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Those who’ve heard my thoughts on presentations in general (most are bad … including most of mine), you’ll also know I think Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen ( the blog and the book ) is the most insightful guide to contemporary presentation design currently
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Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days. Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder
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The ultimate in procrastination has hit MyResearchSpace as LOL CATS and the LOL CATS Buildr invades. All it takes is a cute photo and a semi-witty uber-geeky tagline and you're all set ... No lecture given by postgraduates need ever lack geek humour again!
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As part of Teaching Month (which, to be honest, is "Teaching 17 Days" but that just sounded naff on flyers and banners), the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is running a group blog in which a number of academics, professional staff and
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As promised to a number of this year's Postgraduate Teaching Interns, here is the next installment of 'The Lecture from Hell', this time featuring an iconic 80s videogame figure:
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In order to celebrate the arrival of video blogging in MyResearchSpace , let me take this opportunity to post a video of a lecture I hope you'll never have (nor will you ever be trying to give): [ Source ] For those who are present (or past) Postgraduate
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In two recent articles, one in The Guardian and one from the BBC , it appeared that Tim Berners-Lee , the scientist who invented the internet as we know it today, had decided blogs were part of the problem, not the solution. From The Guardian , for example:
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I was recently asked to write a blog post about " Why I Blog " for the journal Reconstruction . I originally posted this to my personal blog ( Ponderance ), but thought it might be of interest to those just entering the blogosphere ... Beginning and Motivations
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In today's Age , an fairly decent article, ' Adventures in blog land ', looks at the emerging importance of blogging in academia both in building research profiles and allowing academic voices to be heard outside of the ivory towers of the university.
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Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging. Feedback is welcome ... A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs: Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA "A graduate student in Ecology
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