AGTA Conference presentations
AGTA 2011 Conference in Adelaide: 10–13 January 2011
Theme: Geography Going National
Keynote presentations
 Dr Rita Gardner: Geography – an education for life
Monday 10 January 2011 :: View the edited video :: PowerPoint presentation
 Duncan Chessell: Journey to the Roof of the World
Thursday 13 January 2011 :: View the edited video
If interested in booking Duncan Chessell as a speaker contact Scott Boocock at ICMI Speakers & Entertainers
P: 08 8377 3400 ::
M:0409 518 353 ::
E: scott@icmi.com.au ::
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 Tim Costello: AGTA Patron's inaugural speech
Thursday 13 January 2011 :: View the edited video
Workshop presentations
Paul Herbert: Injecting Thinking into Classroom Practice
Malcolm McInerney & Susan Caldis: Geography going places … and spaces
Cecily Wright: Forests — a global perspective
Fieldtrips
Roger Smith: Adelaide CBD
Pre-conference tour — Kangaroo Island
View a selection of photos taken during the pre-conference tour
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AGTA 2008 Conference at the Sunshine Coast: 29 September–2 October 2008
Theme: Taking geography above and beyond
Keynote presentations
Derek Milton: GIS in the classroom: opportunities and challenges (26.3MB PDF)
Sites used in keynote address (111KB PDF)
Malcolm McInerney: Where to next with GIS in Australia? (5.9MB PDF)
Workshop presentations
Pat Beeson: Accessing and spatially representing demographic data (2.9MB PDF)
Stephen Cranby: Planet of slums (1.6MB PDF)
Nick Cutajar: Online educational projects for Geography teachers (1.1MB PDF)
Brett Dascombe: Urban renewal or urban sprawl: Which is more sustainable? (7.1MB PDF)
Malcolm McInerney: GIS and Science (725KB PDF)
Ken Melchert: Sourcing Spatial Data from Local Government (3.5MB PDF)
AGTA 2006 Conference in Launceston: 8–12 January 2006
Theme: Geography making the connections — creating futures
Keynote presentations
George Dailey: Geographical thinking, geospatial technologies and careers, and geohistory in schools (17.9MB PDF)
Neil Coffey: Social community accessiblity GIS
Lawrie Kirk: Murray-Darling Basin — A living landscape
Workshop presentations
Pat Beeson: Secrets ffor the successful of GIS into the core curriculum
Ross Johnson: Using ABS data in a practical way
Mick Law: Introducing into the geography curriculum
Malcolm McInerney: An excuse to hug a tree
Tom Maggs: Antarctica: The AGTA goes south
Briar Newland: GIS in the middle school
Alex Robertson: Free GIS sites and software
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