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The spatiotemporal characteristics of 0–24-goal polo
Get PDFGlobal positioning systems (GPS) have recently been shown to reliably quantify the spatiotemporal characteristics of Polo, with the physiological demands of Polo play at low- and high-goal levels also investigated. This study aims to describe the spatiotemporal demands of Polo across 0–24 goal levels. A player-worn GPS unit was used to quantify distance, speed and high-intensity activities performed. Data were divided into chukkas and five equine-based speed zones, grouped per cumulative player handicap and assessed using standardized mean differences. Average distance and speed per chukka increased in accordance with cumulative player handicap, with the magnitude of differences being trivial–large and trivial–very large, respectively. Differences between time spent in high-intensity speed zones (zones 4 and 5) show a linear increase in magnitude, when comparing 0 goal Polo to all other levels of play (Small–Very Large; 6–24 goals, respectively). High-intensity activities predominantly shared this trend, displaying trivial–large differences between levels. These findings highlight increased cardiovascular, anaerobic and speed based physiological demands on Polo ponies as playing level increases. Strategies such as high-intensity interval training, maximal speed work and aerobic conditioning may be warranted to facilitate this development and improve pony welfare and performance
Motivation and engagement: Māori and Pasifika learners
Get PDFMotivation and engagement in the classroom are essential to help learner’s achievement their potential. Teachers play a key role in creating interest, energy and drive in learners and motivating them to engage with the material (Martin, 2006). Māori and Pasifika learners face challenges in classrooms, which are only recently being recognised, and we need to provide culturally safe spaces for them. In diverse classrooms, teachers’ relationships with learners (Tätaiako) is vital to support learners’ engagement. PURPOSE OR GOAL The purpose of this research is to reflect on four academics’ attempts to create culturally safe classrooms. It will assess what worked, and what did not, in terms of classroom context and creative learning activities to motivate and engage learners. APPROACH This research based on the approaches we have considered in improving Motivation and Engagement of students (Both Māori and Pasifika) by implementing teaching and learning instructions such as student-centred learning (flipped classroom), critical thinking, student engagement and motivational inquiry-based learning while working in groups. Bloom’s critical thinking are the main foundations of our Learning and Teaching approaches. We have considered group assignments and group project based tasks to access or justify our approaches. ACTUAL OR ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES We anticipate that implementing more student-centred, critical thinking, inquiry-based learning approaches while working in groups will improve motivation and engagement of learners. All approaches we have considered for our learners in the classroom will create more confident, skilled and motivated learners, including amongst Māori and Pasfika. We are interested to see if there are additional benefits to Maori and Pacific learners, above the general cohort, from these approaches. CONCLUSIONS During this research, we have noticed that by implementing all these approaches, make a lot of difference in engagement of learners in the classroom and increase their motivation. We have noticed critical thinking is an essential skill in the cognitive development and motivation of students and student-centred approach in teaching help a lot to engage more by having good communication with each other. In future, we as a teacher can support New Zealand Māori Language in our sessions in our greetings and opening and closing of sessions
A double-edged sword: Use of computer algebra systems in first-year Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics courses
Get PDFMany secondary-level mathematics students have experience with graphical calculators from high school. For the purposes of this paper we define graphical calculators as those able to perform rudimentary symbolic manipulation and solve complicated equations requiring very modest user knowledge. The use of more advanced computer algebra systems e.g. Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, Matlab/MuPad is becoming more prevalent in tertiary-level courses. This paper explores our students’ experience using one such system (MuPad) in first-year tertiary Engineering Mathematics and Mechanics courses. The effectiveness of graphical calculators and computer algebra systems in mathematical pedagogy has been investigated by a multitude of educational researchers (e.g. Ravaglia et al. 1998). Most of these studies found very small or no correlation between student use of graphical calculators or exposure to computer algebra systems with future achievement in mathematics courses (Buteau et al. 2010). In this paper we focus instead on students’ attitude towards a more advanced standalone computer algebra system (MuPad), and whether students’ inclination to use the system is indicative of their mathematical understanding. Paper describing some preliminary research into use of computer algebra systems for teaching engineering mathematics
