tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64887581916812279202024-03-06T18:32:55.118+13:00edchatnzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16636018876663644445noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-24783470073031665442015-07-19T21:26:00.001+12:002015-07-19T21:26:54.224+12:00The next adventure begins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13979864039093807543noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-80483710625083737992015-06-09T06:58:00.000+12:002015-06-09T06:58:16.635+12:00#edchatNZ chat archive - Out with the old and in with the new<div class="storify"><iframe src="//storify.com/edchatNZ/edchatnz-4-june-curate-archive/embed?border=false" width="100%" height="750" frameborder="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><script src="//storify.com/edchatNZ/edchatnz-4-june-curate-archive.js?border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/edchatNZ/edchatnz-4-june-curate-archive" target="_blank">View the story "#edchatNZ - 4 June Curated Archive" on Storify</a>]</noscript></div>MissDtheTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18328092299212553932noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-1212909262964361852015-05-29T09:08:00.001+12:002015-05-29T09:08:18.280+12:00ClassDojo is in town!<br />
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Kleine, former teacher now Community Lead at ClassDojo, is visiting Auckland - all the way from San Francisco! She has invited everyone to join her and the New Zealand Community Team for a night of drinks and socializing at Elbow Room, in Herne Bay. First round of drinks are on ClassDojo! So come join us for a drink or two with inspiring educators - and feel free to bring your colleagues, friends, or significant others along, too. This is ClassDojo's way of saying 'thank you' for all of the hard work you are doing in the classroom.<br />
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Make sure to RSVP for the event here, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/classdojo-auckland-happy-hour-tickets-16791472747<br />
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Need to connect with Jenna beforehand? Shoot her an email at jenna@classdojo.com or tweet her at @jenna_kleine<br />
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Cheers!MissDtheTeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18328092299212553932noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-86651828028916297492015-04-30T16:16:00.000+12:002015-04-30T16:16:00.392+12:00Launching #edsketch !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This May, we would like to encourage everyone to take part in a challenge. The challenge is to share a sketch every day in May. We can all track each other by using #edsketch15 on our shares (whether it be on twitter, Google+, Instagram or whatever social media you utilise). Inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/austinkleon">Austin Kleon</a>'s <a href="http://austinkleon.com/show-your-work/">Show Your Work</a>, we would like to encourage everyone to sketch something they have been reading, thinking about, trying out, observing, questioning, exploring, reflecting on, working on that day. <br />
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The sketch can be hand drawn or on an app, it doesn't matter. Your choice of being on a Post-It, like the May sketch at the start of this post, or on A3 paper. Choose whatever suits your thoughts that day.
By sharing our thoughts in a sketch, we will quickly share what we are working on, thinking about over the month. Perhaps you will find someone else sketching about the same ideas and you can help each other out. Perhaps you will inspire others to try out something you have done. Maybe it will just help you clarify some thoughts for yourself.<br />
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The best way to get started on a challenge like this (or making any change really) is not to hesitate. Just start. Sketch something that has been in your head that day and press share. If the same thought has been there for a few days you have a choice, draw a new sketch on the thoughts (from a different perspective perhaps) or refine the sketch from a couple of days ago to show how your thoughts are developing.<br />
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Happy Sketching.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13979864039093807543noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-19050581347484776932015-04-26T17:45:00.003+12:002015-04-26T17:45:54.393+12:00Left behind. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Today I want to comment on those people in our schools, even whole schools, that are being left behind. Chances are that by blogging about this, I am preaching to the converted. However dear converted, if you agree with what I say here, consider printing a copy and leaving it strewn across the staff room, in someone's (or everyone's) pigeon hole or wrapped in a bow with a chocolate attached on a someone's desk. </div>
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The last 15 years has seen the introduction of NCEA, a new curriculum and national standards in New Zealand. As well as this, there has been more schools that have introduced bring your own device and other technology related changes including email taking on a central role in teacher's lives. We have also seen the introduction of more and more modern learning environments and the arrival of MOOCs (massive open online courses, often free courses that allow anyone from any part of the world free/cheap access to courses from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Yale and more). There is no question about it, change is non stop (for more about this<a href="http://www.missdtheteacher.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/b-is-for-back-to-future-and-c-for.html" target="_blank"> read my post </a>about the role of 'change' in the future of education). For some, all these changes might feel like a passing fad, and that there is no need for them to invest too much time or energy into considering the effect of these. There is however one change that I hope that fewer educators might stop ignoring, the increasing need to be connected. Let me explain.</div>
