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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW AND PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - NEO-CARTOGRAPHY: WE CAN ALL BE CARTOGRAPHERS This presentation will discuss how neo-cartography, and the use of social software on everyday consumer electronic devices might be integrated with mainstream surveying and mapping practices to provide products that might be otherwise impossible to deliver due to economic and logistic situations. Neo-cartography is not about further developing/improving existing approaches, but looking altogether differently at how data is collected, assembled, analysed and presented. What is neocartography? What are the opportunities, issues and challenges of neo-cartography for the cartography /giscience community? PROFESSOR WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT AM is Professor of Cartography in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University,

• Australia. He is Immediate Past-President of the International Cartographic Association and Chair of the Executive of the Mapping Sciences

Institute, Australia (MSIA). He joined the University after spending a number of years in both the government and private sectors of the mapping

• industry. His major research interest is the application of integrated media to cartography and the exploration of different metaphorical

approaches to the depiction of geographical information. In 2013 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for “significant service to cartography and geospatial science as an academic, researcher and educator”

MELLINI SLOAN

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT Qut’s Mellini Sloan will host a series of short presentations by representatives from campus and industry, giving you fresh ideas on ways to incorporate issues faced by contemporary Australian and international communities into your curriculum. Presentations will focus on a range of issues from revitalisation of cbds to relocation of at-risk populations in floodplains, with each offering

• ptions to engage your students in relevant active learning.

MELLINI SLOAN has been a lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at QUT since 2009, and will become an Australian citizen in the next few

• months. She teaches a diverse, multidisciplinary cohort, with units in negotiation and conflict resolution and environmental planning and analysis

undertaken by future planners, engineers, construction managers, and designers, including an increasing number of international exchange

• students. Her research examines how communities and their governments understand, plan for, and implement strategies in response to water

and climate-related crises in both urban and remote settings. She currently supervises PhD students from Australia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Vietnam, resulting in an increasingly international perspective on such crises.

Will Inveen - Murray Darling Basin Authority Data and water management in the Murray-Darling Basin. Effective management of the water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin is critical to Australia's future. Effective collection and analysis of hydrological data is critical in managing the water resources. This workshop session will examine some of the sources and applications of authentic data that are available to teachers from the MDBA website. WILL is the Director of the innovative education@MDBA program which uses traditional and cutting edge educational tools to engage a diverse audience of stakeholders with water resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin. He has a background in science (resource and environmental management), education (secondary science and SOSE) and scientific communication. Melanie Davis - Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre Brisbane Urban Environmental Education Centre (BUEEC) provides engaging incursions and excursions specifically designed to support the Australian Curriculum in the areas of History, Science and Geography. At BUEEC expert teachers deliver programs utilising digital technologies to maximise student engagement and cater for a variety of learning styles. Our programs provide innovative, practical activities undertaken in authentic contexts that are designed to develop the students’ current knowledge and encourage higher order thinking that engages them in further exploration. All of the programs offered at BUEEC are designed to complement the curriculum and provide experiences for students that consolidate prior learning and enhance understanding. In this session representatives from BUEEC will explain how to organise and integrate meaningful fieldwork into your 7-12 classroom to satisfy the requirements of the Australian Geography Curriculum or the Senior Geography syllabus. In showcasing the programs on offer, the BUEEC team will share ideas teachers can use to support learning in their classroom and provide a detailed insight into how the Centre can engage learners and assist with achieving curriculum outcomes. Jane O’Sullivan - Sustainable Population Australia How are child marriage, conflict and climate change connected? Is the population dimension airbrushed out of the topics you teach? How do family size, food prices and depleted aquifers relate to unrest in the Middle East? Why is Iran now condoning marriages of girls as young as 10? What public policy most strongly correlates with development success in the developing world? Why do we talk about feeding 9 billion, but not about feeding 12 billion? How does Australia’s population policy affect housing affordability or our prospects for a clean energy future? This talk offers a peek behind the curtain of wilful blindness, at the most pervasive global issue and why it remains unaddressed.

