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[|Pahoia] [|Selwyn Ridge] [|St Mary's] [|Te Akau ki Papamoa]

[|Ministry of Education - EHSAS Website] Register your school's interest in joining the EPS curriculum support programme [|here] [|The EHSAS virtual learning network] - a portal where other EHSAS clusters link together (see discussion for access code)

Te Whakatipuranga Hou
Te Akau ki Papamoa and St Mary's are also involved with this ICT Contract. Visit their wiki [|here]

M-OLEs
[|TKI - Managing Online Learning Environments]

Gifted and Talented
http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/national/article3.php http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/apex/v14no1art01.php http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/apex/v14no1art04.php http://www.giftedchildren.org.nz/apex/v13art03.php http://www.giftedtalentedconf2006.org.nz/ [|Maori Students with Special Abilities]

Multimedia Resources
Establishing great reading routines, strategies and attitudes in your classroom? A class at St Mary's have been by using the following [|movie] for motivation. It features some enthuastic grade 2 readers! Youtube and teachertube often have valuable resources for use in learning. If you are interested in being able to download these to your hard drive (to save any possible network frustrations) there are a few freeware options below: For apple users try [|Tubetv]. Once downloaded you simply copy the youtube url of chosen video and paste this into the tubetv application then click save. For PC users there seem to be two popular free options: [|Freeyoutube] can be downloaded and used similarly to Tubetv, as explained above. If requested for a password try **[|dailyfreeware.net]** Alternatively, you can use [|zamzar], a website, to paste the youtube video url into, then have the converted video emailed to you.