Archive for the ‘UWA’ Category
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
For any interested Perth folk, a SF/F discussion group re-emerges: After a long hiatus, the UWA science fiction/fantasy discussion group is restarting in 2008. Meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of each month in Arts G.05, and undergraduate students, postgraduate students, staff and anyone else interested ...
Posted in Perth, UWA, australia | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, UWA, australia, blogs, participatory culture, personal, student engagement, teaching and learning, tyranny of digital distance, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Friday, August 24th, 2007
(I'm back in Perth, and ...) All over the world the WikiScanner has been uncovering interesting trails and tails of previously unnamed Wikipedia editors. PerthNow quickly jumped on the bandwagon and discovered the the Office of Australia's Prime Minister has been busy: The Prime Minister's staff has been editing ...
Posted in UWA, australia, elearning, politics, wiki | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Yesterday I was interviewed by Laura Miller on RTR FM's radio programme 'Morning Magazine'. Laura and I spoke about about MySpace, Facebook, Australian politican's using social software, and the recent interest in these spaces in terms of 'class' on the back of danah boyd's work. For the two ...
Posted in Ponderings, UWA, personal, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
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, ...
Posted in UWA, elearning, student engagement, teaching and learning | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
A huge congratulations to my UWA colleague, Gail Jones, on being shortlisted for this year's Miles Franklin award for her new book Dreams of Speaking; Vintage (Random House Australia). Her competition this year is pretty impressive, too: Careless by Deborah Robertson; Carpenteria by Alexis Wright; and Theft: A ...
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