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Assisted Living: Domestic Power Monitoring utilising Home Automation Products and Cloud Storage
Get PDFThis paper describes the development of a system for taking measurements of electrical power consumption in a domestic situation and using a web service to store the measurements in a cloud hosted database. This is part of a larger project to evaluate the potential for using power monitoring as a proxy for wellness as part of the assisted living projects at Wintec
Minding the gap? What gap? Potholes, thresholds and the ever-waiting abyss.
Get PDFCreative Writing as an academic discipline is now into its 4th decade in Australasia and, increasingly, academics and practitioners are being challenged to balance the literary contribution they and their graduates make to the growing canon of books and writings about writing, against the impact of electronic and social media and within the reality of a dwindling print media industry.
Just as the guard’s voice enjoins us on the underground, as we step from the train, to “Mind the gap” between the carriage and the station platform, this paper attempts to ‘mind’ or address several gaps which have appeared in recent years in the teaching of creative writing and the practice of writing as an academic discipline. In particular it brings together several themes and ideas raised in response to a call for papers for the 19th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing programmes held in Wellington, New Zealand in 2014 and will allude to several exciting new ways of minding gaps in the professional world of creative writing that rose from this dialogue
You gotta move: duration, systems theory and musical creativity
Get PDFIn this presentation I offer a critique of the kind of intellectual frameworks typically used to explain creativity in music (for example the kind of research questions typically asked of a student commencing a music project at postgraduate level). These questions are typically analytical, say around the conventions of a genre and how they can be used to produce new work, but they fail in my view to acknowledge creativity as a process, analytical questions being more suitable to assess a finished work, not one that hasn’t even started yet, or is in process. The conventional academic wisdom is that the “new” is a revoicing or recombining of the familiar, but in this formulation, the “new” remains essentially untheorised. I use concepts around creativity as novelty from Henri Bergson, such as duration and movement, to offer a critique of systems theories of creativity (Toynbee, McIntyre and Csikszentmihalyi) that seek to reduce the creative process to a series of “choices” between different pre-existing creative possibilities. In its place I propose a focus on novelty, duration and movement as aspects of creative process
Analysing learners’ literacy and numeracy progress at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) for the period 2012-2014: Summary of results (pp.1-22)
Get PDFThis report, supported by the Tertiary Education (TEC), captures the findings of four separate sub-reports on Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) literacy and numeracy assessment tool (LNAT) data collected from 2011 to 2014. We outline the research questions, research methods, main findings, conclusions and recommendations. First, we argue a case for TEC to adopt a multivariate layout for the LNAT data-extraction file, and to implement appropriate naming conventions for assessments. Second, we show the impact of a time factor on the TEC's gain calculation algorithm, with the so-obtained results far more positive than would otherwise be the case. Next, we report on the level of association between LN scores and module completions. Last, we report our tentative findings on a multivariate statistical model for predicting learner success
From Certainty to Doubt
No full textBook of photographs from Mark Purdom's series From Certainty to Doubt. The project contains three different publications, each being a version of the same publication with variations around the sequencing and additional material - so it is unclear which is the 'real' version. This makes each publication meaningful in itself while setting up a conversation amongst all three, including ideas around selection and editing of content. The covers of all three publications merge into each other when stacked, playing out further notions of mimicry and uncertainty
Tertiary student and staff understanding of academic writing
Get PDFThis presentation is based on findings from my doctoral research. The aim of my doctoral thesis is to inform teaching and learning practices in respect of academic writing. My research explored tertiary student and staff understandings of academic writing and was conducted with pre-service primary education students and staff. Students were in their first and second year of study. This research found that students and staff displayed more understanding of writing at word and- sentence-level than writing at the social or contextual level. It was also found that the divergences between student and staff understandings of academic writing were less in the second year than the first. The reason could be that students underwent a shift in understanding from their first to second year of study
'Table Talk' Vol 1 & Vol 2 Zine - Library Heritage Collection
No full textAuthor and self-publisher of social commentary zine "Table Talk" Inclusion of 'Table Talk' Vol 1 & Vol 2 Zines in the Hamilton Library Heritage Collection
Art NZ 156, 2015: Exhibition review: Richard Orjis
No full textReview of Richard Orjis, "Garden Cities of Tomorrow", Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, 26 August-19 September 2015, published in "Art New Zealand", No. 156, Summer 2015-16, p. 42. http://www.art-newzealand.com/current.htm
