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

For the reopening of the pumphouse at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MoTaT), Nextspace provided a 3D animation which shows the mechanical operation of the beam engine and pumping system.

The pumphouse and beam engine are an important heritage site for Auckland. Prior to 1877, the citizens of Auckland had very inadequate water supplies and suffered huge losses from major fires in the city. In 1874 William Errington (1832 – 1894), an engineer trained in United Kingdom, was commissioned by Auckland City Council to design the Western Springs Pumping Station with associated pipelines and reservoirs. Coal fired boilers operated a steam engine driving a 16.3 tonne, 6.25m diameter flywheel and 7.3m beam operated twin pumps raising up to 13,600m3 water per day, 71.6 m to the Ponsonby Reservoir.

This system brought huge health benefits to the city when first commissioned in March 1877. The pumps served Auckland until 1910 when adequate water from the Waitakere Ranges became available. From 1920, when the springs showed significant signs of pollution, they were used in emergency only and heavily chlorinated. By 1936 it was recommended the machinery be scrapped and the original boilers were removed in the following year.

Example of student work using 3D model downloaded from Google 3D Warehouse and animated using Deep Exploration.

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.

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.