A list of the 2006 eFellows.


A full listing of all past eFellows reports
2008 eFellows
• Matt Tippen – Energising Education (24.1MB)
• Toni Twiss – Ubiquitous Information (1.4MB)
• Nick Rate – eportfolios (4.6MB)
A summary list of all past efellows awards
The e-Learning Fellowships Initiative was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Education. Annually, up to ten teachers in earlry childhood primary and secondary are released from the classroom to conduct a e-fellows with academic support and mentoring including professional learning workshops for two weeks each term and participation in an online learning community.
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.
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.
To find out more about how the 2009 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.
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.
Matt Tippen: Energising education.
Toni Twiss: Researching the potential for mobile phones in education.
Nick Rate: Maximising the formative benefits of ePortfolios.
Mark Callagher: Effective blended eLearning in secondary school teaching.
Michael Fenton: Towards a better understanding.
To find out more about how the 2008 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.
Videos of the eFellows talking about their research
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ict/efellows/fellowship_2008_e.php
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.
Dorothy Burt: Podcasting with purpose.
Gavin Hewitt: Learning through immersive 3D games development and play.
Jane Nicholls: Social software and authentic literacy learning
Trevor Storr: The suitability and application of Web 2.0 in rural New Zealand secondary schools
Jonathan Parsons: Sharing urban Maori experiences in a 3D collaborative learner environment.
Darryl Crawford: Navigating the digital divide
To find out more about how the 2007 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.
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.
Liz Fitzsimons: What are the learning outcomes when junior children, with the support of their teacher, use information communication technologies (ICTs) to produce their own resources?
Gillian Gibbs: Engaging Maori students through digital video authoring by using digital stories as a vehicle for sharing experiences of whanau and iwi and engagement with school life.
David Goodwin: What are some of the key competencies demonstrated when secondary students use ICT?
Kerry Hall: How does the use of ePortfolios meet the school goal of empowering learners, and what are the implications for the teachers and the school community?
Faithe Hanrahan: Exploring the use of ePortfolios as tools for improving educational outcomes for students.
Jan-Marie Kellow: Implementing inquiry learning in ICT-rich environments.
Paul Lowe: Can cluster-wide resources and personnell be successfully managed to meet the needs of gifted and talented students in a cluster-wide Science class using problem-based learning strategies in an ICT rich environment?
Carol Marks: Imagined possible selves.
Elaine Newton: Do new entrant teachers recognise, value and use the new entrant child’s knowledge, experience and understanding of ICTs in their classroom programmes?
Brian Waller: How can ICT be used in a way that matches the learning style preferences of students?
To find out more about how the 2006 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.
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.
Jennifer Chateris: How can ICT support the educational needs of teenage mothers?
Jo Colbert: Can the use of ICT enhance the complexity, connections and continuity of young children’s storytelling?
Lyn Dashper: What factors lead to engagement in Maori children?
Rod Dowling: Does ePublication of curriculum details and support resources online lead to more engagement in the learning process?
Mark Edwards: Making music exciting using ICT: How can the use of ICT enthuse children in learning music?
Kerri Hunt: Can ICT enhance students’ talk when forming intentions in their personal writing?
Indira Neville: Exploring the potential for ICT, specifically high-end software, in engaging and meeting the creative learning needs of a group of students identififed as creative thinking gifted underachievers.
David Okey: Where to after the cluster?
Andrea Trapp: Relationship between questioning, ICT and student autonomy
Judy Waterhouse: Electronic assistive technology tools to support students with special education needs: What are the issues for teachers in mainstream classrooms?
To find out more about how the 2005 eLearning Fellowships progressed and to view archive eLearning Fellow’s reports please visit the websites below.