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In reference to my second goal I will be attending the HTAV Annual conference on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd of July and in particular attending worksops on Web 2.0 and the history classroom as indicated below. Thursday 22 July Keynote The Making of Modern Australia Session 1: 11. Web 2.0 Workshop pedagogy vs Cybergogy: Finding the learning balance Session 2: 12 Web 2.0 history IT Essentials: Social Bookmarking for Teachers and Students Session 3: 12. Web 2.0 History IT Essentials: using online image Collections

Friday 23 July Keynote Senior History Australian Curriculum Session 1: 4 Teaching strategies for bringing Australian History to life in your classroom Session 2: 2. Middle Years Research Skills Session 3: Space and Place in Ancient History

26/7/10 In particular the social bookmarking workshop on Diigo was of interest and i could see it being useful in Year 9&10 humanities as a place to store sources when the students are researching so they can access the sites from different computers. In addition they could use the edit component in the description box to explain the usefulness of each source thereby ensuring they have actually read the source. The on line image collections introduce some new sources of primary source material such as Library of Congress and Flickr- the commons Another useful site discussed was [|www.dipity.com] where visual timelines can be composed easily which would be useful for each year level in history.

Differentiation in teaching Group work at various levels- grouped by the teacher according to skill level Task differentiation according to skill level Choice within the task for student to complete at appropriate level