User:Helenm5
 Helen Moran | |||
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| Employer: | Tawa Intermediate School | ||
| Occupation: | Teacher | ||
| Nationality: | New Zealander | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
| Country: | New Zealand | ||
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Contents
My Profile
Professional Background
- Rangeview Intermediate
- Arahanga Intermediate
- Blockhouse Bay Intermediate
- NZ Police (Police Constable)
- Ngatitoa School
- Tairangi School
- Titahi Bay School
- Postgate School
- Tawa Intermediate School
Education
- Hillsborough Primary School
- Mt Roskill Intermediate School
- Mt Roskill Grammar School
- Auckland Teachers College
- Canterbury University (I have recently completed my BTchLn through distance and online learning.)
My Interests
My hobbies have been many and varied over the years and currently include singing (in a choir), stone carving, computer-related activities and guitar. The new dog could be considered of my interests too as he takes his share of my spare time and gets me out walking.
Past pursuits include violin, piano, hockey, badminton, scuba diving, tennis and orienteering.
Professional
My passions:
Using digital technologies and Web 2.0 resources to create resources and support learning programmes
Engaging the disengaged - especially the boys whose needs are not being met by the education system
Feeding and challenging gifted students
Student-centred/Personalised learning - finding hooks and pursuing tangents
Being a learner and trying new things
My professional heroes:
Carolyn Stuart - my principal, who transformed our school and rekindled my passion for teaching,
Sir Ken Robinson - I love his address on creativity!
Derek Wenmoth on Derek's Blog
Joan Dalton and David Anderson - inspirational!
Personal
Family
Husband:
One
Children:
Two daughters, aged 23 and 21
Pets:
One dog - a bichon frise
Siblings:
Five brothers
Tastes
Red wine, freshly smoked salmon, avocado
Personality type
ISFP - (I think)
Quotes (from Albert Einstein)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Photos
Some of my stone carvings:
My Projects
Enterprise is my first attempt at a teaching resource on Wikispaces. It was to support the immersion stage of our unit.
We use Ultranet as our Learning Management System to support our teaching and learning programmes.
I am currently using it to create pages that bring gifted students from across the school
together.
My Sandbox
My Reflection
Feedback & Notes from my WikiNeighbours
Good stuff! --Phil Bartle 01:01, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
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: Hi Helen and lovely to 'discover' you in this space. There is so much to learn but also so much potential.--Paul Seiler 06:01, 31 August 2009 (UTC))
(: Hi Helen - I don't know how you might know me - I'm involved in NZEI so maybe through there? Or are you on Twitter? (I am @kiwijoe90 - i was @dragonsinger57 but that's a long story!) - I like your wiki - will pass it on to User:BoogieO - he's our DP and may well be interested in what you have there. --dragonsinger57 00:34, 30 August 2009 (UTC))
(: Hi Helen keep going and add more information about you. If you need any help just ask me Rima 11:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC))
(: Hi Helen, Congratulations. I upgraded your certification to level 2. Well done.Warm wishes--Patricia 03:40, 30 August 2009 (UTC))
(: Excellent work, Helen. --Nellie Deutsch 07:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC))
(: Impressive work Helen! You have many talents! Thank you for sharing them with us--Dr. Ludmila Smirnova 03:55, 2 September 2009 (UTC))
Hello and welcome to eL4C29, a free online Learning4Content wiki skills workshop.
Enjoy the workshop.
You may wish to check the schedule and layout of the workshop and introduce yourself.
- Click on the link EL4C29.
- The page that will open is the workshop page with all the links you will be using during the workshop.
- See your name in the list of participants.
- Whenever you have time click on each of the boxes.
- You may even start with Day 1 activities.
- Enjoy the workshop.
