Dan's Technology Blog

Hi Folks, I will keep this one short and sweet. Some of you may know of the Gantt chart, a chart used in time management particularly in construction of projects, etc. I have incorporated Gantt charts into my assignments, especially in an Animation project which I received kudos for in my marks. Apparently it's the thing to do, and it is something that we should be teaching our student's to do. Gantt charts are simple and effective and communicate clearly a defined timeline to follow. The one I use (pictured above) comes from Emily Esposito at Smartsheet.com, Download here . Regards, Dan

Hi Guys, A quick little trick in word that took me ages to figure out, but it is really easy. So, I have copied text from a PDF and pasted it into word, however it's all gone out of alignment. Example Text copied from a PDF  Organize a page into 2 columns. In the first column, make a list of the qualities and skills that you think the teachers in these readings possessed. What skills do they appear to have? What are they willing to do to be successful in the classroom? • In the second column, make a list of the things they did in their classrooms that were innovative and/or successful What can I do to sort this out... copy the text you want from the PDF paste into a new Word document click “edit” then “replace” make sure you’re in the “find what” field click “more” then “special” select “paragraph mark” (top of the list) click into the “replace with” field press the space bar once click “replace all” click “ok” then close the...

Welcome to SCU Unimentor. I wrote an email to a fellow I have been mentoring as he is setting up for studying Technology Education. Although the name has changed a little bit, some of the units still cross over or have been revised. In the new course, there is a requirement for students to study both a literacy (English) and a Maths unit as per the Federal Government's move to increase graduating teacher's literacy and numeracy. If you are starting out, I recommend starting out with the introductory units as you begin, so that you have time to concentrate on getting to know the university system and blackboard. Here are the first four units I recommend when starting out: EDU10003 Learning Technologies DES10634 Essential Technologies EDU10128 Introduction to Technology Teaching And maybe ENG10010 The first 3 give you a starting point of what to expect in teaching. DES10634 is a workshop where you get to do hands on work over the holidays at a school- mine was ...