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Something Childish But Very Natural - HGAF
No full textSomething Childish But Very Natural
Dr. Mesmers Private Army
Specifically designed for the newly-opened Mansfield Garden, this live multimedia experience comes to life as the world gets dark. Experience an abstract fantasy of music and image as live projections are wrapped to the house and musicians interpret one of Mansfield’s stories; it could be a transcendental experience as we explore the relationship between fantasy and reality.
This thrilling group creates while you watch and listen, with each performance unique and never to be repeated
Plumbum: Soundscapes
No full textArrive in a desert of enlightenment, fall into a state of limbo before finding the cave where the fountain of memory and forgetfulness springs up.
Craig McClure will transform the Nancy Caiger Gallery space into an immersive art experience including paintings and drawings inspired by stories of mythology and a pursuit of mindfulness. The installation will include a soundscape designed by Dr Jeremy Mayall.
Opening: Saturday 23rd November 5pm to 7pm
Exhibition dates: 23 November - 20 Decembe
Reducing risk in pre-production investigations through undergraduate engineering projects.
Get PDFThis poster is the culmination of final year Bachelor of Engineering Technology (B.Eng.Tech) student projects
in 2017 and 2018. The B.Eng.Tech is a level seven qualification that aligns to the Sydney accord for three year engineering degree and hence is internationally benchmarked. The enabling mechanism of these projects is the industry connectivity that creates real world projects and highlights the benefits of the investigation of process at the technologist level.
The methodologies we use are basic and transparent, with enough depth of technical knowledge to ensure the industry partners gain from the collaboration process. The process we use minimises disconnect between the student and the industry supervisor while maintaining the academic freedom of the student and the commercial sensitivities of the supervisor.
The general motivation for this approach is the reduction of the entry cost of industry to enable consideration of
new technologies, and thereby reducing risk to core business and shareholder profits.
The poster presents several images and interpretive dialogue to explain the positive and negative aspects of the student process
Introduction: To begin untangling popular music
No full textWith Kai Arne Hansen (co-author). “Introduction: To Begin Untangling Popular Music.” In On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements, eds. Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen, 1-12. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
The introduction addresses the myriad forms that musical experiences take, and presents the collection as aiming to capture something of the way in which popular music weaves into our society, culture, and lives. We introduce perspectives on how popular music is connected and entangled with other art forms, media, and phenomena, also raising the issue that the category of “popular music” is not necessarily one with stable or impermeable borders. In light of the diversity of current popular music scholarship, we argue for the benefits of introducing dialogue between disparate but mutually supportive approaches to analyzing and studying popular music
An Evening In with Ruby Lyon
No full textAn Evening In with Ruby Lyon - currently starring in the UK Tour of Les Miserables, with special guests Julia Booth and Alex Pelham-Waera. Accompanied by David Sidwell and his band; Jeremy Trenwith and Michael Schroder.
The Meteor, Hamilton
Monday 16th Decembe
Southern Celts: Land as landscape, external and internal landscapes
Get PDFSharing my Phd research with a focus on the many experiences of connection to land, understood through my research
Tool: Teaching employability skills
No full textThe tool was developed from the project Teaching Employability Skills which was designed to assist teachers in vocational education to embed ways to enhance employability skills within their teaching practices. The aim was to improve learning by producing a toolkit of ideas and teaching strategies drawn from case studies of current practice across a range of contexts. The focus was not on what the students do or say, but rather the strategies teachers used to enable or encourage these skills in the learners.
The guiding research question was: How are teachers in Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) embedding employability skills into their teaching practices
Book review: Dummett, P. & Hughes, J. (2019) Critical thinking in ELT: A working model for the classroom. National Geographic Learning. USA: Sherrise Roehr.
Get PDFThis comprehensive book by Dummett and Hughes (2019) is arguable the first book that so explicitly sets out to be an ELT resource with useful activities for language teachers to implement and for busy teachers it provides an approachable concise guide.
There are numerous definitions used by textbook writers for the term Critical thinking, and Dummett and Hughes, as probably expected ,do look at the possible definitions for the terms. However, the point of difference is the fact that the authors for this book, survey teachers and it is the voices of the teachers that comes through with quotes used to from teachers on defining CT. This focus with the voice of teachers woven into some of the chapters, Will possibly make teachers enjoy reading the book more as their voices are prominent in the chapters and they can relate to the supporting points. This is quiet an impressive aspect of the book
Trialing project-based learning in a new EAP ESP course: A collaborative reflective practice of three college English teachers
Get PDFCurrently in many Chinese universities, the traditional College English course is facing the risk of being ‘marginalized’, replaced or even removed, and many hours previously allocated to the course are now being taken by EAP or ESP. At X University in northern China, a curriculum reform as such is taking place, as a result of which a new course has been created called ‘xue ke’ English. Despite the fact that ‘xue ke’ means subject literally, the course designer has made it clear that subject content is not the target, nor is the course the same as EAP or ESP. This curriculum initiative, while possibly having been justified with a rationale of some kind (e.g. to meet with changing social and/or academic needs of students and/or institutions), this is posing a great challenge for, as well as considerable pressure on, a number of College English teachers who have taught this single course for almost their entire teaching career. In such a context, three teachers formed a peer support group in Semester One this year, to work collaboratively co-tackling the challenge, and they chose Project-Based Learning (PBL) for the new course. This presentation will report on the implementation of this project, including the overall designing, operational procedure, and the teachers’ reflections.
Based on discussion, pre-agreement was reached on the purpose and manner of collaboration as offering peer support for more effective teaching and learning and fulfilling and pleasant professional development. A WeChat group was set up as the chief platform for messaging, idea-sharing, and resource-exchanging. Physical meetings were supplementary, with sound agenda but flexible time, and venues. Mosoteach cloud class (lan mo yun ban ke) was established as a tool for virtual learning, employed both in and after class. Discussions were held at the beginning of the semester which determined only brief outlines for PBL implementation and allowed space for everyone to autonomously explore in their own way. Constant further discussions followed, which generated a great deal of opportunities for peer learning and lesson plan modifications. A reflective journal, in a greater or lesser detailed manner, was also kept by each teacher to record the journey of the collaboration. At the end of the semester, it was commonly recognized that, although challenges existed, the collaboration was overall a success and they were all willing to continue with it and endeavor to refine it to be a more professional and productive approach
Microstructural Characterization of Shrouded Plasma-Sprayed Titanium Coatings
Get PDFTitanium and its alloys are often used for corrosion protection because they are able to
offer high chemical resistance against various corrosive media. In this paper, shrouded plasma spray
technology was applied to produce titanium coatings. A solid shroud with an external shrouding
gas was used to plasma spray titanium powder feedstock with aim of reducing the oxide content
in the as-sprayed coatings. The titanium coatings were assessed by optical microscope, scanning
electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, LECO combustion method and Vickers microhardness testing.
The results showed that the presence of the shroud and the external shrouding gas led to a dense
microstructure with a low porosity in the plasma-sprayed titanium coatings. The oxygen and nitrogen
contents in the titanium coating were kept at a low level due to the shielding effect of the shroud
attachment and the external shrouding gas. The dominant phase in the shrouded titanium coatings
was mainly composed of α-Ti phase, which was very similar to the titanium feedstock powders.
The shrouded plasma-sprayed titanium coatings had a Vickers microhardness of 404.2 ± 103.2 HV