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News 2008

2008 promises to be a very exciting year with new machines from Roland, new education products in electronics and new education directions from education departments.

New:   News for 2008 Document

Victorian Education Initiative

The Victorian government is leading the way is supporting innovative and exciting changes in technology education arena. Recent focussed grants to schools mean that technology teachers can plan for upgrades/re-skilling as they face new challenges in subjects such as engineering and systems.

The other news is that Intellecta has forged a strategic link with Roland Digital Group with a new entity Roland Intellecta Education with a targetted education focus. This means our network of trainers and support teachers will be involved in some exciting new projects to better support teachers and students.

The following documents support the excellent Roland brochure that has been released. These are excerpts from the catalogue.

Quick summary of all the machines and examples. Looks at PCB with Circuit Wizard, Altium Designer - ideal document to present to the principal as a planning document.

Roland- TechsoftUK brochure - 5Mb

Cad/CAM - applications in education

Milling Machines - general view of Roland resources

GX-24E - vinyl cutter

2D design and Make - a view of new 2D software

PCB Design and Make - safe and environmentally compatible manufacture

Function, competency based courses for ICT and Engineering and ICT and Electronics

News 2008  - Exciting new electronics, robotics and engineering resources for educators

It is a pleasure to work with like-minded companies in the advancement of great learning outcomes for our students.

PCS Edventures from Boise, Idaho, USA is an exciting group of individuals with long standing expertise in science and technology education and it with pleasure that Intellecta Technologies has been appointed as the Australian distributor. The materials have excellent planning support and curriculum that are well suited to the Australian education area.

The INTAD conference in Brisbane was the first official launch of this partnership and many Aussies had the pleasure of meeting the Egusquiza’s from the company. Joe ran two great workshops that captured the imagination of many Australian educators.

Here are some curriculum materials and documents for examination.

Academy of Electronics : Analog

Academy of Electronics - Digital

Academy of Robotics - Application of Robotics

Academy of Robotics -Principles of Robotics

Academy of Robotics - Programming

Academy of Robotics - racecar

Academy of Engineering - Gear train series

Academy of Engineering, Power train transfer Teachers notes

Academy of Electronics - sample materials

New launch of great new trainer -coming end of MAY 2008

The MR board is a great invention to assist in the teaching of electronics - as used in all schools in Taiwan.

Brochure:

New Electronics trainers.

As designed by leading educators in Victoria and Queensland.

These systems control motors, servos, 7 seg display, sensors,

all from the little PICAXE 14M or the mighy ATMEL Mega8

Watch out for the release of book and notes from AMAZON.COM

The new prototyper board uses either the 08M, 14M in simple, hands on explorations in electronics. Curriculum designed by one of the leading electronics teachers in Adelaide.