Radio interview on the role of social media in teaching and learning

Is Twitter Educational? Educators from the Medical University of Notre Dame in Sydney are using Twitter to provide additional articles and resources to their students. This is being done in the hope of turning passive listeners into active listeners which will enable collaboration and community building. But is this likely? Can social media platforms be [...]

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State Volunteers Congress

The State Volunteers Congress was held at the National Wine Centre of Australia on the 6th December, 2010 focusing on the theme of marketing volunteering through social media.  More than 450 attended the congress, which was opened by the Honourable Grace Portelosi, the Minister for Volunteers. The Master of Ceremonies for the day was Nikki [...]

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Inaugural Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Award

I had the privilege of attending an event which paid tribute to the late Dr Christopher Newell at the offices of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman on the 19th May. The Honourable Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services presented the inaugural Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell prize for Telecommunications and Disability at the event. This [...]

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National Disability Services Conference

The National Disability Services Conference focusing on accommodation and participation was held at Jupiters Hotel at the Gold Coast on the 6th and 7th May, 2010. I presented a keynote on the use of social media to enhance service delivery and to increase the participation of people with disabilities. http://www.nds.org.au/presentation/article/19 A panel discussion on the [...]

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Presentation at Professor Angela Brew’s ALTC National Teaching Fellowship Summit and Roundtables

I was an invited speaker at Professor Angela Brew’s National Summit, Undergraduate Research in Australia: First Australian Summit on the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (ALTC Senior Fellow), 5th-6th November, 2009, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. My presentation was titled “Research informed Media Practice”. A few weeks earlier I had presented on the topic “Strengthening [...]

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Presentation at the Australian Tertiary Education Management Regional Conference

I was invited to present on the topic ‘Webs, Wikis, Blogs and Avatars’ at the Australian Tertiary Education Management Regional Conference at a breakfast session on the 12th August 2009. You can view my presentation online at: http://prezi.com/1shaozw87x-q/

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