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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Invited presentation at the E-Learning and Distance Learning Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

I have recently returned from presenting an invited paper on e-learning and students with special needs at the International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Learning (eLi 2011) held at the AlFaisaliah Hotel, Riyad, Saudi Arabia from the 21st-23rd February 2011. The key topics  covered at the conference included e-learning between theory and practice – international [...]

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ICAN and Mentoring Statewide Conference 2010

I presented an invited paper at the ICAN and Mentoring statewide conference 2010: ‘Youth development: everybody’s business’ on the 26th August 2010. The focus of my paper was on strategies for engaging students through creativity, innovation and ethics in practice-led research within the media studies curriculum. The presentation drew on a case-study based on a  [...]

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ASCILITE 2009 Presentations

The ASCILITE 2009 conference was held at the University of Auckland from the 6-9th November, 2009. The conference theme  “Same places, different spaces” generated many papers focusing on topics such as blended learning, virtual learning environments, social spaces, mobile and work spaces: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/?m=Programme&s=Themes I presented a paper based on trials of the use of the [...]

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Presentations on the use of a peer review instrument designed to facilitate reflective thinking through formative feedback and assessment

I presented at the ERGA 2009 conference on feedback and flexible learning  at Adelaide University on the 24th September. My presentation focused on the adaptation of our ALTC funded peer review instrument for use by students to facilitate reflective thinking through formative feedback and assessment. ERGA is a cross-disciplinary community of educators promoting high quality [...]

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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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Latest interview on Radio 5RPH about experiential learning and media arts students at UniSA

In my August segment on Radio 5RPH I spoke about the experiential learning our Web design students are undertaking in which they are creating accessible websites for organisations and volunteer groups. I spoke in particular about one of my courses (Accessible Interactive Media) in which the students are creating accessible sites for disability and health [...]

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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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