We are excited to announce we have just launched the next phase of Pond rollout, with educators who are in Pond being able to invite their colleagues or friends from within the education sector. This means that Pond is set swell again with a new round of fresh faces...
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700 schools are already connected to the Managed Network
It’s time to celebrate as we have managed to blast through the targets set both by the Ministry of Education and ourselves with 700 schools now connected to the Managed Network! This means that the target of 700 schools, which was initially set to be reached by the...
Pond and Copyright: negotiating the waters
Since the concept of Pond was unveiled at ULearn conference in 2013 (then simply known as “the portal”) and the big reveal was given at the Festival of Education in March this year, there has been a thread of commentary, curiosity and some concern around copyright,...
Carolyn Stuart joins Creative Commons Advisory Panel
We are pleased to share that Carolyn Stuart, Education Sector Lead here at N4L, has been appointed to the Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand Advisory Panel for a two year term. “I was absolutely delighted to be appointed to the panel. Ensuring organisations have...
Pond, as potential game changer: By N4L board member, Linda Tame
Linda Tame is a member of the N4L Board, selected for her years of service to the education sector and her long experience as Principal. Linda told us how she thinks Pond will make a difference to education in New Zealand. Pond has the potential to create quite a...
Pond gets a facelift
The new look Pond is here and it is a beautiful thing! Brighter, sharper and cleaner, this version of Pond reflects the feedback from Pioneer Educators and the observations made by our development team on how educators are using Pond to add and list resources. Pond...
Trainee teachers to benefit from Pond
Earlier today Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye the rollout of Pond has now extended to include Initial Teacher Education providers (ITEs). Pond is currently being rolled out to educators in NZ schools. As of today ITEs will also be able to access Pond, and...