PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY 17 JULY 2009

8.00–9.00: Registration

9.00–10.30: Keynote Address
Australasia: A Long History
Panel Chair - Professor Robin Jeffrey, Australian National University; Panelists: Maggie Catterall, St Monica’s Primary School, Footscray; Alice Pung, Author; Maha Sukka, Victoria Police; Nikolas Tan, Not for Profit Projects
Asia’s current emergence will be one of the greatest catalysts for worldwide change. Australians require new skills, knowledge and understanding related to the Asian region and Australia’s engagement with Asia in order to meet the challenges and opportunities of living and working in the twenty-first century. This panel will outline why knowledge of Asian history is important to students in 2009.

10.30–11.00: Morning Tea

11.00–12.30: Workshop Session One
Please choose one workshop from this session.

1- A Big Idea for Australian History
Richard Smith, Southwood Boys Grammar; Michael Spurr, Oxford University Press
Michael and Richard explore the process of developing and writing Oxford Big Ideas History Level 6, using Australia in the 1920s and ‘30s as a case study, suggest strategies for incorporating this approach into your classroom practice.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

2- Using Five New Stimulating Australian History Mysteries in your History Classroom
David Arnold, National Museum of Australia
Following the success of the two previous Australian History Mysteries resources, the National Museum of Australia and Ryebuck Media are collaborating to produce Australian History Mysteries 3, a new series of inquiry learning investigative case studies that will help to bring some of Australia’s most important twentieth century events to life for middle and senior history students. The five case studies are:
What does a local community tell about itself in World War I? The Coniston Massacre – was justice done?The Great Depression – myth or reality? Rebuilding Australia – the Snowy: How were former enemies able to work together in a new community? What are the myths surrounding Vietnam? In this session, David will invite participants to explore some of the materials and the activities in the new resource and how they can be used effectively to engage students in the History classroom.
GENERAL

3- Teaching Ancient Greece Through Meaningful Technology
Marita Tripp and Kaye De Petro, Pearson Australia
Engaging students in meaningful and relevant ICT tasks is a challenge that faces all teachers. This session will focus on using meaningful, engaging and relevant ICT tasks as well as using ICT as a presentation method and pedagogical tool to teach a unit on ancient Greece. The session will use Humanities Dimensions 1 as a foundation text.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

4- Bringing Home the Boys
Paula Stott and Nicholas Manganas, De La Salle College Ashfield, NSW
Bringing Home the Boys is a rich multimedia experience in Australian history. Eager to create an unforgettable learning experience in an everyday classroom for local history, life at the beginning of the twentieth century and World War I? It can be done, and Paula and Nicholas will show you how! They will share the secrets of designing of Authentic Learning Tasks that result in engaged learners and historians who keep coming back for more. They will share the secrets of their Bringing Home the Boys project with you and show you just how easy it is to incorporate the principles of podcasting and other forms of multimedia into your own subject area. You’ll gain first-hand experience of some of the successful strategies used in the creation of this project. Student work and practical tips will also be featured.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

5- Web 2.0 Wise–Next Generation!
Kimberley Hall and Clare Rafferty, Ringwood Secondary College
Participants in this session will be walked through various Web 2.0 tools and will be given the opportunity to explore various Web 2.0 applications. Participants will be given ideas on how to incorporate Web 2.0 tools into teaching and learning. Participants will then brainstorm and explore the classroom applications of interactive websites like Ning and Voki within their teaching environments. Participants will leave the session with a range of ideas on how they might incorporate twenty-first century learning tools within their classrooms. Participants in this workshop will be required to bring their own laptop computer with wireless internet connection. Limited to 24 participants.
GENERAL

