Useful URLs for January 28th through March 12th

These are my links for January 28th through March 12th:

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
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• Better designs that lead to better learning | theage.com.au – Nice article about relationship between architecture, learning, and the role of small groups in learning.
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Useful URLs for October 21st through January 27th

These are my links for October 21st through January 27th:

• Learning Through Digital Media – Collaborative open scholarship anthology about learning through digital media.
• Culture Club « Desktop – Desktop Mag article about what makes a studio successful.
• Research Skill Development Framework – This is very very good. Nuff said. Detailed matrix of facets and student autonomy to categorise/map research skills.
• :: NuVu studio – Boston located problem based learning driven studio for 14 to 18 year olds that is rethinking learning in the same ways that I am.
• TEXT Special Issue No 6 – Supervising the Creative Arts Higher Degree: Towards Best Practice. Good collection of material here.

Good Questions

Questions that have arisen:

• If you wouldn’t call it a lab, what would you call it?
• How would you design the experience so that the lab model, etc becomes self sustaining/defining
• What has to happen to reach a tipping point for the students to ‘get’ this model? Staff?
• What does a 21st century honours mean, or require?
• What do you think the pitch for this is?

Costing Scenarios

Honours loses money. Apparently no way it can’t since a) it is premised on individual supervision (aka expensive) just like postgraduate research, yet b) is funded at an undergraduate rate. So the juggling act becomes how to structure, deliver, make happen what is really important to honours without going too far into the red. No one really can tell you how much too much is, so it is a funny sort of dance since you don’t really know the steps.

However, the heart of honours is the laboratory and our methods subject. So to cost different models these are the sorts of things that will be run through the financial analyst’s spreadsheet; what happens if we:

• remove the communication subject?
• reduce the labs from 4 to 3 but retain the same enrolment numbers?
• increase our international enrolment by n?
• change the supervision model so that it is group supervision?
• what happens if supervision is ‘rolled’ into the lab?
• only having supervision for one semester?
• how much would it cost if no labs?

Also, if we called labs a studio or similar does that make a difference to how the university thinks about its costing?

Ideally several scenarios should be able to be sent ‘up’ for discussion and consideration, however I think the decision making systems in place might not cope with treating this as an informed conversation and would prefer a single model that they can say yay or nay to (after all they do know the steps to this dance so the working group choreographing several dances just, well), in which case we may have to pick and plump for our preferred option and leave it at that.

Useful URLs for August 5th through September 28th

These are my links for August 5th through September 28th:

• The Future of Learning | Startl – Draft discussion paper come essay on education in the 21st century. Pretty much ticks every box that I aspire to in my curriculum design, teaching practice and the honours model we are developing.
• Course search – Research methods subject at Deakin.

Useful URLs for July 2nd through July 4th

These are my links for July 2nd through July 4th:

• UTS: Communication – UTS: Communication honours program – Communication Honours at UTS
• UWS: Bachelor of Communication (Honours) – B.Comm honours at UWS
• Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) – Courses and Programs – The University of Queensland, Australia – Bach. Creative Arts Honours at UQ
• Bachelor of Multimedia Design(Honours) – Courses and Programs – The University of Queensland, Australia – Bachelor of Multimedia Des Honours at UQ
• Bachelor of Communication (Honours) – Courses and Programs – The University of Queensland, Australia – Bachelor of Communication Honours at UQ

Useful URLs for July 2nd

These are my links for July 2nd:

• Journalism & Mass Communication Field of Study – part of the Bachelor of Arts(Honours) – Courses and Programs – The University of Queensland, Australia – Journalism and Mass Comm honours at UQ
• Communication and Cultural Studies Field of Study – part of the Bachelor of Arts(Honours) – Courses and Programs – The University of Queensland, Australia – Communication and Cultural Studies honours at UQ
• Griffith University | Bachelor of Multimedia with Honours – Nathan – Bachelor of Multimedia Honours at Griffith
• Griffith University | Bachelor of Photography with Honours – South Bank (QCA) – Bachelor of Photography with honours, Griffith
• Griffith University | Bachelor of Animation with Honours – South Bank (QCA) – Bachelor of Animation with Honours, Griffith

Useful URLs for July 2nd

These are my links for July 2nd:

• Griffith University | Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production with Honours – South Bank (QCA) – Bachelor Film and Screen Media Prod with Honours, Griffith
• Griffith University | Bachelor of Digital Media with Honours – Gold Coast (QCA) – Bachelor of Digital Media with Honours, Griffith
• Griffith University | Bachelor of Design with Honours – South Bank (QCA) – B.Des honours at Griffith.
• QUT Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) – Program outline, entry details and the like for journalism honours program.
• Creative Industries Honours at QUT – Course outline, entry requirements and the like for QUT's Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours)

Useful URLs for June 11th through June 12th

These are my links for June 11th through June 12th:

• Elizabeth Spiers’ media-entrepreneur summer school » Nieman Journalism Lab – Interesting model, have a hosted summer class. Major outcomes and the like.
• Faculty of Arts and Education – Deakin Prof and Creative writing honours
• Faculty of Arts and Education – Deakin Media and Comm honours
• Faculty of Arts and Education – Deakin Film Dig Media honours
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – study areas – Deakin Arts honours disciplinary areas
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) program – Deakin Arts Honours
• Honours, Deakin University – Deakin honours general information
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Computer Mediated Art and Multimedia | Victoria University | A New School of Thought | Melbourne, Australia – VU computer mediated art and multimedia honours
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | Victoria University | A New School of Thought | Melbourne, Australia – VU Arts honours
• Media Studies Program – La Trobe University – Latrobe Media Studies honours
• 104-MC (104MC) Bachelor of Arts (Honours)(Media and Communications) – 2010 – Melb Uni Media and Comms honours
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) : Faculty of Arts : The University of Melbourne – Melb Uni Arts Honours programs. Has links to three honours programs.
• Honours degree of Bachelor of Visual Communication, Monash University – Monash Vis Comm Honours
• Honours degree of Bachelor of Multimedia and Digital Arts, Monash University – Monash Multimedia and Digital Arts Honours
• Honours degree of Bachelor of Design, Monash University – Monash B.Des honours
• Sonia Livingstone 2010 Digital Media and Learning Conference Keynote – Keynote talk (text) from conference, talk is entitled "Youthful Participation: What have we learned, what shall we ask next?"
• UTS: Communication – Social Inquiry – UTS social inquiry program, situated in communication studies. Has link to honours.
• UTS: Communication – Media Arts and Production – UTS media arts and production undergrad. Has link to honours.
• UTS: Communication – Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Information and Media) (C10251v1) – BA Info and Media at UTS. Does not appear to have an honours outcome.
• UTS Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Communication – Communication, UTS Handbook 2010 – 2010 handbook entry for BA Hons in Communication