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Centres of Innovation assignment

There is an Early Childhood Year 3 (TECE300) assignment that is ramping up. You might get questions about it on AskLive. Students need to choose a New Zealand Early Childhood Centre of Innovation (COI). Check out the Educate web page on COI’s if you are interested in some background.

COI’s that have completed the three year project have a report that is available online from the Educate or the Education Counts websites. The links to these websites are in this information. Students need to read the relevant report.

Students are then required to find at least two articles written by any of the staff from their COI that relate to the innovation project. Not all COI’s have enough academic articles. There is a list of the COI’s that we know have enough articles on the TECE300 LEARN site and the Education subject guide. Students are encouraged to choose from the list. Articles can come from the ‘Waves’ series of books (edited by Anne Meade) on the catalogue. Searching MultiSearch for Waves Meade and limiting to books/eBooks will bring the books up, thankfully. They might also find links to articles on either Educate or the COI page on the Education Counts website. They can also use Index New Zealand to locate articles. Distance students can contact us to scan the articles from Waves and from INNZ.

The second part of the assignment requires student to locate at least 4 research articles on the curriculum area their COi is investigating. This requires using MultiSearch. We suggest to students that they start their search by putting “early childhood education” in MultiSearch and then putting their subject area in.

There is a blow by blow list of instructions on their TECE300 LEARN page and on the Education subject guide. We have also run 2 hour classes for this assignment this week. The class covered “what is an acacdemic article?” as well as INNZ, Multisearch and time for hands-on searching. Students are encouraged to post questions to their LEARN site forum.

Have a crack at answering the AskLive questions. Get in touch with Kim, Kathryn, Aurelia or Margaret if you strike any problems. We have all taught the classes for this assignment.

Kathryn and Kim

Maori Language resources section (Pataka Reo) on LEARN

At the Education Resources staff development session on Monday, I mentioned that there was, on LEARN, a resource that we can all access that will assist with finding Maori Language resources. Then we could not find it…sigh. Well, I have fossicked around and located where it now lives.

It is called Pataka Reo and is under Maori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education. The site has lots of resources and the top link is ‘Rauemi Reo-Maori Language Resources’. Clicking on this link and scrolling down, you will find a section about Maori Language Readers that Caroline S developed to assist us with a recurring assignment.

Kathryn

Ukulele group

There is a small, but growing band of ukulele players meeting at 12 on Wednesdays on the Dovedale Campus. We range in ability from absolute beginner to quite adept (I am the former!). If you think you might want to give it a try, get in touch with Caroline Syddall or Kathryn Andrews. There are people on the Ilam Campus who are keen but can not make it on the Wednesday to Dovedale. If there is enough interest, maybe a seperate group could start up there? The plan is for the group to meet mid-way during the warmer Summer months….maybe near the tennis court.

Does anyone have a spare ukulele at home that they would be willing to store in the Education Liaison Office on a long-term basis? It would be wonderful if we had one as a spare for the days when we (read I) forget to bring our instruments.

Kathryn

Centres of Innovation Early Childhood assignment

TECE300/EDEC376 Early Childhood Curriculum 3 have an assignment about NZ Centres of Innovation. The assignment is starting to build momentum, so there might be questions about it on AskLive.

There is a Centres of Innovation page on the Education subject guide that has been developed to help students with this assignment. They also have this information on their LEARN site. The Subject guide page also lists the 10 Centres of Innovation that have enough publications to ensure the completion of the assignment as of 2011.

Kathryn

Matuaranga Maori workshop 4/10/11

I attended the Matauranga Maori workshop at Te Whatumanawa Maoritanga o Rehua Marae yesterday. After a speedy learn of the LIANZA waiata (I didn’t know we had one!), the day began with a powhiri. Terry Ryan was an interesting speaker and had a stunning knowledge of the peoples and events of the marae.

