Digital Dialogues

Members' Musings: Productive Reflection at Work

The latest podcast is the recording from the Trainer's Network meeting at UTS, 12th May - Productive Reflection at Work, presented by Professor Dave Boud.

The audio of the presentation can be a little quiet in some areas as Dave moved away from the microphone, I have done my best to edit this - quality: 3 star Download dave_boud_12may06v3.mp3

Heading to London...25th June

Well, today is the last day in the office - my physical office that is, for...5 weeks!!
I've finished marking mounds of weblog assignments, results are submitted and now....it's time to head north for a little sun (I know, it is London), lots of fun, quite a lot of writing (PhD thesis type), and catch up with friends and colleagues!

Changing Worlds - slides from lecture

I've received a number of requests about recordings and / or slides from the Changing Worlds - Can Education Adapt to a net Generation - so - here is a link to the presentation (PDF format - 6.5mb).

Lyn tells me a recording has been made and will be available soon on the UTS website - I'll create a link when it's available. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend - but the word around campus is...it was a really thought provoking session!

Changing Worlds - Can Education Adapt to a Net Generation?

If you happen to be in Sydney today (sorry for the late notice - I've been offline for a few days - grrrrrrrrr) - there's a really interesting lecture this evening:
UTSpeaks: Changing Worlds - Can Education Adapt to a Net Generation?

Education has been one of the slowest sectors to embrace the promise of online technology's rapid advance. Can these new technologies assist learning, and if so, how might resistance to e-learning be overcome?

Using a virtual excursion into two digital worlds, one created by students, another by teachers, this free public lecture explores the possibility that confusion about how we learn impedes the uptake of new technologies in Education. Join us to provoke your thinking about what it means to learn. Refresh your ideas about curriculum, assessment, teaching and teacher and parent education.

Thursday 15 June 2006, 6pm drinks for 6.30pm start
Guthrie Theatre
Level 3, Peter Johnson Building, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo

Free Parking
Peter Johnson Building basement car park, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo

Associate Professor Lyn Schaverien
Lyn Schaverien leads the development and teaching of innovative postgraduate e-learning subjects at UTS' Faculty of Education, in collaboration with the UTS Institute for Interactive Media and Learning. She is Vice-President and immediate Past President of the NSW Institute for Educational Research. As leading Chief Investigator of two recent Australian Research Council Linkage projects, Professor Schaverien has collaboratively pioneered ways of achieving spread, depth, sustainability and student and teacher ownership of e-learning approaches here in NSW. Before becoming a full-time academic Lyn forged a successful career as a primary/middle school teacher and primary principal.

RSVP
Contact Robert Button Tel: 02 9514 1734 Email: [email protected]

UTSPEAKS: is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia