ACEnet Online Community for ACE Practitioners
The community is now live and anyone with an interest in adult and community education is welcome to join. To join ACEnet, please click here to go to the ACEnet home page, hosted on the Ako Aotearoa website. From there you can find out how to register on the Ako Aotearoa website if you have not already done so, how to introduce yourself to the rest of the community, and how to go to participate in ACEnet. The ACEnet team is on call to help you if you have any problems or concerns.
Project Overview
ACE Aotearoa has been facilitating a programme of work to support professional development for the ACE sector. One of these sub-projects is piloting use of an online community to help ACE practitioners develop professionally.
As a sector, we want to understand how these tools can help us learn together and to experience learning this way. We also want to find out what works (and what doesn’t) for us in the sector. We are excited about the potential of the online tools to allow us to connect when and where we choose. Given how remote many of us are and how busy we all are, ACEnet could be a real benefit to ACE practitioners. But we have to give it a go.
ACEnet Project Team
Terry Neal - Project Manager
Terry has worked in e-learning within the tertiary sector for nine years. She began as a member of the team introducing e-learning at the Open Polytechnic and then went to Whitireia to manage their online learning team. Next she moved to ITPNZ to manage four national projects - two building e-capability within seven polytechnics and two understanding the use of technology to support Māori and Pacific learners. In 2005, she won a Flexible Learning Leader award to investigate international examples of institutions collaborating for flexible learning. Since then, she has been involved in a wide range of projects, including, leading an e-learning capability assessment of 19 New Zealand ITPs, co-leading a project investigating use of virtual worlds with adult learners, and supporting a number of ITPs with their e-learning strategy and implementation. She is passionate about the potential of online communities to connect people to people to enable ongoing knowledge sharing.Phone: (04) 473 6622
Mobile: 021 322 332
Skype: terryneal60
Email: terry@aceaotearoa.org.nz
Jan Collier - Facilitator
Jan comes from a background of secondary teaching. She has been teaching computing at Mercury Bay Area Schools up until last year. She is currently employed by CoroNet, an ICT cluster of eight Secondary and Area School on the Coromandel and Hauraki districts as ePrincipal/eDean, Facilitator and Special Classroom Teacher. Jan has been involved in ACE throughout her teaching career as a tutor and coordinator in a number of schools’ adult education programmes. Since coming to the Coromandel she has been teaching for Wintec on the Artechmobile that visits communities.Phone: (07) 864 7999
Mobile: 027 380 8735
Skype: jancollier
Email: cjcollier@wave.co.nz
Jennifer Kipfer - Resource Person
Jennifer Kipfer has a B.Ed in teaching and is currently ACE Co-ordinator and English Language School Manager at Orewa College, north of Auckland. Her diverse background includes voluntary work in various community groups, being elected to a City Council, chairing committees and participating in a range of activities. She has chaired a secondary school ACE advisory group, led research projects on barriers to employment for long-term beneficiaries and on community funding options and convenes the Rodney ACE Network. Jennifer is a widow with five sons and three grandchildren. She believes in community development and responsible citizenship - in accessible lifelong learning for all.Phone: (09) 427 5309
Mobile: 027 275 9163
Skype: kipfers1
Email: kipfers@xtra.co.nz
Justin Sampson - Technology Steward
Justin Sampson is currently employed at Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, where his primary responsibility is managing their website. He will be helping ACEnet by providing advice on how to use technologies, including the Ako Aotearoa website, to the best advantage. His background is as a librarian and information manager.Phone: (04) 801 2888
Mobile: 021 958 431
Skype: justin-sampson
Email: J.Sampson@massey.ac.nz