YouTube For Schools

YouTube For Schools Sign up for YouTube for Schools to bring the power of video to your classrooms free of charge. Access thousands of free, high-quality educational videos on YouTube in a...

Five Common iPad App Questions Answered

By Vicki Windman Christmas is over and we have unboxed our iPads. Hopefully you were inspired by my article The iPad doesn’t Bite. As I am working with school districts and parents, several...

A decade of No Child Left Behind: Lessons from a policy failure

On Jan. 8, 2002, then president George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law, ushering in an era of standardized test-based school reform. This assessment of the NCLB decade was written by...

YouTube Pilot Targets Schools that Block Access

A recently announced YouTube pilot program, YouTube for Schools, is focused on putting a limited amount of educational content back in schools that currently block access to the site. The program is...

Lenovo's New ThinkPad aimed at students

Lenovo's new ruggedised laptop was designed for the education market Lenovo has released the ThinkPad X130e laptop, a ruggedised device specifically aimed at the education market. The new device is...

Upcoming Workshops, Events and Scholarship Sessions

Wednesday 22 Feb

LEARNZ Mt Ruapehu Online field trip

Third Party Event
Wednesday 07 Mar

LEARNZ Renewable Energy online field trip

Third Party Event
Wednesday 14 Mar

LEARNZ Wetland Biodiversity online field trip starts

Third Party Event
Tuesday 27 Mar

LEARNZ Earth Science online field trip starts

Third Party Event
The GCSN Calendar lists events and workshops held by GCSN and the community. Visit the Calendar

From around the Blogs

26/01/12 - Short Sharp Shakespeare National Library
Teaser: Use engaging animations to introduce Shakespeare's plays by Carrieread more
25/01/12 - Demand-side study released Derek's Blog
The Commerce Commission has today released the second of three issues papers relating to the uptake of high speed broadband ahead of a public conference in February 2012. The...
21/01/12 - It’s the teaching that matters Derek's Blog
I've been putting the final touches to a report I've been writing for a local school where I spent time at the end of last year interviewing students and staff as part of...

Our Networked Community

Below is a map of the schools and other education providers that make up the GCSN

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