Archive for the ‘student engagement’ Category

Building an Australasian Commons - June 24, 2008: Brisbane

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

To explore, expand and expound upon the emerging Australasian Commons, the Creative Commons Australia team have organised a free one-day symposium which investigates a range of activities, programme and philosophies driving open access and the cultural commons across Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia.  I'll be there, participating ...

CC+

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

One of the big announcements at the celebrations of Creative Commons' fifth birthday was the release of the CC+ (CCPlus) licensing arrangement which combines existing CC licenses with ability to also explicitly point to additional licensing (for example, terms for commercial use on an NC CC license).  From the ...

From YouTube to UniTube?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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 ...

Reflections on the Australian Blogging Conference and Blogging in Education

Monday, October 1st, 2007

As readers of this 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 ...

Learning Futures: Day One Insights

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I’m at the Learning Futures Symposium today and tomorrow.  I’m not blogging summaries of sessions because, to be fair, that’s often quite dull.  However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take the conference discussions to springboard some observations or thoughts that occurred during these interactions… Insight #1: There is a ...

It’s Going to be a BIG September!

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I'm attending four conferences or symposia across the next four weeks.  In a perfect world, each will come with details blogging; however, if I don't get around to writing much for a few weeks, here's why ... [X] Learning Futures Symposium - 10 & 11 September, Canberra - This is a ...

Australian Blogging Conference: 28 September 2007

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

The big news of the day is that The Australian Blogging Conference, a fabulous-looking free one-day event exploring everything about blogging in Australia (including education and Creative Commons!) now has a date: Friday, 28 September 2007 in sunny Brisbane! All of the details are here. I'd write more, ...

Powerpoint: Learning through Laughing

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, ...