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Games in Education and Intro to Virtual Reality spaces

admin December 10, 2021May 13, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments
Games in Education and Intro to Virtual Reality spaces

This blog post has two videos; Games in Education by Simon McCallum and Intro to VR by Byron Mallett, both aimed at teachers in high school teaching digital technologies.

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Cybersecurity 101 – version 2

admin August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments
Cybersecurity 101 – version 2

Summary of the 2nd rendition of Cybersecurity 101 day held at VUW Kelburn campus.

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CardboardTronics and Microbits for educators

admin June 1, 2022June 1, 2022 Microbit No Comments
microbit workshop

Here is a short summary of my workshop in cardboardtronics with teachers. Attached is the video recording and a link to the powerpoint download.

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Doodly for classroom educators.

admin May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Classroom Software, Uncategorized No Comments
Doodly for classroom educators.

Nice software to make instructional videos; but you could easily get the entire Adobe suite and do a lot more for the price. Definitely not for classroom teachers.

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Outreach in Space!

admin August 31, 2021June 21, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments
Outreach in Space!

Not literally. But maybe someday. After learning about World Space Week (https://www.worldspaceweek.org/) in August, I thought an outreach event on this theme was calling, especially in Hawke’s Bay, where I was visiting for a week and its proximity to Rocket

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Servos with a cause, a webinar…

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Servos with a cause, a webinar…

Thinking about using a Microbit in the classroom? Want to create something animated to tell a story? Read this article to get the basics of setting up a diorama

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Cybersecurity 101 – An intro for high school students

admin July 7, 2021October 18, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments
Cybersecurity 101 – An intro for high school students

30 students from 15 colleges attended the Cybersecurity 101 day held at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington this week. As part of my overall agenda to increase diversity, I invited a mix of co-ed, girls and boys schools

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Holiday programmes

admin May 4, 2021October 19, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments
Holiday programmes

Holiday programmes are a fun way to keep kids engaged in activity. I had the opportunity to do a couple and learnt a lot.

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Robotics and AR as a combined activity

admin March 5, 2021October 18, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments
Robotics and AR as a combined activity

Recently we had the opportunity to run a STEM workshop at a biannual warplanes event called Wings over Wairarapa in Masterton NZ. There were about 5000 visiting on the STEM day and we had to plan for quick turn around

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Microbit Electric Garden

admin October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments
Microbit Electric Garden

The Microbit is a very versatile little computing module. You can learn how to code using the device, while also using it as an interface to connect to sensors, receive data and send instructions. It has become a very successful

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MIT App Inventor for Year 7 – 10

admin September 1, 2020August 3, 2021 Uncategorized No Comments
MIT App Inventor

We had the privilege to host Karen Lang, Business and Education Development Manager for MIT App Inventor, MIT, Boston. Two workshops, one in Wairarapa and the other in Wellington were held over consecutive days for teacher professional development. The sessions

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3D printing pen for fast prototyping in the classroom

admin July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments
3D pen

3D printing models in the classroom takes ages. Especially if your students decide to make some complex shapes which takes long hours to complete, so you decide to leave it on overnight just to realise one layer screwed up and

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