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<li>Being a connected educator means that you are part of learning conversations with those inside and outside of your organisation. Or as the study by Forte et al. puts it ".... t<i>hrough Twitter, teachers forge and maintain professional ties outside their local schools and, in doing so, become conduits for new practices and ideas to move in and out of their local communities ... </i><i>teachers are using Twitter as </i><i>a place to share resources and to make and respond to <i>others’ requests for information.</i></i>" Hence, if you are not part of these conversations, it is likely that you are missing out on the distribution of effort that happens through being connected. It means you are less likely to know about international trends and influences that are or should be impacting the day to day in your classroom and school. </li>
<li>As well as not being part of the sharing, curating, discussion that happens when you are connected, it is likely that you are relying on those people in your office or your school to challenge and develop you as a professional. Chances are that you are stuck in an echo chamber, rarely having your views challenged by those outside of your organisation. Chances are, your whole organisation might be stuck in an echo chamber, reinforcing its own misconceptions. Chances are, that you are in a bubble, unaware of how the world outside education has fundamentally shifted, unaware that the job market, the value of a university degree, society, has changed more than any one person can possibly hope to know. Examining change in today's world is like "<i>when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else</i>".</li>
<li>Chances are, that if you are not connected, you are likely to fall behind in both the conversations that discuss and consider new practices and ideas, but also that you are likely to constantly feel the agitation and stress from always being reactive, always being on the back foot. It is Lewis Caroll's Red Queen in education, you have to keep running just to keep up. When you stop running, you are left behind. </li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Research has also identified that connected teachers are more likely to be part of, and driving reform efforts "<i>Our findings portray teachers on Twitter as progressive thinkers who are in a position to build the trust and support networks necessary to strengthen leadership in educational communities and increase the effectiveness of reform effort</i>s" (Fort et al, 2012). Guy Claxton quotes Geoff Mulgan about this in his great book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Point-School-Rediscovering-Education/dp/1851686037" target="_blank">What's the point of school</a>?, "<i>One of the optical illusions of government is that those inside of it think of themselves as drivers of change ... Yet most far-reaching ideas and changes come from outside ... Most radical change has to start outside government, usually from the bottom [up] rather than the top [down].</i>" If you are not a connected educator, how are you likely to be part of driving the positive changes that our learners need? </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">This idea is further iterated in a report from the OECD when it says that "</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The complex nature of educational governance, involving myriad layers and actors, can </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">be an overwhelming problem with no clear entry point for policy makers. Traditional approaches, which </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">often focus on questions of top-down versus bottom-up initiatives or levels of decentralisation, are too </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">narrow to effectively address the rapidly evolving and sprawling ecosystems that are modern educational </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">systems. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">If educational governance is recast as the building of effective networks of strong independent schools </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">collaborating continuously, and sharing knowledge both horizontally and vertically, there is no </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">contradiction between the ideas of devolved power and effective national networks. It may not be that the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">devolution of power is increasing complexity in the system at all. In fact, increased curricular diversity, </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>broader professional support, and the shared purpose this approach enables create a stronger and more reactive holistic system.</i>"</span></span></li>
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If you are not yet connected. Make sure you join your country's education Twitter chat. Join the great Google+ communities, attend the range of free EdCamps on offer across the world. Whatever you do, get connected. If you are in New Zealand, join #edchatNZ (see <a href="http://www.edchatnz.com/">www.edchatNZ.com</a>) and the range of other great Twitter chats we have. Join the <a href="http://www.pond.co.nz/" target="_blank">Pond</a>. Educate yourself dear educator about what it means living successfully in a connected society, leveraging the network for your and your colleague's benefit. </div>
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Daly, A. J. (2010). Social Network Theory and Educational Change. Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138.</div>
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Forte, A., Humphreys, M., & Park, T. H. (2012, June). Grassroots Professional Development: How Teachers Use Twitter. In ICWSM.</div>
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Snyder, S. (2013). The simple, the complicated, and the complex: educational reform through the lens of complexity theory.</div>
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Claxton, G. (2013). What's the point of school?: Rediscovering the heart of education. Oneworld Publications.<br />
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<i>Cross post from @<a href="http://www.twitter.com/missdtheteacher" target="_blank">MissDtheTeacher</a>'s blog.</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13979864039093807543noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-58708918791236295432015-01-27T16:56:00.002+13:002015-01-27T16:57:42.776+13:00#edchatNZ is back!Welcome to 2015!<br />
As we kick of the school year, it's time to join in the #edchatNZ community for another year of inspiration, motivation, challenge and excitement.<br />
