The Art of Manliness: Abundant Kingdom Life.
By William Van Zyl Published 18 June 2025 Today, I celebrate my family members’ influence and impact on me and my two brothers. I share this with you in a Continue Reading
Application & Minecraft Education: Lesson for 14-Year-Olds.Create An AI-Generated Story With Minecraft Characters.
AI- By William Van Zyl Published in June 2025. Focus and learning intention: Extension: Challenging What you have to do in a nutshell: AI-GENERATED STORY: Open Copilot or ChatGPT Example: Continue Reading
Mobi-Dick – The Novel: Riddled with Christian symbolism, Biblical allusions, and spiritual parallels.
By William Van Zyl Published on June 10, 2025 Listen to the podcast on Spotify: The Wrath of the Whale: Moby-Dick and the Fall of Captain Ahab. The sea was Continue Reading
Why Red Flax Through The Māori Kete?
By William Van Zyl Published in May 2025 A Conversation at a Marae (“ A Māori Meeting House”): Whākarakaraka Marae ( a meeting place) It is the year 2025. The Continue Reading
To Forgive, or not to Forgive, is the Question.
By William Van Zyl Published in October 2022. Edited in May 2025. Listen to the Podcast of this article on Spotify: At last, he gets him. They are both bloodied, Continue Reading
William Draws.
By William Van Zyl (April 2022). Edited in May 2025. Listen to the podcast on Spotify: Have you seen Peter Draws on YouTube? It is quite an experience. He is a gifted Continue Reading
ACADEMIC ESSAY: Construct an argument that critically evaluates evidence of emerging challenges and opportunities in contemporary educational practice (Critiquing of Evidence).
By William Van Zyl Published in May 2025 by Five House Publishing. Introduction: In this essay, I will look at the challenges and opportunities of three aspects of modern contemporary Continue Reading
Māori Kites And Kite Making. Free Resources With Lesson Ideas.
E-book available by William Van Zyl (available on all major e-book platforms). KOBO: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/maori-kites-and-kite-making-a-global-perspective-integrated-lesson-ideas?srsltid=AfmBOora_YctvSsaa0TH78nHPH_2f-YL4VQWnLa-YYGYiYd-Lle7u8tr Published in 2020 (edited in 2025) Summary and Overview – Lesson & Resources: This resource helps Continue Reading
Midnight-muffin-men stun the baking world by beating face recognition software – a Bake-O-Drama.
By William Van Zyl. Published in June 2022 (edited in 2025) Listen to the podcast with sound effects: SPOTIFY (The Extravagant Podcast) The three men walked past the scanner. In Continue Reading
Champollion’s (JFC’s) death – French Decipherer of the Rosetta Stone – underlines one of the age-old killers: Sex, Money, Power, and Fame. Which one could it be?
Table of Contents By William Van Zyl (Published in April 2022, edited in 2025). Listen to the podcast while reading this article (Spotify- ‘The Extravagant Podcast’): In 1822, in a Continue Reading
Get The Name Of The Dog.
0 0 Read Time: 7 Minutes, 58 Seconds By William Van Zyl Published in December 2022 (edited in 2025). Tool# 14: I share my dog’s name – a brown coloured Continue Reading
Silver Chopsticks Miraculously Save Dong-Hyun’s Life.
0 0 Read Time: 12 Minutes, 46 Seconds By William Van Zyl First published in December 2021. Edited in April 2025. Listen to the dramatised podcast of this story: https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/6cZnk74G2GLqNtliidiq75?utm_source=generator The Continue Reading
Scuba Diver Defeats Unknown Depths of Hopelessness.
By William Van Zyl, First published June 2022. Edited in April 2025. PODCAST: SPOTIFY. The Extravagant Podcast: “Swoosh” The rusted cable and long pipe flashed briefly as it hurtled towards Continue Reading
Leviathan finally rolls over – 5000 fathoms under the sea – and reveals its secrets.
By William Van Zyl (published in November 2021; edited in 2025) Listen to the podcast of the article/short story while reading it: SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/episode/6J0Ei6hcHvMnBcCcPvpuXy?si=yc3GzT5hQYWAdEHuygWP_A The yellow-coloured speckle, at 5,000 fathoms Continue Reading
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger! タイガー、タイガー、タイガー！
0 0 Read Time:17 Minutes, 44 Seconds Table of Contents Nine unique lessons on the planning and attack at Pearl Harbour (WW2). By William Van Zyl (December 2021). Listen to the Continue Reading
Dressing Well: A Style Compass and Map for Rookies – the Stuck-in-a-rut Fly Fisherman Story.
0 0 Read Time: 23 Minutes, 33 Seconds By William Van Zyl (First published in 2020; edited in April 2025). The parable of the stylish fisherman and how he caught the Continue Reading
The Revolving Ballerina.
A one-page story (Microfiction/Flash Fiction). By William Van Zyl (published in Oct 2021; edited in April 2025). Read the article OR Listen to the podcast: The ribbon of the blood-stained Continue Reading
Sensors: Maintaining the eco-equilibrium of sensitive limestone caves in New Zealand. STEM and Digital Technologies -Programming microprocessors as sensors to improve cave sustainability (Micro:bit and MakerBot – mBot).
By William Van Zyl First published in October 2021 (edited in April 2025) On Friday, 5 March 2021, I stepped into the unknown. It was dark, humid, and very black. Continue Reading
Entering a dark, humid cave – lit up by cat-eyed, yellow fiery flies – could turn your thinking upside down.
By William Van Zyl (March 2021) On Friday, 5 March 2021, I stepped into the unknown. It was dark, humid, and very black. Yellow cat eyes stared at me from Continue Reading
A Second Flash of Light.
By William Van Zyl Published on March 22, 2025 Joop and Elsa Van De Venter gazed intently at the screen before them; the image magnified several hundred times. “Wait for Continue Reading