Hello Sydney. Good to be back, this time for a digital technology teachers conference called ACCE2018. I arrived in time for the registration on Tuesday […]
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My South Island Outreach!
Nelson Inspire – an annual 2 day maker workshop in South Island NZ. This annual event is hosted by Ministry of Inspiration, an educational company […]
Continue readingSoldering skills: a gateway to science and electronics
On 6 – 7 August, 84 Year 7 and Year 9 students at Chanel College Masterton, NZ were busy soldering away a circuit board custom […]
Continue readingMicro:bit and Kitronik Buggy kit – User review
At $22 for a Micro:bit which has a Bluetooth, Accelerometer and capacitive touch sensors, I wouldn’t, for a moment, doubt its usefulness in a class […]
Continue reading3D Scanning for Under $50
After reading a number of articles(and trying it out myself), I am convinced that the old Xbox 360 Kinect sensor can easily be used as […]
Continue readingLesson 2 – Servos and Lesson 1 Intro to Arduino -Fixed
PS: Lesson 1 attachment is now fixed. It was messed up as I made half the file in PowerPoint and then transferred it to LibreOffice. […]
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Outeach Coordinator role begins!
And so its official! The school holidays, which is a period of rest for most teachers (well, atleast some of it) was my official start […]
Continue readingBook review of Invent to learn – Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
Seven years ago, I was teaching Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint to my Year 11 Digital Technology students. It was an important skill (I believed) […]
Continue readingProgramming language choices for the future!
One of my goals is to compile a ‘Full stack Developer’ course option for students of Year 11-13 which will most likely be a year […]
Continue readingTesting the Edison v2.0, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and the mBot
Teaching students the basics of coding using modular components which are relatively easy to ‘put together’(in a lesson) as well as ‘put away’ (tidily in […]
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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