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Kia ora Deanne,

I thought I had posted some korero in relation to your patai after our hui in Poneke. ( must be rawa it puta atu) All I can say is that I when I got home I purchased an i papa specially for my class. Well, it was a hit! we had tamariki practicing their manu korero on sock puppets, practicing their letters, meka matua, explain it,  building their own motoka and having fun altering their friends faces! some are too numerous to mention. Students were coming to school early so that they can work on the i papa. Having only one in the class, was okay as they shared and I timed them 10mins each so eveyone got to have a go at it. So when the school eventually buys i pads my students will be way ahead of the eight ball.

I had fun setting up the tamariki's mahi in "explain it". I take the i papa home and see what the tamariki have had a go at. Oh dear sometimes I wonder why my tamariki get pukuriri at me for spoilting their mahi korero. It was the background noise I made.

I tried to work on a student profile on Google, without success so need more support with this. I have explained to parents this is going to be the way of the future and that they will be able to access their childrens mahi on line. Unfortunately nearly all our whanau have no access to ipuranga. Storybird was also a success too I must say especially when the students were able to choose their own pictures to go with their stories great site. I havent started facebook yet so will do that eventually.

Ka nui ra tenei kei haere au ki wiwi ki wawa, heoi ano ka mihi atu ki a koutou kia pai o koutou hararei kirihimete me te tau hou o tauiui. Noho ora mai i runga i nga manaakitanga o ta tatou kaihanga a Io Matua Kore.

Janelle gave me a tip about making sure that I knew the password that my son uses to access his facebook account.  I also have his aunties and uncles commenting about his facebook happenings....mostly all good now because he too knows that we're watching.

that also rang a bell with me Moana... my mokos over in Oz often get the 'stern' facebook caution from me... not for what 'they' say, but what their friends say in their message replies, etc....  So coming from a Kuia/Nanny perspective, I'd like them to hear what Janelle says.. "if your mum or your Nan is okay with what you've said... its all good".  :)  Miharo.