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Charles Sturt StoriesGirls Day Out in STEM - Dr Kylie PressIn this episode, we catch up with Dr Kylie Press from the CSU Pt Macquarie campus. Kylie shares with us her recent experience with the annual Girls Day Out in STEM event for local school students in the region, including how COVID19 had forced some significant changes on the logistics for the day.
2020-11-1711 minCharles Sturt StoriesJourneys of cultural competence: maintaining wellbeing and building resilience (Robinson, Lewis, Skinner, Hill, Bilton, O’Shea, Stenlake)This Podcast will explore themes which emerged from a cross-sectional survey about cultural competency knowledge of 101 health and social care academics. Three of these themes have particular relevance to maintaining wellbeing and building resilience, in what have been uncertain times during the Covid-19 imposed restrictions - reflection on self; enabling positive conversations; and building capacity.
Covid-19 has highlighted the value of human relationships and connection. These survey themes speak to the importance of understanding self and the importance of conversation and communication. This connection with like-minded people is vital to the development of communities of practice at...
2020-11-1710 minCharles Sturt StoriesGoing Beyond: Learning from collective voices, informing safer spaces (Lewis, Robinson, Skinner, Hill, Bilton, O'Shea, Stenlake)The purpose of this Podcast is to discuss and reinforce the increasing emphasis on the need for cultural safety, which has become increasingly evident amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. A critical reflection on the meaning of cultural safety is timely for all staff across the institution and particularly in the context of conversations, collaboration and relationships in online spaces.
Grounded in survey research from 101 health and social care academics across 15 disciplines in 2019, two of the emergent sub-themes highlight cultural safety issues: ‘institutional racism and a lack of institutional support’ and ‘the lack of a...
2020-11-1712 minCharles Sturt StoriesBeyond First Year: embedded academic skills support (Wheeler, Sack, Davidson & Cross)The Division of Student Services promotes an embedded and integrated approach to literacy support that is considered best practice (Maldoni & Lear, 2016; Wingate, 2006; Wingate et al., 2011) and relies on collaboration between literacy professionals and discipline experts to be optimally effective (Harris & Ashton, 2011; McWilliams & Allan, 2014).
The Academic Skills and Online Study teams work collaboratively with discipline experts within subjects to support the staged development of reading, writing, language, learning, and online study skills appropriate for subject and course requirements. The aim is for students to attain a professional level of literacy by the end of their course. The first...
2020-11-1633 minCharles Sturt StoriesCopyright Conversations: flexible approaches to engaging learning and teaching experiences (Allman & Humphreys)It’s important to strike a balance between fulfilling the needs of academic staff who are designing engaging lesson plans and course content, while also meeting copyright and licensing requirements of online resources. Earlier this year, Librarians, Kate Allman and Jane Humphreys, assisted CCI academics, Dr Sam Bowker (Art History/Visual Culture) and Rachel Walls (Animation and Visual Effects), in providing easy access to films for students studying online, pre- and post-COVID. In Sam’s case, he had planned to screen films both online and on campus, which required us to explore the copyright and licensing issues around broadcasting onli...
2020-11-161h 18Charles Sturt StoriesUsing Charles Sturt's Radio Expertise to Support Podcasting (Cameron, Van Heekeren, O'Connor & Wotzko)This podcast builds on ideas developed through a learning and teaching project more than a decade ago that explored the potential for podcasting as a learning and teaching tool at Charles Sturt. The 2010 Scholarship in Teaching project was titled 'Lessons from the "explaining voice": Radio broadcasting as a model for effective and distinctive educational podcasting'. It considered ways in which Faculty and Division staff on all campuses might work more closely with the University's Bathurst-based radio station 2MCE-FM to develop an engaging and effective educational podcasting model for Charles Sturt. As Charles Sturt undergoes significant transformation in 2020, with a...
2020-11-1658 minCharles Sturt StoriesMelanie Sugumaran - Student Teacher Placements & Resilience during COVID19 (FoAE)In this episode we catch up with Melanie Sugumaran (WPL coordinator for BTeach and Mteach student placements), along with Jon, Manori and Franca - students at Charles Sturt who have recently completed their practicum during COVID19. Join us as we chat about each student's prac experience during COVID, the challenges in securing placements in the 1st instance, remote teaching, cats zoom bombing and much more!
2020-10-2328 minCharles Sturt StoriesCelia Connor - Moving Prac Exams Online for BIO100 (FoS)In this episode we catch up with Celia Connor from the School of Agriculture and Wine Science. Celia talks through the transition that her face-face and distance cohort subjects needed to make, in order for the traditionally on-site pracs and subsequent practical exams to still be run during COVID19.
2020-10-1923 minCharles Sturt StoriesTommy Griffiths - Future Moves and COVID (DSS)In this episode we meet the Tommy Griffiths from the Future Moves team, unpacking the changes that 2020 has had upon the normally face-face community engagement program.
To talk to Future Moves about how to get involved in some of their workshops, talk about creating engaging online content, and showcasing your course, contact: futuremoves@csu.edu.au
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2020-10-1516 minCharles Sturt StoriesPeter Vitez - Digital Media Technologist (DLT)In this Charles Sturt story we meet Peter Vitez in his Blue Mountains 'bunker'. Peter is a digital media tech with the Division for Learning & Teaching who is heavily involved in creating interactive learning objects ('interactives') that go into our subject sites.
2020-10-1516 minCharles Sturt StoriesProfessional Learning and Cabana (Prue Gonzalez & Lachlan Kalache)In this episode we catch up with Prue Gonzalez, Academic Lead (FoS) and intrepid purveyor of professional development workshops throughout 2020. Prue and Lachlan recount some of their pre-csu life experiences and unpack their feelings around building substantial blocks of PD in the online learning and teaching space.
2020-10-0924 minCharles Sturt StoriesVideo Production and Dentistry (Tony Kavanagh - DLT)In this episode of Charles Sturt Stories we meet Tony Kavanagh, Digital Media Technologist with the Division of Learning and Teaching. Tony walks us through some of his experiences in television and film production prior to joining the university and then dives into some of the challenging work in media creation he’s been doing with the School of Dentistry in recent times.
2020-10-0713 minCharles Sturt StoriesAAUT Award Nomination - Islamic Art for Regional Australian Students (Sam Bowker - FoAE)In this Charles Sturt Story, we catch up with Sam Bowker for the School of Communications & Creative Industries (FoAE), who has recently been nominated for an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT). Sam unpacks his particular passion around Islamic Art and developing that knowledge into a subject area specifically for regional university students.
2020-10-0615 minCharles Sturt StoriesOnline Study Groups (Kim Bailey - BJBS)In this episode we chat with Kim Bailey, teaching academic at large in the Bachelor of Laws at Charles Sturt University. Kim has introduced online study groups as an opt-in set of tools for her students to use, as they attempt to unpack the veritable mine-field that is Torts Law.
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