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This year, we have some prizes for you to win just for retweeting! So, vote for this week's #edchatNZ topic and retweet to win a copy of Austin Kleon's fabulous book, Show Your Work. This is a fantastic, quick read that summarises exactly why we (should) tweet, blog and share our practice. It's a definite must read.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/edchatNZ?src=hash">#edchatNZ</a> back for 2015! Vote for our first chat topic. RT to win a copy of <a href="https://twitter.com/austinkleon">@austinkleon</a>'s must read, Show Your Work <a href="https://t.co/6V1018A0x3">https://t.co/6V1018A0x3</a><br />
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As the year draws to a close, we would appreciate your feedback as we kick into the planning for 2015. You might also like to think about whether you would like a greater role in 2015. If you are interested, complete the form <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/edchatnz.com/forms/d/15Va_Ad0hIijKn3R14XmFTNA8HamwOGZmUoPrMc5bt7g/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">We thought it was time for our edchatNZ community to unite and use our network to raise money for a good cause whilst having some fun at this stressful time of year in schools. In demonstrating our digital citizenship to support Movember, we will also share photos, laughs and possibly a few badges or awards over the month.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">At the start of Movember, guys take action by signing up with a clean-shaven face and for the 30 days of November commit to growing a moustache. These selfless and generous men are known as Mo Bros and groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Mo Bros are supported by the women in their lives, affectionately known as, Mo Sistas - together, our Mo Community raise money and awareness to change the face of men’s health.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16636018876663644445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-52364112224305515082014-10-06T22:13:00.004+13:002014-10-06T22:13:38.675+13:00The conference that never ends - sharing success from the #edchatNZ conferenceIt is always great to hear if/when #edchatNZ has influenced positive change somewhere in this beautiful country of ours. Please make sure you have shared your story too. In fact, we would love to post your story on this blog. So send us an email with the link to admin@edchatNZ.com. Can't wait to hear from you too!<br />
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<i>I was lucky enough to bring a team of colleagues to the #edchatNZ conference in August. Experiencing the 2 days together showed me I was no longer a lone nut, I was part of a mixed nut group keen to enact change. We naturally leaned towards ways to improve our local junior curriculum (Years 9 and 10). In a high performing school so focused on excellence, especially in NCEA, junior classes can easily become the poor cousins to senior classes for busy, fully loaded teachers of multiple levels. In times of busyness and stress, we readily default to the industrial model of teaching that we were bred and educated in. So as a group we decided to make our junior programmes an absolute focus for improvement. We want to work more collaboratively, be cross-curricular, use assessment for learning and explicitly teach the principles, values and key competencies.</i><br />
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<i>So post-conference around the lunch table we kept the conversations going, more people came on board and we ended up with a larger interested group who decided to focus on the Year 9 programme next year. We chose to assign a future focus theme from the curriculum to each term. This would be a wide enough scaffold for any curriculum areas that wanted to align their programmes and non-threatening enough for reluctant teachers to give it a go.</i><br />
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<i>In a staff meeting, I gave a quick presentation about the "front of the curriculum" - and how the principles, values and key competencies should be integral and at the forefront of our minds when planning programmes. For the cross-curricular "sell" I also reiterated the principle Coherence - the idea that "The curriculum offers all students a broad education that makes links within and across learning areas, provides for coherent transitions, and opens up pathways to further learning."(NZC, 2007). After the staff meeting, anyone who was interested, or wanted to be involved was welcome to stay behind an continue the conversation. At a rough guess 60 - 70% of teachers stayed, and the response was overwhelmingly positive, with some small but relevant areas of concern. It's at this point I'd like to acknowledge a fantastically open minded staff of teachers, an enabling principal and senior leadership team, and a supportive BOT who absolutely trust us to offer a programme that's best for our community.</i><br />
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<i><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">For more information about </span><span class="" style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span class="" style="color: #262626;">+</span><a class="" href="https://plus.google.com/100652509362368356495" oid="100652509362368356495" style="color: #262626; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grant Lichtman</a></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, make sure you check out his books The Falconer and </span><a class="" href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23EdJourney" rel="nofollow" style="color: #262626; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">#EdJourney</a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, his TED talk and his blog! </span><a class="" href="http://www.grantlichtman.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #427fed; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.grantlichtman.com</a></i></div>
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Can you believe our conference was just over a week ago?! What an amazing experience: motivational keynotes, inspirational workshops, meeting and greeting our online connections. We’re so thrilled at the number of ‘eggs’ who have hatched, and the bloggers who are stretching their wings. We’d also love to give a shout out to all the chick-chats that have emerged: #scichatNZ, #engchatNZ, #mathschatNZ, #socschichatNZ, #btchatNZ, and the wonderful tweachers who are behind each of these. Lone nuts no more! Please send us an email if you have launched a chat too so that we can support you!<br />
