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Year 12 Soft Materials - Teaching Snapshot
In 2010, Queen Margaret College's Barbara Knight worked with the Museum of Wellington City and Sea on a project where students created a conceptual design for a prototype souvenir for the museum's gift shop.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/QMC-Local-Museum.htm
Year 11 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
Horses aren't usually interested in fashion but their owners are, so Alex McKee designed her 'bling' browband to appeal to young teenage girls involved in horse-riding.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Materials-soft/Horse-Browband-Alex-McKee.htm
Year 12 Electronics - Student Showcase
Ngaruawhaia High School student Alisha Campbell gave herself a deceptively complex challenge for her Year 12 Technology project - creating a cowboy shoot-out game using sophisticated electronics programming - that saw her win the NCET Category of the 2010 BrightSparks Awards.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Cowboy-shoot-out-game-Alisha.htm
Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Resource Review
Technology Journalist Peter Nowak investigated a range of consumer technologies which, he explains, are the result of military innovation adapted by the fast food and pornography industries - "...military money has funded the development of most of the modern items we use today". Nowak discusses ex...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/SBBurgers.htm
Oktobor Animation - High-flying CG artists
Years 9-13 Digital Technology - Technologists Practice Case Study
Oktobor Animation is an Auckland-based production company that specialises in creating high-quality 3D CGI animation for broadcast television. This case study looks at the work of this company in creating an animated television series, illustrating the large-scale animation production process, focu...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/ICT/Oktobor/
Year 13 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Stratford High School student Kelly West used unconventional approaches, determination and extensive lateral thinking to produce a unique outcome for Year 13 Technology project - a custom-made security safe for her father.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/safe-kelly-west.htm
Years 2-3 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Rosebank School's commitment to implementing the Technology curriculum throughout the school resulted in a very successful Years 2-3 unit - Lunchboxes. This proved a great introduction to Technology for the junior students and their interest was such that they followed up some areas of inquiry in m...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y01-06-Junior/Lunchbox-unit.htm
Grain Brains: Biodegradable planter pots
Year 10 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Finding environmentally friendly, sustainable and profitable uses for industrial waste products is an increasingly important issue for the business community both in New Zealand and overseas. This showcase focuses on the work done by Year 10 Kavanagh College Technology students Annabelle Weston, Ch...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Grain-Brains.htm
Years 7-8 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Concerned by the lack of metal technology units at intermediate level, as well as reports from industry about a lack of technically skilled graduates in this area, Edgecumbe College Technology HOD Steve Jeffares created a unit specifically to address these issues and to help support good technologi...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Working-with-metal.htm
Powerhouse Wind - Harnessing the zeitgeist?
Years 7-13 Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
This comprehensive case study looks at Dunedin company Powerhouse Wind and their horizontal axis plug-and-play wind turbine for home-use. After a profile of the company and the design of the turbine, the study details the development process of the Thinair 102 and concludes with in-depth interview ...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Powerhouse-Wind/
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Technology Teacher Heather Bonk's decision to 'revamp' the Year 7/8 Biotechnology course at Tauranga Technology Centre led her to learn about Rongoa Maori, set up a business and develop a new unit in which students could refer to the technological process she had followed.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Rongoa-Tauranga-Tech-Centre.htm
Inter-school Technology Challenge
Years 7-8 Food and Bio-related - Teaching Snapshot
Technology HODs Alison Wingrove from Belmont Intermediate and David Monk from Te Awamutu Intermediate, worked together to create a 'Technology Challenge' where teams from both schools competed to create technological outcomes in a quick-fire, 90-minute session, that condensed technological practice...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Inter-school-Technology-Challenge.htm
Project Cheer - electronic badges
Year 8 Electronics - Teaching Snapshot
Electronics students at Pakuranga Intermediate who developed electronic badges as gifts for hospitalised children were in no doubt as to the success of their work - their client asked the school for more badges because they were so popular.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Project-Cheer-Electronic-Badges.htm
C-Monster - award-winning chocolate milk sports drink
Year 11 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Wellington High School students Lillian Savage, Oska Rego, Emma Eames and Morgan Christy-Jones win the Lower North Island section of the NZIFST/CREST Student Product Development Challenge with their 'C-monster' milk-based sports-recovery drink.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/C-Monster.htm
Years 7-10 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Student creativity and innovation in Technology is exciting to see and justifiably celebrated. But developing a Technology programme that not only allows for student-led outcomes but expects them can be a challenge for many Technology teachers. This snapshot looks at some of the diverse strategies ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Managing-Student-Led-Outcomes.htm
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
As part of their involvement in the Years 7-20 Technology Project, Jan and Joyce developed a programme of learning which incorporated the Components of the new strands - Nature of Technology and Technological Knowledge. This, in turn, led to their trialling a new system of reporting.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/New-Reporting-System-Rosehill.htm
Digital animation - from concept to consumer
Years 11-13 Digital Technology - Technologists Practice Case Study
In 2009, established budget food supplier Pams began a comprehensive rebranding process. They wanted a completely new look to what was to be their first-ever television commercial, and it was the job of Jonny Kofoed, now director of Assembly Ltd, to come up with something special for them.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/ICT/Digital-Animation-Assembly/
Years 10-12 Digital Technology - Resource Review
Threadbanger, a New York City-based website, is aimed at young people interested in fashion, DIY and recycling. Content, mostly video clips, is updated often, provided by users.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/threadbanger.htm
Year 8 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
Bryony, Isla, Meg, and a fourth student were asked to create costumes for Raroa Intermediate's 2010 production 'Alice in Wonderland'. Their given brief informed them that they had to create a costume for as little cost as possible, and the students then developed their own design briefs to suit the...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/AliceInWonderland-Raroa-School.htm
Years 9-13 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot
A system of student blogs is set up by Terry Hawkings to document student Technology work, that have since taken the place of paper portfolios as student documentation. This Teaching Snapshot looks at the key advantages of this system to teachers, schools, and most importantly students, in supporti...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Wellington-High-Blogs.htm
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