Detailed instructions for drafting a Wooden Train Toy in Vue 3D. This practical introduction to the software will allow junior high school students to develop the skills necessary to design their own wooden toy for future production in the workshop.

This two page introduction to Sewing for Mandatory Technology (NSW - Australia) classes includes a close passage, Internet research and sketching activities. Please complete a review if you find this resource useful.

Complete step by step instructions for drawing a wooden box with a hinged lid in 3D using Sketchup Make (Freeware). This resource is an ideal introduction to using the software for project visualization in STEM and mandatory and elective technology courses. The full colour pdf can be supplied to students as a printed handout (not so eco-friendly at 6 pages) or as a digital file for self pace learning. It can also be displayed on a screen for use in more formal teacher directed instruction and includes a number of extension activities

This practical unit of work engages students in exploring photographic terms through practical application. The worksheet page is in both editable docx and pdf formats and provides a work outline and related checklist.

Frustrated with the purely linear format of standard Powerpoint presentations? Want to create some truly interactive multimedia? This simple guide shows you how to turn off the automatic navigation defaults in Powerpoint and give the power of where and when to go back to the end user where it belongs. Use this information to create your own interactive picture books for younger students that allow the child to click on a object to play a sound (example: a picture of a pig oinks when clicked on) or to go to any page in the book at any time. Or get your middle school students to create their own interactive picture books, yearbooks or digital portfolios. (Just some of the already tried and tested possibilities) Have fun! And please do a review.

This, in class, assessment task is the practical extension of the workbook Mandatory Technology - Built Environments (Australian Curriculum) by the same author. It requires students to create their own house designs using free 3D design software (Sketchup Make or Sweet Home 3D) with consideration for the issues of climate and environment. It is designed to assess not only the learning involved in the workbook but also the practical application of it. As an unrestricted word document teachers can customize timing, criteria and assessment weighting to suit their needs. Please review this resource if you find it useful.

Editable Assessment Task Notifications and Marking Criteria for the 'What is Multimedia?' practical project and the 'How Did They Do That? Industry Study. The 'What is Multimedia?' complete unit is also available on this site but both task notifications have enough information regarding the Units assessed to reverse engineer them.

A fifty question multiple choice quiz on multimedia. This has been developed for senior students doing the Industrial Technology - Multimedia Industries course (Australian Curriculum) Includes a score and the ability to review at completion. Can be played in any browser with Adobe Flash Player enabled.

An 'Introduction to Line' for middle school art students. This worksheet introduces the concepts of organic and geometric lines, outlines and line patterns. Students produce an art work using line as a tool for pattern making.

These are the instructions for building a toy car out of soft pine offcuts. They can be used as a teacher reference or handed out to students as a project worksheet. There are also instructions on the blind nailing technique of joining.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the fifth in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the third in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the fourth in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the sixth in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the seventh in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Bryce 3D is a sometimes free and always inexpensive, considering its versatility, 3D landscape creation package. As such it is an excellent tool for introducing 3D image creation and animation to junior high school art and technology students and HSC Multimedia students. This is the eighth in a series of video tutorials demonstrating the basic use of the software. Paper based tutorials by the same author are also available.

Simple instructions for creating your own comics using the drawing tools in Microsoft Word. This is a fun and imaginative way to teach English language essentials such as visual literacy, story writing and dialogue (both external and internal) to middle school students. It may also prove useful as a means of story boarding drama and multimedia projects or exploring social interactions. This resource can be used by teachers as an aid for guided instruction or distributed directly to students as a printed worksheet. If you find it useful please provide a review.

3 pages of worksheets developed for a unit on designing and creating board games. The first sheet engages students in researching the format and history of a number of common board games, the second requires students to sketch designs for simple chess pieces to be made in timber and the third is a standard checkerboard template for students to customize. This unit comes under the classification of Product Design - Timber Technologies.

This 17 page student workbook is designed as a unit resource for the teaching of Mandatory Technology - Built Environments (Australian Curriculum) It looks at the issues of building for climate and environment and engages students in thinking about and developing their own designs for energy efficient and sustainable housing.

This resource is the fifth lesson in the Bryce 3D series and looks at the creation and editing of lights and the incorporation of 2D images as objects and as materials. See also by this author. Designed for use with junior high school art and technology, and HSC Multimedia students, the print ready instructions are suitable as handouts for self paced learning or as a teacher resource for more formal instruction. Although created using the free version 5 of the software the instructions are compatible with later versions.