2005 e-Fellows
Read about the projects being undertaken by the 10 e-fellows for 2005. Use your mouse to point to a name, which reveals their picture and key words that describe their project.
- Jennifer Charteris
- Jo Colbert
- Lyn Dashper
- Rod Dowling
- Mark Edwards
- Keri Hunt
- Indira Neville
- David Okey
- Andrea Trapp
- Judy Waterhouse
Jennifer Charteris – Lytton High School Gisborne
Research project keywords: Diversity, Adversity, Whanaungatanga, Trialling, Holistic, Awhi.
How can ICT support the educational needs of teenage mothers?
My research comprises a case study of a teen parent classroom. I intend to examine the perspectives of the teachers and their students, looking at the role that information communication technologies (ICT) play in their learning. I aim to examine if and how they provide solutions for the various challenges they face.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/09
Jo Colbert – Head teacher Westmere Kindergarten
Research project keywords: Creativity, Connections, Storytelling, Belonging, Community, Interest.
Storytelling: Keeping it complex. Major research question: Can the use of ICT enhance the complexity, connections, and continuity of young children's storytelling?
I am looking at how information communication technologies can assist children's storytelling in an early childhood setting. The initial framework for analysis will be to look at connections, complexity, and continuity. Children will have access to laptop computers and digital cameras and I hope to use KidPix and PowerPoint software to support storytelling.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/04
Lyn Dashper – Music specialist teacher, Northcross Intermediate School in Browns Bay, Auckland
Research project keywords: Te reo Māori, Engagement, Music, Cultural, Artefacts, E-learning, Environment.
What factors lead to engagement in Māori children?
I am inspired by the notion of a student's lifelong learning journey and the concept of whānau, in its broadest sense, as the core of all learning. My research investigates whether using taonga puoro as a cultural artefact, in both hands-on and online environments, will foster engagement in Māori students.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/08
Rod Dowling – Head of Languages at Lindisfarne College Hastings
Research project keywords: Parent, Student, Teacher engagement through ICT.
Does e-publication of curriculum details and support resources online lead to more engagement in the learning process?
My project involves preparing detailed curriculum support material for e-publication online. I want to find out whether students, parents, and teachers engage more with student learning if schools provide a more transparent approach to the details, timeline, exemplars, assessment criteria etc for a particular unit of work.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/06
Mark Edwards – Rutherford Primary School, located on Te Atatu Peninsula
Research project keywords: Digital music, e-learning, Enthusiasm, Play, fun, games, Motivation, Action research.
Making music exciting using ICT: How can the use of ICT enthuse children in learning music?
My research is investigating how using digital technologies, like Garageband, might generate enthusiasm in students towards learning music. It is my intention to share my unit plans and ideas through the new Arts Online website (http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/index.php) by the end of the year.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/13
Keri Hunt – Tahatai Coast School, Papamoa, Tauranga
Research project keywords: Author's talk: Children forming intentions to write.
Author's talk: Children forming intentions to write. Can ICT enhance students' 'talk' when forming intentions in their personal writing?
I'm looking at how cameras and voice recording equipment can be used within the initial stages of the writing process to enhance students' awareness of the writing process, purpose for writing, and themselves as authors. I hope to enhance students' talk to peers and teachers as they form intentions to write and provide authentic use of information communication technology (ICT) as tools to enhance the thinking processes at the forming intentions stage.
Email
efellows2005@tki.org.nz
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/07
Indira Neville – Glen Eden Intermediate School
Research project keywords: Engagement, Creativity, Gifted underachiever, High-end, Freedom, Slightly geeky.
To explore the potential for ICT, specifically high-end software, in engaging and meeting the creative learning needs of a group of students identified as creative thinking gifted underachievers.
My e-fellow project comes from my experience in the Discovery Class at Glen Eden Intermediate School, which caters for 'gifted underachievers'. Through the project, I intend to reflect upon what I do, to see if I can do it better and thus increase my own understanding of e-learning and improve upon my classroom practice; and to introduce the students to new methods of expression and help them to explore the possibilities of ICT. I also hope to be able to make available to all New Zealand practitioners research results and a range of ideas and approaches using high-end software, and thus increase general interest in strategies like my project, for the teaching and learning of the gifted and talented.
Email
efellows2005@tki.org.nz
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/12
David Okey – Teacher of science and physics at Western Springs College, Auckland
Research project keywords: Sustainability, Lead Teacher, Professional development, Cluster.
Where to after the cluster?
To investigate the sustainability of the lead teacher model of information communication technology (ICT) professional development in a secondary school environment when the external support offered through a Ministry of Education-funded cluster group ends.
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/05
Andrea Trapp – Paremata School, Wellington
Research project keywords: Relationship between questioning, ICT, and student autonomy.
My 2005 e-fellowship project is looking at the relationship between teacher questioning, student autonomy and ICT use.
I will be looking at this relationship in the context of our Inquiry programme, specifically using our school's framework called Personal Learning Journey (PLJ). This framework enables students to explore their wonderings and questions using a model that is designed to foster student autonomy and motivation. I'm interested in finding out to what extent and in what ways teachers' use of questioning can foster (and limit) student autonomy in this context, and to what extent and in what ways learning through and with information communication technologies can play a role in developing student autonomy.
Email
efellows2005@tki.org.nz
Blog
http://www.efellows.org.nz/?q=blog/11
Judy Waterhouse – Kimi Ora School
Research project keywords: Electronic assistive technology, Special education needs, Mainstream, Inclusion, Rich environment, Teacher issues.
Electronic assistive technology tools to support students with special education needs: what are the issues for teachers in mainstream classrooms?
Kimi Ora School utilise learning technologies to empower students. Teachers adapt programmes to match a student's needs by exploiting the potential of these tools to provide a rich learning environment. However, in mainstream classrooms teachers may not have similar support in this area and I am keen to explore the issues teachers face.
Email
efellows2005@tki.org.nz