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Outeach Coordinator role begins!

admin May 1, 2018 Uncategorized No Comments
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 to my new role at Victoria University, Wellington as the Outeach Coordinator for School of

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Book review of Invent to learn – Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager

admin September 4, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

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) which could be used across all subjects. While recently clearing my old resources, I took

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Programming language choices for the future!

admin July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

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 long course spread over a range of Achievement Standards. With Python and Javascript in the

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Testing the Edison v2.0, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and the mBot

admin May 26, 2017May 29, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

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 a box) is a daunting task at times for a teacher of Digital Technology. Over

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Digital Door transformation 

admin May 18, 2017May 26, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

So I have been thinking about this for a really long time and finally made it happen with some help from friends and colleagues. Designed a simple vector graphic on Adobe Illustrator with the Maori translation of Digital Technology Lab

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Things you can do in the first few weeks of school.

admin February 13, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments

Welcome 2017 . A frantic start to the year which finally seems to be settling down and I can blog my first post for the academic year. Along with a new challenge of teaching Year 7 and 8 Science, I

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Green Screen (Chroma Key) techniques for classroom animation

admin September 22, 2016September 22, 2016 Stop Motion No Comments

I’ve been wanting a permanent green screen setup in class for a really long time now! For the last few years I have been using a polyester screen hanging off a wall mount with pegs. It was flimsy, always crumpled

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5 uses of old computers

admin August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 5 Uses of old computers No Comments

At the end of a big upgrade, we had a whole bunch of Intel Core 2 Duo machines left over. They were stable machines with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of hard drive space. Still pretty solid to run Windows

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Stop Motion / Time Lapse Movie Making Activity ( Juniors)

admin May 12, 2016 Stop Motion No Comments

Stop motion animation is one of my favorite topics to teach at year 9. It gives students a lot of freedom to imagine and storytell along with learning technicalities in basic movie making.   I have an interesting way to

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Google Classroom update

admin March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 Classroom Management No Comments

For a second year in a row, Google Classroom is proving to be a highlight in delivering and managing content for my classes. It’s highly simplistic interface and effectiveness makes it a strong frontrunner in learning management systems. Ultranet on the

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DreamWorks Exhibition at Te Papa Museum Wellington.

admin March 4, 2016March 7, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

[easymedia-gallery med=”73″ filter=”1″]On 2 March the year 9 – 10 students went to the DreamWorks exhibition at Te Papa Museum in Wellington. This exhibition showcased design work made by the international animation company famous for its movies like ‘Shrek’, ‘Kung

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Every DIT teacher’s handy USB kit

admin February 19, 2016February 19, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

The annoying thing I do now (since the advent of Google search) is Google everything. Even when I have downloaded the files recently! ( I know I have downloaded it because when the next file downloads, it shows as filename(1).fileextension)

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