Update

 

We had a number of Computer In Homes Graduations in June and July - Hawera had 11, Patea 6, Opunake 13, Centennial Park School Te Kuiti 25, and Raetihi 11. Well done to those graduates!!! Congratulations to these people from Patea, Chester Borrows spoke at their graduation.


The new schools starting Computers In Homes are Marfell in New Plymouth, Taumarunui Primary School, Taumarunui High School, and Te Kuiti High School.


We've got a new Stepping UP course going in Taumarunui.


We're getting a number of referrals from WINZ in Hawera for our Stepping Up classes


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facebook

We have a facebook page up and running view us at http://www.facebook.com/taranaki.elearningtrust


Its a great way to interact with and inform both our students and other interested people in what we are doing

Gong for computer junk, e-literacy pioneer

Laurence Zwimpfer

Digital literacy and e-waste campaigner Laurence Zwimpfer has been made a member of the NZ Order of Merit Wellington for services to information technology.

The Queen's Birthday honour went to the Wellingtonian for services to information techology.

His 45-year career in the IT industry includes 15 years as chairman of the Computer Access NZ, a trust that reconditions computers no longer needed by business for a new life in schools or underpriviliged homes. And since 2000 he has been the driving force behind the Computers in Homes digital literacy programme.

Mr Zwimpfer's is also responsible for establishing eDay, an annual collection of (often toxic) electronic equipment waste, which has been running since 2006.

As well as running his own consultancy, Zwimpfer Communications, he is a fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers, a fellow of InternetNZ and a fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society.

He is a past trustee of the National Library, and a former information and communications commissioner for Unesco.

Last week the government re-committed to Computers in Homes, which helps 1000 families through three-year funding granted in the 2010 budget.

“Principals keep telling us about how the programme breaks down a barrier between many parents and their schools. Parents are often uncomfortable coming into schools, but after 10 weeks of regular visits for Computers in Homes training, they are willing to engage much more closely with their children’s learning and even more importantly start to model learning for their children,” Mr Zwimpfer said.

from http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/gong-computer-junk-e-literacy-pioneer-ck-94784

map

This is a map Karen created as part of her slideshow for the Primary School talk. It shows where the Taranaki ELearning Trust provide Computer In Homes and Stepping UP

The latest news May 2010

Computers In Homes

CPF3 We have classes running (or starting shortly) in Opunake High School, Patea Area School and at the Hawera CTC

and with the DLC CIH Project at Raetihi Primary School, Raetihi, and Centennial Park School, Te Kuiti.

Another school recently pulled out and Christina has been looking for replacement numbers

Christina travelled to Te Kuiti, Taumarunui and Raetihi recently to visit the staff and families who will be involved in Computers in Homes. She also visited Taumarunui High School, TKKM Taumarunui and Taumarunui Primary School, with good results from all of them.

Stepping UP in Hawera is now open four days a week.  Graham Nairn from Hawera has joined us as tutor on Thursday afternoons and Friday Morning. 

Lisa Tangaroa will be taking some hours teaching Stepping UP once the current CIH classes finish there.

The Computer Basics Course continues to be the most popular.

Eltham Stepping UP  is fairly slow to get going but Jane Gilbert has a steady number of students for her Stepping UP classes. With a bit of advertising we hope to get numbers up.

Karen has been asked to speak at Eltham Primary School to a class of children doing a project called Future Communities. They want to know how she helps in the community related to her work within Computers In Homes  and Stepping UP.

the Cordinators and hosts at Te Rewarewa Marae

We Recycle!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it a door stop?? Is it a computer??

 Well, needing a sign to say We Are Here!! and having a few old hard drives around the place... I decided to use one of the old computers for a sign. Now I'm on the look out for a larger one as I need one for the footpath. (I've seen one in the techs room, but I think I better ask him first)

Are these old muesli bar boxes?? Are they the boxes that hold our modules??

These boxes are just the right size to fit our Stepping Up modules in!!!