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Tātai Aho Rau : Pushing the boundaries of educational possibility
eLearning Fellowships 2009
Action research by teachers for teachers
The eLearning Fellowships Initiative was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Education. Each year, up to ten teachers, who are recognised as being leaders in utilising eLearning techniques were released from the classroom to undertake professional development in effective use of information communication technologies to improve teaching and learning. Core Education supported eLearning pioneers in schools to investigate and develop the use of eLearning in the classroom, the fellows utilised ICTs innovatively to support literacy learning with regular support and mentoring and presented and disseminated their findings at several international educational conferences.
Claire Amos: Increasing engagement in formal writing through collaborating using wikis
Tia Fraser: Promoting deeper understanding through reflecting on video recordings of students’ dramatisations of a story text
Robyn Hurliman: Collaborative storytelling through translating the concept of literacy circles into Blogging.
Marion Lumley: Explanation writing through blogging with online mentors
Virginia Mitchell: Retelling stories using Voicethread and other web 2.0 tools and sharing them with an audience.
Helen Rennie-Younger: Transferring students’ oral stories into multimedia presentations and sharing with an audience via the classroom blog.
Deidre Senior: More able readers support less able readers through blogging about texts to enhance comprehension.
Marilyn Small: Investigating the impact of an authentic audience on students’ engagement through producing content for a regional TV station.
Esmay Sutherland: Fostering students as authors by using animation to retell movie narratives.
Key findings
To find out more about how the 2009 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.
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