Monday 2 April 2007

Tuanz Conference end session

TUANZ 2007 Conference

Miguel Guhlin - Interactive Q & A Discussion

Content - An example of a krumping session was shown via youtube of New Zealand secondary school students in uniform, now what was posted by the keynote speaker was that there seemed to be no staff around, students in uniform, was it controlled or uncontrolled. Is this an example that principals or the school wants the global audience to see. As this could be one of the first impressions that people get of New Zealand schools.

How does it affect
  • students
  • teachers
  • parents
  • principals
Who allowed the content to be put up, who owns the content?
What can be done to stop this from going up?

It was pointed out by the audience that this is getting students participating, that schools are multicultural and that this reduces that fighting in the playground. Others point out that the school has to set aside lunchtimes for this to happen as it causes problems with the duties as many students hang around to watch the krumping and other teachers have no students to
supervise on duty. There is worse stuff on youtube, today i had an example told to me of a fight at polyfest where a student was on the ground getting the s**t kicked out of him. There is also "Happy Slappy" fake fights put up and students in class in full school uniform putting there foot in their mouth. But it comes back to who allowed the content to be put up in the first place.
Now this isn't the video that was shown, but it shows a Krumping session at Tangaroa College in South Auckland

Krump session

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