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Waiata Mai (AWE)
No full textExploring cross-cultural research collaboration through internet-based collaborative technology.
Presented as part of the Waiata Mai concert for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori
(Performance is at 3hrs, 20mins and 20seconds through the concert)
A musical exploration of internet based collaboration in realtime through long-form musical textures and structured improvisation.
A compositional realisation of slow music. A meditative type of musical structure that is predicated by the limitations of technology, and informed by traditions of ambient music, soundscape, minimalism and contemporary classical music, alongside the traditions of taonga puor
Engineering research showcase: Cross-disciplinary engineering projects for improving learners’ capabilities and community
Get PDFFor ITP research, working in collaboration or partnership plays a key role in improving learners’ capabilities and community involvement. This paper consisted of two showcases presenting how engineering education helps learners and communities. The first showcase is the cross-disciplinary engineering project, which is a fully interactive model that has user input producing tangible output to help learners understand the concept of engineering principles. The Exercycle is designed
to have the user input of mechanical rotational energy by pedalling. From the gear train, mechanical input is transferred to the pump where the user input converts to the optimal pump operating speed. Water gets then pumped from the lower reservoir to the upper
reservoir gaining potential energy.
Water then flows back to the lower reservoir via a micro-hydro generator. It results in electrical energy in the power bank which can be used to charge a digital device. The second showcase is to improve transport accessibility
for the community, specifically older people those aged over 65 living in rural and small towns by proposing a user optimised public transport service. The students involved in this study investigated the choices of individual elderly citizens over various
mode choice options and the critical components of active transport service in Waikato. The results were supporting the demands for a new transport service in NZ rural and small-towns and justified where the elderly life restricts the mode of transport used due to socio-demographics, travel behaviours and the characteristics of mobility such as modal affordability, accessibility, and availability
Investigating the director’s role in collaborative practice within the production creative team, in regional arts community musical theatre.
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research focus of my project is to examine how collaborative practice
emerges in musical theatre. In particular, the development of my role
as a director of musical theatre and the collaborative focus between
the interdisciplinary members of the creative team
What aspects related to the carnivalesque can be found in African-Brazilian manifestations of Nego Fugido and Caretas do Acupe as part of their strategies of subversion and resistance?
Get PDFThe manifestations of folk carnival festivities represented the element of nonconformity in opposition to the authoritarianism of the official culture in
European medieval societies. The elements forming this folk tradition traveled with European colonisers to the Americas, where they were met by diverse African and
Indigenous traditions, giving birth to new forms of manifestation in the melting pot of cultures collateral to colonialism. This essay aims to discuss the elements of European folk carnival, analysed by Mikhail Bakhtin in his book Rabelais and His world (1965), which were crossed with African traditions and resignified into
hybridised strategies of cultural resistance, looking at the Brazilian cultural manifestations of Caretas do Acupe and Nego Fugido
Urban regeneration and community building in Northcote
Get PDFThis document is part of a series of four project briefs (CaDDANZ briefs 8-11) which collate distinct but interrelated sets of key findings from a research project that examined how older adults of 65 years and above create and maintain a sense of home and community in the Auckland neighbourhood of Northcote. This study forms part of a wider suite of projects within the MBIE-funded CaDDANZ research programme which collectively investigate facets of population change and diversity in a range of different contexts. Overall, CaDDANZ aims to develop greater understanding of how diversity affects society and how, in turn, institutions can better respond to diversity. This neighbourhood-based study sits within a growing body of social science scholarship that has recognised the importance of ‘the local’ because this is where diversity is lived and negotiated in everyday interactions. While much of the academic literature and policy discourses home in on ethnicity and culture, we would like to stress that diversity is complex and multiply determined by a broad range of factors, including gender, age, ability and socio-economic status
New Zealand emergency nurses knowledge about forensic science and its application to practice
Get PDFViolence is a major public health problem worldwide. Emergency nurses are often in a unique position to identify, assess, evaluate, and treat these patients, but there is limited forensic knowledge and skills to enable emergency nurses to feel confident to guide their practice in New Zealand. The purpose of this study was to establish the level of forensic knowledge and skills currently known and used by nurses in clinical practice working in New Zealand District Health Boards (DHB)’s emergency departments. The study aimed to develop a tertiary education course based on the needs and the knowledge required, to enable nurses to practice confidently and safely with Forensic patients in the emergency department setting.
Methods
A descriptive approach using online questionnaires including both quantitative and qualitative components was sent to all emergency departments in New Zealand DHB’s as well as the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) emergency nurses’ section. Open-ended questions were analysed by thematic analysis. Closed questions were analysed by SPSS version 15 data analysis software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL). Themes identified focused on the knowledge and skills emergency nurses currently possess and the level of specialist education required to ensure patients receive the best medicolegal care.
