rapman-education's posterous

rapman-education's posterous

Dave White  //  A place for educators, teachers, lecturers and students to find "stuff" about RapMan,BfB3000 and BfB 3DTouch printers... The unofficial Blog by Dave White, Advanced Skills Teacher and Head of D&T in Clevedon School UK.

Jan 15 / 10:21am

BBC Radio Interview

(download)

 

At about 9.00am this morning (15/1/2011)I was interviewed live on air by the BBC about Clevedon Schools entry in the Guardian newspaper’s competition- the Classroom Innovation Award.

9.00am on a Saturday morning is far too early … I missed my “duvet time”…. and as it was going out live I do have to admit that I was a little nervous, I hope it didn’t show too much.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy listening to it, and I’m still keeping my fingers crossed waiting to hear how we got on in the competition.

 

The "podcast" above is an extract from the BBC Radio Bristol " Saturday Breakfast" http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00czj95/Saturday_Breakfast_15_01_2011/ (skip to about 2:48:45)

 

Dave

Filed under  //  Education   Media  
Jan 13 / 6:40pm

Education Ambassadors at Euromold - Part 2

Hi,

In an earlier post I blogged about students from Clevedon School (UK) visiting the Euromold 2010 exhibition in Frankfurt (Germany). This has now been reported in our local newspaper and I thought you might like to see.

I would just like to say again a huge "thank-you" to the guys from Bits from Bytes and 3D Systems for giving us this opportunity.

Dave

Ns_times_13_1_2011

Filed under  //  Conference   Media  
Jan 10 / 5:18pm

Guardian newspaper's Classroom Innovation Award .... UPDATE !!!!

UPDATE !!!!!

I have just heard earlier today that our entry to the Guardian newspaper's Classroom Innovation Award has been shortlisted. (for details see my blog entry 2 below this one)

The top 3 presentations are now to be shown on the Asus stand  at the BETT 2011 show in Olympia, London, UK. Visitors to the stand can then vote for the best idea.

So if you are going to the BETT show please drop into the Asus stand Hall/Stand:  K29and vote for us... J

Don't forget you will be voting for Clevedon School’s 3D Printing video in the secondary school category J

Dave

... Oh, and in all my excitement I almost forgot.... A HUGE thank-you  to everyone who e-mailed their vote for us

 

Filed under  //  Education   Media   News  
Dec 12 / 4:58pm

Classroom Innovation Competition

The Guardian newspaper in the UK is running a competition for "Classroom Innovation".... I couldn't resist entering a video from my school (Clevedon School) about 3D printing with BfB machines, so if you would like to see the clip have a look here www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/video/clevedon-school-3d-printing .... It was a bit of a rush to meet the deadline... oops

A preview can be seen on youtube

 To be fair the other entries can be viewed here www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/award-video-entries .

But of course I would appreciate it if you could vote for us…  we could win £7,500 of Asus computer equipment.

So... the information you need to vote for us

Email to send your vote to classroom.innovation@guardian.co.uk

School name ... Clevedon School.  Subject of Video... 3D Printing

Closing Date 5pm 7th Jan 2011

…. And of course ask all your friends, colleagues and relatives to vote too!!!

Thanks

Dave

Filed under  //  Education   Media   Teaching and Learning  
Sep 23 / 7:57pm

In the news

Times

In my previous post on 9th September 2010 I reported about the donation of a new BfB 3000 printer by BfB for me to use in my capacity of Advanced Skills Teacher for North Somerset (UK). Well the local press have eventually caught up with this fantastic development and two newspapers have published a report. I thought you might like to see it so I’ve attached a copy here.

Dave

Filed under  //  Education   Media   News   Teaching and Learning