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Notes from the Classroom: how Kiwi teachers are engaging students with technology

Today I had the honour of being mentioned in the google blog!  Google wrote about how I was using competition and collaboration to motivate students to improve the quality of their work, as well as produce 'work' in the first place!  Also great to see the great work of +Dorothy Burt and her colleagues at Pt England school - the video clip is really worth watching and makes you feel good about the collaborative aspects that Google Apps for Education allows!  Link to the full post is here.


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