Ko te tū atamai i te ipurangi ki te ao ako, hanga, tohatoha

The Manaiakalani Education Programme's theme for Term 4 2019 is "Being Cybersmart in a Learn Create Share World". 

Ko te tū atamai i te ipurangi ki te ao ako, hanga, tohatoha, empowers our learners to make smart decisions and understand that every time they connect, collaborate and share online it combines to create their digital footprint.
This is timely as our government launches a nationwide focus with a Cyber Smart Week to coincide with Digital Citizenship Week from the 14-18 October.

Please continue to harness your blogs and participation in Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu to engage learners in Being Cybersmart. While we have focused on our three key cybersmart categories throughout the year - Smart Learners, Smart Footprint and Smart Relationships - continuing to  identify opportunities for learners to practise being cybersmart as they Learn Create and Share is critical.
As you plan, try to identify opportunities to include Being Cybersmart starting with any of our Weekly Tips over the past three terms. Also if your learners have individual blogs take some time to ensure they are confident with navigating, posting and commenting. Plus identify opportunities within your exisiting learning programmes to connect with the elements of a quality blog post and additional Cybersmart categories.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Weekly Tips

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Empower Learners to take responsibility for their Digital Footprint

Creating a blog profile is an opportunity for learners to connect with and understand that every time they share online it is contributing to creating their digital footprint. They need to make smart decisions about what personal information they share when creating their blog profile.

Learners with a new Blog

• Have learners connected with the Kawa of Care and elements of the  Responsible Use Agreement? e.g. Exploring Blogs, Exploring Online Profiles,
• Have learners created a blog profile?
• Have learners prepared to share The First Post?
• Identify multiple opportunities for learners to post existing DLOs from their Drive, with your support, to build confidence with the components of a blog post and the process of posting.

Lydia @ Tamaki Primary School

Learners with exisiting blogs

• Have learners updated their profile for 2019?

• Would it be helpful for learners to Explore examples of online profiles and consider different formats for creating a profile e.g. webpage, screencast, short video

• Use the featured post gadget in the blog layout to display a link to their blog profile. For example

• Profile post labels: If learners have profiles from previous year include the same labels. This creates a single link to all profiles to compare and contrast e.g. empower learners to understand they are responsible for their digital footprint.

For more blogging tips: Tuhi Mai Tui Atu

Celebrating Being Us

Heart warming to see our young people responding to the theme for #PinkShirtDayNZ on Friday... "Celebrating Being Us". Lots of awesome connections with our Manaiaklani Cybersmart kaupapa.  All about elevating the positive and empowering our learners to connect with what they can do to share aroha, kindness and kaitiakitanga... The Love You Give.

Ruma Kea @ Kokatahi School using cybersmart language positive, thoughtful and helpful to design their own pink shirts. Ngā Whai @ Taipa Area School created kindness chains for their classmates and student leaders at Pt England "Love the Difference", celebrating our uniqueness.

He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata

Manaiakalani Being Cybersmart - Smart Footprint

We are currently updating and transferring Cybersmart Learning content to new Google Sites. The content on the classic site will remain available, however will not be updated. Any new content can be accessed from our new Cybersmart site.


We begin Term 2 with a focus on our Cybersmart Learning: Smart Footprint. Central to this is empowering our learners to understand the difference between private and public information and creating a positive digital footprint.

Whenever and wherever we share online it's personal, visible and amplified. It is personal because we are sharing information about ourselves.  Creating a positive digital footprint means learning to make smart decisions about what personal information we share and what personal information we keep private.

Blogging enables our young people to connect with an authentic audience and provides a rich and engaging platform for learning to create a positive digital footprint.  Making connections and sharing via the class blog, school blogs and blogs across our clusters enables learners to begin engaging with creating a Smart Footprint whether they are blogging individually or currently sharing via their class blog.

Teachers who are receiving in class support from Manaiakalani facilitators  are also participating in Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu which is enabling us to harness blogging for Cybersmart Learning.

Recommendations and resources have been shared to support teachers to identify and design cybersmart learning in response to the strengths and interests of their learners.