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Whether it is individual upskilling or a schoolwide PD program.
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Heath Sawyer is a Ministry of Education MyPortfolio Facilitator and runs taster sessions throughout the North Island of New Zealand. If you'd like to arrange further training to gain some MyPortfolio momentum send us a message from the contact page or email heath_edconnect.co.nz
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During this time we can help you:
Develop an ePlan to make sense of your Managed Learning Environment. Use MyPortfolio for appraisal, teacher registration, classroom assessment and PD by running workshops for teachers, students and site administrators. Make the most of your Learning Management System. Book a free taster session with Heath or arrange indepth professional development to get some MyPortfolio momentum.
News:
December 2011
We've recently been helping schools implement MyPortfolio as a Performance Management / Appraisal system. View the presentation to find out more.
September 2011
Edconnect is happy to announce that due to popular demand MyPortfolio Taster sessions will continue into 2012. With over 800 schools and 43'000 users to date the adoption of ePortfolios is becoming the norm in New Zealand Schools.
It is our aim to provide quality support for schools wishing to consolidate and further their understanding of this tool.
April 2011
We're happy to share the website design we produced for St Andrews Middle School .
February 2011
Edconnect is currently contracted to the Ministry of Education to deliver taster sessions for the ePortfolio platform ' MyPortfolio'. The Ministry is funding this initiative for all schools for at least the next 3 years. Request a free taster session here.
November 2010
Edconnect is currently building a course to help schools using Ultranet with the process of implementation. The course is divided into 3 parts:
1) Making the Most of Ultranet - Pedagogy based and relates the use of an LMS to the New Zealand Curriculum.
2) Ultranet demonstrations - a series of screencasts, videos and resources to learn how to use the Ultranet tool effectively.
3) Administrator support - getting the system setup and running.
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About 
Erin Sawyer 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, literacy, eportfolios 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
Currently a MyPortfolio National facilitator for the Ministry of Education and tutor for the Graduate Diploma of Information and Techology in Education for Waikato Polytechnic. He also combines his knowledge of ICT and education to develop elearning solutions as an instructional designer.
Heath Sawyer is a New Zealand teacher of 16 years and Primary School Principal for 8 years. Heath has worked as an ICT facilitator for TKI.
Heath has also written software to support the numeracy project and is now focusing on web design, and elearning development.
The frame below demonstrates work Erin has integrated into her classroom practice involving MyPortfolio and Ultranet.
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