2020 is a year of challenges for New Zealand schools embracing the new ‘Digital Technology curriculum integration’ initiative from the government. The challenge being most […]
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CS4HS_VUW – Digital Technology teacher conference
The best(and most popular) response I get in my feedback when asked, “Why did you need this conference?” was to network with other teachers and […]
Continue readingSpace and Science Festival – Rocket Soldering Kit
This kit was designed as an electronics activity for the Space and Science festival at Onslow College held a few years ago. As the website […]
Continue readingSTEAM Teachers Education to Employment day
This joint effort between the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Education and ECS Outreach, VUW was held on 12 November 2019 at Victoria University. The […]
Continue readingBuilding a learning space for students
After my two week trip of New York, Providence and Rhode Island, along with combining a few comments from Makerspaces locally as well as schools […]
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Recycling Corflute in the classroom
I recently managed to get a bunch of large used Corflute sheets and I have been trying to find some purpose for them. Corflute is […]
Continue readingSAM labs Science Museum Inventor Kit review
I am one of those guys who signs up for all these newsletters from different companies for promotional stuff. Usually I get one a week […]
Continue readingMake an economical Drawbot / WiggleBot
I had a request from a Year 6 Classroom Teacher who wanted some EdTech activities incorporating art as a subject area. They have been focusing […]
Continue readingRC Car hack using the Microbit and Motor Driver Shield
In one of my previous posts, I showed my toy truck modified with an Arduino Uno and a motor driver. It’s a great way to […]
Continue readingMakerFaire Wellington and why we need more MakerFaire’s
Sunday 4 November 2018 was officially the first MakerFaire in Wellington. Since I have a subscription with the Make Magazine for a few years now, […]
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Outreach Newsletter
- ECS Outreach - Month of September September 17, 2019
- This is the default subject line August 4, 2019
- This is the default subject line June 30, 2019