Presenters

Elizabeth Mackinlay (BMus Hons, PhD Music Adelaide, PhD Education Queensland) is a Senior Lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland where she teaches Indigenous Studies, Women's Studies and Ethnomusicology. Liz completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1998 and continues her work with Aboriginal women at Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia. She also completed a PhD in Education at the University of Queensland in 2003.

Dr Mia O'Brien (BEd Hons, PhD Education) is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, where she teaches Arts and Creativity, and Pedagogy (in Primary, Middle Years, & Secondary Teacher Education Programs); and is a consultant in university curriculum, pedagogy, scholarship and teacher professional development. Mia is currently the Vice President of the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Australasian Region, and her research spans both schooling and university settings.

Music engages the imagination in story taking the listener on a journey through a soundscape of feelings. Be a part of music as narrative and learn how to enrich your children's experiences and language.

Vision of Musica Viva

A future for Australia shaped by the creativity and imagination of its people, in which music plays an essential inspirational role.

Lorraine is an educator with manys years experience of using The Arts for bringing about real learning. In this workshop you will see examples of whole school collaborative canvases that express, share and celebrate every child's learnings.

Drama tells stories in a very real way.

Joy has a utiilised The Arts in education as a focus through her teaching career. Her innovative ways have brought about authentic learnings and understandings. This workshop will use drawing Investigations based on the Reggio Emiilia approach and will support literacy in the Early Years .

Carolyn is an Arts educator with many year's expierence in the State system and a PAN committee member. She specializes is visual arts from Years 1 - 7 and is the recipient of an Australia Day Education Queensland Medal for outstanding achievement in education.

Workshop description

Michelle is an Early Years Specialist in The Arts. Do you want your children to relate 'pots' of stories? This workshop on Story Pots will do just that. To engage children in tactile creative ways is to engage them in stories.; meaningful, descriptive and interesting stories. In this workshop, teachers will have the opportunity to develop skills and techniques for implementing a sculptural project with Early Years students.
The project moves through the following:

Karen is a middle years educator in The Arts. She has the ability to have you look at images in ways you have never seen! Visual literacy works with written literacy and to see more fully is to peak and write more fully. An invaluable workshop for all teachers.

" It's about the story"
Australia's stories reach back a long, long way and these stories are part of us today. This workshop will enable you to bring you students to these stories thought The Arts and with a fullness of understanding.