Teaching with CAS in a time of transition
- Authors: Kendal, Margaret , Stacey, Kaye , Pierce, Robyn
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education Vol. 9, no. 2 (2002), p. 113-128
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- Description: Integrating a powerful instrument such as CAS into teaching and learning mathematics requires changes to many aspects of the classroom, which teachers will make from the base of their prior teaching styles and their beliefs about mathematics and how it should be taught. The paper describes the different ways in which two pioneering Australian teachers adapted their teaching to use CAS. One teacher used CAS with the primary goal of increasing understanding but restricted students’ use. The other teacher adopted CAS as an extra technique for solving standard problems, emphasising timesaving routines by hand and with CAS. Through these case studies we comment on the following issues related to teaching with CAS: different ways of organising the classroom, variety in approaches to teaching the use of CAS, the increased range of methods for solving problems and for teaching, the contrast between using of graphics calculators and CAS, the challenge of finding the place of by-hand skills and CAS use, and the curriculum and assessment changes required in schools.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000120
The art of homecoming
- Authors: Heron, Julie
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: This project is concerned with exploring a particular cluster of ideas and stories concerning Homecoming, most notably the presence of the Woman Who Waits for the traveller to return. Underlying the storied aspects of the visual work are the deeper intentions of soulfulness, personal therapy and social interaction. Although profoundly autobiographical, the metaphoric images I have produced are not only a means to touch others but are inclusive of a broader experience than simply my own. Throughout the following exegesis I draw on the disciplines of psychology, sociology, mythology and history, to explore the metaphoric presences of the deities Hestia and Hermes and their relationship to ideas of Home and Not - Home. Particular qualities associated with Home may, for the traveller, become symbolically embodied within the figure of The Woman Who Waits. This simple perception of The Woman Who Waits, and the process of waiting for the traveller to return was explored and expanded through autobiographic art practice combined with visual and theoretical research. Throughout the project the expression of emotive autobiographic issues through the running use of metaphor has been combined with increasing technical control and subtlety along with sustained explorations of spatial and compositional dynamics.
- Description: Masters (Visual Arts)
The effect of lateral cerebellar lesions on consecutive finger movement sequences
- Authors: Butson, Michael
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This study investigated the effect of unilateral cerebellar lesions on the performance of finger movement sequences in reaction time tasks."
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The effects of distraction, relaxation, and guided imagery on procedural fear and pain in children
- Authors: Whitaker, Bernie
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The fear and pain of medical procedures are a source of great distress to children. Techniques such as distraction, relaxation and guided imagery help children to cope, and in some cases, have a marked influence on the experience of fear and pain during painful medical procedures. However, the effects, embedded in the relationships between consciousness, imagery, fear and pain, are unclear, particularly with regard to the clinical (as opposed to the laboratory) reality of procedural pain. The aim of this thesis was to empirically account for the therapeutic effects of distraction, relaxation, and imagery on procedural fear and pain in children and to offer a model based on a constructive view of experience allied to recent advances in neurophysiology that could account for the effects. Two studies were undertaken to address this aim. The first study investigated the effects of cartoon distraction on fear and pain in children undergoing venepuncture. The second study investigated the independent and combined effects of relaxation and imagery on fear and pain in children also undergoing venepuncture. The studies indicated that relaxation, distraction and imagery reduced procedural fear. Procedural pain was not affected by relaxation but distraction showed positive effects as did imagery, particularly if procedural pain was defined in terms of its sensory and emotional components. These effects are explained using a model based on a top-down constructivist view of the psychology and neurophysiology of fear, pain, imagery and consciousness. The neurophysiological components of the model comprised the amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex and association areas within a working memory view of consciousness. The constructivist perspective held that during relaxation the child’s cognitive, emotional and sensorial quality were largely based on the ‘reality’ of the procedure room, but that during imagery and perhaps distraction, the qualia were located elsewhere. The thesis concludes with the relevance of the model for clinical practice and implications for further psychological and neurophysiological research.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The Hutchins Art Prize 2002
- Authors: Mann, Allan
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Painting - Exhibition
The mammals of Parker River Inlet National Park, Otway National Park
- Authors: Westbrooke, Martin , Prevett, Patrick
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Victorian Naturalist Vol. 119, no. 2 (2002), p. 60-68
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- Description: Studies of small mammals at Parker River Inlet from 1985-95 have demonstrated the presence of ten species of small mammals. Trapping, spotlighting and incidental sightings have shown that a further 18 species of mammals occur within an area of 200 ha. Pseudomys fumeus and Antechinus minimus, recorded in this survey, are rare and restricted in Victoria. The species richness of the area is related to the heterogeneity of the vegetation, with twelve vegetation types being identified in the study area. The occurrence of the more abundant small mammals, Rattus fuscipes, Rattus lutreolus, Mus musculus and Antechinus swainsonii, is correlated with vegetation structure and floristics. Causes of fluctuations of the populations of the exotic species M. musculus and Rattus rattus are considered. Management recommendations, which reflect the high significance of faunal habitat in the area, are made with the aim of minimising human impact.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000129
The paradoxes of history in Crew and Woolman's 'Tagged' and Crew and Tan's 'Memorial'
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Rethinking History Vol. 6, no. 3 (Win 2002), p. 331-343
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- Description: The publication of two illustrated books with verbal text by the Australian writer Gary Crew provides an opportunity to compare the presentation of war memories in picture story book and graphic novel format. Gary Crew and Shaun Tan's Memorial (1999) is a thought-provoking picture story book while Crew and Steven Woolman's Tagged (1997) is an idiosyncratic graphic novel. The picture story book illustrations depict the commemorative tree as more real, more present than the books' human beings. The verbal text asserts that memory will live on through generations of the war veterans' family, as in the tree, but the illustrations of the cutting down of the tree and the verbal text revealing a veteran's self-censorship reveal these claims to be at best tenuous, at worst, false. Nevertheless, despite the current town council's disrespect for the commemorative tree, the Anzac Day ceremony remains a socially sanctioned rite of remembering war. The illustrations to Tagged represent a war veteran's confused mind and his compulsive reliving of his past as confusing visual images with a lack of clear cues for the reader's eye to follow, as the boy observer moves more deeply into the labyrinthine building where the man hides. While Memorial's war memorials are complete, public, in good condition and easily accessible, the bewildering passages and openings of Tagged's building suggest the man's stuck memories, the boy's problems with interpreting war images and also a society's not altogether successful attempt to repress collective acknowledgement of its war past. In contrast with Memorial, Tagged is a memorial to the unknown soldier, offering a different kind of historical truth to any officials, public, empty tomb.
