Lesson 2 – Servos and Lesson 1 Intro to Arduino -Fixed
PS: Lesson 1 attachment is now fixed. It was messed up as I made half the file in PowerPoint and then transferred it to LibreOffice. Attached with the article (Lesson…
Lesson 1 – Intro to Arduino – Year 10 Programme
PS: Download link is now updated with the fixed PowerPoint! Thanks for letting me know. Trying to continue what my predecessor(John Barrow) started with Arduino! A complete junior programme that…
LED fun
Outeach Coordinator role begins!
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…
Book review of Invent to learn – Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
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…
Programming language choices for the future!
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…
Testing the Edison v2.0, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and the mBot
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…
Digital Door transformation
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…
Things you can do in the first few weeks of school.
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…
Green Screen (Chroma Key) techniques for classroom animation
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…
5 uses of old computers
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…
Stop Motion / Time Lapse Movie Making Activity ( Juniors)
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…
Google Classroom update
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…