Using visualisation to help understand research outcomes

Currently, I’m writing a paper on the above topic. It is a paper long overdue from some past research work that I was involved in. In the paper, I discuss how graphic visualisation techniques and reflective practice can substantially inform research outcomes of a given project. In a way this paper digs in a bit [...]

Hold the Press!

Once again I apologize to my readers for the absolute lack of attension to this blog. The last four months have been a little bit ‘hairy’, with the submission of my exegesis and all. Actually, it will be submitted on Monday. The title has changed, which has been reflected in this blog as well. Teaching [...]

updates, updates, updates

Well, I know its been a long time since my last entry. I have been busy, I asure my readers. Wow, I just checked my last entry…it has been awhile. Since then, I have been busy writing out some of my ideas on graphic design education for various conferences. In fact I just returned from [...]

The Comic…

For the last week I have been building up not only visual research to help my comic dialogue but also writing it. Yes, writing!
It became apparent that if I tried to organise dialogue with introducing educational principles, theory ect, and visuals it ended up to be very messy. So, I have been drawn to write [...]

How’s the teaching going?

Someone mentioned to me this week if I have been posting blog entries about my reflections on teaching this semester. The answer is no, at this point to protect privacy but I have been taking notes down after each class and then looking back on them later trying to position “what happened” with some theories [...]

A Comic!

Here is a preview of what I been working on. Many blog posts ago, I wrote how I am trying to visualize this “new learning approach” that I have been reflecting on. More so, I should say that after some critique maybe visualize is not quite the right word to discuss the process I’m going [...]

Knowledge

Last week, I was going through John Biggs’s book in quality learning and I came across a section that I have gone over before but I obviously wasn’t ready to absorb it yet. Biggs spoke about Alignment of the teaching method and from a good teaching system comes the alignment of teaching methods, assessment [...]

The Boyer Commision Report

Through my past scrambling of information for the conference abstract I came upon a report concerning the needed changes in undergraduate education. The Boyer Commission, are a group of scientists, educators and designers who have come together to offer some insightful methods to strengthen the quality of university learning by stressing on the re-development and [...]

Troubles: New Views Abstract

As I mentioned in my last post since last week I have been desperately struggling to write a mere 400 words of positioning statement for the New Views 2 conference. Well, It’s done and thankfully so. I did learn a lot though from going through the process. Early on in the process I was trying [...]

The past week and now

For the last two weeks I have been busily working on a grant submission and a 63 pg contacts booklet for the state of Victoria. Because of certain deadlines, these have been my priorities. Although, I will admit that my research progress has been less than satisfactory I have been reading some articles and taking [...]

The “R” word and related work

With all of this reflection going on I have been increasingly been subjected to the “R” word. Since the GRC two colleagues and I have been piecing together a proposal for a new research and participatory learning course hopefully to be implemented into the 3rd year of undergraduate (communication design) studies in the following year. [...]

September/October 2007

My readings have given me a good first look into design research and its methods. I have been taking a look at books like Donald Schon’s Reflective practitioner, Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered and Peter Downton’s Design Research and many other journals. From these readings I started to put together a draft of reflecting on my own [...]