Darryn Mitussis

The semester's teaching is over ... now for the marking.
April 30th 2008

Categories: China, Consumption, Research
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Lijiang Old Town

Yesterday we arrived in Lijiang. From my twitters, you'll see that it is a very scenic place, like Kunming, sitting on a mountain plateau. Unlike Kunming, the mountains are visible all around. The main part of the commercial city proper seems quite small, having, even, a dusty country town feel to ...

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What I'm Doing...

  • Cold in Beijing, spending the day doing admin and paperwork. Dinner with alumni friends tonight. 7 hrs ago
  • Safely in Beijing hotel after overnight train from Xian. Meetings later today. 1 day ago
  • Waiting to board overnight train T42 from Xian to Beijing. 2 days ago
  • A day of cultural activities in Xian. 3 days ago
  • Safely in Xian. 4 days ago
  • Hotel in Hangzhou booked. 5 days ago
  • Hot chocolate at Costa in Hangzhou. Decided against amertto version, not sure why given how cold it is. 1 week ago
  • Getting ready to head from Yiwu to Hangzhou on 10am train. 1 week ago
  • Safely in Yiwu. 1 week ago
  • An hour on the treadmill. Very satisfying. 1 week ago
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Where I'm going ...

  • Thursday, 8 January:Ordos
  • Tuesday, 13 January:Urumqi
  • Saturday, 17 January:Shanghai
  • Monday, 19 January:Overnight Flight
  • Tuesday, 20 January:Nottingham
  • Sunday, 22 March:Shanghai
  • Wednesday, 25 March:Yiwu
  • Thursday, 26 March:Hangzhou
  • Saturday, 28 March:Ordos
  • Wednesday, 1 April:Beijing

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December 11th 2008

Categories: China, Teaching, Technology, Work
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Embedding Maps (updated x 2)

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 ...
December 6th 2008

Categories: Photography, Research
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Brussels

I was in Brussels for a workshop earlier this week. The workshop was about Asian management, with most of the papers having some China theme. It was great and has helped to reinvigorate my research interest. One of the nicest aspects was that there was typically about 30 mins after ...
November 24th 2008

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Sony Home

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 ...
October 26th 2008

Categories: Friends, Personal, Photography
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Birmingham

A former student (and now friend) of mine is spending a semester in the UK as part of his PhD studies in Australia. We met in Birmingham and wandered around a little to see the sights while talking about teaching and research. [geo_mashup_show_on_map_link] The cities in the English Midlands are useful places to ...
October 22nd 2008

Categories: Personal, Photography
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Grey days

In my breaks and the odd evening, I have slowly been playing with Aperture some more to tinker with my photographs. I covered the distinction between photography as documentation or journalism and photography as art in an earlier post (see here). To match my rather grey mood, I have been reducing the ...
October 19th 2008

Categories: Education, Technology
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Multimedia Experement Conclusions

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 -- ...

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