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'Think Do Tank'
Ideas Festival - Think Do Tank
Online chats from 26-27 March 2009
What's it all about?
Sharing knowledge is an important part of building dynamic communities. The Ideas Festival celebrates fresh ideas and home-grown innovations, while bringing international and national guests together to further inspire, question and challenge. It’s an opportunity for people to connect, form original ideas and generate strong, practical solutions. Ideas covers a series of five streams, each stream acts as a key to open a door to the big room of IDEAS.
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1. Invention and Innovation
2. Development and Design
3. Ecology and Ethics
4. Action and Advocacy
5. Self and Society
How students participated online
 In partnership with the Learning Place, Education Queensland’s online learning environment, the Ideas Festival became accessible to students across all geographical boundaries.
Over TWO big days, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March, the Idea’s Festival’s first dedicated schools program ‘Think Do Tank’ brought together in one place; speakers, workshop facilitators and inspiring youth representatives to join in positive and robust discussion and exploration through online chat sessions.
View the chat session details below.
Teaching resources
Ideas Festival provided teacher resources to support the online chat sessions. These resources were developed by Miranda Mason for the Ideas Festival Think Do Tank.
Chat sessions
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Thursday 26 March
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The body perfect
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Lily O’Hara
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In recent years, the health industry has contributed to the definition of the 'ideal' body. The message from health professionals and mainstream media alike is that pursuing the 'ideal' body is not just an aesthetic imperative; it is now a health imperative. Lily O’Hara, health promotion practitioner and academic at the University of the Sunshine Coast, will lead students in a positive discussion designed to encourage them to consider the ways in which they look at each other’s bodies. The discussion will range from valuing body size diversity; healthy and pleasurable eating and active living - the main focus of Lily’s work with the Everybody Project.
Website: Unleashed: Lily O'Hara
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Together for Humanity
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Ronit Baras
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Together for Humanity Foundation is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to promote acceptance of diversity, respect, fairness and inclusion. Ronit Baras is the Queensland State Coordinator. The organisation sends teams of role models from different faith backgrounds, a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim to schools and events work together and interact with students and in a very real sense convey that the medium is the message, we are of these faiths but still work together, and so can you. This chat will challenge students to reassess the simplistic and divisive assumptions sometimes made about people of different faiths and backgrounds, in the light of the common values that all people share. Students will develop empathy with people of other faiths and backgrounds while they are having fun.
Website: Together For Humanity Foundation
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Art and advocacy
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Skye Bortoli
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At just 15 Skye Bortoli is a passionate and highly awarded conservationist. Dedicated to the preservation of whales, Skye founded Teens Against Whaling when she was only 11 years old. In 2005 Skye attended the international whaling commission in Anchorage Alaska, where she presented over 40,000 signatures from all over the world to stop 'scientific research' in the southern ocean whale sanctuary. Skye was 2006 Girlfriend of the Year, 2006 Port Stephens Young Citizen of the Year and 2006 IFAW Junior Campaigner of the Year. Eco – Warrior, published by ABC Books in 2008 is a scrapbook account of Skye’s incredible and inspiring journey. Skye will chat with students about how she went from ordinary teenager to international environmental campaigner and became a published author in the process!
Website: Teens against whaling and Skye Bortoli MySpace
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Giving it away - Volunteering in the 20th Century
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Yassmin Abdel-Maggied is a member of the Queensland Youth Council, was the Youth Premier at the 2008 QLD Youth Parliament and volunteers for the United Nations Youth Association of Australia. She started an organisation called Youth Without Borders, is a member of the edge Youth Advisory group and attended the Australia 2020 Youth Summit. Yassmin will chat with students about the different models of volunteering and the very real returns that volunteers earn from their work. Students will be inspired to consider how they might seek out volunteering opportunities within their own communities.
Website: Get Involved : Queensland Government
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Friday 27 March
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I want to be a writer
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Kate Eltham
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A wide ranging discussion with Kate Eltham, CEO of Queensland Writers Centre will encourage students to not only get going on their own writing but to stick at it. For any student or teacher who has ever thought about where authors get their inspiration and how they keep a really good story going AND reach a satisfactory conclusion, this is the session for you.
Students will be encouraged to get started; keep going and never give up – even when it seems that ONE MORE rewrite is too hard!
Website: Queensland Writers Centre
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Through the eyes of the graffiti artist
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Christine Dew
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Join the author of Uncommissioned Art: An A-Z of Australian Graffiti a spectacularly illustrated volume, offering new ways to look at street art and explores its cultural and aesthetic impact. In this session Christine Dew will challenge the students to consider graffiti through new eyes and the legal implications. Students will consider an analysis of the history and evolution of the scene and discussion of urban planning, community and freedom of speech raised by graffiti’s presence in public space.
Website: Melbourne University Publishing
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Climate change - Not my problem
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Tony McCarthy
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Tony McCarthy is an Al Gore - trained Climate Project Australia presenter and Queensland Youth Environment Council member. Tony will lead students in an investigation of how their actions affect our future and the seemingly small acts they can make to ensure the long term health of our world. Tony is a dynamic and engaging young role model who will capture the imagination and stimulate the environmental activist in all students.
Website: Queensland Youth Environment Council
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Art and advocacy
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Skye Bortoli
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At just 15 Skye Bortoli is a passionate and highly awarded conservationist. Dedicated to the preservation of whales, Skye founded Teens Against Whaling when she was only 11 years old. In 2005 Skye attended the international whaling commission in Anchorage Alaska, where she presented over 40,000 signatures from all over the world to stop 'scientific research' in the southern ocean whale sanctuary. Skye was 2006 Girlfriend of the Year, 2006 Port Stephens Young Citizen of the Year and 2006 IFAW Junior Campaigner of the Year. Eco – Warrior, published by ABC Books in 2008 is a scrapbook account of Skye’s incredible and inspiring journey. Skye will chat with students about how she went from ordinary teenager to international environmental campaigner and became a published author in the process!
Website: Teens against whaling and Skye Bortoli MySpace
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