User:Irishbreakfast

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I am a Playcentre parent.
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Employer:Wellington Playcentre Association (WPA)
Occupation:Mother, Adult Educator, SPACE Facilitator
Other roles:Volunteer for NZ Playcentre Federation Education Team, WPA
Nationality:New Zealand and USA
Country:New Zealand
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Kia Ora

Being a mother is the most important work I do. I learned how to do this from other parents while playing with my children at Playcentre, a provider of early childhood education (birth to 6yr). But Playcentre is much, much more. There is an adult education programme, friendship and support. And as a cooperative the families learn how to play and work together.

Now, I help to administer the education programme nationally and am a Playcentre tutor/facilitator. I do so that Playcentre is around for the next generation of children and their whānau.

I have an assigned role to investigate on-line resources. So I went to a "A Day in the Life of a Digital Resource" conference in Wellington with a colleague. The day ended with a presentation by Wayne Mackintosh and I haven't been the same since. I am now preparing to lead a discussion at our national education meeting about OER with the aim of drafting a policy as the result of our members input. I am going to enjoy this.

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Heywire8 #2 Wgtn. I could only attend the afternoon session. It was enjoyable, enlightening, pleasant, with the bonus of once again enjoying Wayne's accent.
Favorite Topics to Facilitate Interests Favorite Play
Communication Science Fiction Messy play!
Behaviour Management NLP Rough and tumble
Messy Play Gardening Scrabble
Junk Play Adult Learning Superhero
Group Skills Communication Rough and tumble
Zhineng Qigong


My sandbox is here


Web Resources

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Web Resources

Creating - Basic Editing Advanced Editing Pix Infoboxes

Cool page for learning formats - Gita_Mathur



Play Here

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Play Here

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Links


Occupation: Mother   I look forward to the day TPTB put this choice on the occupations lists

Feedback

  • All the following are in your tutorials, but I put them here for you as a kind of learning shortcut. Earlier posts on bottom, later ones on top.
  • Here is another tip. Uploading Pictures. You have a picture on your computer. You want to put it onto a page you are editing. Remember where it is and what it is called on your computer. On your page, in edit mode, you name the file by whatever name you want to call it. Do not use a generic name like "My_picture" or it will get easily mixed up on the WikiEd site. Best is to put your name in the file name you choose. Make sure the extension is one of the many Wiki can handle, like gif, png or jpg. Put it inside two sets of square brackets. At the beginning, type in the word image followed by a colon followed by your image file name. Then save and that puts your page into publishing mode, and you have a web page again. The image file name should appear in red, indicating that it has not been used already. Click on it and a new page will appear that has easy instructions abut uploading the file from your computer. Do it. The image gets its own page. When you see it, go to the bottom of that image page; click on your page name and there it will be.--Phil Bartle 16:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Another tip is to borrow from your Wiki neighbours. Browse around other User pages. If there is anything you like, just copy it and paste it in to your user page. Make any modification you need, and there you are. --Phil Bartle 03:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
  • If you have not seen it yet, I recommend that you look at the youtube video clip on Wikis. In WikiEd, as in the video, the most important buttons are edit and save. A third button, Link, is not quite the same on WikiEd. To make a sub page, in edit mode, you simply give it a name. put forward slashes around it, then two square brackets in front and after the result. When you save, the word will be in red. Click on it and it will tell you there is no such page. As soon as you start editing, the sub page is created. --Phil Bartle 03:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)