I am now working for Waterman Innovations with the mimio interactive board and you can visit my blog there at 

www.mimio.school.nz.

I have been asked by the teachers that I was working with last year to keep the blog active as they are still using the resources.

The new New Zealand Curriculum

The new curriculum was launched on 6 November following one of the most comprehensive consultation processes undertaken by the Ministry of Education. Visit the link below to check out the latest information and to view some schools journey to implement the new curriculum.

The challenge now is to build on this framework, offering our young people the most effective and engaging teaching possible and supporting them to achieve to the highest of standards.

There are links to resources to assist schools to implement their own journey.

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz

Ewan McIntosh's presentation at U Learn 07

This a link to a great keynote address from Ewan McIntosh who's a world authority on using ICT and the internet, in particular for teaching and learning. He has a drole Scottish sense of humour, a gently challenging manner, and best of all, he's not a geek - he's an ex French teacher!
His blog regularly gets over 300,000 readers, so lots of teachers think he has something to say. Here's a link you might want to make a favourite
http://edu.blogs.com/

What Can We Do With Flickr? Click on this image to visit the tutorials.

This is a wonderful programme and has many facets. Go and visit
the site and work your way through the tutorials.
What Can We Do With Flickr?
Originally uploaded by cogdogblog

Inquiry learning and i web at The Gardens School

Senior students at The Gardens school have been using Apples i Web for their Inquiry learning to present their work. It is such an easy piece of software to use and works seamlessly with Apples other applications such as i Photos and i Movie. These web sites are going to be uploaded onto the school website so that parents can access them. View one of them on the link below.

http://web.mac.com/bentleyjudy.mac.com/Organic_gardening/Organic_gardening.html

Is this happening in your class?

Fostering online Inquiry learning using Moodle

Greenmeadows Intermediate school have been using Moodle this year to deliver their Inquiry Learning. They have worked closely with Paul Stuart from Kiwischools and used Discovery Zone who host the site for them. Paul has provided PD to get the site up and running and then ongoing support. All the material, resources and planning is online and this enables the teachers and the students to have access to their Inquiry Learning anywhere and anytime. The students are enjoying the availability of chat rooms and forums. The use of Google has dramatically dropped as a result of using Moodle. The students research is now more focussed and tailored. On the Paenui wiki you will find presentations that were delivered at a U Learn workshop by myself and Brian Nicholls the DP at Greenmeadows Intermediate.
Visit the website as a guest.

http://greenmeadows.discoveryzone.co.nz/