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It’s all about THEM: Exploiting learners’ stories for adult ESOL beginners’ literacy development
Get PDFRegarding literacy development for lower level adult ESOL learners, finding the right teaching materials could be a challenge due to learners’ diverse cultural, educational, and personal backgrounds. Then, why shall we bother searching? Why don’t we, together with our learners, create our own resources, of them and for them? In this presentation, I will report on my experience of teaching English reading and writing to groups of adult beginners using their personal stories. All the learners are domestic students of migrants background, many refugees and some having received no formal education at all. The approach we employed is speaking and writing ‘out’ learners’ stories for them to read and further write about. It adopts the following procedure: Starting with a real life situation related to one or most learners, talking with learners and co-constructing a story about it, teacher drafting up the story as well as creating quick follow-up exercises, learners reading the story and doing the exercises (individually and collaboratively, silently and verbally), and finally learners following the pattern and writing up their own stories. I have been using this approach, with modifications based on reflection, for three circles with a hundred students or so, and have found it effective, desirable and feasible; and feedback from students has been much positive and encouraging
Strength and reaction time capabilities of New Zealand polo players and their association with polo-playing handicap
Get PDFPolo is an equestrian team sport consisting of four players per team, with level of play determined by cumulative player handicap (−2 to +10 goals), with a higher handicap denoting a better player. There is minimal literature investigating Polo players’ physical attributes, hence the understanding of the physical characteristics that may contribute to an improved handicap are unknown. This study sought to identify the relationship between pertinent strength measures (left and right hand grip strength; absolute and relative isometric mid-thigh pull) and reaction time in Polo handicap in 19 New Zealand Polo players, and ascertain whether handicap could be predicted by these measures. Correlation coefficients were expressed using R values, accompanying descriptors and 90% confidence intervals (C.I.). Variance explained was expressed via the R2 statistic, and statistical significance set at p < 0.05. Right hand grip strength, isometric mid-thigh pull values were found to significantly correlate to and explain variance within Polo player handicap (all moderate to large correlations; p < 0.05). Whereas left hand grip strength (R: 0.380; 90% C.I. −0.011 to 0.670) and reaction time (0.020; −0.372 to 0.406) were non-significant, moderate and trivial correlates and predictors of handicap respectively. Practically, these findings highlight the differing roles between rein and mallet hands of Polo players and emphasise the importance of a strong and stable platform when riding and striking the ball. Lack of association with reaction time may be explained in part by higher handicapped Polo players employing a more proactive approach to the game
Hampton court collages and optica III
No full textCollages using photographs from Hampton Court Palace catalogue -circa 1920- taken by Walter L Bourke F.R.P.S. With calligraphy and mark making.
Size A5 on 100% cotton paper.
note: The exhibition also included Optica III already archived
Supporting community engagement through teaching, student projects and research.
No full textThe Education Acts' statutory obligations for ITPs are not supported by the Crown funding model.
Part of the statutory role of an ITP is “... promotes community learning and by research, particularly applied and technological research ...” [The education act 1989]. In relation to this, a 2017 TEC report highlighted impaired business models and an excessive administrative burden as a restrictive and impeding success. Further restrictions are seen when considering ITPs attract < 3
% of the available TEC funding for research, and ~ 20 % available TEC funding for teaching, despite
having overall student efts of ~ 26 % nationally.
An attempt to improve performance and engage through collaboration (community, industry, tertiary) at our institution is proving successful. The cross-disciplinary approach provides students high-level experience and the technical stretch needed to be successful engineers, technologists, and technicians.
