Google Certified Innovator

Google Certified Innovator appealed to me as a vehicle for having the opportunity to do something impactful locally.  We live in a beautiful place here in Tairāwhiti with a wealth of amazing opportunities.  It's a place rich in heritage, culture, innovation and beautiful ecosystems - a place that deserves to be celebrated for its incredible diversity and opportunity.

As an educator in the classroom for 13 years, I know how many amazing opportunities our community is filled with.  And I also know how much of a challenge it is to maximise all these opportunities as an educator.  They take time to explore, to design the learning opportunities around and to organise a class to attend them.

There are many educators that are maximising those opportunities, people that have the experience and have put the time into developing resources that can celebrate the opportunities.
Some of the wonderful resources in our community include:

• Waka Hourua
• The Mind Lab
• Turanga Heritage Trails
• Takitimu
• Gisborne Steam Train

to name but a few.

My Certified Innovator project explores the way we can get these wonderful resources collaborating with our incredible local educators in order to create accessible, digital and rewindable resources for all our local educators to maximise.  I'm hoping others feel the same and are interested in collaborating on this too.

Have you been part of community collaboration? I'm interested in hearing from you.