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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 available.  Thus, I was fascinated by Garr’s take on the differences between Barack ...

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 of the way (some) student experiences are changing: [YouTube:dGCJ46vyR9o] Some of the ...

Today marks 500 days since I officially began writing my thesis. Notice that I didn't say that I've been writing for 500 days, because there are some weekends in there when I didn't do any writing. I really had hoped to have submitted before the big 500, but alas, yet again, the dream has died. In fact, when I mentioned to one of my supervisors ...

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! :)

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 at least one student are exploring the place of blogs and blogging in higher education.  ...

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: [YouTube:ywciRztvCx8] 

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): [YouTube:910jw8wDLJc] [Source] For those who are present (or past) Postgraduate Teaching Interns, this is exactly the sort of video I wish I had time ...

My task today (or however long it takes me) is to write my thesis abstract. I remember reading somewhere that it should be around 300 words. It _should_ be fairly easy, but my supervisor keeps saying it is the hardest part. Maybe it's difficult to cram everything in such a small amount of words. I'll be having a squiz at a few other examples from ...

Dear Diary, Today I got a couple of things done. The most important of these was the drafting of the first half of my final chapter. In this chapter, I cover what conclusions may be reached from the content of the document, as well as what scope there is for future research in this area of study. So today, I was able to write down and briefly ...

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: Sir Tim believes devotees of blogging sites take too much information on trust: ''The ...