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Now, remember how our theme for the #edchatNZ conference was: ‘Follow the education revolution’? Well, here comes the next phase! Let’s capitalise on the energy and enthusiasm and passion so evident at the conference. We’d like to declare a blogging challenge and keep the momentum going. There are three levels of challenge, depending on how confident you feel. Try all three, but attempt one as a bare minimum. There are still some swaggy #edchatNZ coffee cups up for grabs (not that you needed any bribery, of course!).<br />
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<b>Egg Challenge:</b> Share a captioned photo of something cool happening in your classroom.<br />
<b>Chick Challenge: </b>Complete the #edchatNZ blogging meme, started by <a href="https://twitter.com/ReidHns1">@ReidHns1</a> <a href="http://teachingyoume.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/edchatnz-blogging-meme.html">here</a><br />
<b>Full Flight Challenge:</b> Blog about how something you have learnt from the #edchatNZ community has changed your practice.<br />
And don't forget to leave a comment on at least five blogs this month to help encourage and empower others!<br />
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Remember to share your posts on Twitter with our wonderful #edchatNZ hashtag. While you’re online, don’t forget to vote for this week’s #edchatNZ topic <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h6ZWRNc9GTAWix2zU6JtQYqfRlu9NEdWQCHBrcv29mo/viewform?usp=send_form">here</a>, and to complete your feedback form on the conference <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/edchatnz.com/forms/d/1h6ZWRNc9GTAWix2zU6JtQYqfRlu9NEdWQCHBrcv29mo/viewform">here</a>. We really appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One educator has asked how we could possibly run a conference of this quality at a mere $20.00 per teacher? That answer is down to support. We wanted a conference that was attainable by most budgets. We also knew that most of the educators coming would be funding their own travel, registration and other costs. If you were one of those educators we also know that your schools would be funding a day’s relief for you. We knew that could be a challenge so again we had support for some of you. We wanted to bring all sectors together and again, through support, this was taken care of. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks again to Cognition and CORE for their support in helping to bring us together across sectors. TTS have a surprise for us, and we can’t wait to find out who the lucky #edchatnz educator is.</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/edchatNZ?f=realtime&src=hash" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#edchatnz</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Conference Updates</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78de9b4c-900d-3d97-6117-5c344376c6fd"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re psyched at the number of registrations, the generosity of our speakers for donating their time, and the support of our amazing sponsors. Ultimately though, the conference experience, just like our Twitter chats, comes down to your enthusiastic engagement - so bring that in spades (along with your device!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have a live political debate lined up as part of our programme and have </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/NZScienceLearn" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66b5d2;">@</span>NZScienceLearn</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and nano girl </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/medickinson" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm', sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66b5d2;">@</span>medickinson</a> joining us. </div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are a pre-service educator, then we have some extra exciting news for you. Cognition have agreed to support your registration. More information will come via your university or contact one of the steering committee members.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow </span><a href="https://twitter.com/edchatNZ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@edchatNZ</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/edchatnz/home" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Site</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/EdchatNZ/129279680582332" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/edchatnz-conference-registration-11523953455?aff=es2&rank=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration: $20.00</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do book your</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/edchatnz-conference-registration-11523953455?utm_content=buffer8727d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tickets at only $20.00</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> uncatered and $60.00 catered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are coming in from outside of Auckland you can alert us that you are looking for billeting with our Auckland tweeps who have already indicated that they </span><a href="http://edchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/accommodation.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can help with accommodation. </span></a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MissDtheTeacher" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@MissDtheTeacher</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: #edchatnz founder and host</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ClaireAmosNZ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@ClaireAmosNZ</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: E-learning Guru</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@arti_choke</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HookED SOLO Taxonomy Specialist</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Andy_Schick" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@Andy_Schick</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Network 4 Learning & Pond </span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/cowieandrew" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@cowieandrew</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: National Library</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/netsafeNZ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@netsafeNZ</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.: Sean Lyons from Netsafe </span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/virtuallykaren" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@virtuallykaren</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Consultant for Core Education</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.hpss.school.nz/" target="_blank">Hobsonville Point Secondary School</a></span><br /><span class="adr"><span class="street-address">70 Hobsonville Point Road,<br />Hobsonville</span><span class="locality">Auckland</span> <span class="region"></span><br /><span class="region">New Zealand</span></span></h2>
