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VLN Community Pedagogical Model: PLD Series

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Join us as we break down the Virtual Learning Network Community (VLNC) Pedagogical Model and apply it to our current educational response to Covid-19.

This will be in the form of a series of five online workshops each fortnight throughout term two. Participants will also be invited to continue the discussion asynchronously via the Network of Expertise online platform.

The workshops will explore Five Broad Questions which are outlined in the articles attached. Please view those to find out more.

For further reading please browse our Online Teaching Resource Hub

Register here if you would like to request specific support for your school / kura

Contents

The VLN Community Pedagogical Model: PLD Series

by Darren Sudlow

Join us as we break down the VLN Community Pedagogical Model and apply it to our current educational response to Covid-19

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Video: VLN Community PLD Series: Workshop Five - How do we ensure learning takes place?

Workshop Five: How do we ensure learning takes place?

by VLN Community

View our last workshop on how to ensure learning takes places. This explores how we can make learning visible, track it, and respond.

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Video: Workshop four: supporting learner well being online

Workshop Four: Well-being Video

by VLN Community

How do we approach learner well-being online? View the recording of the workshop to fully explore this question.

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Video: VLN Community PLD Series: Future Focus Panel DIscussion

Future Focus Panel Discussion

by VLN Community

Access the full recording of the panel discussion exploring what we have learned from our recent lockdown and what opportunities that experience has presented.

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Video: VLN Community PLD Workshop

Workshop Three: Engagement Resources

by VLN Community

Access the recording and follow up resources from the recent Designing for Engagement Workshop

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Video: Workshop Two: Adapting Contexts Online

Workshop Two: Adapting Contexts Online

by VLN Community

Recordings from the workshop on how to adapt face to face contexts online.

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VLNC PLD Series: Future Focus

by VLN Community

What have we learnt from our 'remote learning' experience? What are the implications and opportunities for the future? Join us for an exploration of what the future could hold.

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Video: VLN Community PLD Series: Workshop One: Emergent Design

Workshop: Emergent Design

by VLN Community

Full recording and follow up links for Workshop one from the VLN Community PLD series

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NEX Lead Teachers Online Hui

VLN Community: Targeted PLD Available

by VLNC

We are able to provide targeted support to Schools, Kura and Kāhui Ako who want help in shifting teaching and learning online.

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Workshop One: Emergent Design

by VLNC

Join us as we explore how to ensure learners understand what to do when learning online.

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Workshop Two: Adapting face to face contexts online

by VLNC

Having difficulty taking you face to face context online? Join us as we explore how to find solutions to tricky face to face contexts.

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Workshop Three: Engaging Learners Online

by VLNC

How can we create rich, engaging opportunities for learning online? Join us as we explore various strategies to engage.

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Workshop Four: Supporting Learner Well-Being Online

by VLNC

Do you have a key focus on learner well-being? Join us as we explore this important component of the VLNC Pedagogical Model

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Workshop Five: How do we ensure learning takes place online?

by VLNC

How do we know learning is taking place online? What can we do to ensure it does take place? Join us as we explore this important component of the VLNC Pedagogical Model

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VLN Community - Covid19 Response

by VLN Community

With the support of the Ministry of Education, the VLN Community are extending their online programmes to support schools affected by Covid19. Find out more about the VLN Community and what is on offer. Naumai haeremai!

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Video: Virtual Learning Network Community Origins: Carol Moffat 

Carol Moffatt: Origins VLN

by Darren Sudlow

Founding Principal, Carol Moffatt (Oxford Area School) talks the origins of the first eLearning cluster, CantaTech

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The VLN Communities circa 2008

A Quick History of Virtual Learning in New Zealand Schools

by Rachel Whalley

Virtual learning has been taking place in New Zealand schools since the early 1990s when schools collaborated to share teachers and resources and provide online classes to each other’s students through the internet.

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Everyone is happy when they see a Hail update!

NEX is using Hail, so what is it? 🤔

by Stuart Dillon-Roberts

Hail is a kiwi-based platform that's designed to simplify school communications.

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