Shared lesson activities for 1990s Culture and Technology: Events & Trends

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Primitive Technology: Bed Shed I built a bed shed, a small shelter with a sleeping platform built into it. It’s quicker to build than a large hut but can be extended later on when materials...

Primitive Technology: Freshwater Prawn Trap I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquati...

Primitive Technology: Spear Thrower A spear thrower is a simple tool that allows the user to throw a spear further than by hand alone. It is a small length of wood with a hook in the end that fits...

Primitive Technology: Barrel Tiled Shed I built a tiled roof shed to provide a fire and rain proof shelter for working on projects during wet weather and for storing firewood. The shed houses the very...

Primitive Technology: Forge Blower I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from co...

Primitive Technology: Charcoal I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. Th...

Primitive Technology: Chimney and pots I installed a fireplace and chimney in the tiled roof hut. This is for for lighting and cooking. Heating is already taken care of by the underfloor heating syst...

Primitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill I made a cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning top. the mid...

Primitive Technology: Firesticks Making fire sticks primitively from scratch, making a fire using the sticks and making and firing a small pot to test clay from the hut. The species of wood use...

Primitive Technology: Baskets and stone hatchet I made 2 types of basket and a celt hatchet. The first type of basket made was a coil basket. Bunches of palm leaves where wrapped in thin strips of lawyer cane...

Primitive Technology: Woven bark fiber Woven Bark Fibre I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been rain...

Primitive Technology: Sling A sling is a weapon used to fire rocks farther and harder than could be thrown by hand alone. I made this sling from bark fiber that I made into cord. The cord ...

Primitive Technology: Bow and Arrow I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the dr...

Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt) The manufacture of a stone ax including the handle from using only primitive tools and materials. It is a celt (pronounced "selt") a type of ax with a polished...

Primitive Technology: Sweet potato patch I built a fenced enclosure and cultivated sweet potatoes (from civilisation) and yams (from the wild) in it. I originally had a small 3X3 m garden behind the wa...

Primitive Technology: Wood shed and Native bee honey It has been raining here quite a bit in what should normally be the dry season. The wattle and daub hut is standing up well despite this (see video). However th...

Primitive Technology: Thatched Dome Hut I built this thatched dome hut on a mountain ridge using completely primitive tools and materials. The frame was 2.5 m in diameter and 2 m tall. It was made fro...

Primitive Technology: Grass hut I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley...

Primitive Technology: Palm Thatched Mud Hut This is an old hut I built 2 years ago and have since demolished. It was a 2 m square floor with wattle and daub walls 1.5 m high topped with a pyramidal roof t...

Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed ou...

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Margery Mayer, Educational Technology Pioneer A profile of Margery Mayer, President of Scholastic Education. Margery was inducted into The Association of Educational Publishers "Hall of Fame" on November 29...

Best Practices: Technology in Instruction This video explores strategies for leveraging the power of technology with students in the K-12 classroom.

Primitive Technology: Charcoal I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. Th...

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Primitive Technology: Charcoal I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. Th...

Football Disease, Moon Base Dreams, and the Deepest Vents Ever! Hank breaks the news to you about your brain on football, the reality behind the latest moon-base plan, and an epic win -- and fail -- in the animal kingdom. F...

Trend and variation Animated short on statistics from Norwegian infotainment program Siffer. Produced by TeddyTV for NRK. Animation by Ole Christoffer Haga

John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, conc...

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Amazing Technologies Inspired By Nature Share on Facebook: We have to thank the scientists and inventors who designed the high-tech gadgets we know and love. But who do THEY have to thank? Spiders, ...