Details of the up-coming symposium – Converging on an NBN Future: Content, Connectivity, and Control – to be held in Canberra on 9 October. My contribution will be a short paper, Selling the NBN: The politics of broadband in Australia. Link to the free symposium registration inside. Click to read more
I am co-convenor of a symposium of ideas, methods and perspectives for research into digital culture, focusing on mobile media/devices, being held at Curtin University in association with Murdoch University. This is the first of three symposia in 2012 to be organised through the Creative Networks and Commons research cluster, in the Faculty of Humanities. Featuring Jean Burgess, Larissa Hjorth and Rowan Wilken, as well as reponses by Clare Lloyd and Ingrid Richardson, the symposium will explore emerging research that is already helping us understand this new social and cultural phenomenon, with particular attention to the way mobile networked devices enable new forms of conversation and play, in both public and private domains, and the blurring of boundaries between the two. Click to read more
I have just completed my Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship program, Learning in Networks of Knowledge. This 2-year program involved, in part, the development of an extensive resource for academics to use to assist in selecting Web 2.0 applications for use in their teaching practice. The choice and use of these tools was underpinned by the possibility of now facilitating student learning within the knowledge networking paradigm. The site is now fully operational, both fixed content and regular updates, at: http://knowledgenetworklearning.net In a simple image, here is what I am attempting to do in proposing a knowledge network learning approach:
Here are links to and embedded presentations that I gave as part of the Learning in Networks of Knowledge project for the ALTC Fellowship I received in 2008. Click to read more
On 15 November, as part of the Making Links Conference, Marcus Foth and I organised a workshop entitled Research for Action: Networking University and Community for Social Responsibility . Participants included researchers and activists, based in both universities and community organisations, and the following is a broadbrush summary of some things I learned from participating in a great day (with apologies for any errors in interpretation of what went on). (Posted before the final discussion, so I can concentrate on that plenary) Acknowledgment of the great people who spoke today at the bottom. Some of what I discuss is: There is no one model for cross-sectoral collaborative research organisation Research projects change; research is projection The grant or article is not the motivation The silent partners of research Who is the researcher? Research and action have different timeframes Learning / Education and research Research, knowledge work, networked ICTs Show me the money There is no one model for cross-sectoral collaborative research organisation Three (or more) models of research for action (drawn from contributions from Kath Albury, Marian Tye and Helen Merrick) the collaborative project, articulating complex array of partners around a specific issue, involving funding, participants and university researchers the … Click to read more
In 2010 I will be travelling to many Australian universities presenting the outcomes from my ALTC-funded project on Learning in Networks of Knowledge. This presentation focuses heavily on the way that a wide array of Web 2.0 / social media applications can be used in higher education, whether in distance or on-campus learning. The presentation will demonstrate a ‘top 10’ innovative services as examples of what can be done. Designed to provide practical, usable ideas, the presentation emphasises how the technologies which might be chosen must be understood in terms of their relationship to the content, assessment, outcomes of learning, and the particular context provided by students and the subjects they are studying. Handouts and slides are available. Click to read more