This study presents one of the methods we use to
collaborate externally through teaching, student projects, and research
Stream temperature modeling and fiber optic temperature sensing to characterize groundwater discharge
Get PDFThe Ngongotaha Stream was used as a case study to assess the applicability of fiber optic distributed temperature sensing (FODTS) to identify the location of springs and quantify their discharge. Thirteen springs were identified, mostly located within a 115 m reach, five discharged from the right bank and eight from the left bank. To quantify groundwater discharge, a new approach was developed in which the one‐dimensional transient heat transport model was fitted to the FODTS measurements, where the main calibration parameters of interest were the unknown spring discharges. The spatial disposition of the groundwater discharge estimation problem was constrained by two sources of information; first, the stream gains ∼500 L/s as determined by streamflow gauging. Second, the temperature profiles of the left and right banks provide the spatial disposition of springs and their relative discharges. FODTS was used to measure stream temperature near the left and right banks, which created two temperature datasets. A weighted average of the two datasets was then calculated, where the weights reflected the degree of mixing between the right and left banks downstream of a spring. The new approach in this study marks a departure from previous studies, in which the general approach was to use the steady‐state thermal mixing model (Selker et al. 2006a; Westhoff et al. 2007; Briggs et al. 2012) to infer groundwater discharge, which is then used as an input into a transient model of the general form of equation to simulate stream temperature (Westhoff et al. 2007)
A comparison of processing techniques for producing prototype injection moulding inserts.
Get PDFThis project involves the investigation of processing techniques for producing low cost moulding inserts used in the particulate injection moulding (PIM) process. Prototype moulds were made from both additive and subtractive processes as well as a combination of the two. The general motivation for this was to reduce the entry cost of users when considering PIM. PIM cavity inserts were first made by conventional machining from a polymer block using the pocket NC desktop mill. PIM cavity inserts were also made by fused filament deposition modelling using the Tiertime UP plus 3D printer. The injection moulding trials manifested in surface finish and part removal defects. The feedstock was a titanium metal blend which is brittle in comparison to commodity polymers. That in combination with the meso-scale features, small cross sections and complex geometries were considered the main problems. For both processing methods fixes were identified and made to test the theory. These consisted of a blended approach that saw a combination of both the additive and subtractive processes being used. The parts produced from the three processing methods are investigated and their respective merits and issues are discussed
Presentation on photobook making at the Auckland Festival of Photography 2019 - Photobook Friday: part of the Talking Culture by Leica series.
Get PDF'The public is invited to share some wonderful international and New Zealand photography stories, meet the artists, explore themes, and discuss the designs of the books themselves. This is a great opportunity for the public to meet informally with key international practitioners, NZ photobook artists, and publishers.'
Mark Purdom's presentation discussed photobook making using examples from his previous books Mimetic and From Certainty to Doubt
Reducing risk in pre-production investigations through undergraduate engineering projects.
Get PDFThis poster is the culmination of final year Bachelor of Engineering Technology (B.Eng.Tech) student projects
in 2017 and 2018. The B.Eng.Tech is a level seven qualification that aligns with the Sydney accord for a three-year engineering degree and hence is internationally benchmarked. The enabling mechanism of these projects is the industry connectivity that creates real-world projects and highlights the benefits of the investigation of process at the technologist level.
The methodologies we use are basic and transparent, with enough depth of technical knowledge to ensure the industry partners gain from the collaboration process. The process we use minimizes the disconnect between the student and the industry supervisor while maintaining the academic freedom of the student and the commercial sensitivities of the supervisor.
The general motivation for this approach is the reduction of the entry cost of the industry to enable consideration of new technologies and thereby reducing risk to core business and shareholder profits.
The poster presents several images and interpretive dialogue to explain the positive and negative aspects of the student process
Optimisation in NZ electricity market
Get PDFMathematical model of Market Clearing Engine (SPD).
Modelling of LMP and issues in SPD, Risk-Reserve, Modelling of Linear Branch Loss, Transmission Congestion, and
Relieving Congestio
Learning, becoming , being: The journey from student teacher to full teacher certification.
Get PDFA 3 phase longitudinal study with a cohort of 3rd Year graduates completing their bachelor of Teaching (ECE) qualification and following them as they move into and complete their two year certification process for the Teaching council. A mixed method research project seeking to capture the challenges and learning experienced by the participants