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The Digital Technologies Symposium

Friday, December 17th, 2010

The Digital Technologies Symposium took place in Mangere, Auckland in mid-November. The Symposium was staged and sponsored in a partnership by the Ministry of Education, Cognition Education, and industry companies including Nextspace, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, NatColl, Renaissance and Toshiba, and additional support from Ace Computer Training, Datacom, Dreamcatcher, Instant Education Solutions, Kiwibots, and MIT.

This Symposium has been a close collaboration with the Ministry and Cognition, with advice from the subject matter teachers association, NZACDITT. The objective was to preview the new Digital Technology Curriculum that will be implemented first with Year 11, and provide teachers with useful material to assist with the new five strands, Computing & Programming, Digital Information, Digital Infrastructure, Digital Media, and Electronics.

Nextspace sponsored three prizes (a copy of Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration software plus training) – below are the winners:

Neil Leslie – Onslow College

Gerard McManus – Papatoetoe High School

Vilna Gough-Jones – Burnside High School

The Visible Body – 3D Human Anatomy

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The Visible Body is a complete 3D model of the human body:

  • muscular
  • digestive
  • circulatory
  • respiratory
  • urinary
  • nervous
  • skeletal systems.

The Visible Body is free to use – just register online and begin exploring this web delivered application.

Be sure to read the FAQ to cover further questions – such as student logins, future versions, etc…. This site has been developed by the team at Argosy, an education publisher.

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Create your own pinhole camera- from handheld to 3D

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Corbis is a “creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals worldwide” based in Seattle.

Corbis has created some great templates for Pinhole cameras that can be freely downloaded.

Move the lesson to the next level……
Once students have created their pinhole paper cameras move them into the visual 3D world.

Download a free 3D program such as Google SketchUp
and have the students design their own Pinhole Camera in 3D. Once they have completed that, import it into Deep Exploration and watch the magic. Students will be able to bring their Pinhole Camera to life. Students can learn what it is like to become digital instructional designer. Using Deep Exploration they will be able to tell/present their digital story on how their pinhole camera is put together what happens inside when the camera takes the picture – showing the end user how to use it.

This interactive 3D story can then be published in any of the Microsoft products (Word or PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat. Students can continue building their story around their interactive 3D story with further research (text) and 2D images.

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The Correspondence School End of Year Forum

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Nextspace’s Educational Strategist Brenda Frisk was the keynote speaker at The Correspondence School’s end of year forum ‘Fitting the Pieces Together’ on 12th December 2008 at Te Papa in Wellington.   A key theme at the 2008 forum was innovations in education and related fields.  www.correspondence.school.nz

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Catlins Area School Senior Prize Giving Guest Speaker

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Brenda Frisk spent a day at The Catlins Area School in Owaka providing a day long training session on how 3D software can be used and implemented into a variety of subject areas. Brenda was also guest speaker for the senior prize giving that evening.

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WelTec Nextspace Event

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Nearly 100 people attended an event at the Wellington Technical Institute to celebrate the launch of the WelTec Nextspace partnership.  Jointly hosted by WelTec and Nextspace, the evening focused on how 3D visualisation is making a real impact in both the education and commercial sectors.

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Deep Exploration donated as prize in Interface magazine competition.

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Allan Jon from The Catlins Area School was the lucky winner of a copy of Deep Exploration 5.5, donated by Nextspace, in an Interface magazine competition. Allan reported “I was delighted to win a copy of DE 5.5. I have been lucky enough to have access to a copy through school for the past few months. During that time I have really come to realise that DE is a tremendously powerful and useful piece of software that can be used in many ways to enhance teaching and learning across the school curriculum. I intend to put this copy to use at school also, so that a greater number of our students can begin exploring this wonderful technology. Thank you very much Nextspace. I am sure that many people within The Catlins Area School will gain much enjoyment from this copy of DE”.

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