Owairaka District School’s Redesign

I’ve been working with Owairaka since 2003. It’s a great community who are rightfully proud of what their school has to offer. The school is supported by a parent community who come from a wide range of backgrounds. The school reflects the community that it comes from.

Redesigning this website was a real challenge. Everyone [...]

St Pauls School

St Pauls School is a Catholic integrated school in Massey, West Auckland.

The school is supported by a strong community and wanted to be able to share what was happening with community members. Teachers are able to edit their own classroom pages and add updated content and pictures easily.

http://www.stpaulsprimary.school.nz/

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Networking Chaos

It came as a huge shock to realise that that the internet could be an important tool for learning. Classrooms were not designed for electrical equipment or for the plethora of gadgets that we now rely on every day. Twenty-first century learning environments require twenty-first century electrical and data networks.

The Ministry of Education has [...]

Conficker – April Fool’s Day Joke?

April Fool’s Day joke or a serious threat to your computer? At the moment no one really knows whether the Conficker worm is a serious threat to the world’s computer networks or a sick joke. [...]

OSX Leopard – Making the big cat purr

Learning@School presentation by Stuart Hale.

Tips and Tricks.

Use “About this Mac”, “More info” to check if your USB key / Firewire drive is being recognised by by your system.

Using the little ball on the mouse and the control key to zoom in and out. Use two fingers [...]

Owairaka District School

Owairaka District School is situated in multicultural Mt Albert. The school is proud of its ability to serve the needs of the local community.

The website features a rotating header image. It is full width with two sidebars enabling the school to show off a lot of content tidily.

The site has a Google Calendar, [...]

Hooked on Thinking

The Hooked on Thinking website brings together a number of read/write (Web2.0) tools. Educational consultants Pam Hook and Julie Mills showcase their work and share many resources.

This site integrates a Google Calendar, Wikispace wiki, onsite Dokuwiki and a Twitter stream. These sub-sites are branded with similar colour schemes and the Hooked on Thinking [...]

Wainui Primary School

Wainui Primary School is a country school situated just moments away from the city. The school has its own stand of native bush and has a long tradition of learning from its own environment.

The school site is very clean and has a very simple navigation: home, past, present and future. Inside this structure visitors [...]

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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