Hi! I’m Kate Zarb – educator, creator (and total nerd).

Ko Maungatautari te maunga.
Ko Tainui te waka.
Ko Waikato te awa.
Ko Ngāti Raukawa te iwi.
Ko Kate Zarb taku ingoa.
Tēna koutou, Tēna koutou, Tēna koutou, katoa.

Work
I work where creativity, technology and education intersect, currently as Associate Teaching Fellow in the Department of Communications & Creative Arts at Deakin University.

I founded and run teachenglishonline.com.au to support and provide educational content for Australasian TESOL teachers pivoting online, ranking #1 on Google search.

Qualifications
> Master of Education (I.P) – University of Melbourne
> PGCertificate Education (TESOL) – UniSQ
> Bachelor of Arts (Digital Media & Education) – Deakin

Passion Projects
I create in a few guises, with my digital media project “Kae Zars From Mars” premiering at the 2024 New Zealand, Melbourne and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. It explored Artificial Intelligence (AI), colonisation, Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of The Spectacle‘ theory and Creative Commons media’s potential. Read more here.

I also have worked with the reclamation of digitised illustrations in the Public Domain via digital collage, focusing on materials of Māori imagery.

Lyttleton, 1800s, by Burton Brothers, Dunedin…Te Papa (O.034059).

Recent Blog

An audio-visual story of a Norwegian girl’s brave 1872 emigration from Norway to New Zealand, alone aged 17; and the life she made.

Karen Dorthea Andreasdatter Rummel Matheson (1854-1938)