Playing finished Scratch games on Arcade Machine
Playing games we made on our new Arcade Machine.
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Bee Counter
Digital Counter I made to find the flow of traffic going in and out of the beehives at Te Aro School. Made with an Arduino, a PIR sensor and an LCD Shield. The students should be able to compare data…
LEGO Stop-motion. Some experiments during the holiday programme.
Zombies. A LEGO Stopmotion film made during the Holiday Programme.
Jedi Knights. Playing with the green screen during the holiday programme.
Making custom controllers using Makey Makeys and office supplies in the Brooklyn School Library. On display is a pencil drawn controller for Scratch, two staple guns controlling a game, some scissors controlling a platformer game and a stool being kicked…
Student Work – A pyramid built with Minetest
A Mesoamerican pyramid built by Brooklyn School students in 40 minutes using Minetest (an open source alternative to Minecraft)
Student Work – Looping video gifs
Making looping animated gifs from YouTube videos using Gifcam.
A font made by students at Te Aro School
A font made at Te Aro School.
Our electronic music based Holiday Programme. Check out the mixing and the song the crew made. They also got to talk on air with the Radioactive DJs. (Source: )
Student Work – Animated Gifs
Two Maori Legends and a trip through our solar system by Year 3 students at Te Aro School. Using Stykz.
Little Monster by alanpt on Sketchfab (Source: )
Martian Fartin' by alanpt on Sketchfab (Source: )
Soul Stealer by alanpt on Sketchfab (Source: )
Horned Bunny From Mars by alanpt on Sketchfab (Source: )
Geodude by alanpt on Sketchfab (Source: )
Trailer from second week of holiday programme.
Trailer made during first week of holiday programme.
Movie posters made during Holiday Programme.
Read MoreMovie posters made during Holiday Programme.Most important thing sorted for holiday programme. Can’t do this in school class.
Most important thing sorted for holiday programme. Can’t do this in school class.
Astrolab the creative computing club has a few spaces left during their holiday programme held on Cuba Street during the first week of the holidays. 9am-5pm Tuesday to Thursday. Go to to find out more.
Our new table, designed and built by Steven Almond () . Notice the groove for cables. It fits 10 people.
Collaborative stickfigure animation from last holiday programme.
Website, short video and electronics project I did with students at Te Aro School.
Sound art at the Wellington City Gallery
A project I developed with Claire Hopkins at the Wellington City Gallery. “A new exhibition of fruit at City Gallery is encouraging Wellingtonians to get creative and compose. The crew at City Gallery Wellington have been perfecting their banana piano…
Brooklyn School Student TV
A TV show I initiated, set-up and produced while working at Brooklyn School. Using a Green Screen, Sony Vegas Video, 2 Flip HD camera’s and a GoPro. Uploaded to Youtube, shared on school website and Facebook page and then played…
Asteriods made by Zebedee a student using Pivot Stickfigure and Windows Movie Maker. (Source: )
Student Work: Stick Figures using Pivot
Animations made using the freeware software Pivot. Made by students at Brooklyn Primary School around the theme of Olympics sports.
An experiment on making kinetic poetry with Microsoft Powerpoint for students to present their poetry in a creative way.
More logotypes by students at Te Aro school.
A new school playground designed using Sketchup by A group of Year 4 students from Brooklyn School, In only two lessons with me.
Earlier this year I introduced Minecraft to Year 7 and Year 8 students at Brooklyn School, Wellington. Since then they have created a developed city on a parent’s Minecraft server. This is an edited tour of it. These slightly socially isolated…
Logotype Project with Brooklyn School Students (Year 6-8).
Stop-motion video I did with students at Brooklyn School. (Source: )
A school classroom created with Google Sketchup. Large image here.
C.H.A.O.S – Children have ownership of schooling
A video I made showing the teaching process at Brooklyn Primary School, Wellington. I had a cold during the voice-over.
An interactive art project using Tablet PCs and Processing.org. (Source: )