Edconnect
ICT solutions for education
Online professional development for teachers
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We have a close business relationship with an exporting company in China and can supply electronic goods for excellent prices. Check out our products page to see if anything interests you.
Want a stunning school website? We can design and maintain it for you. This includes compiling webpages that fit with your curriculum focus.
View our Inquiry learning Model and tools to help with your curriculum planning.
Graphic organisers and pedagogical tools.
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Some of our products
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Multi media projector
Built with all the features you'd expect. Ideal for classroom use
with 2000 Ansi brightness.
Purchase price $750
Wifi Amplifier
Extend the range of your wireless network. Save teacher frustration by reaching those cold spots in your school with up to 5x more signal strength.
Our price: $160.00
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Palm Sized Point and Shoot 5MP Digicam
Need more cameras for the classroom.
5 Megapixel Digital Camera (up to 8MP HR) with an easy to use design. With usb rechargable Li- ion battery.
Purchase price $150
Digital Microscope
A great new USB digital microscope with video and picture capture capability.
This Digital USB Microscope is a fully functional magnification tool that is plugged directly into a computer so that you can see magnified objects at up to 200X. Added to this, as you are looking at the magnified objects you can take either 1.3 Mega Pixel Still Shots, or 1.3 Mega Pixel AVI Movie Clips for storage and later viewing
Purchase price $160
Our products
Why importing?
Working in schools, we became very frustrated with the cost of products available in New Zealand. We knew that products like Data Projectors were retailing at up to 600% markup. It took some time to find reputable wholesale companies but we did it and are now offering these savings to you.
How to purchase products from edconnect
We advertise a small number of products weekly. We do this to reduce our importing costs and maximise our discounts from our overseas wholesalers.
We only deal with certified Wholesale companies with proven track records and carry a one year manufacturers warranty.
We use paypal for transactions but if your school would like to make a purchase via bank deposit send us a message and we'll give you the details.
Overseas customers:
Yes, we can deliver to your door if you live outside New Zealand.
There is a compromise with this system. Because we leave ordering open for a week, then import the goods, your order may take up to 3 weeks to arrive. Our experience so far has seen products delivered within 4 - 7 days.
So if you don't mind the timeframe but appreciate saving lots of money then this system is for you.
Freight
When you order our products we include a freight charge of $20.00. This price is the same whether you purchase one item or twenty.
If there is a product that you are looking for in particular, chances are we will be able to find it for you.
Previously advertised products will still be available but prices may vary slightly .
We don't deal in software at this stage, but any ict related hardware is our speciality.
Palm Digital Video Camera - 2.5 Inch TFT LCD Rotating Screen
3 in 1 device
Record video, still shots and voice recording. Ideal for digital storytelling and interviewing.
I would recommend purchasing a 1GB SD card for extra memory with this device.
Purchase price $205
receive $15 credit if 15 or more are sold over the week.
Online professional development
Professional development is an integral part of modern teaching. Effective professional development comes from regular learning based on specific teacher needs and goals. More importantly PD needs to be directed at the classroom and student achievement.
Edconnect develops a PD program with your school to cater for your schoolwide development and individual teacher needs. Our online PD system ensures that teachers have regular professional readings with assignments that relate to classroom practice. Our system has automated reporting to see how everyone is going and provides measurable PD data.
Click the page buttons above to get an overview of our system.
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When users login they are presented with a personal dashboard informing them of training they have yet to complete, training they have completed, group messages and emails.
When you click on a course you are presented with the course modules. Usually modules must be completed in order. They may consist of PowerPoints, videos, audio, flash files and assessments.
A record of what you have completed is available including assessment scores. Other documents such as help files and notes may be available also that are not tracked.
Assessments relate to the previous modules and can consist of multiple choice, keyword or free text / essay type questions.
Instructors are informed if a student fails an assessment more than 3 times and will email or skype to assist.
This is open book learning with the aim of achieving 100% pass marks from our students.
This is a blank example of a collaborative goal sheet between Edconnect and the individual teacher. It is an online document that both parties work on to achieve the teachers goal.
We use the latest version of Skype to communicate with our students. We book individual skype meetings with teachers to discuss their goals and run staff workshops via this medium.
As well as video conferencing our facilitators can share their computer screen with you just as if we were there in your staffroom. If there is something you'd like to share we can hand control of screen sharing over to you.
School administrators will receive reports on their teams progress at the completion of the course. This information is only available to Edconnect and is strictly confidential. Think of the advantages to having a measurable PD system in your school for individual teachers and collectively as a staff .
Need a school website but don't want to spend thousands on an integrated system? We use a variety of open source and free web 2.0 products and tie them together to give you a stylish and feature rich environment.
Wix: We use Wix.com for the frontend of your site and point it to your school domain. Wix is a Flash web design product that makes your site look professional and modern.
Wetpaint: Rather have a wetpaint wiki then we can design that for you as well. Wikis are community based web portals but work the same as a website. We can manage the site and create learning centres that fit your schools learning needs.
SchoolRack: We can register your school and provide each of your teachers with their own web space.
This is what SchoolRack has to say about their services.
Classroom Portal
Build colorful, customizable websites featuring your own rich content, calendar, files, clip art, and more. No technical knowledge is required!
Student & Parent collaboration
Optionally manage students or parents in groups for access to extra collaborative features (Not required for SchoolRack basic functionality).
Mailing Lists
Send email messages to multiple people at once. No need to memorize or keep track of email addresses, we store them on our end!
Discussion Boards
Moderate private discussions online with students and/or parents
Post, collect, grade assignments
Post assignments to student accounts, collect assignments in your account, and report grades back once you’re finished!
Free of Advertisements, Free of Charge
You won’t find advertisements anywhere on your website, and signing up for an account is always free. You can opt to upgrade to a Plus account for a small fee, but it’s never required!
Fliggo.com
Fliggo is a little like Youtube except that you can make it secure with password protection. Store your videos in this site and only allow parents to view it.If you'd like a particular video available for the world to see then we can code it into your website without affecting the rest of your secure videos.
Cost?
Our design and setup fee is $350.00. If you don't have a domain then we can organise that for you as well. It costs about $70.00 / year. Our monthly fee is $80.00 which includes 2 hours of updates every month.
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Who we are
edconnectnz_gmail.com
Erin Freeman is a New Zealand teacher with experience throughout the primary sector. Erin has presented at Ulearn, Learning_School and various other conferences on collaborative learning and integrating ICT into the curriculum. Currently teaching at Fairfield Intermediate in a laptop classroom she delivers a programme of learning that uses a variety of web 2.0 tools.
Watch a video of me on EDTalks
Phone
07 8532719
Heath Sawyer was a New Zealand teacher for 15 years and Primary School Principal for 8 years. Heath has worked as an ICT facilitator for a cluster of schools and for TKI as the ICT community facilitator.
Heath has also written software to support the numeracy project and is now focusing on web design and web 2.0 applications that support the NZ curriculum.
Mobile
02102188200
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