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Presidential Presentation Zen
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 Read More...
Tips for academic job applications
Alex Halavais has posted a very useful set of Tips for academic job applications which, if you're even thinking about heading in that direction, you should read. All the points are worth thinking about, but I thought I'd highlight two. Firstly: Teach Read More...
From YouTube to UniTube?
It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel . In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting Read More...
A Vision of Students Today
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 Read More...
Reflections on the Australian Blogging Conference and Blogging in Education
As readers of my main blog will know , I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing Read More...
Academic Ethics, Privacy and Transparency ... all coming soon to YouTube!
Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes. The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April Read More...
Advice on Beginning (or Not) a PhD
Alex Halavais, an assistant professor at Quinnipiac University , has written an interesting post called " Ask Alex: Getting a Communication Ph.D. " in which he looks at the pros and cons of getting a PhD in Communcations, and, equally importantly, the Read More...
Your Thoughts on Blogs: The New University Workspace?
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 Read More...
The Lecture From Hell II (but with Pacman!)
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: Read More...
The Lecture From Hell (but with music!)
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 Read More...
Two Great Talks on Student Engagement
Last week was the Teaching and Learning Forum 2007, held here at UWA. The conference theme was Student Engagement , which is a core topic in the coming years for the higher education sector. While there were many interesting (and engaging) papers, I want Read More...