Invitation to Taupo-nui-a-tia rohe

Thank You

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To Janine,
Thank you for everything that you have done for us over the past seven months. Your dedication, support and encouragement has enabled us to achieve our goals. We thoroughly enjoyed the Hui, and have come away from it with lots to think about.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
The Frederick Street Team , Frederick Street Kindergarten, Hastings

Informative video on future of ICT

Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.

Margie's Korero for Cluster Hui this Saturday

The Wearable Arts Exhibition moves back to Nayland Kindergarten, Nelson.
Presenter: Margie Meleisea for Nayland Kindergarten Team.

One of the biggest losses to the Nelson community was the move to Wellington of its home grown successful Wearable Arts. In 2008, Nayland Kindergarten children and teachers started their own annual visual art exhibition.
This workshop focuses on how children and teachers have used ICT to support the development of visual arts as a strength for Nayland Kindergarten.

An art critic commented that the children's art work was comparable to works seen in the European Art World. Exhibitions remind us of the magic way children see their world and celebrate it through the use of multimodal media. Come and share this journey with us.


Margie Meleisea:
Talofa Lava,
I have been involved with Nayland Kindergarten for 8 years. First as a parent, then chairperson of the committee, administrator and then after completing my GardDip ECE in 2007/08 became the fourth teacher in July 2008. I am currently in my second year of teacher registration.
I am married with four children aged 8yrs to 14yrs. family. My family is passionate about family, music, dance and sport.
(Along with this we are also quite manic at times and very loud!)
I have a background in child protection work and I am passionate about children, culture and community.

Tena Koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa
Me mihi ki nga taonga tuku iho

Ko Margaret Cole raua ko Frederick Neve oku matua tipuna ki te taha o toku whaea
Ko Peto Su raua ko Niupulusu Fui oku matua tipuna ki te taha o toku matua
Ko Elwynne Su toku whaea
Ko Peniamina Su toku matua. Kua mate toku matua inaianei
Ko Margie Meleisea toku ingoa

Ko Tala Meleisea toku hoa rangatira
Ko Penni, Ko Fa’avae, Ko Cole ratou ko Joseph aku tamariki
Ko Penni te matamua, ko Joseph te potiki
Ko Fa’avae raua ko Cole nga tamariki kei waenganui.

Ko Wharepapa te maunga
Ko Matahi te awa
Ko Taitapu toku moana
Ko Palauli, ki Hamoa te iwi o toku matua
Ko Greymouth, Aotearoa te kainga tuturu o toku whaea
Ko Hamoa toku kainga tuturu, engari, e tipu ana ahau Ki Aotearoa
He kaiako ahau ki te kura pepi o Nayland ki whakatu
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa
Kia tau te rangimarie ki a tatou katoa.

Looking forward always
Tofa Soifua for now.
Margie

This Saturday we celebrate ECE ICT PL and touch the future...

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Hawkes Bay cluster regional hui

Kia ora koutou
My name is Amanda Higgins and Janine has very kindly invited me to attend your final eceictpl hui on Saturday. There was a small catch though- that I present at one of the breakouts!! (I am in breakout 3). She suggested I give you a quick run down on what I will be talking about on this blog, so here goes:
The title is Leadership and ICT sustainability:
Life after eceictpl - I have returned to teaching after being the eceictpl Wellington area cluster facilitator for 18 months. I share some of my successes and challenges around ICT sustainability.
Leadership: Last month I was lucky enough to be involved in organising the TRCC leadership conference. I will share some key points from the various speakers about their research around leadership.
Your turn: Using one of the leadership models I talk about earlier, we are going to brainstorm ways you can continue to sustain your ICT learning after the eceictpl project comes to an end.

Please let me know if there is anything else you would like me talk about
My email is amanda.higgins@xtra.co.nz
Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones!

Sharing Carlyle and Irongate@Ulearn

Thank-you to those within our cluster who supported us with valued feedback when we rehearsed for Ulearn '09 in the lead up to the conference. Our session was very successful, and both teams spoke extremely well, delivering very special stories to the audience. Some gems from that moment are;

A loan camera can reduce disparity in home resources
Children can build ICT capacity within the Kindergarten context alone, this transfers easily to home
Email is an exciting communication tool, allowing stories form ECE to travel around the world

Boys have a natural curiosity in ICT and this supports and develops multiliteracy
Children can teach adults how to use narrative documentation applications such as 'Comic Life'
Google gives children instant, current knowledge to increase their own and teachers faster than any other research tool to date
Children's own leaving DVD makes an excellent premier film on their last day with popcorn!

Arohanui to the learning communities of Irongate and Carlyle Kindergartens, without your taonga (children) the ECE ICT PL Programme would not be possible and as ataahua!