tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post8260722613597886478..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Brisbane distractionsThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-72828882445807859702007-12-28T16:54:00.000+11:002007-12-28T16:54:00.000+11:00Hi Kathleen and Dogpossum,Sorry it's taken me so l...Hi Kathleen and Dogpossum,<BR/><BR/>Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. I love Dogpossum's response: I'm going to keep it and refer back to it when I start to put my lectures on contemporary medievalism together for first semester. I agree that PP is a brilliant medium for multi-media presentations, even simple visual and textual media. And it sounds as if your students are totally switched on This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-32661226887187822592007-12-13T10:25:00.000+11:002007-12-13T10:25:00.000+11:00I use Keynote (the apple version of powerpoint) an...I use Keynote (the apple version of powerpoint) and I love it. I figure, teaching media, that it helps to actually show examples of the media you're discussing. <BR/><BR/>This past semester I was working with first years in a 1.5 hour lecture, which was too long for all of us (we only had 1.5 hour tutes, which was too short!), so the slides helped break up the time. I integrate AV and sound filesUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929272879364178600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-12668635353639974842007-12-03T15:48:00.000+11:002007-12-03T15:48:00.000+11:00Stephanie, I would love to pop in on one of your l...Stephanie, I would love to pop in on one of your lectures to see how you use Powerpoint for talking about prosody, metre, etc. - I've never got past using it for images (for which I love it) and foreign phrases. Your technique sounds like a great use of what can be such a clunky program!<BR/><BR/>It's interesting - I did an educational qualification last year, on being a university educator. The 'signorina'https://www.blogger.com/profile/17552800884239465316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-74006446470415101502007-11-24T17:27:00.000+11:002007-11-24T17:27:00.000+11:00Hi Whatladder. Yes, I *do* use powerpoint, though ...Hi Whatladder. Yes, I *do* use powerpoint, though much less slavishly than I used to do. I love it for talking about bits of the text: so I make it work against its own preferences, to encourage close reading. It's brilliant for prosody, and talking about metre, etc. I also find it makes for not a bad lecture if I prepare slides, and slides alone; so that the lecture is structured, and I just This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-75694181242853270502007-11-22T19:48:00.000+11:002007-11-22T19:48:00.000+11:00How wonderful! It's quite okay for birds to be bir...How wonderful! It's quite okay for birds to be birds, methinks.melihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10026675747253438229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-33125457017342802792007-11-21T13:50:00.000+11:002007-11-21T13:50:00.000+11:00Oh, Meli, that takes me back! I remember to this d...Oh, Meli, that takes me back! I remember to this day, and I'm not saying how long ago it was, a first-year lecture Phil gave on symbolism in TS Eliot in general and 'Burnt Norton' (is that the Quartet with the bird in it, as in 'Look, said the bird', etc?) in particular: "A lot of critics have asked what this bird is. Well, it's a bird, basically."Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-25485662992503148792007-11-21T02:13:00.000+11:002007-11-21T02:13:00.000+11:00I have to admit that I am absolutely dismayed that...I have to admit that I am absolutely dismayed that you have fallen victim to PowerPoint, Stephanie - I remember you as being an excellent lecturer who didn't need visual aids because you had a very clear way of laying out the structure of your arguments in verbal cues. <BR/>Now I'm going to have to go and find those articles on why PowerPoint is evil, and send them to you.WhatLadderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603489349164511704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-50605719389482714452007-11-20T19:40:00.000+11:002007-11-20T19:40:00.000+11:00The best lectures I've ever heard were by Philip W...The best lectures I've ever heard were by Philip Waldron at the University of Adelaide. He lectured on modernism and Romanticism, and sadly I missed his Renaissance subject. We hung on his every word. We were sad when the hour was over. The most multimedia he ever got were little chalk drawings on the blackboard - Keat's nightingale springs to mind. And Bloom's soap. I think the drawings were to melihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10026675747253438229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-74717230959589759422007-11-20T17:17:00.000+11:002007-11-20T17:17:00.000+11:00"profoundly inoffensive" is very good! Yes, it's t..."profoundly inoffensive" is very good! Yes, it's the downside of having public places that are safe and user- and family-friendly, perhaps. I didn't quite get the sense, in Brisbane, of the private wealth of Perth - but I'm sure I was in the wrong places for that. <BR/><BR/>On distraction: I'm trying not to beat myself up about this too much, but it just seems quite a long time since I worked on This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-88370453543780508872007-11-20T12:14:00.000+11:002007-11-20T12:14:00.000+11:00I've lived in and around Brisbane for, er, more ye...I've lived in and around Brisbane for, er, more years than I care to think about now. It does have a bit of a personality crisis -- attempting to be both itself and Sydney, with a bit of Perth thrown in I think. (It doesn't seem much interested in being Melbourne, which is a shame, or Adelaide.) Nevertheless, like all the Australian capitals it's profoundly inoffensive these days, David Thornbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129481335342570688noreply@blogger.com