Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 60

Tara Brabazon talks about visual effects with Damien Markey

What are visual effects and how are they different from special effects?  Tara Brabazon talks with Damien Markey, an academic from the University of Bolton, about the nature of visual effects and why it is an emerging area of university study and research.

Cascading assessment in legal education

Tara introduces Professor Steve Redhead's innovative assessment protocol for legal studies. Steve discusses the potential of cascading assessment for upper-level undergraduate students to enable research training.

Teaching law, legal studies, criminology and sociology

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about teaching and learning strategies in law, legal studies, criminology and sociology.

Using podcasts in the teaching of law, legal studies and criminology

Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about his use of podcasts in the teaching of law, legal studies and criminology. Steve explores the potential of podcasts to both time and space shift learning, while recognizing the challenges of the widening participation agenda in higher edeucation.

Why teach sport in universities?

Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about the potential and challenges of teaching sport in universities.  From leisure studies to sports journalism and entertainment and sports law, sport offers an innovative strategy to teach complex ideas in new ways.

Tara talks with Shirley Ward about information literacy

Tara Brabazon asks Shirley Ward about the role of libraries, librarians and information literacy in higher education.

Beyond Baker Street

Gerry Rafferty is best known for one song:  "Baker Street."  Tara shows that his career captured the darkness and disappointments of popular music and celebrity.  Coming from Scotland, the ability to emerge from a small nation and gain international success remains an important legacy of Rafferty's career.

Telling stories

Digital storytelling offers a great way to organize and express personal stories.  Yet Tara shows that digital storytelling has a powerful function in education.  Making abstract knowledge applicable knowledge, digital storytelling brings the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.

Helping graduate students to publish their research

Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.

Why editing matters in a research project

Too often, research students underestimate the time involved in editing their thesis or dissertation for submission to examiners. Tara asks her research students about editing: how they do it, why they do it, or why they choose not to do it.