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We have a stunning line up of presenters who have agreed to share with us. They include <br />
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MissDtheTeacher">@MissDtheTeacher</a>: #edchatnz founder and host</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ClaireAmosNZ">@ClaireAmosNZ</a>: E-learning Guru</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mosborne01">@mosborne01</a>: Consultant for Core Education</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/GeoMouldey">@GeoMouldey</a>: Curriculum Hacker and Blogger</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/AmyMMcCauley">@AmyMMcCauley</a>: Google Certified Teacher</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke">@arti_choke</a>: Pam Hook from HookED SOLO Taxonomy Specialist</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Andy_Schick">@Andy_Schick</a>: Network 4 Learning & Pond </li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cowieandrew">@cowieandrew</a>: National Library</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/netsafeNZ">@netsafeNZ</a>.: Sean Lyons from Netsafe </li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/virtuallykaren">@virtuallykaren</a>: Consultant for Core Education</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-72085997714144192212014-07-03T20:40:00.001+12:002014-07-03T21:25:53.493+12:00#edchatNZ is now live...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>Q1 Why are we so keen for change in our organisations? #edchatNZ #edchatNZquestion</li>
<li>Q2 What changes would you like to see? #edchatNZ #edchatNZquestion</li>
<li>Q3 So how have YOU made a change to what you are doing? #edchatNZ #edchatNZquestion</li>
<li>Q4 So what have YOU done to inspire or create change in your organisation? #edchatNZ #edchatNZquestion</li>
<li>Q6 what can we do better in promoting change? #edchatNZ #edchatNZ question</li>
<li>Q7 Imagine the most resistant teacher you've ever met. Lets brainstorm ideas to help them shift their mindset? #edchatNZ #edchatNZquestion</li>
<li>Final Q: How will YOU go and inspire change tomorrow? #edchatNZ</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16636018876663644445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-16521799369490048432014-07-01T14:57:00.001+12:002014-07-01T14:58:06.699+12:00Are you represented?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Things are shaping up well for the first #edchatNZ conference. 120+ registrations and still counting, sponsorship from Core Education, Cognition, N4L, PBtechnogloy, TTS and Furnware, presenters from the Ministry of Education, NZCER, NZQA, netsafe, Booktrack, Core Education, University of Auckland, and expert teachers from across the country. This is a conference not to be missed. Lets hope the South Island and lower North Island start registering!<br />
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Finding it hard to get to the conference? CORE Education is pleased to be contributing towards the costs of teacher release and travel expenses for one lucky #edchatNZ conference delegate!<br />
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The names will be drawn at random in the week preceding the conference. CORE would like to invite the chosen delegate to share their learning experience in a guest blog post. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[Please note: Receipts/invoice will be required from the chosen school]</span><br />
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With the next election now firmly on the horizon, read more about the PPTA's priorities according to Angela Roberts, PPTA president in this guest post!<br />
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PPTA believes that quality education for all is a social and economic necessity. We need our political leaders to collaborate with communities, families and teachers and to devise a plan for education based on the best research from New Zealand and overseas. The plan for change needs to be coherent, long term and properly resourced.<br />
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This plan needs to address three priorities. First, we need education policy to make equity for learners our top priority. This is what countries like Finland have done and it leads to better outcomes for everyone. To do this we need a more fair funding mechanism, and we need the government to be serious about tackling the out of school determinants of achievement. Something that would help with this is resourcing schools to be able to work as community hubs, which can allow them to push back against the impact of poverty. New Zealand has for a long time funded compulsory education at a relatively low level – we spend less than the OECD average per student and as a proportion of GDP on primary and secondary education. Increasing funding to the OECD average and making sure that it is well targeted for the learners in greatest need would make a huge difference.<br />
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Second we need to raise the status of teaching. Teaching should be a first choice career, one that young people aspire to. Currently teacher work-load and stress are increasing and undermine this. Politicians should focus on building the capacity of the teaching profession, developing the opportunities for good practice to be shared and allowing all teachers to be able to work to their potential. The government initiative, Investing in Educational Success may hold out some promise in this regard.<br />
Finally, we need education policy to promote collaboration, not competition, between teachers and schools. Tomorrow’s Schools has led to a fracturing of the system, and has not led to improvements in teaching and learning. Schools and teachers should be enabled to work together for mutual benefit, not encouraged to compete as they are too often now<br />
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These are the three overarching goals that PPTA would like to see all the political parties addressing this election. It has been heartening to see various parties already responding positively to these ideas.<br />
