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Weaving kaupapa Māori and e-Learning
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2006-09) Neal, Terry; Collier, Hohaia
This paper describes the creation and design of an online professional development course that aims to help educators in New Zealand to weave kaupapa Māori and e-Learning approaches together. The team sought to model weaving of kaupapa Māori and e-Learning approaches in how they worked together and the educational design for the material. The authors propose that educators with these skills are crucial if we are to effectively meet the needs of Māori learners, more than that, of all New Zealand learners, in the 21st century.
He reo amiorangi
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2006-09) Roa, Tom
This paper discusses a project involving the translation of a learning management system (LMS), Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle), into te reo Māori so that users of this LMS, learners, teachers and administrators who have a high level of competence in the language, can work within a fully Māori environment. Aspects of the project referred to here include adaptation of the style guide created by Te Taura Whiri for the Microsoft project, use of the Microsoft translation guidelines, the philosophy guiding the translation and the translation process itself (with examples). The process by which the project was evaluated is also discussed.
Language, mātauranga Māori . . . and technology?
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2006-09) Selby, Mereana
In this paper, I report on a research project involving the creation of an e-learning environment for the teaching and learning of an aspect of te reo Māori, that is the preparation of mihi. It was found that learning in the context of an e-learning environment in which anonymity was assured, learners could learn in their own spaces and at their own pace and there was no pressure to perform in front of peers and tutors had the potential to reduce the potentially negative effects of whakamā.
He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development (Vol. 7, Issue 1)
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2006-02)
He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development, Volume 7, Issue 1.
Solomon Islands: Colonisation and the complexity of nationhood
(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2006-02) Rohorua, Frederick Isom
To many people, 'Solomon Islands' is little more than a name attached to a group of islands on a map, a place often associated with unrest and internal strife. That these islands are perceived as a totality, as a bounded entity, relates to the fact that they are identified by a single name and the fact that this name is now associated with a political entity, a nation state. Whether these islands can be said to represent a social entity is a rather different matter, one that is critical to our understanding of both the people who inhabit these islands and the political processes that have played a part in shaping their sense of identity. In this paper, I attempt to unravel some of the complexities of nationhood and identity in contemporary Solomon Islands society with reference to three readily identifiable metaphors: island, betel nut and wantok which were first used with reference to Solomon Islands by Bishop Brown (2003).