Kia ora rā!

Just letting you all know that the Māori education and Māori cultural education guides are now ‘live’ WOOHOOO! They’re packed with an abundant of knowledge bombs with subpages specifically designed for Māori immersion speakers (like those that are in the Hoaka Pounamu programme). I’m pretty proud so with a really long hand, will, you know, give myself a pat on the back alongside those from e-learning, the Ed team, MDT team and all the other people I harassed along the way. They are perhaps a bit more wordy, bursting at the seams like a party popper (a treasure trove for fellow knowledge hunters) as a result of feedback and other tidbits received through lots of kanohi ki te kanohi. They will also operate as a first point of call for Māori students and other students studying different aspects of the Māori world (with a particular focus on bi-cultural teaching/learning/education), interested staff, researchers, nosey parkers, introverts, monsters, zombies book worms and ghosts of library’s past. Navigating the pages are easy, and hopefully will become a more efficient method of finding Māori language information, prior to delving into the depths of the dastardly databases and catalogues – as it stands, it’s quite a time consuming process if you have absolutely no idea about anything Māori. They also highlight the collection that would otherwise sit on the shelves praying for someone to notice them – like ugly duckling waiting to become swans, or flowers just waiting to bloom.
Enjoy the novelty of getting to know our collection better.

http://canterbury.libguides.com/c.php?g=612995&p=4258734&preview=f173a00d25e387f4ebd55ee1b7d623d4

http://canterbury.libguides.com/c.php?g=588381&p=4066261&preview=4bf9ffb45e59085195195d9886aecf00
Waitangi

P.S. I’m not sure where they live on the ‘live’ site yet, but I’m sure our awesome e-learning team will figure it out. Chur