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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.

Discussions

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

Resources

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


Events

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

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)

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

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/

New Zealand-based WikiEducators


Contacts

Brent Simpson

Stefan Rasporich

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