Equipment
stands
Massey University College of Education
This material has been produced by the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ)
under contract to the Ministry of Education. It has been written to assist teachers
and schools in their delivery of the technology/ hangarau curriculum statements.
The project is jointly coordinated by personnel from the Technology Education
New Zealand (TENZ)
and National Association of Māori Mathematicians, Scientists and Technologists
(NAMMSAT) networks. Monitoring and evaluation of the material is carried out
by a national project advisory group.
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Keeping hand held electrical equipment in a safe and useable condition remains
an on-going problem for all teachers of technology. In the pre-service teacher
training programme at Massey University College of Education in Palmerston North
, senior technology lecturer Gary O'Sullivan, has developed a neat solution
to the problem for glue guns and soldering irons.
Gary explains,
"What we've tried to avoid is the soldering irons burning through the cable
and the glue guns getting covered with gunk and gluing everything up."
The stands have been designed to keep the equipment away from the waste material
and allow the power cables to be wrapped out of the way while the equipment
is cooling down - simple, easily constructed, and effective!
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