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Open Education Resource Portal for New Zealand Schools

A national project for reusable and portable content

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edit   Vision We aim to foster the collaborative development of a sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum. This is a project developed by teachers for teachers. The reusable and portable content project is sponsored by the Ministry of Education under the Managed Learning Environment initiative and will focus on three streams: Capability and community development Software and tools development to improve the usability of the technology for newcomers to collaborative online authoring and content integration with the technology platforms of the Ministry and approved LMS vendors. Seeding OER content development for use in New Zealand schools.

edit   Featured school Warrington School in Otago achieves a historic accolade! Warrington primary school is the first school in New Zealand to implement a portal page on WikiEducator under Aotearoa's Open Education Resource (OER) commons. The school's Open Education Initiative aims to empower their community of parents, teachers and pupils through open education. The OER Foundation, an independent non-profit based at Otago Polytechnic, has announced a free hosting service for all New Zealand schools to profile their work in OER on WikiEducator and will provide free training for every teacher in New Zealand in learning how to use a wiki under the Learning4Content project - the world's largest attempt to develop wiki skills for education. edit   Featured project New Zealand's Search for Security 1945-1985 This is a collaborative textbook for this Level 1 NCEA history course. We're writing the textbook for this topic as we learn it, and we'd like other schools to become involved too. If you're studying Level 1 history, create an account and add your knowledge to our textbook. This topic takes us from the end of World War II through to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. edit   Featured teacher This area is under construction and will be used to feature New Zealand teachers demonstrating OER leadership. More content soon. edit   Sustainable education Goals: Carbon Neutral by 2012 Education For Sustainability Living within our means Needs: Materials that meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition namely Creative Commons Attribution, Copyleft license equivalents and the GPL Ideas that can make our world a better place Resources that can be: Used for any purpose that benefits the planet Self sustaining and adapted to meet varied needs Shared Improved and re-released Enviroschools He mihi nui, he mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa. Now is the time to use the Enviroschools action learning cycle to work towards a more sustainable education system by Identifying the current situation Explore alternatives Taking action Reflecting on change Envirethical Education People and the planet Environmental and ethical

edit   Activities and events A copy of the final Report on 21st Century Learning Environments and Digital Literacy and surrounding discussion. Second issue of OERNZ News published. Print and share! (Download 1st issue here). Inviting all New Zealand teachers to assist with the planning and activities in preparation for the launch of the Kiwi instance of WikiEducator and our reusable and portable content project. Sign up to join our planning team. We need your help! The New Zealand school sector joins the Heywire8 Wellington Think Tank held on 4 August 2009. Representatives from the OER Foundation, Ministry of Education, National Library, Aorakinet, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, The Correspondence School, the PPTA, Massey University and Auckland University of Technology came together to continue Aotearoa's national OER conversation. edit   Our group discussion list Join our MLE mailing list Failed to load RSS feed from https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/mle-reference-group/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml|short|max=5: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 404 Not Found Join our OERNZ mailing list Failed to load RSS feed from https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/oernz/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml|short|max=5: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 404 Not Found edit   New Zealand School OER portals Warrington School, Otago N8 Homework Help Maranatha Christian School, Wellington Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland Papanui High School, Christchurch Albany Senior High School, North Shore, Auckland St Peter's School, Cambridge Kings High English Department, Dunedin Nayland College, Nelson Raumati Beach School, Kapiti Coast, Wellington Te raki o Otautahi Cluster, Christchurch Red Beach School, Whangaparaoa Trident High School, Whakatane Te raki o Otautahi Cluster, Christchurch North Shore Commerce Cluster, Auckland New Zealand Association of French Teachers Akaroa Area School Amuri Area School Ashburton College Cheviot Area School Craighead Diocesan School Darfield High School Ellesmere College Freeville School, Christchurch Geraldine High School Hurunui College Mackenzie College Mountainview High School Mt Hutt College Opihi College Oxford Area School Rangiora New Life School Roncalli College RosminiCollege St Kevin's College Timaru Boys' High School Timaru Girls' High School Twizel Area School Waimate High School Waitaki Girls' High School Normandale School , Lower Hutt , Wellington Ruapehu College, Ohakune. Ormiston Senior College, Auckland Aotea College, Porirua Rutherford College, Auckland Tawa Intermediate School, Tawa, Wellington Appleby Primary School, Nelson Waimea College Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu Stonefields School Flag Swamp School