (Hort) 1980, BAVT 1999, is a horticulture teacher at the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE in Toowoomba. He has been in this position for 12 years after a varied horticultural career in a range of horticultural occupations. Peter's teaching practice provides opportunity to deliver training by a variety of methods, including Videolinq, to students across southwest Queensland, including full and part time students and trainees.

Summary of qualifications:

• 1980 Associate Diploma Rural Techniques (Horticulture) Queensland Agricultural College
• 1997 (renewed in 2005) Videoconference Training
• 1999 Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education (Major: Adult and Vocational Education) Griffith University
• 1999 Certificate III in Assessment, SQIT.
• 2000 Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Workplace Training, SQIT

Lyda Peters, B.A., M.Ed., is Professor of Education at Cambridge College in Cambridge, MA, part time faculty at Boston College in Newton, MA., and Managing Partner of the Cambridge Leadership Consortium, LLC, a training and professional development corporation. She is the President of the Ruth M. Batson Educational Foundation, named in honor of one of Boston's most prominent African-American civil rights activist. While a public school teacher in the City of Boston, she became active in court-ordered school desegregation. She has worked for forty years in education as a practitioner, consultant, and trainer in organizational settings with expertise in social justice, social responsibility, and civil rights movement teacher training.

In 1986, she, as part of a team of consultants, began civil rights teacher training throughout the US. After receiving a distance education certificate from the University of West GA, in 1999, she developed a virtual class on America's civil rights movement, bringing her Cambridge based students together, in a virtual learning community, with her distance students from the South, Midwest, Northeast, West Coast, and the Virgin Islands, for a richer teaching and learning experience. Since that first distance class, she has enriched the content, taught primarily through a learning management system, by applying technologies that enhance communication and reinforce learning. Her professional training and accomplishments include a Fellowship from Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Harvard University in Cambridge, MA., a Carnegie Fellowship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Illinois, educational technology training at Mount Royal College Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and additional technology training at Capella University, and the University of Colorado at Denver.

Brian Sams Cert. Hort (Trade), Dip.Ad.Voc.Ed., B. Ed., Grad.Dip.App.Sc.(Biology), Dip Hort, M.A.I.H., H.M.A.Q., has been working as the Principal Teacher in Horticulture at Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE since 1991. He is the proud father of 2 children, Stephanie and Mathew. Brian operates a small horticulture consultancy business that presents a weekly garden segment for the local media (WINTV), talkback gardening advice (4GR) and provides advice and horticultural consultation to public and commercial organisations.

Brian is also a member of the Australian Institute of Horticulture and the Horticultural Media Association of Queensland.

Adrian Greig is a Project Officer with the ICT learning Innovation Centre (Education Queensland). His 'Thinking Digitally' project is investigating ways that digital media and content can be used in the classroom context to support student learning. Adrian was the winner of the Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education's 2003 Emerging Leader of the Year Award. Adrian is also at Wamuran State School as a teacher and ICT Coordinator.

Sandra Lee-Joe is the Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Solution Specialist for Microsoft Australia and New Zealand. RTC is a division of Microsoft's Information Worker Business Group. The RTC vision is to deliver an integrated communications platform that utilizes the core capability of presence awareness. That is to detect a user's availability over one or more devices. Once a user's status is detected we rely on voice, data and video as applications that utilize this presence awareness between organizations, partners and customers.

Sandra joined Microsoft in May 2003 as the Enterprise Mobility Solution Specialist, where she worked with customers and partners to develop mobile applications and services to market. She moved into the RTC team in March 2005. Prior to Microsoft Sandra was the Marketing Manager responsible for the launch the GPRS Data Network at Vodafone, and responsible for the iPAQ handheld products with Compaq Computers since 1996.

Lynne Stephens is Senior Project Officer - Innovations with Wide Bay TAFE, which includes Qld Toolbox Champion Service Team member, project development for the series 5 Maritime Toolbox, promoting the educational value of the Toolboxes, facilitating Professional Development workshops and promoting the development of on-line and blended delivery for the institute.

