Category Archives: Technology

Multimedia Experement Conclusions

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 October, 2008. Filed under Education, Technology. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
I have concluded a couple of weeks of experimenting with multimedia to support my teaching and have come to some conclusions. The most important is that, at least for my subject material, there are very limited learning benefits from developing teaching support resources beyond well structured web resources and podcasts — at least in terms [...]

Multimedia Experiments

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 7 October, 2008. Filed under Media, Personal, Photography, Technology, Work. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
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I have slowly been getting back into some experimenting with multimedia. Some of this has been prompted by my experiments with podcasts and subsequent attempts to think about adding supporting text and interactivity to them (all without spending 3 days a week to produce 10 minutes that will only be used once). Some has been [...]

Podcasting lessons

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 1 October, 2008. Filed under Teaching, Technology. Tagged , . 3 Comments.
One of the things I set out to do this year is to provide podcasts to support my students. Rather than simply make the lectures available (an easy option), I have decided to create an extra weekly podcast to support reading and lecture preparation. My reason is that I know that my students can make [...]

Term time

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 22 September, 2008. Filed under China, Research, Teaching, Technology, Work. Tagged , , , . 1 Comment.
The last two weeks have been great. I took at trip to Greece for a friends’ wedding and managed to catch up with family and friends. The weather, food, beer and festivities were all fantastic. The weekend just passed was a trip to Oxford for the alumni weekend and the first event of my soon [...]

Google Maps and Google Earth

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 2 September, 2008. Filed under China, India, Japan, Personal, Technology. Tagged , , , . 1 Comment.
In my (precious little) spare time I have been experimenting with Google Maps and Google Earth. Things have gone well, except for working out how to embed the maps into my blog posts. Now, if you happen to be using Firefox (I’m not sure about Internet Explorer), below is a map I made using Google [...]