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February 26th, 2009

Software for Learning wiki launched at L@S09

Posted by sarah on February 26th, 2009

Software for Learning has launched its fabulous ‘effective pedagogy’ wiki, featuring stories from the classroom demonstrating how teachers have integrated software into their teaching and learning programmes.

Videos of student learning, samples of student work and teacher reflections from a range of schools and across learning contexts are organised around the ‘teacher actions’ listed in The New Zealand Curriculum as promoting student learning.

The classroom stories are accompanied by facilitation strategies that support teachers and educators to use the wiki for professional learning in their own schools.

Rochelle Jensen and Fiona Grant, Digital Content and Software Coordinators, are giving presentations at Learning@School09 on the new, improved Software for Learning website and wiki.

Thanks to the schools and teachers involved who have kindly given their time to be filmed and who have allowed their practice to be scrutinised!

image c by Fiona Grant – Stephen, me, Fiona, Gita and Helen from Sunnybrae (who contributed a classroom story to the wiki)

 
Tags: effective pedagogy, Learning@School09, Software for Learning, sunnybrae
Posted in: e-Learning
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December 6th, 2008

Liberating our digital content

Posted by sarah on December 6th, 2008

I’m the first to let my mind wander when someone talks metadata to me, but Digital New Zealand has converted me to its power. I posted recently on this initiative from the National Library. Well, DigitalNZ was officially launched this week by a talent National Library team and their content partners and collaborators, who should be rightly chuffed with their achievements.

To top the release of the Coming Home search widget and the remixing tool Memory Maker, DigitalNZ has released an open API that lets developers build services over the metadata that DigitalNZ has harvested from its content partners in the culture and heritage sector. To understand how this works, click on the fabulous diagram above, which explains it visually much better than I ever could in words.

An example of the kind of tool that’s possible (one that the DigitalNZ team ‘prepared earlier’) is the customisable search builder, which lets users design their own mini search engine to search for New Zealand content on a subject of their interest – volcanoes, disasters, ANZAC day, and so on. 

Wow! You can see the educational uses immediately. Pop a search on your wiki or website relating to your class’s inquiry or project – learners will be guaranteed quality New Zealand content on that topic. 

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Tags: culture and heritage, digital content, Digital media, DigitalNZ, mashups, national identity, National Library, NZLive.com, Software for Learning, widgets
Posted in: e-Learning, Magic & Delight
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August 22nd, 2008

New design for Software for Learning – what do you think?

Posted by sarah on August 22nd, 2008

We’re redeveloping the Software for Learning website – a catalogue of software recommended by NZ teachers for use in the classroom. Tell me what you think of the new design for the home page – you can see it by clicking on the image on the left.

Would you be more likely to search for software on this website than on the current one? Is the purpose of the website clear? Is the layout of the content engaging or confusing?

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Tags: Software for Learning
Posted in: e-Learning
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July 9th, 2008

The business of this blog

Posted by sarah on July 9th, 2008

The business of this blog is the business of my job: software and digital media for learning.

I work for the e-Learning Team in the New Zealand Ministry of Education, and I manage a bunch of projects that contribute to building and sharing a picture of what effective teaching practice looks like using ICT.

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Tags: affordances, Digital media, Postman, Social software: practices, Software for Learning
Posted in: e-Learning
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