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Welcome to New Zealand's WikiEducator Page

Objectives

Objectives

These objectives were generated as part of a training session in understanding wikieducator and its use and potential direction in New Zealand. understand how WikiEducator can benefit teaching and learning in New Zealand; investigate how WikiEducator fits into government policy, such as ICT strategic framework, national digital strategy; identify regional opportunities around New Zealand to promote WikiEducator including regional and national conferences; identify a "patron" who has national recognition in education and who can promote the use and development of WikiEducator in New Zealand; identify opportunities for wiki workshops throughout the country; identify sources of funding to support wiki workshops and resource development; engage with relevant education organisations to identify content which they may be able to provide under creative commons licencing

Benefits to Teaching and Learning in New Zealand

Government Policy

NZ Digital Strategy

The Digital Strategy is New Zealand’s five year action plan to ensure New Zealand maximises the opportunities that Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) bring. It sets out targets and key actions for the next few years where budgets have already been committed.

Read More on The Digital Strategy and how WikiEducator might fit into this strategy.

Creative Commons Aotearoa/New Zealand - has ported the Creative Commons licenses to New Zealand.

Regional Opportunities

WikiEducator Patron for Aotearoa/New Zealand

Wiki Workshops

Funding

Resource Development

New Zealand Sources of OERs

• Otago Polytechnic developing content largely based on NZQA or other established unit standards.

• list of resources developed for the Heywire8 Think Tank

• NZ OER Repository Project - open content in Moodle that can be re-used.

Discussions

Use these pages to discuss how WikiEducator and OERs may be used across the entire education sector in NZ.

• Early Childhood

• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

Resources

• The New Zealand Curriculum

News & Events

Wikimedia New Zealand is a proposed chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. Planning and discussion on the steps needed to formally create this chapter for Wikimedians living in New Zealand are underway. See: http://nz.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Heywire8 Think Tank will be held at Otago Polytechnic in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning on 22 August 2008. The meeting will explore opportunities and pathways for building a national OER initiative (and ways WikiEducator might help).

DIGITAL FUTURE SUMMIT 2.0 - Dates: Wednesday 28 November 2007 Thursday 29 November 2007. Venue: The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Auckland.

Expanding Copyright Horizons through Creative Commons. 27 October 2007. A seminar to build understanding of the new licensing environment in the digital world. A free free seminar in Wellington on Saturday 27 October. More info: http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/

Contacts

Brent Simpson

Stefan Rasporich

Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.