TE RANGITAWAEA PANUI 5
Kia ora koutou,
Congratulations to all the schools who worked tirelessly over the last few months and submitted entries into this years Nati Awards competition.
A total of 563 entries were received and they have now been sent out to the judges for their assessment. Finalists will be publicised next week and the winners announced at the Nati Awards ceremony on Wednesday 17th September, starting at 5pm. Please read on to find out more about this years’ festival.
Nati Award Entry Statistics:
In 2008 563 festival entries included:
•274 Digital Photos
•119 Posters
•64 short films, music videos, advertisements and documentaries
•49 Pipi Slide Shows
•12 Original Music compositions
•15 Animations
•28 Wikis’
•2 Scripts
2008 Te Rangitawaea Festival Programme.
DAY PROGRAMME – TKKM o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou, Ruatoria
8.45am Whakatau
9.15am Expo Opens
Schools to set up for ICT Team Challenge
9.30am ICT Team Challenge Briefing (teachers are allowed 5 minutes with students then must leave)
9.45am Challenge Begins
11.00am Guest Speaker Workshop Begins
12.00pm Guest Speaker Workshop Ends
12.30pm ICT Team Challenge Ends
ICT EXPO Ends
1.00pm Presentations from ICT Teams begin
2.45pm Presentations end
Go and rest for Awards Evening
EVENING PROGRAMME – Uepohatu Hall, Ruatoria
4.30pm Arrive and be seated
5.00pm Nati Awards begin
9.30pm Nati Awards End
Supper
ICT Expo
At this years expo a Supreme Award worth $500 will be awarded to the best school expo site. (As a Supreme Award it does not go towards overall aggregate prize).
A panel of judges will select the Best Site using 4 main criteria.
oVisual Appeal
oInteractive
o Range of ICT/e-Learning
oScience/Putaiao
Here is some other information about the ICT EXPO set up.
•Please bring all the power leads, multi- plugs, monitors, screens, etc necessary for your ICT expo display.
•The venue is TKKM o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou Hall (you may set up the afternoon before but please contact Hinerau at Te Waiu before arriving)
•The expo runs from 9.30 am to 12.15pm. The powhiri will be at 8.45am
•Schools MUST have set up their sites prior to the powhiri on the morning of the expo.
•Schools are welcome to show their Nati Award entries at the Expo but please not any that are finalists
•Please register with Leeanne Morice at E Tipu E Rea. Once all registrations are received schools will be notified where they will be located on the floor plan.
ICT Workshop
Each year at the Festival we hold an one hour ICT workshop, where digital media professionals are invited to talk to a group of students about their careers.
This years Guest Speaker will be television presenter Matai Smith, who will be talking about his career since starting as an 18 year old at Marae.
We are asking schools to choose 2 students per Primary school and 2 per secondary school to take part in this workshop
Please encourage your students to research (eg. Google) information about Matai, so they have some questions prepared for the workshop beforehand.
MEDIA
Former Tolaga Bay Area School & Hatea a Rangi student Candice Davis is now a reporter/presenter for TV 2’s I am TV show (Saturday Morning 10am). Candice will be bringing a television crew with her to film some segments at the Festival and Nati Awards ceremony.
Te Rangitawaea Website Forum Pages
www.terangitawaea.com has a Forums Page specifically for schools. If you would like to add any comments about
•the website
•the festival
•Or to share your school’s experiences in making their Nati Award entries (great highs/lows, technical issues, interpretation of Nati Putaiao)
Then please take a few minutes to click onto the website and share your schools ideas.
Food
›There is no set lunch time
›Te Waiu will have food stalls with a variety of food for sale
Accommodation
›Ngati Porou Marae is available for away schools to use in between the Expo and Nati Awards. Please contact the ETER office if your school would like to make use of the marae.
›Schools must make their own arrangements for tea
Sponsorship
›It is the expectation of sponsors that schools will use the prizes to advance ICT within their schools.
2008 TE RANGITAWAEA FESTIVAL PANUI 4
Kia ora koutou,
Well you are all no doubt in the final stages of completing your Nati Award entries for 2008 (Closing date: 4.00pm Friday the 15th of August).
Please read through the attached panui and ensure that the teachers in charge of entries get the following information.
Panui August 2008  |
