Electrotechnology (and Guinness) travel to New Zealand.

Electrotechnology and Guinness continue on their journeys and have just visited Christchurch and Auckland in New Zealand. While in Christchurch they visited the Electrotechnology Department of CPIT ( Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology ), where great strides are being taken in the implementation of Computer technology and the use of Tablet PC's as well as Web 2.0 social networking methodologies to enable students to interact with others who are doing similar learning to them.


We then travelled to Auckland and visited UNITEC and the electrotechnology unit there. They are also using new technologies including mobile phones to interact using Web 2.0 ( Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and others ).

While in Auckland we travelled down south to Rotorua and the videos you see here were taken at the hot mud pools and areas where hot sulpur fumes are pouring out of the ground from fissures. What a fantastic day we had !!!!

We had a very informative and enjoyable two days

Well it ....sneeze (but not Swine Flu!!) .......... certainly....(sneezes again) was absolutely blo--dy

fffreezing on Philip Island but that didn't deter the teams from Wantirna and Hawthorn from having a great couple of days of information gathering and networking with educators from other TAFE colleges and representatives from industry and education resource providers.


Our message to Captain Ignorance. "Don't try to defeat us, you should have learnt by now, after countless defeats, that we are well armed and constantly vigilant. We are constantly looking for new weapons and at present are investigating further use of the Gates machine loaded with the deadly WebCT and Wimba engines.

Ninth Annual Victorian Electrotechnology Conference

Teaching staff from all TAFE colleges across Victoria, that are delivering Electrotechnology courses, are spending a couple of days in Philip Island discussing how best to educate our electrical apprentices, with an emphasis on Renewable Energy and Hybrid Systems Technologies.

Your editor is among those invited and will keep you posted over the next couple of days with information, pictures and video content of this event. We'll keep you informed!!

This is not quite the "Golden Arches" of hamburger fame, but a structure built by our P3 pre-vocational students from conduit to demonstrate their abilities.

The design criteria were as follows:

1. the archway had to be free-standing.

2. it had to be able to support a 2.5 kilogram rope light.

3. both arches had to have a combined radial dimension

of 10 metres.

4. they were only allowed to use insulation tape or

standard electrotechnology accessories for bracing

or structural purposes.

And they built it !!!!

These students just love to have the opportunity to be creative and become involved in these types of practical activities.

GOOD ONE !!!

BUSY TESTING THE INSTALLATION !!

These are some of our male and female students with their teacher, Ian, who are close to becoming licensed electricians.

This has to be one of the most exciting times of their young lives, when their silver card gives them entry into the exciting world of electrotechnology.

OUR NEW LEA/LEP INSTALLATION

For those apprentices who are about to sit for their Electrician's Licence practical and assessment examination .................

We have just completed the construction of our new LEA/LEP testing area which is "State of the Art" in terms of the equipment and flexibility of testing that has been built into it.

Those apprentices about to take their LEA examination will be able to practice and hone their testing skills using the new facility that has been provided for them.

Ian is to be commended for the way in which he has designed and set up this unit!!

ONLINE REVISION FOR YOUR MODULES/COMPETENCIES

Online revision and quizzes now fully functional !!!

If you'd like to try the online revision tests, just log onto http://www.classmarker.com/ and enter the following:

Username: paul8756

Password: kmstmhb

This is for module NUE400 - Electrical Installations - Protection Methods and Devices.

This can be taken online with a PC, laptop or mobile telephone and gives you instant feedback with result and correct answers.

If you want to subscribe ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! to this service, send an email to office@motorscan.info, together with the modules or new competencies you are studying ( eg; UEENEEe007b) and we will immediately email back the username/password for each. The password can be changed to one of your liking after you have logged on for the first time.