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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
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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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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
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The talk I have during the PSA's Research week on 'Creating an Online Presence During Candidature' is now online, complete with slides and audio , thanks to Lectopia. At 36:45 in to the presentation, I talk explicitly about MyResearchSpace and what it
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Yesterday, Karen called me a geek. She's right; but I suspect a fair few postgrad bloggers are in the geekerly way, too, but: can you prove it? Here's evidence of my uber-geekery... If you've got the same tool , can you out-geek me? :)
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Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook? Should you care? Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era? If any of these questions
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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
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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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Back in February, MyResearchSpace's admins mentioned that it is possible to use Word 2007 as the writer and editor for your blog posts. However, many of us won't be using Word 2007 in a hurry -- for whatever reason -- so I wanted to quickly mention another
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In exploring the role of participatory media forms in higher eduction, media scholar Henry Jenkins recently penned an article entitled " From YouTube to YouNiversity " for the Chronicle of Higher Education . It's a great read, but this passage particularly
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This YouTube clip does a pretty good job of explaining it ... [Via Jill ]
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