6- Critical Thinking Strategies for the Daily Classroom
Eric Frangenheim, ITC Publications Pty Ltd
Too often students offer superficial responses to important questions in class. They may proffer ‘good’ or ‘cool’ answers; when asked their opinion on an issue or event. As History teachers, we want our students to think through issues, offer a detailed analysis of them and formulate well argued positions. Often our expectations are not met. If we are to expect detailed responses then we should never just ask our students ‘What do you think about this’? The instruction is simply too vague to result in the desired responses. Asking a good question is no reason to expect a good answer. However, if we were to use a cognitive framework such as that provided by Bloom and also provide the appropriate thinking tool to assist students in the formulation of their response then we are more likely to receive answers of greater depth and understanding. Participants in this workshop will experience and familiarise themselves with an array of thinking tools such as the Extended Pros, Cons Questions, The Decision Making Matrix, the Elimination Draw and the Extent Barometer.
GENERAL

7- CANCELLED-History Begins with You
Ingrid Rowe, Moriac Primary School; Laurel Smith, Werribee Primary School
How do you integrate History into a crowded curriculum? Which approaches are the most user-friendly and cater for authentic learning? Where do we start when planning and how do we engage students? What resources are available that suit primary-level and lower secondary students? If these questions sound familiar, this session is for you. The activities and strategies explored in this session are aimed at providing practical support for busy teachers.
PRIMARY, MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

8- CANCELLED-Art, History and the City
Jane Strickland, National Gallery of Victoria
This presentation examines representations of Melbourne based on works from the National Gallery of Victoria’s Australian collection displayed at Federation Square. These works tell the story of Melbourne’s history from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives. Participants will explore relevant issues relating to society both past and present, such as immigration, politics and Australian identity. Participants will take part in a pedagogically ‘alive’ visual learning experience based on John Brack’s Collins Street 1955. Resources will be provided. An excellent workshop for those planning a student ‘city experience’ and those keen to get students thinking.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

9- Continuity and Change: Transition to a National History Curriculum
Terry Gallagher, Queensland Studies
Authority; Pat Hincks, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority;
What changes will occur in State and Territory curricula as a result of the national History curriculum? What aspects of History teaching, learning and assessment will remain the same? What will be the impact of national History curriculum on other Humanities and Social Sciences curricula? Pat and Terry will explore these issues and provide an overview of the current state of play in national History curriculum.
GENERAL

10- Making Historia
Historia Incorporated
Historia is a team of history enthusiasts, drawn from both academia and the general community and it includes members from universities, business, theatre and the arts. The main objective of Historia is to stage theatrically oriented academic presentations. Using the HTAV student lecture presentation The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution as a case study, members of Historia will narrate through the trials and tribulations of not only researching the script but the drama of engagement with various, often politically antithetical, community groups.
GENERAL

11- Simply Super Stories 2
Richard Malone, Caulfield Grammar School
Stories are the lifeblood of engaging History. Stories reveal the essential life issues of passion, betrayal, friendship, courage, humour and power. This workshop will share some simply super stories that can be used in your classroom from Years 7–12, from the vicious Vikings to the funny French. Come prepared to listen, learn and laugh. This presentation is new and has different stories from those delivered in Super Stories 1 (Thursday Session 9, 11.00-12.30pm).
GENERAL

12- Interactive Whiteboards and the History Classroom
Lauren O’Grady, Edsoft
Interactive Whiteboards are popping up in classrooms right across Australia but many people ask ‘How does it link to my subject area?’ In this session, participants will learn about the possibilities of IWB use in the history classroom. Interactive Whiteboards provide a great opportunity to open the window on the world and the web into your classroom. Come and look at whiteboard examples and ideas and experience how these tools can change the History classroom. Teachers will be required to bring their laptops to this session with the IWB software they use. This is a repeat of Workshop 10, Session one on Thursday.
GENERAL

12.30–1.30: Lunch

1.30–2.30: Workshop Session Two
Please choose one workshop from this session.

