Education

Greg Powell was a teacher and administrator with the Victorian Government School system for 30 years teaching in the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne and then later in country Victoria.

Greg was seconded as a Senior Project Officer to the Department of Education and Training (DE&T) Victoria in the eLearning Online Education Strategy Team (Later Years Branch) from 1999 to 2002 where he managed the National Software Evaluation Project for Australia (NSEP) and the Software Rolling Fund for Victorian Schools. During these years Greg managed the development of the QTP PD Bank website and various Sofweb and ICT websites for DE&T.

From 2002 to 2006 Greg was lecturing in Information and Communication Technology at ACU National - School of Education Canberra.

Greg Powell is now lecturing in ICT at La Trobe University within the School of Educational Studies (Bundoora Campus) where he lectures to the Dip of Education Primary students.

Greg is also completing his PhD at The University of Melbourne - Faculty of Education (Department of Science and Mathematics).

Emerging Technologies, Schools for 21 st Century, leadership and ICT practices, Innovations in ICT, eLearning, change management practices in education, ICT learning communities/communities of practice, teacher professional learning practices in ICT, numeracy and ICT, literacy and ICT, health and human relations human sexuality education programs.

Viney, D & Powell, G.(Ed). (1997). From Sublime to Solitude: The Story of Lancefield 1837-1997 . 440p. Illustrated. Index. West Bourke Books Inc.

Powell, G. (2002). Adobe Photoshop Elements Review (2CD Training Set) CLASSROOM Scholastic , 22(3).

When Memory Turns the Key: The History of the Romsey Shire - John Reid. (Shire of Romsey History Book Committee). Romsey. 1992

Brennan, S., Carmichael, B., Liddle, S. & Powell, G. (2001). Ergonomic Study of Primary Aged Students Using DataDesk Little Fingers Keyboards and ittiBitty Mouses in two Primary Schools . (Unpublished Report for DE&T and Divisible by Zero: http://www.dbz.com.au/lf/pdfs/PRESS_RELEASE_9_10.pdf )

Chase, A., & Powell, G. (2002, November). ICT Achievers Program: Victorian Department of Education and Training (DE&T): Journal of ICT in Education 25 (2). Melbourne : Victoria .

DE&T and Powell, G. (2001-2002). Report on Quality Teacher Program-PD Bank: Victorian Department of Education and Training (DE&T)

Past Research Projects:

Catholic Education Office Canberra Goulburn and DEST. (2003). Online Curriculum Project - QTP. Developing Online Curriculum. Canberra : ACT. http://vision.cg.catholic.edu.au/teaching/agqtp/ict/index.htm

Arnold, S., McLoughlin, C., Thornton , S., Scotallero, G., Broadbent, C., Powell, G., Burgess, J., Devereux, L. (2005). Getting Ready for Learning Objects: Examining technological and pedagogical readiness for uptake of Learning Objects in schools..http://simerr.acu.edu.au/survey/index.html

Current Research:

Hardman, F., Neville, B., Lewis, R., McCann, T., White, J., Hutchison, K., and Powell, G. (2007-2009). Engaging adolescents in schooling: A longitudinal study of student use of electronic self-assessment tools within advocacy models of student support (in progress).

Powell, G. (2001, March). Designing Interactives using KidPix for Primary Aged Students in Literacy and Numeracy . Paper and presentation for the CEGV 3rd Annual Early Years of Schooling and ICT Conference. Toorak. Victoria

Powell, G. (2001, March). Software use in the development of ICT Interactives To Foster Multi-literacy . (Presentation) at the Western Metropolitan Region: Annual Learning Technologies Festival (VUT Centre). Sunshine. Victoria .

Powell, G. (2001, May). DE&T Software Rolling Fund and QTP PD Bank: New Software to support ICT in Schools (Paper and presentation) at Wimmera Central Highlands Regional Conference, Ballarat. Victoria

Powell, G. (2001, May). DE&T Software Rolling Fund: New Software for use within Schools . Paper presented at CEGV Conference, Richmond . Victoria

Powell, G. (2001, August). Using Quality Software to Cater for Needs of Gifted Students (Presentation): Gifted Education Conference, Hilton Melbourne. Victoria

Powell, G. (2006). New Technologies for the 21st Century . ICTEV - ICT Connecting Learning Conference. Paper and presentation. Melbourne : Victoria.

• Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) http://www.ascilite.org.au
• British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) http://www.becta.org.uk
• World Education Forum (WEF) http://wef.org.au

Private

• Australian School of Shotokan Karate-do http://www.shotokan.com.au
• Romsey Lancefield Rotary Club Inc. http://www.rotary9790.org.au

• 5th Degree Black belt Shotokan Karate 1980
• President of West Bourke Books 1997-
• Macromedia Product Champion 2000
• Apple Educator of Excellence 2002