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KAREN » NEN Evaluation Project The Correspondence SchoolWellingtonhttp://www.correspondence.school.nz/ As New Zealand’s largest school, and one of only a few national schools, The Correspondence School (TCS) touches almost every community in the country. Our students study at early childhood, primary and secondary levels, and we have students with special education needs. Our vision is to be a leader in personalising learning, working in partnership with families, whanau and communities to offer students the best opportunity to achieve their potential. We are vital and integral to the New Zealand education system. The Correspondence School has around 450 teaching and support staff based across three sites in Wellington. The School is divided into three wahanga (divisions): Learning and Delivery, which includes all teachers; Design and Quality, which is concerned with the production and distribution of teaching and learning resources; and Capability Services, which includes Enrolment Services, Finance, Human Resources, and the Information Resources Group. |
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What did they do?
KAREN provides access to large repositories of knowledge. The Corespondence School utilised one of these repositories, e-cast.
Developed in New Zealand, e-cast education is an on-line teaching and learning tool. It provides real-time and real-life teaching resources through recorded and live videos streamed and downloaded material from over thirty domestic and international television channels. The Corespondence School have select relevant content from this service partner to include within their teacher presentations and student learning programmes.
Learning for students and teachers
A key benefit for teachers at the Correspondence School is being able to include relevant, up to date mulitmedia in the delivery of their learning programmes to teachers and students. Programmes can be viewed and assessed online. The teachers can download a high quality copy to their personal computer or local network where it can be edited or kept for immediate or future use.
KARENS contribution
e-cast material is available 'on-net', ie reachable directly over KAREN at super speeds and without the usage and bandwidth limitations of 'off-net' destinations. This means that the school does not have to access ecast via their ISP lowering the cost of accessing high quality multimedia resources for their teachers and students.
Future Focus
More of the same. They want to encourage more teachers to utilise this rich resource and add to their exisitng library of subject relevant digital resources.
Information about the four distinct services e-cast provides to New Zealand schools and tertiary establishments:
http://www.e-cast.co.nz/home/education.html