There will be an official opening of the InSPIRE Centre at the University of Canberra this week. I see the Centre as a physical tipping point in my own thinking about and practice in educational technology. I like the idea of being InSPIRED and hope to spend much of my nomadic time at the University [...]
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InSPIRING
Posted in Australia, Communication, Community, Creative Commons, Education, Ethnography, Networks, Open Access, Public Sphere, Radical Transparency, Teaching and Learning, Wayfinding, tagged Dan Schultz, Hiperwall, InSPIRE Centre, UCNISS on 27 May, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Eyewitnesses, Memory and Oral History
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Ethnography, tagged Eyewitness, Hindsight, memory, Oral History, Radio National on 27 January, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Radio National’s Hindsight had an excellent program this week. Inga Clendinnen, Paul Thompson, Peter Read, Heather Goodall, Sean Field and Bonnie Smith took part in the program (podcast here) titled The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. I thought the program explored very effectively the relationships between history and memory. I liked in particular the discussion [...]
Observation +
Posted in Australia, Coaching, Communication, Digital Media, Ethnography, Performance Analysis, Sport, Teaching and Learning, Video, tagged A League, Augmented Information, Big Bash League, Ethnographies of Learning, FoxSports, Learning Styles, Miiiinime, Multiple Intelligences, Near Real-time, Observation, Performa Sports, Real-time, UCNISS on 19 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I received an alert today via a LinkedIn group about a Performa Sports App. I discovered that “Performa Sports is the performance analysis tool that gives analysts, coaches and players the edge”. The availability of applications like this is offering real-time opportunities for observation + support for coaches and players. It has been fascinating to [...]
Do People Who Have Lost Their Voice Have To Do It?
Posted in Communication, Education, Ethnography, Play, Sport, Teaching and Learning, tagged Alan Tomlinson, Andrew Sparkes, Charles Olson, Elliot Eisner, Ethnography, Fieldwork, James Spradley, Jeanne Favret-Saada, John van Maanen, LSE Library, Michael Frayn, Miller Mair, Physical Education, State Library of Queensland, UCNISS, Willard Waller, Wolfgang Iser, Writing on 15 December, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Introduction I undertook three years of fieldwork in two schools in the mid 1980s as part of my part-time PhD studies in the teaching of boys’ physical education in the secondary school. Other than a chapter in a book of readings edited by Andrew Sparkes (1992) the only account of my work is in the [...]
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