Thermal power stirling: Green heat engine
Get PDFPrimary energy consumption growth averaged 2.2% in 2017, up from 1.2% in 2016. Natural gas accounted for the largest increase in energy consumption followed by renewable energy and oil. Global oil growth averaged 1.7 million barrels per day, natural gas consumption rose by 96 million cubic metres and coal consumption increased by 25 tonnes of oil equivalent and power generation rose by 2.8%. This caused the Carbon emissions to grow by 1.6% after little or no growth from 2014 to 2016. Carbon emissions pose a great threat to the planet as they are the main contributors to greenhouse effects and global warming. To minimise this, a great deal of money and research is being put into renewable and green sources of energy. One of these renewable sources of energy is solar energy. A Stirling engine provides a cheap and easy way of converting this solar energy into electrical energy while also providing a higher efficiency than gasoline or diesel engines. The aim of this project is to design and build a Stirling Engine which produces electricity using sunlight as the main source of heat energy. The working fluid for this project would be air at atmospheric pressure and the electricity generated would be sufficient enough to do some useful work and would present this system as an alternative form of environmentally friendly electricity generator
Kia rongo i te tawara o te wai - Tōku Reo, Tōku Ohooho Exhibition
No full textKia rongo i te tāwara o te wai (Listen to the murmur of the water)
An audio-visual collaboration between Dr. Jeremy Mayall, Horomona Horo, and Ben Woollen.
A meditation on the water cycle and its impact
The social lives of grass: Sjon Anthro Film Fest
No full text"The Social Lives of Grass" (2018) by Dr. Jeremy Mayall and Sebastian J. Lowe
The Social Lives of Grass was filmed on the 28 March, 2018, in and around the city of Kirikiriroa/Hamilton in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We filmed over 20 different types of grass in both urban and non-urban environments, in an attempt to capture the importance of grass as a focal point (nexus) to all life, human or otherwise. We have focused not only on what grasses sound like, but what goes on audibly around the grasses, that is to say, their ‘social lives’. The human ear has the ability to focus in on individual sounds within an acoustic context, for example, we can sit beside a river and shift our focus between the sounds of the river to the birds in the trees, or we can walk into a crowded room and differentiate individuals from within the collective body of human voices. As we move through the world, our perceptions change and sounds as we know them are fleeting. This is especially relevant in our quickly changing world, where we are becoming more and more inundated with human-induced sound signatures that affect, for better or for worse, the relationships between ourselves and our environment(s). Our film offers listeners an audible ‘snapshot’ into sound fabrics that comprise our city of Kirikiriroa/Hamilton. If we take the time to consciously listen to what is going on around us, we are able to acknowledge and strengthen our understanding of what it means to be part of our shared world
Kia Eke Panuku - NY Meets NZ
No full textKIA EKE PANUKU
Musical Composition.
This piece explores the goal of reaching to new heights, not settling for the standard, and trying to strive toward the continuation of new knowledge. Composers Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall explore the exquisite sounds of traditional instruments used by Māori, known as taonga puoro, paired with otherworldly electronic textures.
WORLD PREMIERE - Kia Eke Panuku - NY meets N
Miniature elephants: Remix of the animals
No full textComposers Concordance 8th Annual CompCord Festival - ‘Animals' concert #4.
'Remix of the Animals'
Camille Saint-Saëns' 'Carnival of the Animals' is the impetus for this program, for which we asked composers either to provide electronic remixes, or to write original electronic compositions.
Composer-Performers: Lynn Bechtold, Seth Boustead, Svjetlana Bukvich, Dan Cooper, Velizar Iordanov, Patti Kilroy, Mark Kostabi, Jeremy Mayall, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Roger Tréfousse, Zach Seely
Ann St Hand to Hand. Painting exhibited as finalist in 2019 NZ Painting and Printmaking Award
No full textThis work is part of an ongoing project in painting where subjects are drawn from regional locale and in painting, and imbued with imagery that suggests a subversion or upsetting of their originally idyllic inference
Adrift: Student’s book
No full textThis is a research-informed textbook for teaching Advanced English language learners. This is the first book we know of to focus in depth on the important area of adjacency pairs