Welcome to the inaugural DigiOps update newsletter.

The newsletter will be sent out on a regular basis to update you on what’s going on with the 11 (soon to be 12) DigiOps projects. As the editor of the website, I invite you to email or call me with news of your project.

Early next year, I will be getting round the country with the aim of meeting as many DigiOps participants as possible. Meeting the ‘drivers’ and ‘movers and shakers’ of the projects is a great way for me to better understand and therefore represent your project, it also gives me the opportunity to have a jolly good play with some wonderful technology out there.

This week was very exciting for DigiOps Project Leader Garry Falloon and me. The Hon Trevor Mallard officially launched not only the website but the first project, CHaOS, which you can read more about down below.

Next week, I’ll be in Christchurch at Riccarton High School with the Minister again (he is going to get to know me very well), where he will launch the second of our projects, MindSpring.

As I said, I really encourage you to make contact with me and let me know, however big or small, what is going on with your DigiOps project.
Cheers and I look forward to meeting you in the not too distant future.

Minister Launches New DigiOps website

The Minister of Education, Hon Trevor Mallard launched the new-look Digital Opportunities (DigiOps) website and the CHaOS project at Brooklyn School in Wellington.

Exam frenzy boosts visits to StudyIT website

In the build-up to the end of year studying frenzy, the StudyIT website registered almost 7000 unique visitors for the first week in November alone!

Designed to help senior maths and science students, the climb in numbers has been nothing short of meteoric. In the six months since going live in April 2004, the site’s unique visitor figures have increased by more than 1,000 percent to 8,300 visitors for the month of September.

The Digital Opportunities (DigiOps) projects are joint partnerships between schools, organisations involved in ICT and the Ministry of Education. The aim is to improve learning through the innovative use of leading edge technologies.