@dttanz

Digital Technologies Teachers Aotearoa is an association with the goal of advocating for our subject

dtta.org.nz
Joined July 2012
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Two years later, @SiouxsieW and I have updated this old thing. Stay as safe as we can, look after each other. Full piece on @TheSpinoffTV here - thespinoff.co.nz/science/27-…
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One of the projects the UC CSERG (Dept of fun stuff) been working on is now live! Thank you to our beta testers and everyone who attended our face to face sessions over the past 5 years, it's your feedback and what we learnt with you that helped us edx.org/course/teaching-comp…
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If you are a teacher in NZ and find yourself with a greater workload next week due to some of your colleagues being absent, flick me a message and I am happy to try to organise to video call your class to talk about space, or hold a session for NCEA physics or calculus students.
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🚀🏫 Our @RocketLab Space Ambassadors School registration form is now live and ready for lift-off! If you know educators who would be keen to register their school or community group as part of the Space Ambassadors Program, send them this link/RT: eepurl.com/hKHp2T
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wanting to do practice the sorting network at home over the holidays? Maybe make your own for the classroom? We have an easy DIY video on how to make your own sorting network mats! we have to make a few hundred of these for our world record attempt!: zcu.io/FZyc
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Thinking of educators everywhere doing the mahi in ever-challenging times and contexts, on this the 100th Birthday anniversary of one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century: Paulo Freire #GoogleDoodle via @GoogleDoodles google.com/doodles/paulo-fre…
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Please support @HPSS who are raising funds to fight cancer by being part of Shave for a Cure. This is dear to our heart as we lost a dear colleague @gmacmanus just over a year ago to this disease. If you can help in any small way please go to link. givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser…

Maurie (Not much hair left) but going bald for lost friends

Participating in Hobsonville Point Shave for CanTeen

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All 12-15 year olds in NZ are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine if accompanying their parent to their vaccine appointment or from Sept 1st if not. 9 million teens have had the shot already, parents can read more about it at: webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-… and hopkinsmedicine.org/health/c…
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👋 Hey Creative Commoners! We've put together a draft 'Statement of Principles Around License Enforcement' & we want your feedback 📝 Do these principles reflect your own values? Why/why not? How can we adapt them to better meet community expectations? creativecommons.org/2021/08/…

New License Enforcement Principles for Public Comment - Creative Commons

For several years, Creative Commons has been monitoring an alarming increase in enforcement actions relating to CC licenses. Today, we are announcing the next phase of our evolving response to this...

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For the Gerard MacManus Award for Excellence in Education, in partnership with @CITRENZ , we congratulate Rosalie Reiri!
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SCHOOLS ALERT! Who's keen to get students fixing things in Term 3/4?! (especially Hamilton)
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🔵 CSS Animation Overview 🔵 CSS Animations make animating web UI elements simple. You can achieve many animations without needing any JS or external packages and can be done straight away with vanilla CSS. Let's break down CSS animations. 👇 🧵 1/14
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Irony is people attacking teachers by saying that they “don’t care about the kids,” when, for many of us, the ONLY reason we stay in education (in spite of the impossible expectations, low pay, unpaid hours, buying supplies, etc.) is because we care so much about our students.
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Ka rawe tāku wiki! He kōrero, he manaaki, he aroha! Ngā Arohanui ki a koutou! To everyone who shared their non-contact time with us at #araako and #dthmforkaiako we hope you have been as inspired as you have inspired us! Enjoy a well deserved rest and lets grow ideas together.
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These conferences #AraAko #dthm4kaiako would not have happened without @gmacmanus and his thinking. Thank you for your mahi and know that you are still missed greatly.
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Register for our last Teaching with Tinkercad webinar, all about Circuits. Educators Dori Friedman (@dorifriedman) and Becky Stern (@bekathwia) will show us how they teach micro:bit and @Arduino using Tinkercad Circuits. autodesk.com/campaigns/educa…
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Check out this proposed design for a Lego Women of Computing set! ideas.lego.com/s/p:3bf5b46c6…
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Replying to @gmacmanus
@gmacmanus @ArnikaMac Thank you Gerard for your help with this project, so grateful for your mahi.
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New digital skills report lays things pretty bare: we’re doing a crap job of investing in our people. Time to do something about it. techblog.nz/2449-New-Digital…
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I presented a session about DT&HM Online for NCEA to a great group of #digitaltechnologies teachers and #lifelonglearners this week at @CS4HS_AUT. It's rewarding being able to share such a great resource, free to NZ schools.
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