Learning 2.012

Hosted by WAB, Beijing, October 2012
Chair of organising committee

Beijing Learning Summit 2011

Hosted at WAB, November 19 2011

Organising committee member

ADE Workshops

Hosted by Apple for the International School Community in Soeul, Korea, September 30 – October 1 2011

Workshop leader

ADE Community CBL Project Facilitation

Learning 2.011

Hosted by SCIS, Shanghai, September 2011
Organising committee: co-chair

ADE Institute HCMC

April 2011

The ADE Asia Advisory Board members were invited to plan and help run the institute in HCMC for 60+ new ADEs.

Flat Classroom Conference

Hosted by BISS, Beijing, Feb 24-27 2011
ADE workshop facilitator/presenter

Beijing Learning Summit 2010

Organising committee member

Ideas for tomorrow, tools for today

Workshop: iMovie in 58 minutes

Shanghai Learning 2010

Cohort Facilitator: First Steps in Changing the Classroom

Global Education Conference 2010

Online Conference Nov 15-20

Mentor Chair & co-presenter
Presentation: Inside ITGS: Cyber-Students Share their Connected Learning
With Julie Lindsay and her ITGS students at BISS along with my ITGS students at WAB. Click here for the recording.

K-12 Online Conference 2010

Presentation Title: Inside ITGS: Cyber-Students Share their Connected Learning

Inside ITGS is about classrooms globally coming together to form an online learning community for the IB subject Information Technology in a Global Society. Madeleine Brookes from Western Academy Beijing and Julie Lindsay from Beijing (BISS) International School, both in China, explore the impact of virtual communication and collaboration and feature the students from pioneer classrooms in a rare face-to-face meeting. It is through their eyes, as cyber-students, that we will learn more about how to use emerging technologies and build stronger more effective learning communities.

Watch the teaser here:

Apple Leadership Summit (Hong Kong) 24-26 April 2010

Presentation: Reinventing Western Academy of Beijing
Madeline Brookes and Sheldon Bradshaw
The Western Academy of Beijing has been a regional leader in the use of educational technology since its inception in 1994.  As a 1 to 1 school from grades 3 to 12, what changes have taken place and what changes still need to be made?  This session will give an overview of WAB’s journey, both successes and challenges, and their roadmap for the future.

Presentation: Moving to a 1 to 1 Environment: A Model for Professional Development
Ann Martin, William Martin, and Madeleine Brookes
Teachers vary tremendously in their knowledge and implementation of technology tools. At Nanjing International School, we are faced with a plethora of newness: moving to the Mac platform, iWork and iLife, implementing a 1 to 1 laptop program, and an abundance of Web 2.0 tools. Our challenge was to design a two day in-service that would address some of these needs, get all teachers engaged and allow teachers’ creativity to blossom. This workshop will show you all facets of this successful endeavor. It incorporates a mystery theme, learning stations, group work, topic experts, project based learning, creativity, exit interviews and fun! Come join us as we recreate all the elements of this in-service from planning to finished products.

TEDxEDUcn – Courage, curiosity and creativity

November 15 2010
Organising committee member
Hosted by International School Beijing (ISB). Jointly organised by Western Academy Beijing and ISB. An official TEDx event which followed the usual requirements of including the opening TEDx video, online TED talks interspersed with over a dozen live TED talks.

Beijing Learning Summit

October 2009
Organising committee member
Hosted by Western Academy of Beijing (WAB)
Workshop presenter: WAB’s IWB journey – research to implementation.