STEM Integration Specialist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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)