Who owns your network?

So who does own your school network? I thought about this question last week when a cluster school couldn’t access a Wikispace or a Zoho Creator database. Their inability to access these sites was only half of the problem though. They had to contact an external technican to have the sites removed from the filtering list. [...]

Birkdale Primary School

Birkdale Primary School’s website has a very clean template. The content is divided into several major areas which are accessed with a sliding menu.

The site also features an Interact content management system for parent and community interaction and a Zenphoto gallery.

http://birkdaleprimary.school.nz

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Wesley Primary School

Wesley Primary School is a wonderful little school in the middle of Mount Roskill in Auckland. The school has a number of unique community iniatives and this site is a central access point for the community.

Student work and the school’s own facilities are highlighted in this site. For a real treat, check out the [...]

Tirimoana Celebrates

This site was designed for a group of year six primary school students who were attending their first ever school camp. The students participated by taking photos and video footage and by Twittering about their experience.

Features:

A Photo gallery (Google Picasa), a Twitter stream – students tweeted about their camp experience and a [...]

Skills checklist

What does a computer user really need to know? I’m talking about the checklist of skills here that mean that a person can operate the piece of silicon in front of them. [...]