English
Nothing is more fast changing than the online world, and no one industry is more poised to benefit and take advantage of this ‘sea change’ than Education. Let’s see how we can make our lives and work easier and more fun using the wonders of the inter-web-cloud-wiki-thingy
The Digital World
Far from being an expensive way of doing things we’ve always done perfectly well before, the digital world provides us with tools and opportunities to work in new and more effective ways.
★English Online - The first place to go when initiating any kind of learning programme in English
★NZQA - NCEA’s mothership, Including:
•NCEA Wide Reading, Writing and Close Reading
★NZCER - A collection of clever people whose job it is to think and research in order to inform our best practise (includes the Assessment Resource Banks)
★Teach-English Listserv - The digital home for the rural teacher
★NCEA English Listserv - The digital home for the exasperated rural teacher
★NZATE - Our subject association (Access to information about the Draft NCEA assessment tools and conferences and professional development opportunities)
Mount Aspiring College Resources
★Macoodle
★Book the computer rooms before anyone one else can
Mount Aspiring College English Department
Florence and the Magnificent MACLIC
★MACLIC Blog
★Audrey’s Argument Blog
★Nicola’s Repression Blog
★Anna’s Reinvention Blog
[A special thank you to Florence, the school librarian, for setting up and maintaining these blogs for the senior students and teachers]
New Directions in ICT in English
★ICT in English (NZ)
★ICT Lunchbox
Crazy Other Stuff
★ShiftingThinking - This website provides ideas, tools, and resources for helping people make the shift from 20th century to 21st century ways of thinking about learning.
National English Teacher Resources
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