1- A Human Rights Act for Australia: History in the Making
Jackie Hartley, Australian Human Rights Commission
The reality is that while Australia is a great country for most of us, most of the time human rights protections in Australia are ad hoc and incomplete. Australia remains the only liberal democracy in the world without a charter or bill of rights. It is true that nationally we have some limited rights protections in our Constitution, some common law rights, and numerous laws that protect specific human rights. However, what Australia needs is a national law protecting human rights; a federal Human Rights Act. As educators you have a role to encourage and promote an inclusive classroom environment in which human rights education is at the core; a classroom where students treat each other with respect for their rights, dignity and culture.
GENERAL

2- Melbourne Under Attack: An Integrated Unit
Steve Thompson, vcehistory.info
Steve will survey the xenophobic and hysterical invasion paranoia that afflicted Melbourne in the second half of the 1800s and transformed it into the best-defended city in the British Empire. Key players, causes, effects and historical remnants will be presented, as well as an integrated history-geography unit for middle and senior secondary students that provides great opportunities for research, fieldwork and excursions.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10), VCE

3- I’m Not a Racist, but … Anti-Semitism in the Twenty-First Century
Nigel Mitchell, Saint Ignatius College, South Australia
Many people still believe that anti-Semitism is an historical phenomenon associated with Christianity, Europe, and right wing politics. In this session, Nigel will demonstrate that anti-Semitism is as strong as ever in the twenty-first century, but the core of anti-Semitism has in fact shifted. It has shifted geographically, and it has shifted in the political and religious rhetoric which fuels it today. The origins and history of anti-Semitism will be surveyed, and the contemporary manifestations will be discussed using twenty-first century primary sources. This will be followed by a consideration of some strategies which may be useful for teachers to avoid unintentionally fuelling anti-Semitism and other forms of racism when teaching about the Sho’ah (Holocaust), World War II, the history of Israel and the actions of the Israeli government and military, and the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
GENERAL

4- It’s Not Only the What But the How
Ian Jenkin, retired
Over the last few years we have seen politicians taking an increasing interest in curriculum and content. This may be triggered by the results of kerbside surveys, or by a desire to copy the education systems where National Spirit is seen to be important. Inevitably the teaching of History has been one of the chief targets. Whilst History students must be given a firm grounding in our unique cultural heritages, let us not lose site of the need to generate a love of history and a passion for the past. We are more likely to achieve this when we consider how we approach our subject, rather than only focusing on the content.
GENERAL

5- ergo - Critical Literacy in the Middle Years
Linda Angeloni, The State Library of Victoria
Exploring new models for the delivery of digitised resources and the skill-set students need to evaluate and apply information they find online and in libraries, the ergo website from the State Library of Victoria provides secondary students and teachers with easy-to-follow guides to critical and information literacy, research and essay writing alongside over 500 recently digitised resources with contextual information to facilitate their use in the classroom.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

6- Discovering the Unfamiliar within the Familiar: History Opens the Door to Mathematics
David Demant, Science and Technology Communicator
This focus of this workshop is a book: A Story of Natural Numbers. It tells one story of how numbers came to be. Numbers are part of a universal language called mathematics. Like all languages, mathematics is seeping with history, full of ‘blind alleys’ and achievements. There was a time when numbers, as we know them, did not exist. The history of numbers is one of the stories of how we came to be where we are today. When we discuss any history, we start from our present knowledge, however sparse or intuitive. We then move from the familiar to the unfamiliar. The material in the book can be used to complement lessons on the history of India or Iraq, a history of how humans have learnt to investigate and ‘control’ the world, the history of language, or as part of an integrated history and maths lesson. You will definitely find this session and intriguing.
PRIMARY, MIDDLE YEARS (7-10)

7- Collaborative Learning
Helen Kelly, Education Consultant; Simon Robinson, St Columba’s College; Ross Smith, Parade College
The new technology seduces students and teachers are struggling to find ways to adapt this technology to learning in the classroom before being left behind by the society at large. ICT often finds students sitting alone at a screen cutting and pasting from the web. Many often miss out on the excitement and opportunity afforded by working together on a task with other students. The presenters, from two Victorian schools, have created a web based activity targeted at Year 7 students collaborating with each other while researching the Roman Empire. Participants in this workshop will be required to bring their own laptop computer with wireless internet connection. Limited to 24 participants.
GENERAL

8- Moments that Made Us and Moments in the Making
Patrick Watt, National Sports Museum
Our Australian values of Unity, Leadership and Belief have been forged just as much on the sporting fields as on the fields of war. Patrick Watt explores the notion of moments in our sporting history that have made us and that have shaped who we are. Patrick Watt extrapolates his thesis with an expose of hidden resources and an acknowledgment of what is in the collection of the National Sports Museum. The session will be passionate, provocative and entertaining.
GENERAL

