Win an iPad

Test your knowledge about energy and science with this fun online game from the Genesis School-gen programme and you could win 1 of 2 iPads.

Y9-13 Smart Alex writing competition with over $2000 in prizes

Worth taking a look and having a go, especially when you can use it for NCEA credits as well. Read this blog to find out more and to get some tips about how to go about the process. Closes 22 July so you have plenty of time.

Free useful maths site for mainly NCEA L2 up

Omnia

Fun 140 character writing competition for NCEA students

Oh my goodness I haven't posted here since last year. This is worth posting though. This link

here

will take you to Learncoach (which every NCEA student should know about and use) where you can learn how to make $50 in the briefest piece (Twitter style) of comedy writing you probably have ever done.  Every week for the next 40 weeks, they're giving $50 to a student who writes a funny one-liner about NCEA-life in under 140 characters. 

So what have you to lose? Get to it!

Easily learn calligraphy using AR

In three steps with a mobile device, you can use augmented reality to guide your calligraphic pen to make several interesting designs. First, print the marker so that your phone has a virtual connection to the paper. Secondly, load the web page on the mobile device and hold it over the marker and your drawing paper. The image will appear and you can then ‘trace’ the a.r. image that appears. You might want to devise some sort of holder for the device so things don’t shift around too much.

If the Moon were only 1 pixel

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

You really need to do this because we have a far too big a sense of being.  Make sure you use the > or < at the top of the black screen or you might go mad.

You have to see this: