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Creating a Technology program with Google Apps for Education
Years 7-8 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot
Papatoetoe Intermediate now has its entire graphic design and modelling program available online to students and teachers through Google sites and Google docs. This initiative was originally brought about by HOD Technology and Specialization Kobus Van Schalkwyk to solve some limitations with their ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Google-Apps-Papatoetoe.htm
Year 13 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
Gemma Proebst created a military uniform with a difference. It referenced not only historic military fashion, but also Norse mythology, Gothic fashion, science fiction and magic.
Gemma's client, Mike Rayson, belongs to the Army Group Centre, a military history society with a focus on World W...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/Unique_military_uniform-Motueka.htm
Sustainable innovative play tent
Year 13 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
For her Year 13 Soft Materials technology project, Zoe Eccles from Kaikorai Valley College created a custom outdoor play tent for her younger sister, using sustainable materials and construction techniques, and strong artistic elements in its design. Her project won her an Outstanding New Zealand S...
Professional cookie development
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Sancta Maria College students Alex Rooza, Chelsea Couchman, Elliott Diver and Summer Brooke created a nutritious and convenient breakfast replacement cookie for their year 13 food Technology project. The development of the cookie was done as part of the 2011 NZIFST/CREST Student Product Development...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Breakfast-cookie-Sancta-Maria.htm
Kiwi Ingenuity: A book of New Zealand ideas and inventions
Teaching Practice - Resource Review
Author Bob Riley collected 58 stories of “kiwi ingenuity” from the 1800s through to the early 1990s. Some are well known, such as Bill Hamilton's jet boat and Richard Pearse's convertiplane, while others, Riley says, were long forgotten by most people. Cecil Wood, for example, developed the first N...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Book-Kiwi-Ingenuity.htm
Digital Technology - Resource Review
Technology has changed the way we access the media, and Radio New Zealand (RNZ) listeners can now choose how and when they listen to a programme. Created in 2005, the RNZ website began providing podcasts (free of charge) of some broadcasts, in 2006. In 2008, the decision was made that none of the m...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/RadioNZ-podcasts.htm
Year 7-10 Electronics - Student Showcase
Caitlyn's dog, Mishka, refuses to drink out of a bowl and insists on drinking from the bath tap. This is annoying for the humans of the household – somebody has to turn the tap on and off – and potentially dangerous for Mishka, who sometimes has to wait for Caitlyn or her parents to come home befor...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Water-Dog-Caitlyn.htm
Years 11-13 Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
After five years' research and development, Mr Ryan launched the YikeBike at the Eurobike trade fair in 2009. Weighing just over 10 kilograms (kg), it's the world's lightest, smallest, folding electric bike. It is also arguably the most unconventional. Quite simply, it's an electric penny farthing.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Re-inventing-the-wheel
Bone carving - integrating socio-cultural practice
Year 7-8 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Ian Mustard developed a bone carving unit for his 2011 Technology Māori immersion classes. The unit combined elements of Planning for Practice and Modelling with strategies picked up from Ministry of Education papers on teaching Māori students.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Bone-Carving-Phillipstown.htm
Year 8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
With Sidney Mead's 1961 book The Art of Maori Carving as a reference, Russell developed a Year 8 unit around a context of traditional Polynesian carving in which students would develop their own patu. The unit was specifically designed to introduce Maori culture into a Resistant Materials programm...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/patu-oamaru.htm
Years 7-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
Designing is a UK magazine for teachers and students of Technology and Design that features interesting and innovative Technology projects from students, schools and designers.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Magazine-Designing.htm
Year 11 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot
Year 11 Digital Technologies (DT) students created websites about cyber safety during an eight-week unit.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Riccarton-Cyber-safety-website.htm
Years 9-13 Graphics - Teaching Snapshot
Design and Visual Communication (DVC) teachers at Rangitoto College have developed some new strategies to improve the dynamism and effectiveness within their students' sketching techniques.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Rangitoto-Sketching-techniques.htm
Year 12 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Year 12 Food Technology students Sarah Adam and Danielle Sutherland are both athletes and know that good nutritional recovery directly after exercise is vital. They found that existing sports bars in the market didn't meet their needs and decided to create their own 'repair and recovery' sports bar...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Racey-Recovery-sports-bar.htm
Years 9-11 Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Soulo is a convenient, single serve wine sold in unbreakable PET plastic glasses, a packaged product developed by Auckland-based entrepreneur Kerry Johnston in January 2010.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Soulo/index.cfm
Year 8 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
Meghann North worked across several Technology areas when she developed a recipe book made with hand-crafted paper.
Meghann enjoys baking, which she does weekly, so chose this as her context when asked to develop paper and create a book. She decided that a recipe book would be a useful outco...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/hand-made-book-st-Hildas.htm
Establishing continuity in Year 9 Technology
Year 9 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
A trial Year 9 Technology course, in which each class was taught by one teacher for four modules, proved so successful that it has been established as part of the school Technology programme.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Establishing-continuity-Year-9-Heretaunga.htm
Year 13 Electronics - Student Showcase
Mount Roskill Grammar student William Quach successfully created an advanced telephone exchange system for a large family home for his Year 13 Technology project.
William's client was a student irritated by unwanted phone calls in his bedroom while trying to study. This problem was particula...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Smart-Telephone-Exchange.htm
Year 10-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
The Tech Ideas NZ website was created by Bill Collis from Mount Roskill Grammar School as a resource for students studying electronics from Year 10 and upwards and teachers interested in implementing their own Electronics programs.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Website-Tech-Ideas-NZ.htm
Year 11 Graphics - Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 11 students at Westlake Girls' High School designed a dressing table inspired by a chosen designer, in a successful 19-week trial unit designed to implement the newly-aligned 2011 Technology standards.
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1201.htm
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