Cal Durrant is Chair of Initial Teacher Education and lectures in English Curriculum and Media. His research is in the areas of English literacy and technology and media education. He was a member of the national team that delivered the $2.4 million Australian Government's Summer School for Teachers of English initiative in Geelong in January, 2008 and has been involved in a number of projects that have applied IT to various aspects of teaching and learning. Cal is currently on the Executive Council of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and serves on the Editorial Board of English in Australia. In 2001 he co-edited a text on ICTs and English with Catherine Beavis entitled P(ICT)ures of English: Teachers, learners and technology (Wakefield Press). His most recent project is an edited text on media education with Andrew Burn from the Institute of Education at the University of London to be published in 2008 (Wakefield Press) - Media Teaching: Language, Audience and Production.

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