About Meridith

Meridith Ebbs has over 20 years experience in education. She has worked as a classroom teacher, technology specialist and has extensive experience as a STEM specialist K-10. Meridith has hands on experience leading transformation and innovation in schools with educational technologies.

Meridith has consulted to NSW Education Standards Authority, Lismore Catholic Diocese of Schools and Government departments.

She offers personalised consulting in school strategy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment with educational technology and STEM in the classroom.

Meridith is comfortable working with:

  • working with leadership to develop and implement school wide strategy

  • students, teachers or parents

  • presenting teacher professional learning

  • side by side teaching

  • establishing Communities of Practice within schools or across larger networks

  • keynoting at conferences

  • skills and resource audits

  • planning expenditure for upgrading and rolling out educational technology.

Meridith also offers:

  • contracts to facilitate technology lessons in classrooms in NSW

  • 1 to 1 and small group tutoring, for teachers, students, NDIS or home school

  • roving trainer for office staff

  • documentation

  • programming assistance

A head shot of Meridith Ebbs, female founder of Make Create Educate

Speaking history

Public Speaking, Conferences, Events

2025

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  • ICT Educators NSW Conference - Practical ways to implement the K-6 Science and Technology in your classroom, 15/16 March 2025

    2024

  • PDHPE Teacher Association - Keeping your students safe - online safety, cyber safety, privacy, and security as taught in the NSW PDHPE syllabus, October 2024

  • Class Cover Learn - Teaching Technology with Picture Books, September 2024

  • ICT Educators NSW “Digital Technology and Digital Literacy requirements in K-6 English and Maths” NSW, August

  • ICT Educators NSW Podcast - guest

  • Global Collaboration Project - Teaching with Sustainable Development Goals - Best presentation voted by the audience, March

  • ICT Educators NSW Conference - Digital Technologies vs Digital Literacy, March

  • ICT Educators NSW - Investigations with Microbits and Science, Port Macquarie, February

    2023

  • ICT Educators NSW - Investigations with Microbits and Mathematics, Kempsey, November

  • Newcastle University, Teaching investigations with Microbits, October

  • EduTECH, Culture and computing: navigating cultural diversity in Digital Technologies education, Septmber

  • EduTECH, Effective Digital Technologies Assessment, September.

    2022

  • Podcast with Fizzics Education, STEM and Environmental Education

  • ICT Educators NSW Conference, Teaching outside with STEM, March

    2021

  • Australian Space Biology x Health Summit for One Giant Leap. Speaking about the Space Wattle project in the classroom. December

  • Lightning Lunch with Refraction Media, a guest speaker on Teaching STEM in Nature. September

  • #Educ8con panel on Using Picture books to teach STEM on Clubhouse https://educ8.world/ April

  • ACCE 2021 virtual conference hosted by DLTV - STE(A)M outside 15mins of project ideas - March

  • National Education Summit - Learning outside with STE(A)M, February

    2020

  • ISTE Global Collaboration Project - Learning outside with STEM and the Sustainable Development Goals. #STEMinTheWorld, reposted to my YouTube channel with permission - Webinar 

  • ​​RTCON2020 Emerging Technologies in Education, November
    How to create experiences using Metaverse for Augmented Reality  

  • ​Online StemEducation Summit with Tech Explorations, July

    2019

  • RTCON2019, Coding in the NSW Classroom, December

  • STEM TeachMEET, Taree, September

  • Hopper DownUnder, Engaging Girls in STEM, Brisbane, July

  • Keynote for Department of Education with 10 schools July.

  • EduTECH Roundtable "Building Capacity in your teachers", June, Sydney

  • Sydney Catholic Schools - Teacher Librarian Conference, Digital Technology and picture books, May

  • Keynote for Chifley College cross campus staff development day. The Future of Education and Work, April

  • ICT Educators NSW, Taking IT further, March

  • Unpacking NSW K-6 Science and Technology, March

    2018

  • ACCE 2018 Makey Makey hands on session. April

  • Unpacking Coding, Design and Computational Thinking in the NSW Syllabus, August

  • Technology Playground workshop at Coding conference, August

  • EduTECH, vendor, June

  • STEM Meet at Tahmoor Public School. 200+ participants. Introduction to Coding in the classroom, May

  • Oh, The Humanities! and social sciences podcast HASS and STEM , April

  • Inspire Innovate Conference Unpacking NSW K-6 Science and Technology Syllabus and 7-8 Tech Mandatory, April

    2017

  • ClassCover -  Digital Technologies in NSW Curriculum​, November

  • NSW Association for Independent Schools, Introduction to Digital Technologies Hands on workshop, October

  • #CS4HS Conference - St Columba Anglican School, August 2017 STEM in the NSW Curriculum

  • #CS4HS Conference - St Columba Anglican School, August 2017 Teaching Coding in the Maths Classroom

  • Keynote for Lismore CEO Coffs Harbour - Are we there yet?

