Academia (15)
PhD student training - supervisors and progression
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Friday, 29 October 2010 13:38 | 0 commentsI was delivering some training for new PhD students at UWS today, and thought I'd share the PowerPoint presentations online. The training session was about working with your supervisor, and I was asked by the Innovation and Research Office to give 2 presentations: "What students what from their supervisors", and "Issues affecting progression".
You can find the presentations attached to this blog article (click "read more" if you can't see the download link). If you want to use them yourself, then feel free. Please let me know if you find them useful.
Plenty of credit and gratitude goes to Jorge Cham (over at phdcomics.com) for his excellent comics which I used in the presentations.
Computing for Everyone!
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:45 | 0 comments
Budgetting for computing facilities is an odd area sometimes. As many will point out, the cost of the outlay can be quite high (although it is reducing), and the ongoing cost of maintenance can be very difficult to meet (schools in Australia are seeing the negative consequence of bad planning in this area). However, it is also noted that computers can help to save money too, whether by reducing the need for printed material, or allowing colleagues to meet 'virtually' instead of having to travel great distances.
Give them computing... but not too much!
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:45 | 0 comments
All around the world, we are seeing the pros and cons of computers. Education is a major part of the thrust in various aspects of computing right now, whether it is computing classes for prisoners in Pakistan or senior citizens in Illinois, virtual classrooms for universities in India, or even a double-glazing company donating computers to a school in the UK.
Virtual Theatre Studies
Written by Peter R. Bloomfield | Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:45 | 0 comments
OK, so it's not really a course in virtual theatre studies... but it's pretty close: students at Kent State University are putting on a virtual play (in Second Life ®) as part of their final exam.
I was attending the IEEE VS Games 09 conference earlier this week in Coventry. For the most part, the conference was good, and I will probably write more about it later. However, some presentations were fairly poor, usually because of the usual reasons: