UniSA is a supporting member of the newly established Young and Well CRC. I had the privilege of attending workshops and the official launch of the YAW CRC in Melbourne on the 9th and 10th December, 2011 with UniSA colleagues Annie Campbell, Sue Luckman and Barbara Spears. I also caught up with co-researcher, Pammi Raghavendra [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Launch of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre
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Tour of the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling boat while docked in Hobart
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In between ASCILITE conference presentations, Julie Willems and I took some time out to go for a long walk and we were given a rare opportunity to tour the anti-whaling ship, Sea Shepherd, which was docked in Hobart at that time. We met several of the Sea Shepherd’s volunteer staff who told us the ship [...]
ASCILITE 2011
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Following the AARE conference I moved hotels to the Wrest Point Casino Hotel to attend and present at the ASCILITE 2011 conference. The conference theme for ASCILITE this year was Changing Demands, Changing Directions, with three sub-themes: equity of experience; engagement; and evidence-based practice. The conference was preceded by workshops on the 4th December followed [...]
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference
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I flew to Hobart in late November 2011 to present a co-authored paper with Susan Luckman, Kerry Green (UniSA colleagues) and Pearl Panickar (Research Assistant) at the 2011 AARE International Research in Education Conference, which was held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart from Sunday 27 November to Thursday 1 December, 2011. The conference theme [...]
Continuing our research in South Africa
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Following the DPI Assembly in Durban, Rolda and I returned to Johannesburg where we met up with two of our research team (Charles Morris and Gien Varney-Wong). We then travelled to Limpopo Province to continue installation of the 3D virtual world platform on the servers in each of the participating schools and to conduct training [...]
Disabled People’s International (DPI) Assembly 2011
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October through to December was a very busy period, so I am only just now catching up on the backlog of outstanding posts! Rolda Rapotu (Limpopo) and I presented a co-authored paper on the work we are undertaking in special schools in the Limpopo Province at the 8th World Assembly of Disabled People’s International (DPI) [...]