  • Keynote for Lismore CEO  Lismore - Are we there yet?

  • Lismore CEO Teachmeet Byron Bay

  • Lismore CEO Teachmeet Port Macquarie

  • EduTech - Coding and Computational Thinking - Sydney, June

    2016

  • ClassCover - A conference for relieving staff, Coding in NSW Classrooms, how do you do it?, November

  • Heads of Independent Co-Educational Schools, Embedding STEM and MakerSpace in the Curriculum, Meeting, October

  • STEM Symposium - Association for Independent Schools, Speaker and Expo Embedding MakerSpace into the Classroom, our school journey, October

  • Hands on workshop Coding and STEM in the curriculum, CS4HS, St Columba Anglican School, October

  • ​Speaker at Criterion Conference, Embedding Computational Thinking in the NSW Classroom, Sydney September

  • Workshop "How to teach programming at a primary level", September

  • Invitation to bring my students to present at
    ​Young Creators Conference at the Power House Museum, Ultimo, August (exceptional student group)

  • Code<4>Kids webinar on Computational Thinking March,

  • ​Full day masterclass - How to teach programming at a primary level, Digital Technologies Curriculum, Melbourne, March

  • Workshop at Digital Technologies Curriculum, Melbourne, March

  • Teach Meet Future Schools, Getting started with a Makey Makeys, March

  • ​Keynote speaker - Future Schools Coding Congress "Coding and the Curriculum" March,

  • Future Schools - Young Learners Congress Speaker "Teaching Coding in a K-2 Classroom" March

    2015

  • Special Guest - Webinar - How to Host Hour of Code in your school with CSER Adelaide University November.

  • Special guest for New Zealand Google Educator Group Coding and Computational Thinking November 10 

  • ​Closing Keynote - NSW Australian Independent Schools ICT Integrators Conference, October

  • Consultant to BOSTES (now NESA)

  • Host of #MakerEDau tweet meet, Sunday 16th August. Topic: Cardboard Creative

  • Host of #ozcschat tweet meet Tuesday 11th August. Topic: Digital Citizenship

  • Host #EduTweetOz 3-10 August a slow chat over a week. Biography

  • Host of #aussieED tweet meet. Topic: Computational Thinking July 12 Part 1 and Part 2

  • Chairperson of the Computational Thinking - Hands On! conference PEIC. June

  • Workshop on using Beebots and Scratch Jnr in K-2 classrooms. June

  • Edutech, Brisbane - Implementing Computational Thinking in a K-12 School 2015

  • EduTech - Teach Meet, Embedding Computational Thinking in your school, 2015

  • Future Schools - Keynote Special Needs Congress - Using Technology to improve reading of sight words, March

  • Future Schools - Coding Congress, Roundtable, March

  • Future Schools - Teach Meet, Google Classroom, March

  • Hosted #aussieED Tweet Meet on Digital Literacy and Critical Evaluation of Websites, January

    2014

  • AIS Integrators Conference - Coding in Primary Schools, September

  • Organised the school based "Awesome Learning Conference" - 14 speakers and 4 venues for school based PD, August

  • EduTech, Brisbane speaker - "Shifting to cloud based learning", June

  • PEIC Digital Citizenship conference - St Andrews Cathedral School, November

  • AIS Integrators Conference - "Using Kodu to teach literacy", Newington College, October

  • PEIC Digital Citizenship Conference - St Columba Anglican School, July 

  • AIS IT Managers Conference - "Digital Citizenship", Canberra, June

    2013

  • Guest lecturer, education students, Newcastle University (PMQ) - 2013 Critical evaluation of websites - was asked to repeat the presentation from 2012. 

  • PLANE teach meet - "Digital Citizenship", online, January

    2012

  • AIS Integrators Conference - "Get Real - Critical Evaluation of Websites", St Ignatius, Lane Cove, October

  • Guest lecturer, education students, Newcastle University (PMQ) Critical evaluation of websites.