New Zealand

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.

ICT Strategic Framework for Education
ICT strategic framework 2006

See also Summary of ICT Policy Initiatives

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.


 * New Zealand Schools OER Portal

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

 * 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

Upcoming Events
Education mini-conf at lca2010 2010-01-18 http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Miniconfs/Education

This one day Education Mini-conference will focus on educational uses of Free and Open Source initiatives used around the world including tools for teaching and school management.

It will provide talks and workshops directly useful to educators, administrators, developers and those interested in supporting education initiatives and/or influencing their direction and upt

currently calling for presentations

Regular Events
One Laptop Per Child New Zealand have a test fest session every Saturday at the Southern Cross, Wellington. More details at http://laptop.org.nz

Past Events
Software Freedom Day 2009-09-20 http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
 * Wellington - at the Town hall.
 * One Laptop Per Child test fest
 * 'Introduction to programming' session for parents and kids (scratch from http://scratch.mit.edu)
 * Students' programme
 * Kids' programme


 * Auckland - Albany highschool 2009-09-18
 * LAN party for our students on the Friday evening.
 * Playing open source games (and eating pizza)

Thursday 29 November 2007. Venue: The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Auckland.
 * 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
 * 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/

New Zealand-based WikiEducators

 * User:Tumuaki!
 * Brent Simpson
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Leigh Blackall
 * Nathan Parker
 * Trevor Storr
 * Bronwyn Hegarty
 * Paul Seiler
 * Jim Tittsler
 * Neuroscientist: Reuben Cutfield
 * Vasi Doncheva

Contacts
Brent Simpson

Stefan Rasporich

Templates
Template:NCEA_Unit, a link is automatically generated to the NZQA website using the id specified.