Professional Learning

Welcome to the Tutorials section. Here you will find a list of tutorials which the GCSN has reviewed and assured the quality of. Look through these tutorials with the knowledge that they are of good quality, and have plenty to offer you.


 
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Futureintech's Regional Facilitators connect industry Ambassadors with teachers & students: Futureintech has full-time Facilitators in North, Central and South Auckland, Central North Island,...

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Empowering Emerging eLeaders:  led by Derek Wenmoth, CORE Education Focus group: Empowering teachers as eLeaders Purpose: Empowering and equipping teachers to demonstrate...

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GCSN is funding Scholarship Calculus up-skilling for teachers provided by Kevin Quinn. There will be 28 sessions this year.  Kevin is well known for his expertise and author of a number of texts...

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Developing an effective eLearning Planning Framework is an essential foundation for successfully implementing change such as BYOD. There is a vast network for learning that can help educators to move...

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These sessions have been organised by your schools through the GCSN. They provide Scholarship mentoring for those students signed up.  The overall timetable is on this link.  Enter the...

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Many thanks to John Creighton - HOD Digital Technologies, President New Zealand Association of Digital, Information, Technology Teachers, Burnside High School for organising the current Technology...

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Stage 1: At the first GCSN Champions meetings for 2012 and subsequent intermediate/primary workshops, Derek Wenmoth (CORE Education) led the groups through the Ministry’s new ...

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This course is for teachers leading curriculum change. A five module online course that will introduce you to some of the key ideas and themes to be considered when leading curriculum change in your...

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This document identifies some key learning opportunities Video Conferencing can offer. Including Programmes as offered by the Virtual Learning Network; Projects for example CAPspace (Collaborations...

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This is Susan Tull's classroom designed in Moodle 1.9 to help teachers appreciate what a classroom can be in a Learning Mangement System. Susan says: "Classrooms can be very individual places -...

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This link to the December 2010 issue of my column in Computers in New Zealand Schools tells of ways in which Canterbury educators moved further online at the end of the 2010 school year pushed by...

Scott McLeod is a Visiting Canterbury Fellow with the University of Canterbury e-Learning Lab hosted by Professor Niki Davis. He will be giving a Core Breakfast, Prestige Lecture and teaching our...

The School of Literacies and Arts in Education has a strong e-learning team who are responsible for ICT and e-learning for both pre-service and professional teacher education, and related...

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This video made by commoncraft will give you an overview of how Google Docs work. Google Docs allow you to write documents which are saved on the internet (or in the cloud). These documents can...

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RSS is a useful way of staying up to date with news from your favourite websites. This video by commoncraft explains how RSS works. Great introduction for those who have never used RSS feeds before...

Commoncraft has a wide variety of video tutorials covering the use and development of wikis, blogs and many other web tools. Click on the browse videos link to view all of the tutorials available

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A 2 minute video outlining the key features of Moodle. May be useful for those presenting Moodle to others as an introductory video.

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Take a tour of Google SketchUp and learn how to make a 3D model of a house using some basic functions. This video provides a quick overview of what to expect the first time you try Google SketchUp.

Moodle Tutorials is a website dedicated to provided video based tutorials for Moodle. Tutorials are rated and commented by users and search features make it easy to quickly find relevant...

Tutorials covering all areas of videoconferencing from getting started, software, providers and pitfalls

A wiki created by NZ Educator, Suzie Vesper, with lots of links to tutorials for ICT skills.

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