Here's some information about the NCEA review from the recent meeting of the Review of Achievement Standards Reference Group. You can download the information as a PDF or PowerPoint.

We're on the lookout for presenters and workshops for our upcoming Conference. If you've got a great idea, we'd love to hear about it. Use the button on the conference page to submit the idea, and we'll get in touch.

Welcome back!

Hopefully the start of the new year has been kind to you.  We thought we would share some of the key projects we are working on this year through NAME.

Conference 2019 - BOOK NOW.
Auckland NAME are hosting at St Cuthberts College in the second holidays  - July 8th-10th. Register through the NAME website. We are really looking forward to bringing you an exciting three days of speakers, teacher presentations, and a chance to connect and share ideas.  If you are interested in presenting at conference there will be a space on the registration form for you to indicate this.

For more information about the conference or to book, click here.

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP NOW!
This year for conference we have made a special discount for paid up NAME members so now is a really good time to renew your membership! $35 for individual membership and $60 for an institutional membership - again you can do this through the website.

Not coming to conference? Become a NAME member anyway!  The NAME subscription helps ensure we have a voice in the education sector around issues that are important.  It will allow us to develop support for people in all regions, advocate for our members, and continue to develop resources and communications.  We need your support!

Click here to join NAME or renew your membership.

Regional initiative
We recognise at the heart of NAME are the regions and the support you can give each other through regular meetings and catch ups.  We have organised a key representative from each region who we will be working with to generate events that work for the particular needs of each region.  This might mean regular catch up sessions, organising moderation meetings or just have a network to touch base with.

Exemplar project and online support
We understand that face to face meetings and PD events do not suit everyone. In response to this,  another significant focus for NAME this year will be developing the resources available through the website.  Feedback from the NAME survey we ran last year highlighted the need for more resources such as exemplars and help with certain standards so we will be developing these through the second half of the year.

Phew! That’s a lot of exciting things happening. As always you can stay up to date through our website and the NAME facebook page, and you can also email us on info@name.org.nz. We love hearing from you!

Take care for the remainder of the term. Be gentle on yourselves.
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Nga Mihi

Louise

We're pleased to announce the details of the 2019 NAME Conference to be held in Auckland during the first week of the July school holidays. For more information or to register, click here.

It is with great sadness we acknowledge the passing of Dave Warring.
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Dave has been an active member of and contributor to the Media Studies community for many years.  All of us teaching Media Studies today have been influenced in some way by Dave, and I know that there are many amongst us who worked with him over the years and considered him a friend.

Dave fiercely protected his stance on the importance and role of Media Studies as a subject. He was always a strong advocate for the media community, whether in his role as one of the founding members of NAME, his involvement in writing the standards, his work around journalism and radio as an aspect of media teaching, and, in later years, in his role as National Moderator. He pushed hard to get Media Studies recognised as an important subject and its rightful place in the NCEA framework.

Many of his colleagues have reflected on their time working with Dave over the last few days, offering their take on the man they remember. What has come through is the repeated affirmation of his passion and commitment to Media Studies education, and his role as a compassionate and supportive colleague.

Dave had strong opinions, he was entertaining, driven and enjoyed a good debate. He challenged us to think about what we were doing and why. He reminded us how important it is to be heard, to express viewpoints and to fight for what we believe in. We don’t always have to agree with each other but it is important that we engage in those conversations.

Our thoughts are with Dave’s family and friends at this sad time. 

A big thank you to everyone who completed the NAME survey last term. We are in the process of working through the  information - so watch this space!

As mentioned at the end of the survey, as a thank you, there were five Mighty Ape Vouchers up for grabs for those who completed the survey. After a random draw, the lucky winners are:

1. Shelley James
2. Emma Mossop
3. Tracey Christie
4. Duncan McKinlay
5. Katrina Sylva

Congratulations to these very lucky five - a voucher is on its way to you.

You've probably heard about the NCEA Review, with its six "Big Opportunities".

Well, we're putting together a submission on your behalf, and we've created a snazzy little process for you to provide feedback and ensure your voice is heard. Use the button below to get started.

We know that our members are busy people, and they don't want this to stand in the way of staying connected with other Media Studies teachers. To help with this, we're trialling a new Teachers' Forum with the aims of improving communication between our members and giving members more control over the number of emails they receive.

Our new Teachers' Forum - quickly accessible at name.org.nz/forum - is easy to use. Simply log in with your Google Account (these are super easy to set up if you don't already have one), become a member of the forum (this just involves us checking you're a current NAME member) and join the discussion.

When you join the forum, you can choose what default email settings you'd like. You can choose between receiving all the updates to your email, receiving no emails, and various other email preferences. When you start a new topic, you can also choose whether or not you want to be be subscribed to receive email updates when other members reply to your topic. These options will hep you to stay connected with other Media Educators without receiving absolutely every update from the forum to your email inbox.

The forum uses different categories to keep the discussion organised and on-topic. You can filter the discussion using these different categories, or you can simply browse all categories if you wish.

There's more information to help you get started using the forum under 'Frequently Asked Questions' on the forum page, but if you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We'd love to receive any feedback about the forum during this trial and you can send your ideas and comments to us using this link.

The forum trial will run until the end of Term 4, Week 1 (October 21), at which point we hope to continue with the forum if we can see it's helpful to our community of members.