Benefits

For schools

• Building relationships within the community, with community groups, families, and individuals.
• Fostering relationships with other schools, locally and nationally.
• Establishing an online presence locally, nationally, and globally.
• Meaningful activities and learning contexts, integrating information technology into curriculum areas, and supporting the development of essential skills.
• Support for teachers in using online technology.

For students

• Discovering treasures in their local surroundings.
• Exploring personal values and a sense of identity.
• Collaboration and group activities.
• Motivation, and more effective learning, using the latest information technology.
• Meaningful activities and learning contexts that integrate curriculum areas, essential skills, and information literacy.
• Confidence to explore, adapt, and shape technological understanding and skills.
• Support in developing essential skills from the New Zealand Curriculum Framework.

For the community

• Encouraging students to take pride in their community.
• A place for local groups to promote themselves.
• Participating in a school project.
• Discovering and recording stories that have not been told.
• Initiating local history and oral history projects.
• Establishing a presence on the world stage.

For New Zealand

• Promoting local treasures to other New Zealanders, and the wider world.
• Preserving history and culture in a digital format for today's and future generations.
• Presenting a view of New Zealand through the eyes of our children.
• Showcasing New Zealand's unique character to the rest of the world.

For the world

• Discovering the unique and indigenous treasures of New Zealand.
• Sharing resources and experiences with New Zealand schools and communities.
• Building relationships with New Zealand schools and community groups.