Category Archives: Teaching

Mashups and Teaching

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 January, 2010. Filed under Teaching, Technology. Tagged , , . No comments.
I had a productive Christmas making geo-mashups for teaching. Mashups are a method of developing web applications that link different web platforms through their programming interfaces (APIs). My first project has been to link Google Maps to my own database of articles and news stories about China so that students can locate them geographically. The articles [...]

The trip so far (updated x 2)

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 1 April, 2009. Filed under China, Photography, Teaching. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
So far we have travelled from Shanghai to Yiwu, Hangzhou, Erdos (Inner Mongolia) and now Beijing. Below are some photos, I’ll keep adding to this set as I get time to choose and edit. We have had two really wonderful welcomes from students at Zhejiang University and Erdos College (part of the University of Inner Mongolia). Quite [...]

Urumqi

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 15 January, 2009. Filed under China, Photography, Teaching. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Urumqi sits on the old silk route running between the East of China to Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople. As such its an important site for students of international business with an historical bent and a visit is useful to help reimagine more than 2000 years of international trade and commerce. I came here with my [...]

Embedding Maps (updated x 2)

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 11 December, 2008. Filed under China, Teaching, Technology, Work. Tagged , , , . Comments Off.
I should shortly be heading to China again to prepare for travel with my students over the Easter break — the students seem quite exciting about the trip and during my preparations I’ll explore one or two new places that we could potentially visit to help the students understand more of the economic, cultural and [...]

Sony Home

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 24 November, 2008. Filed under Teaching, Technology, Work. Tagged , , , . Comments Off.
I received an invitation to download and register with Sony’s Home, a virtual environment not unlike Second Life that is currently in beta and works on the Playstation 3. The beta is still very limited: you can define how you look and move through your apartment (everyone gets one), a central square, shopping mall, cinema and [...]