She has had 18 years teaching with TAFE & Private Providers and co-ordinating in a variety of Vocational areas with Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE prior to WideBay TAFE, including Hospitality, Child Care, Retail, Frontline Management, Assessment & Workplace Training, Tourism and Beauty Therapy. Lynne has facilitated Hospitality programs online and is currently developing programs for and managing the delivery of online / blended programs for Frontline Management; she is a trained Videoconference teacher and WideBay TAFE's Institute Program Coordinator for Videolinq.

Lynne was an Innovations Network Mentor with the BRIT Builders Implementation Team and was recognised in the 2000 Australia Day Awards for Innovations.

Phil Wheeler has worked in high schools, technical colleges and at university during a teaching career spanning 25+ years. He is also an information systems specialist, computer programmer and systems administrator. Phil has been active in the field of web-based educational resources for the past five years, and has a particular interest in the delivery of math-based activities over the web using a combination of server- and client-side technologies. He is experienced in online delivery and has significant technical expertise applicable to the customisation of toolboxes. He now works in the Innovations unit at Wide Bay TAFE assisting with online course creation and toolbox utilisation.

Phil can provide organisations with technical training and mentoring in relation to toolbox implementation and customization.

Greg O'Grady, Dip.T. BEdSt. MCurrSt., has been involved in online learning and flexible delivery for more than twenty years. He has carried out pioneering work across Education Queensland in introducing the concept of Virtual Schooling.

Greg initiated the use of teleLearning and audiographics programs for delivery of both Languages other than English (LOTE) and mainstream curriculum during the 90s as well as carrying out the first trials of interactive television between schools using UHF radio technologies.

Greg is currently involved in implementing new audiographic technologies across all Queensland State Schools that will permit students,teachers and public servants to access voice over IP (VOIP), full video interactions and shared computer desktop programs from any computer on the Education Queensland network via single convergent technology.

Greg has presented at a number of World Conferences in Norway, Birmingham and the United States. He is currently the project leader for the development of convergent technologies within the Office of Strategic Information and Technologies, Education Queensland.

Anne Bartlett-Bragg, UTS, Dip HRM (Monash), BEd in Ad Ed (UTS), MEd in Ad Ed (UTS)

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Mark Brommeyer, MEdAdmin, GradDipEd, BAppSc, RN, FACHI, AFAIM, is a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Informatics and is the immediate past Telehealth Director of the Australasian Teleconferencing Association. Mark has over two decades of experience in the health sector and the information and communications technology arena, with a heavy focus over the last twelve years on engaging people and organisations, across various countries and cultures, in strategy, projects and programs that are technology-mediated, particularly within the clinical, work optimisation and business benefits arena.

John Thomson BE (Elec), CCDA, MIEEE, is Telstra's Account Executive for TAFE Queensland and has worked in various Engineering and Consulting roles in the communications industry in both Australia and overseas for over 25 years.

During the past 10 years, John has focussed on providing network and collaboration solutions to all levels of the Education sector in Queensland.

Carol Webb is Institute Director - Brisbane North Institute of TAFE, which delivers training to 30,000 students annually from 7 campuses in Brisbane North and is currently Chair of the TAFE Queensland Videolinq Taskforce.

Carol has worked in education for over 30 years including experience in the non state and state High School Section and TAFE institutes in Central Queensland and North Queensland with prior experience as an organic chemist in both public and private sectors.

Carol has a particular interest in supporting staff who wish to develop blended learning models which provide greater access to vocational, education for clients, no matter where the student may be.

Mr Gerald (Gerry) White, Dip. T., Adv. Dip. T.(distinction), B. Ed., M. Ed., MACS, FACE

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Laurence Zwimpfer, BE(Hons), MPP(VUW), SM(MIT), MIPENZ, HFNZCS

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