Teaching
Current Role & Teaching
In 2008 I’m lecturing in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. In the first semester I’ll be coordinating the upper-level undergraduate Digital Media (Comm2203) unit on both the domestic Crawley campus and in Hong Kong. I’ll also be coordinating the Advanced Projects unit as part of the Communication Studies honours programme.
Recent Teaching
In 2006 & 2007 I was located in the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning as an Associate Lecturer (Higher Education Development) where my role included co-coordinating the Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme, Postgraduate Teaching Internship Scheme, and running the Introduction to University Teaching course. I was also involved in a number of new initiatives including some in the area of eLearning and participatory cultural tools (such as blogs and podcasts). In this capacity, I was on the steering committees for MyResearchSpace, the NODE Project and the Social & Cultural Studies iPod Project.
In the first semester of 2007 I gave several guest lectures for the both Ecotexts: Nature/Writing/Technology and Sex, Bodies, Spaces: Gender and Popular Culture. In second semester 2007, I tutored Comm1101: Human Technology: Debating Communication, and gave lecture on Media Violence & Videogames, and the Special Effects of Communication (focusing on the way CGI is used in the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
In the second semester of 2005, I wrote and taught a Communication Studies honours unit “iGeneration: Digital Communication & Participatory Culture” at the University of Western Australia. The unit was, to the best of my knowledge, the first university course in which students created podcasts as a form of assessment; it was also centred around a course blog (which remains online both as an archive of the students’ work, and as a possible exemplar for future courses; the content is re-usable under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license). The unit’s blog was nominated for a 2005 Edublog Award and on the basis of student nominations, I was awared an Excellence in Teaching Award: Early Career Teacher by the University of Western Australia.
In the first semester of 2005, I taught Digital Media 203 and Sex, Bodies, Spaces: Gender and Popular Culture in English, Communication & Cultural Studies and Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia (I also participated in offshore teaching of Communication Studies at the Hong Kong University, Space in the Centre for International Degree Programmes).
In the second semester of 2004, I wrote and coordinated the upper level undergraduate unit Self.Net: Communicating Identity in the Digital Age at University of Western Australia within the discipline of English, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Women’s Studies.