Results
Results of the questionnaire revealed limited knowledge in being able to correctly identify all forensic patients, insufficient knowledge around evidence preservation and collection and limited knowledge around legislation or legal processes governing clinical care were discovered. However, 84% of all participants felt that having forensic knowledge was important for their practice, indicating a need for increased forensic education. Practice implications indicate that forensic education is warranted, needed and desired among ED nurses within the clinical setting.
Discussion
As forensic patients generally require emergency medical attention, it is important that nurses as part of the front-line first responders have forensic knowledge around preservation and collection of evidence during the provision of medical care. It was found that, emergency nurses do not have enough knowledge around forensic issues indicating that forensic education is warranted, needed and desired among ED nurses within the clinical setting. The study also provides support for the implementation of tertiary forensic science nursing postgraduate study in New Zealand
Building connections with new teaching and learning approaches
Get PDFThis study is based on the teaching and learning approaches to build good and healthy relations within the classroom. One of the best approach to make success in this research is students centred learning (flipped classroom). Now a day to create an effective teaching and learning environment, student engagement and motivation is the most important aspect. We have considered group assignments and group project-based tasks to validate our approaches. Learners’ are getting more involved in class when they are given group assignments and projects instead of individual tasks. Having healthy and comfortable learning and working environment in regular classes, we found good influence on learners to develop strong bonds and better understanding between fellow learners
Zoom-based delivery as an interactively accomplished learning conversation: A tentative descriptive account
Get PDFOne of the barriers smashed during the COVID19 pandemic has been educator reluctance to use technology-based delivery in their educational practices. The pandemic has created opportunities for institutes and individual educators to strength test their resilience in the face of disruption and challenge (Dohaney, de Rόiste, Salmon and Sutherland, 2020). In this report, we summarise key discursive features of Zoom-based lessons of educators who embraced the challenge. We show that these discourse features are typically associated with tutors’ authority as educators and professionals in their vocational fields. The latter allows them to design interactive spaces where they control the discourse, often creating common ground with their learners before designing speech exchanges systems where increasingly classroom participants engage in learner-learner, learner-tutor and learner-class exchanges. Zoom-based delivery reflects typical initiation-response-feedback exchanges (Bax, 2011, Sinclair and Coulthard, 1992), sometimes within a local-allocational turn-by-turn and teacher-directed approach (Mehan, 1979; McHoul, 1978), or a more global-allocational approach where the tutor structures group and pair work (i.e. a complex response), followed by a tutor-mediated and socially- constructed feedback stage (i.e. complex feedback) (Greyling, 1995). Literacy-embedded practices are required to be deliberate and strategic – these discursive strategies, once in the candidate’s awareness and available for conscious use, can be developed further and elaborated as part of capability development. In the face of limited evidence of the impact of the pandemic and the enforced move into online delivery on student success rate, we conclude that the discourse patterns of Zoom sessions can at least be viewed as meeting the requirements of socially distributed teaching and learning (Markee, 2015; Cubero and Ignacio, 2011). Following Whittingham’s (2019) geo-semiotic argument for literacy development, we argue that the resources, people, objects, technology, materials and activities in an online environment can be configured to achieve outcomes for learners (Whittingham, 2019). The discursive features also reveal the relationship between the intentions of the educator and the interactive skill and moment-by-moment improvisation needed to enact pre-planned events (Twiner, Littleton, Coffin and Whitelock, 2014)
Privacy in cloud-based computing
Get PDFCloud computing, internet of things (IoT), edge computing, and fog computing are gaining attention as emerging research topics and computing approaches in recent years. These computing approaches are rather conceptual and contextual strategies rather than being computing technologies themselves, and in practice, they often overlap. For example, an IoT architecture may incorporate cloud computing and fog computing. Cloud computing is a significant concept in contemporary computing and being adopted in almost every means of computing. All computing architectures incorporating cloud computing are termed as cloud-based computing (CbC) in general. However, cloud computing itself is the basis of CbC because it significantly depends on resources that are remote, and the remote resources are often under third-party ownership where the privacy of sensitive data is a big concern. This chapter investigates various privacy issues associated with CbC. The data privacy issues and possible solutions within the context of cloud computing, IoT, edge computing, and fog computing are also explored
Part of 'AI to protect NZ birds': Bird classification open source contributers
Get PDFThe Cacophony Project has been bringing digital technology to the fight for New Zealand native birds. They are developing a set of technologies that will be deployed throughout New Zealand.
Their technology will:
- Lure invasive predators with sound and light
- Observe predators using a thermal camera
- Identify predators automatically using machine learning algorithms
- Eliminate positively identified predators
- Monitor the bird song over time to measure the impac