A simple modular design with a specific function.
An interesting concept with some Sketchup modelling which may be useful to show students.
Author: Mr Sully
Mr Sully is an educator in Canberra Australia. He teaches Industrial Technology, Design, Computing, Graphics and Construction. He’s trying to use this blog and Twitter to promote Design and Technology education and all the good things we do.
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Wonderful video
I really appreciate this video. It really expresses someones passion for craftmanship and love of learning.
Christmas is getting closer
Mudgee High Graphics students are becoming pretty adept at using our Roland GX24 vinyl cutter and Adobe Illustrator. Here are the recent signs made for a local Rotary Club for their Christmas shindigs. Signs were completed on 900×600 corflute sheets and will be pinned up locally, all proceeds going back into the TAS faculty to buy more materials. A special thanks to all the students who helped, especially Cody D, Michael H and Alyx P who proved to be excellent weeders, and fantastic setting out and applying of the vinyl. Any local sign shops in Mudgee looking for part time assistants, just contact me at the High School.
The Boomerang…
A new poster for your Design & Technology room. Start a conversation with your students.
Download the poster by clicking the image above.
World’s first 3D Photo Printing Booth
In a world first on November 24th in Harajuku Japan people will be able to have their image taken and receive a miniature replica of themselves. WOW!
World's first 3D Photo Printing Booth
In a world first on November 24th in Harajuku Japan people will be able to have their image taken and receive a miniature replica of themselves. WOW!
Timber Pencil Box
Get students to use Sketchup and draw up a Pencil Box with a sliding lid.
Download the Pencil Box Sketchup tutorial PDF
Old timber puzzle project
Graphic Novels for reluctant readers
I got a few emails over the week asking for more info about Graphic Novels for boys. I have this handout (linked below) I made to use at a presentation way back in 2007. A lot has changed since then in the way media is consumed. I read more comics now than I did but I read them via my iPod, tablet or phone which has made them more affordable, more accessible and for the young person new to graphics novels, easier to comprehend via the new technologies of guided viewing.
A difficult aspect of introducing panel based stories (even more confusing with some Manga style comics as they read back to front) is young people who’ve never read one have difficulty with the order of reading. Which panel do I look at first and within that panel what order do I read the dialogue? Guided view is used in my favourite comic reading App, Comixology. This app is on IOS, Android and Chrome and will do all the hard work for the reader by scrolling and panning to consecutive panels and even into text where it needs to. At the moment my 6 year old son and I are reading Bone via a mix of my old copy and the new e-version in colour on my Nexus 7.
I started the literacy program at my previous school when I asked for some money to buy a box of comic books for my roll call group and it went from there. It was an interesting learning exercise but be aware, comics ain’t what you may think they are. Comics can be dark and they can be brutal. Topics they cover are not always suitable for schools or children, however, for a reluctant reader especially boys, a little gore or dark humour can be the spark of engagement for a lifelong appreciation of reading, mine being Judge Dredd and the 2000 A.D weekly comic back in the 80’s.
Keep an eye out for graphic novels from literary classics such as Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Stephen Kings Dark Tower and even Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Old photos found!
One of the first posts on this blog was the famous Mudgee jeep project we build during Stage 4 Industrial Tech Timber – Toy making. Find the link to the post here which contains the drawings and the 3d model. Here’s a picture I just found (the only one in focus) of a student project from about 2008/9 sitting in a folder just gathering virtual dust. Other photos in this folder contain a fuzzy Mr Wheeler pulling a face and various fuzzy shots of students working.
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