Expertise

Helen Martin

Helen Martin has been involved in teaching and curriculum development at secondary, tertiary and community levels for many years, including working as Programme Director and Interdisciplinary Studies Course Coordinator at Unitec’s School of Performing and Screen Arts. Alongside her work in education she has had a 40 year career as a writer, including six years as the NZ Listener film and video critic and co-authorship of several textbooks on New Zealand film and television, one of which , Shadows on the Wall: a study of seven New Zealand feature films, won a national book award. She is a past board member of the Moving Image Centre and past board member of WIFT.

Helen is now an education consultant with the company Ethos Consultancy NZ focusing on offering resources and tailored advice on strategy, planning and design solutions for ICT enhanced education and training.

From Helen – “In my view the most exciting and liberating notion to take hold since I began my teaching career is the acknowledgement that differing learning styles and circumstances have a huge impact on how a person learns and that the responsibility of those designing and delivering curricula is to ensure that every single learner has a fair and equitable chance of learning success. That's where ICT enhanced learning and teaching comes into its own. When curricula are designed and managed with skill and care, Web 2.0 tools enable users - across the barriers of learning or cultural disadvantage - to discover ways of learning that are empowering and life changing.”