I spent a couple of days this week getting out and about TaraNet schools catching up with elearning students, eteachers and lead teachers.
At Opunake Cody showed me his website he has made for his L4 Computing class. The challenge now is to find Cody another Computing course for 2009 that is going to extend on his talents & interests. He would really like to do the Otago Polytech Computing course which I tried every avenue to get him into last year but they wouldn't deliver to North Island students. It would be good to see one of our Northern Polytechs offer a course like this - I know there would be enough takers amongst FarNet, TaraNet & the Volcanics to make this a viable class...
Waitara student Duke showed me the work he had done on upgrading the Waitara High School website. He did a great job using Dreamweaver, Flash & Fireworks. Very professional - a future in webdesign perhaps.
Coastal Taranaki has also now got its new website up and running - good to see a section on elearning :-)
At Inglewood I worked with Penny as she started to use her Moodle site to set up some work for her students. We went through the process of creating pages, links & a forum also practising how she would help her students logon for the first time. There is still a lot of work for me to do in our site to get some content in there but a handful of teachers around the schools are beginning to use it with their students (particularly at Inglewood). All TaraNet eteachers will be using Moodle to support their classes in 2009.
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Hello from the geek-sister! Just a note to say that I'm thoroughly enjoying your blog - it's one of the greatest indications of what's happening in schools, being explored, exposed and celebrated. It's hugely encouraging. What a wonderful team you're working with and what a fantastic personalised service-resource you are to others.
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