Tepora Pukepuke presents her experience of the Digital Native Project in 2012. The project catapulted her from a naive "How do you turn on the i-pad" to a multiple platform user of e-learning technology.
TATT has a Moodle page and we have used kitten imagery to bring a quirky branded message to the students. This one says to the student welcome, and literally says…. Homework…… this gives us a talking point with student and draws them in to accessing the page though this is one-way ie me sending them a message, not them responding, there is no way to do this
Facebook becomes the single student-friendly platform to alert student to messages: reminders, prompts attend class, links to moodle or youtube, tell them to check emails, send notices. Or Twitter them and send to blog posts, real time updates. Dee O’Carroll is doing her PhD on Maori social networking and is clear the Facebook relationship is one of voyeur rather than webmaster overseer, you are at the invitation of the students, and you wait til you are invited into their space. In this way you are a visitor with a lesser moral or bureaucratic role to play, rather you