Tangimeriana Rue lead the first workshop session on Taha Wairua: A Maori world view. A definition of Matuaranga Maori was offered and several Maori values were talked about. Tangimeriana said that wairuatanga was an important value for Maori. She said wairuatanga includes spirituality, balance, emotions, work/play hard. A Maori knowledge framework is based upon the holistic Maori world view. She gave us a few ideas of where to from here…including a website where you can sign up for a Maori word for the day (www.kupu.maori.nz). For me, I think this session was very informative and gave me a lot to think about.

An amazing session followed on language, dialect and pronunciation by Hinerangi Kara. She is a vibrant teacher and had us all singing and laughing.

We were given a background to the Maori Subject Headings (MSH)bt Mereana Coleman and Jacinta Paranihi. A few catalogue records were shown to illustrate the odd ways Maori subjects were having to be described using LC. For example, a book on poi was given the subject heading of Maori (New Zealand People) – Antiquities: Folk Dancing, Maori. MSH had to fit the existing LC file structure, while encompassing Matuaranga Maori. An Iwi Hapu names list has been developed and is hosted at http://iwihapu.natlib.govt.nz/iwi-hapu/. I got the impression that there had been many years of work to get to the point we are at now.

The shortest Te Tiriti o Waitangi session, by Eddie Neha, followed where partnership was the main focus. The partnership between LIANZA and Te Ropo Whakahau was held up as an example. Running out of time, we had two shorter sessions on Maori research methodologies and Matauranga Maori within libraries. The over-riding message was one of encouragement. Just try and do the things that you can in your everyday life, even if they feel like small things.

And there was the fabulous hospitality of the marae, the kai, and the people. Library folk came from all over the South island and I enjoyed meeting up with colleagues and chatting about library stuff in general, as we tend to do when together.

It was a great workshop and I would really recommend it to others. Thanks to the library for giving me the opportunity to attend.
Kathryn

Visit to MB Archives

Most of the Education liaison librarians went to MB on Tuesday afternoon for a meeting with Erin and Jeff.We talked about some of the different subjects that education and health science staff/students are researching and the linkages that could be made with the MB Archives. Jeff’s knowledge of the collection was invaluable. The knowledge of the collections meant that he could identify useful material that probably would have escaped me. It stunned me that we have so many different collections within the archives. I need to remember that staff and postgrad students can meet with Jeff to discuss what areas of the collection could be of potential use to them for research. We wondered about getting discrete packages of information together for academics who set repeating undergraduate assignments. Margaret had a great idea that we could use some of the archival material (photgraphs, school books, etc) for displays in the Education Library. This would be an opportunity to showcase some of the resources. Erin showed us the online access via the Community Archive. We then had a quick look at the physical collection in the Warehouse. All in all, a great meeting. There is much potential for us to explore.

Kathryn

Single-subject design assignment

There is an Education assignment in progress at present where students need to find a single-subject design research article. The academic has given a list of some single-subject design journals. See the list below. Students will generally not have any success using “single subject design” as a search phrase. The journals are all in the Education Research Complete (ERC) database. If they use ERC, they can search for their topic and limit the results to one or more of these journals.

eg: first box:Education and Treatment of Children (change Select a Field to be SO Publication name)
second box: their topic . I tried autism and got 41 articles.

Students will still need to trawl through the results to see if the articles are acceptable. They need to check that they have results that list each subjects results individually. So, more than 1 person can be in the study…they just need to have results displayed separately for each individual.

Journals
School Psychology Review
Behavioral Disorders
Education and Treatment of Children
Intervention in School and Clinic
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Journal of Behavioral Education
Journal of Positive Behavioral Interventions
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

What is single-subject design?? Check out the Wikipedia information

Sharon King

Those of you who were around a few years ago will remember Sharon King. I have just had a chat with her on AskLive (she was asking a real question, too). She asked to have her regards sent on to the rest of you. Sharon is thinking of us at this time of quakes and shakes.
Kathryn