Category: education
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and now for something not so completely different
I’ve been neglecting the blog again while teaching intensified again, but now the tsunami of marking is receding and exposing the wreckage of my research in its wake, I figure its worthwhile sharing (or at least archiving here) the (very ordinary) contributions from my recent reiteration as a student participating in a mandatory Graduate Certificate…
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ranty pants (part#2): the conversation
The ‘Faculty’ I call home has a deep sense of personality disorder, incorporating both the ‘Arts’ and ‘Creative Arts’ as well as ‘Education’. There are very few channels of communication between these mammoths, so it’s difficult to know exactly where and with whom I should be having the conversation, but there is a worrying similarity…
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Marking machinima
The article Graham Barwell, Ruth Walker and I wrote for the Australian Journal of Australasian Journal of Educational Technology on our machinima experiment. I always enjoy writing with Graham and Ruth and using Google Docs and Skype to collaboratively generate the peice, although we probably spent the most time trying to decide what to cut…
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Gamification – Round Two
The two results from my interviews with Australian games developers that have surprised me the most, are the negatives responses to the suggestion that there is a need for more women to be working in the local industry (but more on that in a later post) and gamificiation. Long before I’d heard the term and…
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The Point of the Arts and Humanities
I don’t agree with all the points made, but most of them… The Point of the Arts and Humanities
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Three Zoos in Three Weeks and the truth about Santa
Zoos are problematic for me. I don’t really liked the idea of caged animals, it’s way too prescient of the cages we put around ourselves (both literal and metaphorical) and as the only locations to see these animals (That is until we colonise space – and or time – and perfect DNA replication and terraforming: …
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World of Chaucer
The podcast from AUC conference on the interdisciplinary World of Warcaft machinima adaptation of Chaucer: http://betweenthebuttons.net/home/?p=336 I can’t stand the sound of my own voice so I haven’t listened to it yet – some body tell me if I sound like a tool or not.
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First Monday!
First Monday was the one journal that really sucked me into academia. At a time when nearly all the journals I was interested were locked behind a crazy paywall subscriptions system that makes them totally irrelevant to anyone outside of the the ivory towers, First Monday had escaped – it’s on the outside looking out.…
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