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Digital Forums
This series of free presentations exploring information in the digital age ran throughout 2007 and 2008 in association with the Australian Library & Information Association.
Listen online to recordings of the 2008 forums using the links below, or view the full list of available audio.
2008 events
| Tuesday 11 NovemberUsing iPods in innovative classrooms and librariesThis presentation will demonstrate the varied uses of the iPod in secondary and tertiary education. It will examine the various iPod models, accessories and applications (including the iPhone, due in Australia in July) that can be used to create innovative learning opportunities for students. |
| Tuesday 7 OctoberHow do you teach art and design online?
Anitra Nottingham, Online Director, School of Graphic Design, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, is one of the biggest private art colleges in the USA. The university also exists online, with content-rich classes that utilise the potential of the internet to foster learning. Anitra Nottingham, Online Director for the School of Graphic Design, will take you on a tour of the online classrooms at AAU and reflect on the future of online learning in art and design. |
| Tuesday 2 SeptemberAnimalia: From book to screen
Ewan Burnett, producer, Animalia television series
Graeme Base’s 1986 book Animalia has been phenomenally successful. But how do you adapt a beautifully illustrated alphabet book into a children’s TV series for an international audience? Producer Ewan Burnett will discuss the challenge of taking Animalia from book to screen. |
| Tuesday 5 AugustCopyright and the digital museum
Andrew Kenyon and Robin Wright, researchers, University of Melbourne
Digital communications offer exciting opportunities for cultural institutions to promote public access to their collections – but at the same time create the possibility of copyright infringement. Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright is a research project being conducted by the Centre for Media and Communications Law and the Intellectual Property Research Institution at the University of Melbourne. Researchers Andrew Kenyon and Robin Wright will discuss the project. |
| Tuesday 1 JulyRama Contraptions: Panoramic imaging and 360° display systems for cultural heritage visualisation
Sarah Kenderdine, Museum Victoria The panorama reveals itself as a navigable space, persistent throughout media history. The re-emergence of the panoramic scheme as the new image vogue, underscores it as a highly persuasive interface. In this session, Sarah Kenderdine, from Museum Victoria, will introduce the experiments that rework the immersive architecture of the panorama, with interactive language of new digital interfaces as modalities of the exploded, expanded, and virtualised cinematic. The session will highlight two large-scale immersive, stereographic display systems and panoramic capture technologies from Museum Victoria and iCinema, UNSW, including the interactive cinema installation PLACE-Hampi. |
| Tuesday 3 JuneWhatever happened to the digital divide?
Professor Julian Thomas, Director, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University; Professor Denise Meredyth, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University Five years ago, many of us were concerned about the ‘digital divide’. Are there still serious concerns about inequalities in citizens’ capacity to access and use online services? Hear two key speakers reflect on the conceptual and empirical basis of the idea of the ‘digital divide’. Professor Julian Thomas is Director of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University and leads the international research program of the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Professor Denise Meredyth is Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University and the program leader of the Citizenship and Government program within the Institute. |
| Tuesday 6 MayThe challenging classroom
Simon Le Plastrier, Deputy Head; Rob Flavell, Head, ICT program; Stuart Deane, Director, Learn IT and ICT Staff Trainer, Trinity Grammar School iPods, interactive whiteboards, mobile devices, tablet computers, intranets - are they gimmicks or useful learning tools? Three speakers from Trinity Grammar School, Kew, will reflect on how they are facing the challenges of an interactive world. Simon Le Plastrier, Deputy Head, will demonstrate how he uses interactive tools in a subject called ‘Beginner’s Guide to Ideas’. Rob Flavell, Head of the ICT program, will reflect on the school’s approach to ICT. Stuart Deane, Director of Learn IT and ICT Staff Trainer, will demonstrate other exciting ICT options and reflect on where the technology may be heading. |
| Tuesday 1 AprilMySpace for kids? The power of community
Martyn Wild, a Director of Intuitive Media Australia
SuperClubsPLUS Australia is a new social network for young children. It has all the functionality and compulsion of MySpace and Facebook - but it is fundamentally about keeping children safe online, as well giving them a voice, and purposeful activities and spaces in which to use it. This promises to be an important online initiative for Australian children, parents and schools. Martyn Wild, a Director of Intuitive Media Australia, will explain SuperClubsPLUS Australia’s approach to learning and to cybersafety.
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| Tuesday 4 MarchThe Searchers project
Dr Vivienne Waller and Ian McShane, Swinburne University Research Fellows
The Searchers is an Australian Research Council Linkage project conducted by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University in collaboration with the State Library of Victoria. This project examines the strategic challenges for major public libraries presented by the online information environment. The project has three components: research on current information-seeking and the role of public libraries; analysis of wider developments in online environments and search models; and evaluation of the policy and strategic implications for public libraries. Swinburne University Research Fellows Dr Vivienne Waller and Ian McShane will discuss the project.
Please note: Audio of this forum is not available. |
| Tuesday 5 FebruaryEngaging with social media in museums
Dr Angelina Russo, Chief Investigator, Engaging with Social Media in Museums research project
The Australian museum sector is undergoing substantial change in response to policy and technology initiatives, yet little formal collaboration exists between museums and researchers. The Engaging with Social Media in Museums research project brings together three major Australian museums (Powerhouse Museum, Australian Museum and Museum Victoria) with the US-based Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum - a Smithsonian Institution, to prototype the use of social media in museums to produce a new source of high-quality cultural information, and to link regional, rural and international users with city-based institutions. As Chief Investigator Dr Angelina Russo will explain, the project explores the impact on museum learning and communication of social media such as blogs and wikis, which facilitate knowledge exchange through social networking.
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