User:Seine

=My Profile= I am a teacher and love teaching Computer Studies

Professional Background
I started out teaching maths but some time ago made the change to teaching Computing to students and staff.

Education
I went to University in Christchurch and also did my teacher training in Christchurch. Before going overseas to teach I did my Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language.

What do I teach?
Computer Studies is an ideal subject to teach for the following reasons
 * students have a keyboard to touch
 * students have music or a tutorial to listen to
 * students have a screen to look at
 * students have a problem to solve

My Interests
My passion is technology but I love
 * 1) My family
 * 2) Learning
 * 3) Gardening
 * 4) Reading

Professional
Currently I am doing the following:
 * learning about WikiEducator
 * Gathering the option information for next year's timetable
 * Trying to get to the Moodle group
 * Teaching and marking
 * getting my head around the new Unit Standards for assessing Computing Leve 2 and 3

Personal
Making sure I don't spend too much time of the computer but remember to keep fit!

A few pictures to trial a swf file file=tonga.swf|width=50%|height=50%|quality=best

Photos
Here is a photo in the bush!

My Projects

 * Reflective teaching practices
 * Thinking about Ethics and computer use in the classroom
 * Always looking for/making new resources for teaching

My Sandbox
/My sandbox/

My Reflection
Today (Friday 28th)I am behind but I will make /My sandbox/

Internal Links
Tips that Jane finds useful

My Contribution
/Ideas for my contribution/ I would like to make a teaching resource that I could use in my classes. I would like to see if I can make some content -with several pages, each page describing one way to make an animated slide show to insert into a web page. This would be aimed at secondary schools. But would it be OK to talk about commercial software on these pages or would I need to stick to open source software?