9- Footsteps of Honour: Young Australians Living our ANZAC Heritage
Mike Goodwin, MacKay North State High School, Queensland

GENERAL

10- CANCELLED-Outrigger Canoes, Whiffletree Cockeyes and the Mighty Antar
John Nicholson, Author
John is fascinated by the objects that people have always created and used-buildings, vehicles, engineering structures, tools to make their lives more comfortable, secure and productive. In this presentation, John will demonstrate how his work relies heavily on this paraphernalia as a way of engaging children and allowing them to make meaningful connections with Australian history. This presentation will be accompanied by slides of illustrations selected mainly from his recently completed series of books on transport, trade and travel in Australia.
PRIMARY, MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

11- Whispers from the Past Informing Voices from the Present
Brian Mckinnon, National Gallery of Victoria
In this presentation, Brian discussess Julie Dowling’s work on Federation. The works sets out a series of time lines explaining the lives of Julie’s family and the events that took place around them and influenced their lives. Most of these events were a shameful mark on Australian history and still not recognised to this day, even denied by a lot of Australians. The first work covers a period from 1901; the following nine works cover periods of ten years up until 2001. Subjects covered by this series of works range from kidnapping, racism, war land rights, stolen generations, and the referendum in 1967. As Brian shares a lot of the same history as Julie the presentation will also reflect on his personal experiences and history.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

12- Catch Them Thinking!
Frosso Dawod and Jo Marveggio, Brentwood Secondary College
How do we know what our students are thinking (or even if they are thinking) let alone report on it? This workshop will provide participants with a range of effective strategies to use in History classes that will make thinking ‘visible’ and energise your students.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

2.30–3.30: Workshop Session Three
Please choose one workshop from this session.

1- Where’s the History in an Integrated Year 9?
Pam Cupper, Horsham College
Where does History sit in an integrated Year 9 program? As schools take up alternative Year 9 programs, there is often some heartache amongst History teachers: ‘Where is the History?’ Horsham College found that, if anything, History has a more prominent role than it ever had, and, more importantly, students are more engaged. This workshop offers practical suggestions and examples for schools integrating their Year 9 curriculum.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

2- ‘Information Saturated Yet Ignorant’: Rising to Meet the Challenges of ‘Digital Historiography’
James Goulding, The University of Sydney
As notions of literacy and what it means to be ‘literate’ evolve, how are History teachers adapting to meet this challenge? This session is concerned with analysing and critiquing what it means to be ‘information literate’ in the History classroom, and draws upon the work of a number of forward- thinking scholars to chart possible directions for the growing phenomenon of ‘digital historiography’.
GENERAL

3- Teaching American History with Music
Elisa Altamore, Carey Baptist Grammar School
Are you looking for a new way to engage your students in the study of American history? Are you tired of confiscating your students’ iPods? Instead of banning music from your classroom, use it to engage them in inquiry-based study of American history. This session will give you music you can use to engage your students, with a specific lesson plan for studying Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Participants in this workshop will be required to bring their own laptop computer with wireless internet connection. Limited to 24 participants.
VCE

4- Teens, Scenes and Drama Queens
Joanna Clyne, The University of Melbourne
This session provides attendees with a range of ideas, motivations and resources to get started on a fulfilling and mutually beneficial relationship with their school drama department. Learn how to make history lessons dramatic, drama lessons historical and students more interested!
PRIMARY, MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

5- Humanising the Holocaust
Laura Brady, Ballarat Clarendon College
As History teachers one of the most daunting topics we teach can be the Holocaust. It is often difficult to convey to students with little prior knowledge the utter destruction that occurred during this period or get them to empathise with the victims. Too often the first introduction students have to the Holocaust is through pictures of piles of bodies, gas chambers or emaciated survivors upon liberation. From this point on it is difficult for students to identify with the suffering or understand that the victims were very similar to themselves. As well as this students raise difficult questions through their study of the Holocaust as they struggle to comprehend why some survived and others did not, or how an atrocity on this scale could occur. This workshop attempts to offer a model of teaching the Holocaust as a Human story, so that students can gain a greater understanding of the best and worst humanity.
VCE

