Last week the Education Review Office found that 59 per cent of New Zealand teachers do not teach writing effectively in all the areas they should. ERO's latest national evaluation report — on the quality of teaching writing to pupils...
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Deeply ancient history
What's the worst crime a blogger can commit? High on the list is leaving old newspaper clippings lying around on the desk until they go yellow and crumble. Today I found a couple under the debris of un-reviewed books and...
Animfxnz will wake up your digital eyeballs
I could spend my whole life attending symposia, conferences and seminars. I'm puzzled as to why most of them are so dreary in format even when the subject matter is of great interest to me. Animfxnz will surely break the...
Changing habits is hard to do
Humans being humans, we tend to believe and cling to the first version of a rule that we hear. Think about the grammar "rules" your granny taught you, such as "Never split an infinitive". That rule never was true or...
Creative Commons licences hit New Zealand
Six [tag]Creative Commons[/tag] licences were launched for NZ users last Saturday. Each country likes to tweak the international or basic CC licences to conform with their own laws, and NZ has now joined 40 other nations who have done so....