The 3 weeks after the Schoolgen Sister Schools Day have gone by extremely quickly. I am working towards some major presentations in the next few weeks including one of the countries largest marae and to the entire staff at Genesis Energy in Green Lane. This has also entailed quite a bit of further research particularly [...]
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2nd – 3rd September: Spent two days focused purely on flash cs4 and actionscript 3.0 programming. Learning continuously but such a vast and technical subject it can feel a bit aimless or hard to find a direction especially when self-learning. Flash is both art and logic encapsulated in an alien language. A blend of graphic [...]
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The students were given an optional lunchtime activity where they used a mindmap I created showing some essential elements of an energy efficient “eco friendly” building. Using glossy fliers from building suppliers they had to find and cut out one picture relating to that aspect of the mind map and/or write a short sentence describing it. This was [...]
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Weeks of planning came to fruition. Maggie, Katie and myself had worked hard to get the first “sister schools” day off the ground. The day went very well and the two activities I had designed seemed to work and be enjoyed by almost all the students. According to the evaluation forms they particularly enjoyed the [...]
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- Schoolgen Sister School Activity – Outline- Students have 20-30 minutes to assemble a water-powered turbine (Pelton wheel) from pre-prepared items that could be used to drive a small electric generator. Suggested background to this activity- 1) Bring in partially disassembled F&P smart-drive washing machine- show the motor, remove the permanent magnet rotor, show the rotor [...]
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Aim of the Activity Students have 20 minutes to investigate visible light intensity (measured in “lux”) using a data logger with a built-in light sensor. Two aspects will be investigated (by separate sub-groups?)- How changing angle of the sensor to the light source affects light intensity (keep distance constant). How changing distance from the [...]
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