Category: teaching

• Future Cultures

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  March 11, 2019

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  learning, teaching, UoW

  It is a new year and a new semester, and I have been busy writing a new set of lectures for BCM325 Future Cultures. As this subject is going to be available across four campuses over the next couple of years, in Wollongong, Hong Kong, South West Sydney and Dubai, I’ve elected to record them…

• Mashup

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  September 27, 2018

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  teaching

  Distinct lack of updates in the last year, but no sense in overthinking that. Here is a Prezi of my brief talk on Mashups, Bowie and Bricolage for #BCM114 today.

  

• this time around

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  August 5, 2016

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  teaching, thoughts

  Teaching this semester involves a welcome return to DIGC330 Digital Asia and the most satisfying collaborative blog I’ve been fortunate to be a part of in my teaching experience. The subject is very much directed by the students own interests, both personal and professional, and the results are unpredictable and revealing of the way that…

• DIGC330 Digital Asia – Week Two

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  August 6, 2015

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  teaching

  I didn’t discover that the ‘original’ Godzilla, which I knew as a child was actually a remake for US audiences of the original 1954 Gojira, until quite recently. It is minor ‘epiphany’ of sorts that serves as my starting point for the seminars in DIGC 330 Digital Asia this week. Following on from the lecture on…

• digital artefacts as a program of study

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  July 6, 2015

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  learning, teaching

  An alternative higher education assessment practice for media and communication studies.

• Serres, time travel and the Gothic in science fiction

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  March 29, 2013

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  games, learning, notes, publication, research, science fiction, teaching, thoughts

  Three new postgraduate students to co-supervise this year. The first I’ve caught up with so far is a Creative Arts students writing a science fiction novel. The exegesis for the thesis will focus on the Gothic in science fiction and to kick the process off, we will be working on an analysis of the Gothic…

• mashup monday

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  March 25, 2013

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  music, teaching, thoughts

  a little mashup to round out monday evening and I’m a good mood after a productive day of teaching so I give to you the greatest mashup song, ever

• seeing through Glass

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  February 26, 2013

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  education, iPad, learning, research, teaching, thoughts

  It would take a lot for me to shift from my iPad mini to an Android tablet but Google Glass would do it. I’m scaling up the use of G+ in my teaching this year after a successful trial of the Hangout feature and live online tutorials via my laptop in the tutorial rooms in 2012. I’ve…

• screenshots as digital tools and media objects

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  January 27, 2013

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  education, games, learning, publication, research, teaching, thoughts

  Now that I’ve had a chance to properly experiment with the open source social network overview and exploration tool, NodeXL, I’m finally finding some traction. I’d  tinkered with the plugin in the past and more recently managed to spend some time acquitting myself with a little graph theory and social network analysis methodology. Together with an updated…

• one more thing

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  October 29, 2012

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  education, industry, teaching, thoughts

  The final assessment for the first unit of the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education calls for a 500 word post answering the question:  What idea(s) explored in the modules have you found most useful and why? The most personally affecting idea explored in this, my first module, has been that of the ‘student’. While some…