On Tuesday night, one of our Pond Advisors Gerard MacManus joined the Pond team as they released the latest version of Pond, which was packed an awesome new look and feel, and some great new features. On his oneteachersview blog Gerard shares his experience about...
Last Saturday Carolyn Stuart and I attended Educamp Welly, hosted by St. Mary’s College in Thorndon. We joined more than 100 other teachers, who had travelled from afar afield as Auckland, Palmerston North, Hawkes Bay and Wanaka. There was an enthusiastic and positive...
Creative Commons Aotearoa is hitting the road, taking the message about Creative Commons (CC) to 18 centres across the country. The focus is on schools and those working in schools, but they’re also presenting to galleries, libraries and museums. Here at N4L we’re...
After working as a Deputy Principal for a few years and then Acting Principal at Upper Harbour Primary School in 2014, I’ve now taken up the challenge of working with the team driving large scale changes to service for the education sector. No one comes to my office...
We all know that educators are amazing. The investment that goes into a job like teaching day in, day out couldn't be overstated. And we know that weekends are incredibly important for re-cooping and re-charging (if not on sports trips or doing more planning, then...
Eliot is Assistant Head of Science at Marlborough Boys' College, he's a Doctor, a writer and contributor to text books (as well as our blog) with an interest in ICT in education. Eliot’s been a shining star in Pond, grasping it throughout all stages of the rollout and...
In July of 2014 I was approached by N4L to act as an advisor on their Interim ICT Advisory Service. It was a unique opportunity to see beyond the school environment that I was in, and to support people in making the best use of their N4L connection. For two days a...