In this issue:

• From the President
• Online forums on DEANZ conference topics - open to anyone
• Courses - new e-teaching online courses next term
• Short onlne event: "Learning Communities in New Zealand"
• A job with SPEEKS
• Events also coming up

Any dud links, typos etc, please let me know - Derek Chirnside

From the President

This is a pre-conference issue of the Flier. The 2006 DEANZ conference starts next week in Auckland.

We have a conference forum on icommunities.org. Anyone, whether coming to the conference or not is welcome to join. We have a couple of open forums, and over the next few days the conference papers and abstracts will appear. We will keep the forums open for a few weeks after the conference.

The DEANZ AGM is next week as well. You should have received ballot information from Phyl.

With regards,

Kinshuk
President, DEANZ

DEANZ conference 3-5 July 2006 - Auckland University of Technology (AUT) - Auckland, New Zealand

DEANZ Conference Forums

These will be run on iCommunities.org and will host some discussion on conference themes - or any others of interest.

The conference papers will be available, and these forums are open to anyone, whether attending the conference or not.

Here's what to do:

1. Create an account (and I'm sorry about yet another username and password!!) http://icommunities.org and click on the login link.
   The account creation code is wenger (all lower case)
2. Log in and click on the link DEANZ Con '06. Read the screen and enter the conference space.
3. Click on your name to edit your profile, check your email address, upload a photo if you like.
   
4. Find the cafe and post an introduction.
5. Click on any of the forums to see what's doing. You can subscribe to the forum to have posts pushed out to your e-mail as they arrive.
   

e-teaching courses: next semester

Online communities - Teaching & technology

Starting Next Semester, three online courses from the Applied e-teaching and Support qualification at the Christchurch College of Education. http://www.e-teaching.ac.nz

Teaching Meets Technology