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Whangaparaoa College Design and Visual Communication student projects
Years 11-13 Graphics - Student Showcase
Design and Visual Communications is a fundamental part of many aspects of design in Technology, assisting in the planning and prototyping of technological outcomes and helping to realise visual ideas and concepts effectively.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Graphics/Whangaparaoa-College-DVC.htm
Control that Robot PDF: Programming using the NXT robot
Years 7-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
This instructional PDF was created by Sandy Garner, a Professional Practice Fellow at Otago University's Computer Science Department, to assist with the basic programming of Lego's NXT robots using Lego Mindstorm software.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/NXT-robot.htm
Years 1-13 Graphics - Teaching Snapshot
D'Arcy Belfield, a recently-hired Hard Materials and Graphics teacher at Tokoroa High School, has developed a simple, affordable and effective tool that projects drawing straight from a Graphics teacher's drawing board onto the class whiteboard, using readily available hardware and software.
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www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/ICT-graphics-tool-Tokoroa.htm
CP1103: Implementing the Technology curriculum
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Classroom Practice Case Study
Oamaru Intermediate School Technology teachers (Art, Electronics, Hard Materials and Fabrics/Food) are enthusiastic about the changes they have made to their programme as the result of some intensive PLD. Together with TIC Technology Deidre Senior, they worked with National Technology Professional ...
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1103.htm
Year 7 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
As visitors to Oamaru stroll down the track from town to harbour they will appreciate the colourful border tiles, art work which also celebrates collaboration between school and community. Oamaru Intermediate School (OIS) Art Technology teacher Sue McLean developed a pilot Year 7 unit - From Play t...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/From-Play-to-Clay-Oamaru.htm
Experimental Cuisine Collective
Years 1-13 Food and Bio-related - Resource Review
Launched in 2007 by Kent Kirshenbaum (Chemistry) and Amy Bentley (Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health) of New York University and Chef Will Goldfarb, the Experimental Cuisine Collective includes scientists, chefs, writers, performance artists and food enthusiasts. Its stated aim is "to devel...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Website-Experimental-Cuisine-Collective.htm
Years 5-10 Teaching Practice - Resource Review
Author Deidre Senior, deputy principal and TIC Technology at Oamaru Intermediate School, led the implementation of the Technology Curriculum (2007) in her school. With help from National Technology Professional Development Facilitator Cheryl Pym, the Technology team did some intensive work in exami...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Technology-in-Action-books.htm
Years 6-8 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot
First year Technology teacher Simon Pearse established an extension Technology group at Waipawa Primary School where the students created and maintained a website to document and promote Technology Education in the school using a variety of software and media, with excellent results.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Website-TheTechnology-Block.htm
CP1102: Study Desk - A Product Design unit
Year 11 Graphics - Classroom Practice Case Study
In this case study we look in detail at a unit of work developed for the Design and Visual Communication Year 11 option at Long Bay College. In it students are asked to design, draw and render a homework work station for use in their senior years.
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1102.htm
Integrating the 'new' curriculum strands
Years 1-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
During the second half of 2010 Malcolm worked with a group of six teachers from four secondary schools in the Waikato / BOP region to assist them in their exploration of strategies to integrate the Nature of Technology and Technological Knowledge strands into their individual programmes.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Strategies-new-strands.htm
Specialist teachers in primary Technology
Years 1-10 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Karyn Thompson from Ellerslie School and Jeeva Padayachee from Robertson Road Primary are former classroom teachers who have successfully taken on the role of specialist Technology teacher. This teaching Snapshot looks at the challenges and successes of Karyn and Jeeva working within two very diffe...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/specialist-primary-teachers.htm
Design and Visual Communication in Textiles
Year 11 Graphics - Teaching Snapshot
With the alignment of the Technology subject areas - Design and Visual Communication, Construction and Mechanical, Digital Technologies and Processing Technologies - students now have the opportunity to work on generic standards, particularly useful for a Textiles programme as there are fewer Texti...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Design-Visual-Communication-in-Textiles.htm
Years 7-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
This wiki, run in conjunction with the Team Solutions website, was established by National Facilitator NCEA Technology Lesley Pearce to support Technology and Graphics teachers. It provides links, resources and practical information on junior and senior programmes, NCEA and effective pedagogy and l...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Technology-NZ.htm
Years 9-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
Australian TV programme The New Inventors (based on ABC TV's 1970s programme The Inventors) features inventors who present their outcomes to a judging panel. Some of these episodes are on this website, along with short (90 second) video clips in which individuals discuss why and how they developed ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/The-New-Inventors.htm
Digital Technologies: Computer Science Concepts
Years 9-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
This is a web based resource designed to develop understanding of the distinguishing concepts of algorithms and programming languages from Computer Science and Software Engineering. The material was prepared by a University of Canterbury team lead by Associate Professor Tim Bell, with additional fu...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Computer-Science-Concepts.htm
Year 9 Soft Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Faced with teaching Soft Materials in a Hard Materials workroom, Technology teacher Demelza Cusens chose to see it as a challenge rather than problem. "I thought that was a perfect opportunity to change people's perceptions about Soft Materials and so I took it from the textiles manipulation standp...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Theatre-set-rooves-Takapuna.htm
Years 11-13 Digital Technology - Technologists Practice Case Study
Increasingly, robotics and computer games are allowing people with disabilities to improve their quality of life. Changed attitudes toward disability have led to a shift in assistive technology which relies increasingly on cutting edge developments. Clinicians and policy-makers now recognise people...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/ICT/Game-Playing/
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
As part of the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES),a team of Fielding High School students (members of the Year 13 Food Technology class) created a company, Caffeinate Me, to develop a coffee-based, ready-to-drink, cold beverage for the Mojo Coffee chain that used environmentally friendly business practi...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Mojo-Caffeinate-Me.htm
Years 12-13 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Ross McDonald at Lytton High School created a successful go-cart unit for his Year 12/13 engineering course that is a hit with students and helps promote Technology within the school and the wider community.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Go-cart-project-Lytton.htm
Years 7-8 Food and Bio-related - Teaching Snapshot
The Gardens School's ICT/Poutama Teacher Christine Hansen took inspiration from a popular reality TV program to create a Technology challenge that utilised multiple skill areas while incorporating socio-cultural aspects of the broader technology curriculum.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Master-creator-challenge-Gardens-School.htm
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