Tag 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 [...]

Sights and Sounds: Urumqi Markets

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 18 January, 2009. Filed under China. Tagged , , , , , . Comments Off.
I am experimenting with recording some audio and video. Ideally, I would like to use it to help my students create a more dynamic record of their trip in China (as well as to start developing some teaching support materials that use audio and video). For the time being my occasional efforts are more about learning [...]

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 [...]

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 sense [...]