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I have been teaching English at Mount Roskill Grammar School in Auckland for the past 9 years and loving it! Before that I was teaching in England and before that Zimbabwe. I was born in Kenya and went to Rhodes University in SA. I also went to bible college in Dallas Texas so you could say I have travelled quite a bit. Along with travelling, I also enjoy being a Christian, my family, reading, tramping, snorkeling, body surfing and finding innovative ways of helping my students to be 'life-long learners' and the best they can be. I joined the MRGS eLearning Lead team in 2010 and this was definitely a gateway to a world of opportunities to augment teaching and learning using a range of ICT technologies. I soon found that my main interest was in collaborative learning. I also found that as much as I could see the value in collaboration it was quite another task to get students engaged in effective collaboration. I have conducted several inquiries into the benefits of collaborative learning and implementing it in the classroom which have led me to focus mainly on MyPortfolio as a platform for collaborative teaching and learning. In addition to MyPortfolio I have integrated the use of twitter, Wallwisher, Voicethread, Google docs, Facebook and of course our own school IMS. I have also joined range of communities for my own professional development as is demonstrated by my Personal Learning Network below.

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK 2012
for Learning ||
 * MyPortfolio bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb || iLearn (IMS) || Facebook
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 * * ======Used with students for collaboration, feedback, messaging, resources, links, presentations======
 * ======Used ith colleagues and worldwide teaching community for exchanging ideas======
 * ======Blog - eLearning journey======
 * ======Conference workshops======
 * ======•Middle Management meetings.====== || * ======Student resources and collaboration======
 * ======Teacher resources and collaboration====== || * ======[|Student collaboration and communication]====== ||
 * = WIKISPACES AND EDUBLOGS = || = Professional Networking = || == ELearning ==

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 * =====Used for TESSOL Assignments: BoostingBilingualism and BilingualismPrinciples=====

Used for interactive Conference workshops
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Delicious
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SkyDrive
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