About wickED

What is wickED?

wickED is a quality-assured online environment for young people aged 7–12 year olds (years 3–8). You'll find engaging curriculum-based learning activities in English and te reo Māori here. The activities have a literacy, numeracy or ESOL focus, and students can use the activities in a independent or in a facilitated way. Go here for further teacher information.

What does our name come from?

We came up with the name ‘wickED’ by combining the first names of our virtual hosts Ed and Wiki. Their friend, Pasifika character Tipani, is also part of the family and is always ready to welcome students in, and to invite them to share their work.

What's on wickED?

We have interactives in English and te reo Māori here, together with online learning activities like crosswords and quizzes, an online storybook, story creation tools, a student gallery, and lots of student-centred themes and hot topics.

Our Place

In this area, you can find out what's new on the site.

Interactives

You can find a great range of online interactives and learning games here.

Themes and Hot topics

These provide a bundle of learning activities featuring several curriculum areas and a range of thinking and learning skills. We include suggested activities and research ideas. Hot topics are bite-size topics featuring a current event or happening.

Information Station

Explore this area to find links to:

• quality-assured maths and language websites
• suggested search engines
• an online dictionary and thesaurus, maps, atlases, online newspapers, encyclopedias
• New Zealand libraries
• search hints

Kokona Māori

This is a great way to find the Māori and te reo Māori resources available on wickED. These include:

• Māori interactives in te reo Māori
• Maths interactives in te reo Māori
• Tāngata rongonui – a collection of role models
• Kokona Rauemi – a collection of online Māori resources to help students with their schoolwork.

Pasifika

Students can go here to find out about people and places in the South Pacific or try an activity in a Pasifika language. These interactive resources include:

• Pasifika patterns – students can do an interactive activity teaching them about symmetry through tapa weaving patterns.
• Survival on Niu Island – students can save two kids who have crash landed on Niu Island.

Gallery

You'll find the Student Gallery and wickED TV here, featuring work sent in by students who have completed topic activities. Read how to contribute to the Student Gallery (Word 54KB) information about the video-making and editing process to find out more.

Cool Kiwis

Our host, Ed, regularly meets Cool Kiwis and interviews them for the site. Email us about who you'd like us to interview, and any questions you'd like us to ask.

For Parents

This part of wickED is especially for parents. We want to help you use the site with your children and to offer you ideas about the learning activities you can do here. Please contact us if you need any help at all.

wickED forums

Please leave messages or join the discussions on these new forums.

Newsletters

To sign up for our newsletters and keep abreast of new happenings and content on wickED, email us at wicked@wicked.org.nz.

Telephone tutorials, webinars and the like

Would you like us to provide a telephone-based tour of the site, or answer questions about the resources on the site, or maybe even a webinar with our team? Just contact us and we'll set something up for you. For a group tutorial, you'll need speaker phone close to your computer/s.

Please contact us

We really want you to get the most out of the site and are here to help. Please do contact us if you have any questions, need assistance, have ideas of what you'd like to see here, or would like a tutorial - we look forward to hearing from you. Email us at wicked@wicked.org.nz or call 04 382 6500.