6- The Original Underbelly: Different Approaches to Australia Between the Wars
Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, St Andrew’s Cathedral School, Sydney
This workshop will present a range of practical classroom ideas to enhance student interest in the inter-war period. Topics covered will include the Australian underworld, Australians’ experiences overseas and overseas visitors to Australia. The aim is to bring Australian inter-war history into its global context, exhibiting the range and depth of our contact with the world in the 1920s and early 1930s.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

7-CANCELLED- History Around Us
Margaret Pagone, The King David School
History is all around us. We can point out news reports of archaeological digs such as those at Glenrowan, Pentridge and Fromelles in 2008 but what is in our own backyard? Well it depends on your area. I am teaching in the Armadale area and have devised a one-hour bus trip of the area between there and St. Kilda beach. During this trip, we look for signs of the various ages, from the sculpture of the ‘Lady of St. Kilda’ on the Balaclava train bridge to the Corroboree tree at the junction, via routes of bushrangers and smugglers, memorials to Captain Cook and fallen soldiers and the homes of past PMs and football teams. Come along for the ride and share other ideas.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

8- The Pied Piper: A Medieval Investigation
Jade West and Jihan Hogan, Salesian College
Jade and Jihan will outline an inquiry-based unit for middle years students and provide participants with the resources to adapt the unit for use in their own classroom. This unit, based on a study of Medieval History, requires students to participate in a historical investigation, collect evidence and draw conclusions about the links between the Black Death and The Pied Piper of
Hamelin. A number of theories explaining the disappearance of the children Hamelin have evolved since the story’s origins. This unit encourages students to explore all
theories and to differentiate between myth and historical fact.
MIDDLE YEARS (7–10)

9- Australian History in Song
Shelley West, Performer and Song writer
In this session, Shelley will explore the practical use of song and music in the History classroom to help students engage in their studies of the past. Shelley will be performing her own works so that teachers are inspired to incorporate song in the History classroom.
GENERAL

10- Make Mine Open: Sharing History Resources Online
Pru Mitchell, Education.au, South Australia
This hands-on workshop is for History teachers interested in discovering free resources that can be adapted and shared. The presentation addresses questions such as: What does open mean? Where do I find this stuff? How good is it? And what can I do with it? As well as highlighting how to find open education resources, images and media, the session helps educators understand licences used when sharing online resources, including Creative Commons, and shows ways to reference online resources in different types of situations. Participants in this workshop will be required to bring their own laptop computer with wireless internet connection. Limited to 24 participants.
GENERAL

11- Making Democracy Make Sense
Alison Beasley and Glenda Smith, Old Parliament House
Politics...boring! Government...yawn.
Democracy... who cares? It sometimes seems that nothing turns students off faster than Australia’s democratic history. But can teaching civics-related history be fun? Launched in May 2009, the Museum of
Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House encourages students to understand and participate in Australian democracy. For students to engage with our democratic history it is important they understand that democracy isn’t just something we have, but something we live day-to-day, connecting all facets of life. Democracy isn’t just about politics but about stories of real people using their voice to do extraordinary things. New onsite and outreach education resources tell these stories in a fun and relevant way. This workshop for primary and secondary teachers will present tools and techniques for increasing students’ engagement, enjoyment and understanding of issues such as federation, conscription, leadership and law-making.
GENERAL

12- Historiography and the Chinese Revolution: Perspectives of Mao and Mao’s China
Jenny McArthur, Tintern Girls Grammar School
This workshop seeks to analyse the ways in which Western historians’ and the general public’s perceptions of Mao and the People’s Republic of China have changed over time. At the start of the Cold War the prevailing mood viewed the establishment of the PRC in 1949 as a ‘loss’. Yet, baby boomers, like the presenter, were at university during the 1960s and many developed a favorable view of Mao and the PRC. In more recent times, particularly after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and the publication of many scar literature accounts, there has been a revision of this ‘love affair’ with China.
GENERAL

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