Alicia Ames Transport and infrastructure planning – City Cat As governments and city planners try to tackle traffic congestion, urban sprawl, air pollution and oil dependence, interest in the role of ferries has been renewed. Linear ferry systems, such as Brisbane’s CityCats, have the potential to operate parallel to congested land based transport modes and stimulate urban revitalisation and economic development in waterfront areas. This presentation will discuss the increasing popularity of linear ferry systems and their role in ferry-oriented development (FOD). Suggested class activities will also be provided, specifically for Connecting People and Places and Sustainable Communities. However, this presentation will also be relevant for teachers of the Geography of Interconnections. John McCormack – MSIA The value of GIS in the education sector is explored and explained

• GIS provides students with an interactive way to learn about the world.
• GIS can be used across the curriculum to provide a holistic view of how the world works.
• GIS brings learning out of the classroom and into the real world.
• GIS teaches valuable technology skills.
• GIS empowers learners with skills that are in-demand in the workforce.

Some GIS software options available. Getting free geospatial data to use in your geographic information system. JOHN has worked in the Queensland Government mapping department, currently the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, for 43 years as a cartographer and senior spatial information officer. He has gone through many changes in technology during this time that was used to produce

• maps. John is also a Fellow in the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia. He is currently involved in the distribution of spatial data via the web in

the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. Alex Rossimel - Introducing Jacaranda learnON Geography - a collaborative, customisable, media-rich online course designed to improve learning outcomes. Students access, complete and submit work online; collaborate with their peers and teacher at the point of learning and receive immediate and meaningful feedback. No more separate textbooks, workbooks and folders! All course materials and student work is integrated in one place. Teachers assign learning tasks and have greater visibility as to how their students are tracking via online reports. Workshop participants will take home codes to discover this ground breaking resource which harnesses the power of digital learning in ways never before thought possible. Susan Bentley – Caritas Food security: Case Studies and Toolkit With current global projections suggesting the world population will grow to 9.2 billion by 2050, now is a critical time to re-evaluate the global approach to food production and distribution. This session will explore innovative food security solutions which alleviate poverty, embrace the development and delivery of new technologies and adopt a people-centred approach to sustainable agricultural systems. Development programs which support capacity building and strengthen the economic development of vulnerable communities in Nepal and Fiji will be showcased. In addition, participants will gain access to a “Food for All” resource toolkit which will enhance the delivery of the P-12 Geography curriculum.

FRIDAY FIELDWORK OPTIONS

OPTION ONE (FULL DAY) – SEQ Water – Wivenhoe/Mt Crosby; OPTION TWO (HALF DAY) – Urban Environment Education Centre –“Follow the Crowd” - A field trip for the Year 9 Unit “Geographies of Interconnections” OPTION THREE (FULL DAY) – Second Nature – “Paddock to Plate” - designed to support Year 9 “Biomes and Food Security” unit. David Lergessner – JCU Doing Fieldwork – Coastal Environs Hands-on measurement of the coastal environment in sandy, rocky and muddy areas will include the basic and more sophisticated technologies available for use in the field. Currently available remote sensing platforms will be introduced for use by teachers in both pre and post fieldwork activities. DAVID has a long involvement with GTAQ starting back in to 1970s as a Geography teacher at Redcliffe High. David went on to run the Wallum Sub-Centre which was part of the State’s Environmental Education program in the early 1990s before ending his full-time teaching career at Deception Bay High in 2005. Since ‘retiring’ David has continued to work in classrooms and for various institutions, and is currently part of the research staff of the College of Marine and Environmental Sciences at James Cook University in Cairns David has written many textbooks in his own right and contributed to many others - more recently the Cambridge University Press series – Geography for the Australian Curriculum. Today David puts into practice what he has taught about for many years volunteering as President of the Friends of the Redcliffe Botanic Gardens

• Inc. organisation managing the development of the Redcliffe Botanic Gardens.

Derek Cantle Teaching Analysis Skills for Managing Catchments Fieldwork Analysis requires students to identify and explain geographical patterns and processes, transform, interpret and extrapolate geographical information, and identify and explain simple and complex relationships, including anomalies. This workshop will show you how your students can use a robust conceptual framework called causal chain analysis (CCA) to clearly analyse any geographical issue or process. Practical examples will focus on fieldwork for the Managing Catchments unit. The framework is readily transferrable to all Senior Geography units. DEREK is currently a Senior Geography teacher at Fairholme College in Toowoomba and Chairperson of the Toowoomba District Panel (Geography). He has taught senior Geography in western New South Wales, and Cambridge International IGCSE, AS and A Level Geography in India. He brings experience with catchment management policy, land management consultancy, EIA and industrial relations consultancy to his classroom. Derek also has experience as a Senior Economics and Business Studies teacher. He enjoys photography, running, bushwalking, travel and spending time with his family.