Design – Mr Sully's Blog

Understanding Design PowerPoint & Media(included)

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Mr Sully

Here’s a useful little PowerPoint presentation that I’ve just cleaned up. Very useful task to start students on their path to product design. There are a lot of videos included (hence the largish file size) the reason I’ve not linked directly to the online streaming source is, I’ve found the these sort of links generally break (disappear) leaving you with a non functioning presentation within a few semesters. Just move the files to your own Google Drive or similar and relink them if you like.

But feel free to relink them to their original online sources.

Download the Zip file here.

3D Printing, cars, Design, OnShape, STEM

CO2 car design using Onshape

Posted on August 17, 2020March 27, 2022 by Mr Sully

Are you in the process of having students either building a CO2 race car, getting their head around using CAD or both. Well I have you covered with this simple step by step guide to create this little beauty. Simple instructions that have been used from year 7 to year 10. Here is a PDF document that shows the process to design a CO2 racecar using Onshape. Share your results.

Download the PDF here…

Graphics, Teacher resource

Design a Postage Stamp

Posted on June 8, 2014June 14, 2014 by Mr Sully

I’ve recently started to get interested in self contained units of work delivered by interactive PDFs. Here’s the design a Postage Stamp unit for my graphics class with a new tutorial which is shorter and clearer. Click on the Stamp below to download it. The pencil on page one controls the marking tools on page 7-8, you click the tip to show them and the eraser to hide them. Not that it’s a great concern if students figure this out, I’ll still mark it even if they have already self assessed. I mostly wanted to experiment with the possibilities of using layers in a PDF document. If anyone knows how to add security or permissions to individual layers I’d love to hear from you.

This document is full of my own self promotional rubbish (just delete it) sorry, if you would like access to the original InDesign documents just drop me a line and I’ll package it up and stick it in my Dropbox for you.