Australian Spec Educat conference

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Mike and others, I went to the ASGPP website Forum, and still find it to be dishearteningly lacking in substance about really current events. There are some very important items there posted weeks or months ago.
   . Occasionally I find something rather peripheral--- such as the (included below) announcement for a conference in Australia.
         Much of what comes over the IAGP-PD listserve I then re-send to grouptalk, and often do the opposite, send stuff from grouptalk to IAGP--- the international community. 
     It would be better if others did this, too, as I may become caught up in other projects that are luring me into their completion. We need several folks in the field who are doing more networking.

      Who manages / moderates the forum?  Might there be a way of sending some announcements along to grouptalk?

  Another item: I heard from Yossi, but couldn't identify his email address---he's in Israel and wants to connect with folks in Seoul. Has anyone responded? I just did. It's about a month old or longer. I'll try to get him networked if I can find out his email address.
      So I'm still fairly wary about the actual utility of the forum, but I try to play my part. what are other people's experience?
               Warmly,               Adam Blatner

   See below for the other announcement: 

Call for Contributions by : Educators, practitioners, scholars, allied health therapists and artists 
are invited to make a submission to be part of the exciting, cutting edge international symposium placing the arts at the centre of education for special needs.
    International Symposium: Re-imagining Special Education through Arts Education & Arts Therapy    26-29 July 2008    Melbourne, Australia
        Visit http://symposium.portphillip.vic.edu.au
and click on the Call for Papers link to download the Call for Contributions Form
        Complete form and outline your role in facilitating a workshop, presenting a performance, paper, seminar, round-table, poster presentation or community event and e-mail or fax by close of business on 12 October 2007. E: enquiries at portphillip.vic.edu.au 
       F: +61 3 9646 0704
To all educators, arts practitioners, scholars, therapists and artists,
        On behalf of the organising committee, I am pleased to announce the very exciting and innovative 2008 International Symposium: Re-imagining Special Education through Arts Therapy and Arts Education to be held in Melbourne Australia, 26-29 July 2008. 
          Traditionally special education has provided a modified mainstream experience for students with special needs. Recent research and exemplars of good practice illustrate the importance of a paradigm shift in the delivery of special education. There is a growing national and international awareness of the need to develop new strategies. Special education through the Arts delivers a sensory approach to learning assisting students to move from the non-verbal to the verbal, from being an observer to a participant and to fully awaken student potential. These changes have been realised through the power of the Arts intertwined with Arts Therapy.
          This Symposium will provide learning opportunities for participants to explore and discover the processes and programming required to re-imagine special education.
         The Call for Contributions is now open. It would be appreciated if you would forward this email to relevant persons within your organisation, and also forward it throughout your professional networks. If you have a newsletter, publication or noticeboard it would be appreciated if you could include the notice above. The Call for Contributions Application Form and ads promoting the Call for Contributions can be directly downloaded from http://symposium.portphillip.vic.edu.au/Call_for_Papers/
          Thank you for your assistance at this time,
Regards,  Susan Cooper  symposium Convenor   & Director of Development
    Port Phillip Specialist School   127 Nott Street   Port Melbourne Vic 3207
   T: 03 9646 0855  T: +61 3 9646 0855F: +61 3 9646 0704
W: www.portphillip.vic.edu.au 


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