When it comes down to the nitty gritty, here are a few particulars.<br />
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If a political party is serious about addressing equity in education, the Secondary School Staffing Group report of 2012 is a good place to start. This report, agreed to by PPTA, the School Trustees Association and the Ministry of Education committed to work on developing a needs based model for school staffing. This hasn’t happened.<br />
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Another crucial, and relatively cheaply fixed, matter which would improve equity in schooling is removing the quarterly funding model. Currently this means that schools which lose students during the year, which are almost overwhelmingly low decile schools, have great uncertainty around their operating budgets. This could be reversed for a cost of around $5million a year.<br />
In regards to raising the status of teaching, something that is painfully obvious at present is how the Education Amendment Bill which is at Select Committee at the moment achieves the complete opposite. A professional registration body which could have no practising teachers on it, and which teachers have no say over its composition shows a remarkable lack of respect for teachers – and puts us at a lower status than any other similarly regulated profession, even Real Estate Agents.<br />
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Finally, if a party is serious about promoting collaboration, charter schools must go. The fundamental premise of charter schools is an education marketplace, which relies on competition and choice. But it’s an unfair choice, with charter schools funded at a rate three times that of most public schools, allowing class sizes of 15 students. This ideological experiment is incompatible with a fair, collaborative system.<br />
Education has long been a political football. Since the upheavals of Tomorrow’s Schools in the 1980s, bulk funding battles of the 1990s, the introduction of NCEA in the 2000s, and National Standards in the 2010s – every decade has its defining educational issue which the various parties have kicked to and fro.<br />
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It’s my hope that we can do better than this. That’s why PPTA is asking all the political parties to take these three priorities seriously and go into the election with education policy that addresses them.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16636018876663644445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488758191681227920.post-8222552495622462202014-06-19T22:30:00.001+12:002014-06-22T15:05:41.260+12:00EdchatNZ Conference Update 3<b id="docs-internal-guid-d6174830-b3aa-f76c-e46e-327e62536ff5" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow </span><a href="https://twitter.com/edchatNZ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@edchatNZ</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/edchatnz/home" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Site</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/EdchatNZ/129279680582332" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/edchatnz-conference-registration-11523953455?aff=es2&rank=1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration: $20.00</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do book your</span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/edchatnz-conference-registration-11523953455?utm_content=buffer8727d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tickets at only $20.00</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> uncatered and $60.00 catered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are coming in from outside of Auckland you can alert us that you are looking for billeting with our Auckland tweeps who have already indicated that they </span><a href="http://edchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/accommodation.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can help with accommodation. </span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are keen to present then the form is live until the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://edchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/so-you-want-to-present-at-edchatnz.html" style="text-decoration: none;">30th of July</a>.</span></div>
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These include </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AmyMMcCauley" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@AmyMMcCauley</span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/cowieandrew" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@cowieandrew</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; 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color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mosborne01" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mosborne01</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/arti_choke" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@arti_choke</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GeoMouldey" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@GeoMouldey</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Booktrack" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Share the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="♥" height="15px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/NeyZ-rlo786SbImH6HXAm42pggoOghAo4o3cSwTVzMR6A5Nuk9lHeJo2kJBpyB9eY7xMh4mMJ-P9Sqqwhtvcuo4VxXSKCDOVlJv5t4-XvYwfhmgoaYxMieJ8jUMpnolpZQ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" title="Red heart suit" width="15px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="♥" height="15px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/x4c4P7jPoCPHVI9LqiOj0dx9gULEVBVmrvVy_aZH4yBoaoHS4FRUy3kg2jB2YLz8xoXFFP88NP34IEvGM0_D6370Xj1EZOA3NbzdpD5MAwCPG_zbwmwzV7xJ5y65QnIERA" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" title="Red heart suit" width="15px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="♥" height="15px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/XpgCaQNoRkK2z2CrDP6QaKF4d1XePmTBS2uZjMzqUOiR6oPfyKw4_OjMpOX3zowyFKCzhyxlqkdVB-RoTtXFrZvz4PK1LPsXI7WouMKTqErLliO8IYp2sPz1trdb4zRU0w" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" title="Red heart suit" width="15px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and spread the word about the conference. Tag a buddy on twitter, facebook your educator friends, Google+ your mates and together lets get #edchatnz conference rumbling.</span></div>
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