New Zealand sign language week 2015
This week is New Zealand Sign Language Week. Yesterday evening this tweet came through my feed: Download a fingerspelling poster | Learn to say your name | #NZSLweek #NZSL http://t.co/ZkM7AMgW7v —...
View ArticleTwitter chats and rigour
I really enjoy twitter chats. I love the way during #edchatNZ that so many passionate educators from around Aotearoa come together to share, discuss, question and learn together. Last night I did...
View ArticleWebinars
As part of the Virtual Professional Learning and Development (VPLD) Developing Virtual Mentors (DVM) programme I’ve been encouraged to think about the webinars I’ve been involved in and consider what I...
View ArticleStudent and Teacher Perceptions of Online Student Engagement in an Online...
I’m feeling pretty excited today because I’ve just had my first article published, co-authored with Dr Maggie Hartnett, in the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning. The article is based...
View ArticleShould the Key Competencies be integrated into teacher professional learning?
I’ve been working on a workshop for use in a school around integrating the key competencies (KCs) into learning using digital technologies. This got me thinking about whether I should be purposefully...
View ArticleModels for virtual mentoring
As a part of the VPLD Developing Virtual Mentors course, we have been looking at two models for virtual mentoring. The GROW model and the R-Ropraha model. This post is just my quick summary/reflection...
View ArticleThe rise of #EdBlogNZ
Many of you will have noticed the hashtag #EdBlogNZ starting to gain a bit of momentum recently due to some great promotion from the likes of amazing connected educators such as Sonya van Schaijik...
View ArticleTuakana teina and mentoring
I’ve just read this blog post from Karyn Gray: Ma te tuakana te teina e totika. Ma te teina te tuakana e totika. It’s well worth a read, but I really wanted to share one key point from it. Karyn talks...
View ArticleA guide to formative assessment
This infographic was originally seen on elearninginfographics.com. It gives 10 good ways to judge student understanding. Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics
View ArticleModels for virtual mentoring
As a part of the VPLD Developing Virtual Mentors course, we have been looking at two models for virtual mentoring. The GROW model and the R-Ropraha model. This post is just my quick summary/reflection...
View ArticleuLearn Live @ Lunch #2
It’s really interesting when your job means that you’ve run a number of online training workshops as well as facilitated a number of webinars as the host, but you’ve never be the “guest” in an online...
View ArticleBlogging – What’s in it for me?
One of the challenges of the 2015 Connected Educator NZ #EdBlogNZ challenge is to write a post about why I blog professionally and what I blog about. Many bloggers blog for hits, comments and an...
View ArticleI don’t have anything worth sharing! YES YOU DO!!!
So often when we’re wanting to blog we have a block. We feel like we don’t have anything worth sharing, or we think that all we’ve done is really obvious. Well… Have a watch of this video (about 2...
View ArticleTo boldly go where no man has gone before
One of the #EdBlogNZ challenges for week 1 is to write a blog post about your favourite movie/song/piece of art including how it relates to your life as an educator. So I’m going to write about my...
View ArticleUsing Movenote
I’m currently preparing to facilitate a short session on Flipped Learning and am demonstrating Movenote as a part of the session as one option to use for creating videos. I’ve created this short Using...
View ArticleProfessional blogging for beginners
As part of the #EdBlogNZ week 2 challenges, Alex Le Long and Nathaniel Louwrens have paired up to collaborate on this blog post. The challenge is to collaborate with another blogger to discuss an...
View ArticleStudent engagement – An #EdBlogNZ Connected Educator challenge
This post has been published as part of the #EdBlogNZ Connected Educator 2015 challenge. One of the challenges this week is to create a 1-2 minute video about an education topic that you are passionate...
View Article#EdBlogNZ Periscope interview
Tara Fagan conducted a quick interview live on Periscope while at uLearn15 as part of Connected Educator. Pretty happy with how it turned out, especially since I don’t always do ‘on the spot’ type...
View ArticleuLearn15 #EdBlogNZ selfies
Finally posting my uLearn15 selfies with other #EdBlogNZers. I’m hoping I’m remembering everyone correctly! Firstly… with Mike Buckham. It was great to meet Mike and hear how much he has enjoyed taking...
View ArticleGuest post: Mike Buckham – Impact of the EdBlogNZ challenges
This guest post is written by fellow #EdBlogNZer, Mike Buckham, as part of the #EdBlogNZ 2015 Connected Educator challenge. <– This guy Follow Mike’s blog: MB@WORK. My experience with the...
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