Great to see these posters that the students have developed to help with a Unity in Diversity campaign at school. It has been great to see the images that they have used have been their own and shows our school and community throughout.
Thursday 28 September 2017
Thursday 21 September 2017
Thinking about different assessment ideas
Adobe have released a great idea in getting students to think about User Experience.
What a great idea for an open assessment task for student.
Design a landing page (web or mobile) on the theme “Making an Impact.” You are welcome to interpret the theme how you wish—whether your page is devoted to how you make an impact, to what makes an impact on you, or to a related topic. (If you use photographs or illustrations in your landing page, please use only those that you have taken yourself or you have the right to use.
What a great idea for an open assessment task for student.
Design a landing page (web or mobile) on the theme “Making an Impact.” You are welcome to interpret the theme how you wish—whether your page is devoted to how you make an impact, to what makes an impact on you, or to a related topic. (If you use photographs or illustrations in your landing page, please use only those that you have taken yourself or you have the right to use.
Monday 11 September 2017
Ordering coffee in Maori
Looking forward to using this with my next school coffee order.
Place names
Pronunciation Guide
All of these are available from http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/resources/?year=2017
Friday 8 September 2017
Playing with RFID, next stages
It has been something that I have played with on and off since 2014, when I was looking at developing a project for my previous school. It has been something that I have been waiting for the technology to catch up so we can start doing some cool projects with.
Since the early days with sparkfun and a simple rfid to serial board, now through to simultaneous rfid readers now. It has been a journey of discovery and challenge. Now playing with tags that I can write specific data to.
The challenge has been to thinking how to deal with the data. In some ways, I need a way to test this in a live environment. Just to gather data to be able to go through and learn how to manage it, to store it. How to do this live and filter the captured data.
I have been starting to think about how to deal with it and been finding some algorithms to do with it.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/2016/7107914/
Update: Raspberry pi has been ordered to bring the next stages of this into action.
Reading up how to pass the information from the arduino through to pi, using pyserial. http://www.instructables.com/id/Interface-Arduino-to-MySQL-using-Python/
Although I have done this with a previous project, it has been good to go thought this again to remind myself.
I also have to find the usb battery to run this, It has a 2A connection on it to run the reader.
Since the early days with sparkfun and a simple rfid to serial board, now through to simultaneous rfid readers now. It has been a journey of discovery and challenge. Now playing with tags that I can write specific data to.
The challenge has been to thinking how to deal with the data. In some ways, I need a way to test this in a live environment. Just to gather data to be able to go through and learn how to manage it, to store it. How to do this live and filter the captured data.
I have been starting to think about how to deal with it and been finding some algorithms to do with it.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/2016/7107914/
Update: Raspberry pi has been ordered to bring the next stages of this into action.
Reading up how to pass the information from the arduino through to pi, using pyserial. http://www.instructables.com/id/Interface-Arduino-to-MySQL-using-Python/
Although I have done this with a previous project, it has been good to go thought this again to remind myself.
I also have to find the usb battery to run this, It has a 2A connection on it to run the reader.
Monday 4 September 2017
Digital Technologies, programming NCEA 2016
One of the areas that I am interested in each year, is what is the condition of programming in New Zealand Schools.
While it has been going up year upon year, with 5884 students taking NCEA Level One programming in 2016. Up from 3246 when the standards was introduced in 2011. What does this look like nationally.
There are 430 schools that teach Technology at NCEA levels in New Zealand in 2016. I have used that as the base information.
The above map shows the areas of the country where Level One, Level Two and Level Three are taught.
While it has been going up year upon year, with 5884 students taking NCEA Level One programming in 2016. Up from 3246 when the standards was introduced in 2011. What does this look like nationally.
There are 430 schools that teach Technology at NCEA levels in New Zealand in 2016. I have used that as the base information.
The above map shows the areas of the country where Level One, Level Two and Level Three are taught.
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