We’re Online!
As I’m writing this I’m not quite sure what to title this post but I guess it is a sort of celebration. We are in the third year of our Ministry of Education ICT contract and as the lead teacher for our school it has been **!! hard work motivating teachers to consider using online tools, like wikis and blogs, with their classes. Having said that, this term I have introduced all staff to our new Learning Management System, Ultranet, and have been totally surprised at their acceptance of having a class presence on the web and their readiness to set up a class page for public access.
This is just a start! A few teachers, myself included, have just linked what they were dong with wikis and blogs but now the whole staff is finally online! The next goal is to get teachers deciding what tool they will use to develop e-portfolios within their class. Options include using the feature within Ultranet (which teachers have not yet been exposed to), blogs or wikis. This is a focus for term 3!
If you are reading this from somewhere other than NZ please vist our school site ultranet.teawamutuint.school.nz so that our staff can see that having online presence does get interest from people around the world.
If you can’t access it please do try again in a few days – It is presently hosted on our server and tonight I can’t access it from home via my PC but it’s OK on the Mac!
