18-31 August 2008

Association of Northern Territory School Educational Leaders

ANTSEL is pleased to invite you to ‘virtually attend’ (and maybe contribute a paper to) the first video online conference to be held for school leaders in Australia - and probably even the world. In an exciting development, the internet-based conference will feature customised videos that have been created specifically on the topic: ‘Leading Successful Schools: Sharing the Wisdom’.

The videos will feature a range of selected Northern Territory principals and key education policy makers, who have been filmed, on location in the NT, giving their answer to the following questions.

Focus questions

• Monday 18 August: ‘What is a successful school?’
• Tuesday 19 August: ‘What are the qualities of a successful school leader?’
• Wednesday 20 August: ‘What are the special challenges of leading a successful school in the Northern Territory?’
• Thursday 21 August: ‘How can education systems better support school leaders?’
• Friday 22 August: ‘How can school leaders help each other to grow professionally?’
• Saturday 23 August: ‘In your own experience, what makes school leadership so satisfying and enjoyable?
• What have been the highlights of your career as a school leader?’
• Sunday 24 August: ‘How can school leaders encourage others to consider the leadership challenge?’

No special software, equipment or technical skills will be needed, other than a computer that is connected to the internet. Message boards, where conference participants can discuss the focus question of the day online, will operate 24 hours a day, for the first seven days, for maximum convenience. Each day’s discussion will be hosted by a school leader from the NT, and there is no minimum or optimal participation time. The conference will also feature music provided by Maningrida School, one of the NT’s remote Indigenous schools.

Register to participate at no cost

If you are interested in taking part in this video online conference, please register online at the following website: www.cybertext.net.au/antsel2008.htm so that you can receive the necessary conference updates and the conference website address, once it is created (we will email you with this address a couple of weeks before the conference starts). There is no need to provide a video, paper or audio file in order to ‘attend’ this conference. We want as many school leaders as we can viewing/reading/listening to the conference materials and ‘talking’ about them on the message boards.

Can you provide a short paper or audio file for this conference?

ANTSEL is calling for school leaders, aspiring school leaders and other interested educationists, from all States, Territories and countries, to provide short papers or audio files on any of the seven questions listed above. You are invited to email material by Monday 14 July 2008 to the Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, at: brydon@cybertext.net.au

Photos of the author/s of the paper or audio file, and their school, are most welcome – these should be emailed separately
as jpeg files, saved at the highest possible resolution. * Please note: where students are shown in the photographs, it will be assumed that appropriate permission has been sought before the photo is submitted to the Conference Manager. If you are intending to send an audio file, please contact me for the technical requirements.

Please do let me know in advance if you are able to assist with material for this conference.

Debra Brydon
ANTSEL Video Online Conference Manager
Email: brydon@cybertext.net.au