KnowledgeNET - Share and Explore Knowledge Online
The KnowledgeNET is an unparalleled New Zealand learning management service that facilitates the effective sharing of knowledge and communication between cluster schools, teachers, administrators, students and parents/caregivers delivering a rich teaching and learning environment.
The KnowledgeNET is a world class innovation, initiated by teachers, tested and refined by teachers and is now available to your school. By default KnowledgeNET includes the 'Parental Portal Module'. KnowledgeNET can optionally be connected to an SMS for automatic updates using the 'SMS Data Sharing Module'.
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KnowledgeNET Benefits:- Increases more efficient and effective communication between clusters, teachers, students, parents/caregivers and the community.
- An invaluable teaching resource to easily and effectively add content and new resources that can be shared for use in online classroom, subjects and interest areas.Meet individual student's needs and learning style.
- Building inquiry learning and critical thinking skills, making use of existing resource material from the internet.
- Showcase learning achievements that can be viewed within the school and by parents/caregivers.
- Within the KnowledgeNET you have the capability to jointly develop and electronic portfolios representing your learning journey.
- Teachers can access rich education resources known as Digital Learning Objects which can be used to create high quality, effective units of work without constantly having to reinvent the wheel.
- Access to a complete research centre including libraries of reviewed web sites (over 7000), selected encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers and other selected reference sites.
- Clusters can share and pool resources, building on the teaching strengths of individual teachers.
- 24/7, anywhere and anytime access from any internet enabled computer.
- A no hassles solution providing online, email and telephone support, managed and secure hosting and all data is backed up each day providing you with peace of mind.
KnowledgeNET Features:
- A comprehensive intranet/extranet solution for schools.
- Permissions Based so that every user has their own customised environment to ensure that they see their relevant classes/subjects and school information.
- Cut and paste technology to easily add content and new data including uploading images and files, placing links, creating tables, inserting flash animations plus other multimedia. Permission rights can be assigned to all data.
- Discussion and resource sharing with bulletin boards, discussion forums, file sharing tools, polls.
- Calendaring and booking forms
- Interoperability with other school services including all student management systems, library software, internet gateways and filtering systems.
Through the use of the KnowledgeNET you can give your students and staff the best possible opportunity to maximise their teaching and learning capabilities, without any technical hurdles to leap over.
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