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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 ...

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. Even for Research I universities, the committee usually wants some indication that ...

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 up on YouTube.  For example, this article from News.com on UC Berkeley's ...

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 ...

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.  I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session so thought, in ...

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 this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary MacLennan, published an article in ...

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 questions that potential postgrads should ask before embarking on a research degree.  ...

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 ...