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Cultivating Student Leadership in the Flipped Classroom
No full textThis paper outlines the design and implementation of an educational approach to cultivate student leadership in a flipped classroom by facilitating a positive learning relationship between the learner and the facilitator through shared leadership and flexible assessments. The aim is to enable learners to abandon the notion of the teacher being the ‘sage on the stage’ and adapt to learning accomplished through interaction. Such an environment enables learners to actively contribute towards their success by taking ownership of their learning. The paper describes the findings of a learner-centred educational approach implemented for an IT Mathematics module run in the flipped classroom model. Student performance over five consecutive occurrences of the module was compared – the first three were prior to implementing the said approach; and the last two implemented the student leadership approach. Early qualitative and quantitative results of the student leadership approach indicate improved student performance and student satisfaction. Students have requested that this model be implemented in more modules
Aerodynamic effect of Polo Helmet — A CFD study
No full textPolo is a long-established sport that was originally a training program for cavalry. This sport is now popular all over the world, and there are more than 80 members state in the Federation of International Polo.
Polo is also a fierce outdoor sport. It is characterized by the combination of human and animal abilities to form a unique team-to-team confrontational sport. Horses weighing up to 500 kilograms run at speeds of 55 kilometers per hour (Neumayr & Schmitt, 2019, p. 40), and riders transfer this energy to the ball through their sticks. Because of the inherent characteristics of this sport, athletes are often injured in competitions and training. The injuries related to the head often causes serious consequences. Therefore, sports helmets are essential equipment for polo athletes. Although there are already many helmet products for polo on the market, they do not fully meet people's requirements.
The project aims to design a new sports helmet to protect polo players, as well as fulfill other various needs
On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements
No full textWith Kai Arne Hansen (co-editor). On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements explores the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors cover genres as diverse as mainstream pop, instrumental synthwave, and amateur ukelele groups, while also considering the music’s relationship to technological developments, various media and material(itie)s, and personal and social identity, all drawing on a range of methodologies and theoretical positions from contemporary popular music research. The book’s three major sections address wider theoretical and analytical issues (“Broad Strokes”), familiar repertoire or concepts from a new perspective (“Second Takes”), and meanings that arise from music’s connections with other media forms (“Audiovisual Entanglements”)
Sweet Charity (Musical director)
No full textMusical director/conductor for Hamilton Operatic Society's season of Sweet Charity, 3rd July to 6th July 2019, at Clarence Street Theatre, Hamilton
Mum's Kitchen
No full textAn original musical about three brothers returning home to the family farm for their mother's funeral.
Book – Kyle Chuen, Nic Kyle, Scot Hall
Words – Nick Braae, Kyle Chuen, Nic Kyle
Music – Nick Braae and David Sidwell
Orchestrations – Jeremy Mayall
The show was performed 22-23 August 2019 at the Meteor Theatre with a cast of three professional actors from New Zealand (Kyle Chuen, Scot Hall) and Canada (Nic Kyle). After positive reviews, the show will continue its development for further performances in 2020.
The work was directed by David Sidwell, musically directed by Nick Braae, with Braae and Jeremy Mayall performing in the six-piece ensemble
This student has IT in her jeans
Get PDFThis was a collaborative project between fashion and IT students. A fashion student created denim backpacks using up-cycled denim from jeans. She wanted to create a tracking system for the denim used. I met with an IT tutor to co-ordinate her students working on developing an App to track the denim
Bring the bird music back across New Zealand part of Smart Hamilton Smart Space
Get PDFEvery day, all around New Zealand, the dawn chorus tells us that our birdlife is one of our greatest treasures. Yet, New Zealand’s native birds are under threat from introduced predators such as possums, rats and stoats. How can modern information technology help to solve this problem
Bring him home: Orchestration
No full textSuper Stars - The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber & Friends, Directed by Kyle Chuen, Musical Director Victoria Trenwith, Choreographer Leona Lenore Robinson, Repetiteui David Hall.
Orchestration for 'Bring Him Home' - David Sidwel
WeChat and the facilitation of collaborative learning, teacher-support and student-reflection: the NZCEL EAP scenario
Get PDFWeChat and the facilitation of collaborative learning, teacher-support and student-reflection: the NZCEL EAP scenario In the last couple of decades, the increased use of technology in the education sector has led to smartphone use becoming more prevalent in supporting students’ learning. Apart from apps specifically designed for educational purposes, there are also other messaging applications that are not specifically designed for education purposes, but that could be really useful in supporting learners, including the messaging apps Whatsapp and Wechat. For the purposes of this project, Wechat was used as the messaging app, partly because of the prevalence of use with the cohort of language learning students chosen for the project.
Research into the use of Wechat as an educational support tool has largely focused on usage in China and some studies such as that conducted by Jian and Li (2018) on linking up learners of Chinese in Australia with native Chinese speakers. However, there does not appear to be any research on the use of Wechat to establish a supportive and collaborative environment for English Language Learners in an English as another language environment.
This presentation reports on the initial findings of a pilot study which aimed to evaluate the use of WeChat as a tool to facilitate collaborative, supportive and reflective learning for students in a New Zealand Certificate in English Language (NZCEL), Level 4 Academic course, within an EAP tertiary environment. The findings focus on the participants’ views of the app as a tool for peer-support, teacher-support, students sharing knowledge (collaboration) and reflection. Data was gathered through an online survey, semi-structured interviews and an analysis of the Wechat posts. Analysis of the Wechat posts and comments made by students during the interviews suggest that the tool formed a vital link between them, their classmates and teachers, at times serving as a social platform underlying the key educational purposes. This research aims to offer new insights into the use of a socio-cultural theoretical approach, incorporating a smartphone app. such as WeChat as a supporting tool for language learning, student collaboration, reflection and support
Teaching oracy: Skills for life
Get PDFTeaching oracy: speaking skills for life
Is it possible to teach speaking skills in contexts which will be meaningful and relevant to students’ ongoing professional and social needs, while at the same time working to develop the skills required in an English for Academic Purposes class? This paper will consider the role of metacognitive knowledge in achieving that outcome, in teaching and learning processes in a Level 5 New Zealand Certificate in English Language (NZCEL) class.
It will examine three dimensions of metacognitive knowledge: person, task and strategy, in the acquisition of speaking skills (Flavel 1979, Wendon 1991 cited in Goh & Burns 2012). It will also reflect on the role of oracy, which includes the ability to engage with learning through the spoken language, in the development of abilities to explore, develop and evaluate ideas and opinions, skills that are important in academic English (Barnes 1988, cited in Goh & Burns 2012).
It will explore tasks designed to develop metacognitive knowledge and awareness of required listening and speaking skills. It will examine teaching processes that provide opportunity for students to develop speaking skills, in groups and individually, and for the tutor to provide feedback to individual students, in areas of pronunciation, intonation and stress, and articulation of ideas. It will focus on a series of Language in Use tasks which systematically integrate development of metacognitive knowledge and awareness while aiming to engage students in inquiry about and practice of producing language which is accurate and appropriate to the context.
Goh, C., & Burns, A. (2012). Teaching speaking; A holistic approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press