- Description: 2003000178
The personal and social correlates of spiritual well-being among primary school teachers
- Authors: Fisher, John , Francis, Leslie , Johnson, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Pastoral Psychology Vol. 51, no. 1 (2002), p. 3-11
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- Description: A sample of 311 primary school teachers completed the Spiritual Health in Four Domains Index alongside the abbreviated revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and measures of religiosity. The data demonstrate that higher levels of spiritual health are found among older teachers who record low scores on the psychoticism scale and who practice religious faith through church attendance and personal prayer.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000199
The role of the computer in learning Ndj bbana
- Authors: Auld, Glenn
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Language Learning and Technology Vol. 6, no. 2 (2002), p. 41-58
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- Description: While Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is being superseded by an integrated approach to language learning and technology, it still has great potential to assist indigenous peoples in becoming print-literate in their own languages. This can also help to combat the disempowerment experienced by indigenous people as their world is penetrated by others with radically different backgrounds. This paper reports on research on an application of CALL implemented among the Kunib dji, a remote, indigenous Australian community. It focuses on the use of talking books in Ndj bbana, a language with only 200 speakers; the books were displayed on touch-screens at various locations in the community. Investigations into the roles of the computer to support language learning and cultural understanding are also reported. The computer was found to be a useful tool in promoting Kunib dji collaboration and cultural transformation.
- Description: 2003000137
The sign of the witch : neo-paganism and the romantic episteme
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The central premise of this dissertation is that the process by which representations of witchcraft are formed within the neo-Pagan movement are indicative of the broader interrelationship of Romantic and Enlightenment themes in Western culture."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
University education for all : teaching and learning practices for diverse groups of students
- Authors: Ryan, Janette
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Doctor of Education
Using autobiographical figuration in painting as a vehicle for conveying my understanding of Buddhism
- Authors: Wang, Chain Khiang
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: In this research project the author focuses on making links between his art, religion (Buddhism) and life.
- Description: Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
Using digital image analysis to accurately determine the thousand kernel weight of randomly distributed barley, malt and wheat samples
- Authors: Armstrong, Bruce , Weiss, M. , Greig, Robert , Aldred, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Cereals Conference 2001, Sydney : 9th September, 2001
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- Description: Rapid, accurate and non-subjective grain tests help growers and processors agree on a fair price and ensure that the grain is used for the most appropriate purpose. Common tests include protein, moisture, test (hectolitre) weight, screenings and dockages for pests, disease and foreign matter (Vicgrain, 2000). Each test contributes to a more comprehensive assessment of the grain. The tests assist breeders when selecting promising new cultivars. Plant breeders and maltsters also use the thousand kernel weight (TKW) test, which provides additional information on seed morphology. The test indicates the average kernel weight, with the units expressed as grams per thousand seeds. TKWs are valuable to maltsters and millers as high TKW kernels are plumper, malt and/or mill more evenly and have a higher proportion of endosperm than small kernels. The high TKW grains also produce more attractive malt (Stuart, 1998). TKWs assist breeders in selecting large kernel cultivars and permit growers to calculate their optimum sowing rates (Schwarz and Horsley, 1995).
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000159
Web based regional newspapers : The role of content : A thesis
- Authors: Knox, Ian
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The phenomenon and acceptance of electronic publishing has proliferated in the last five years due to the expansion in the use of the World Wide Web in the general community. The initial fears that newspapers would be decimated by the introduction of this technology have been proven groundless, but despite a high web presence by newspapers world wide, profitable models of cyber papers are elusive. In an online environment traditional relationships between newspaper advertising and editorial may not stand. Despite the considerable body of published literature concerning the movement of print newspapers to an online environment, little was found concerning online content. A need to re-evaluate what content and functions are considered to be desirable by print readers, in an online environment was identified as the main objective of this research. Evaluation the of user attitudes to web based newspapers provides a foundation for future research into areas such as developing effective models for profitable online newspapers. To achieve this objective, the research tools used were a content analysis, an online newspaper user survey and newspaper management personal interviews. The study looked at Victorian regional daily newspapers that also had online versions. By focussing on the regional newspapers, meaningful comparisons could be made between content, staff attitudes and readership interests. The content analysis measured the quantum and nature of the content of the print and online versions of the regional dailies during a one week period. This provided a measure of the type and source of the articles included both in print and online. Newspaper editorial staff interviews contributed a personalised view of content priorities, which was then contrasted with a web based questionnaire which measured user requirements in relation to content and interactivity. It was found from the survey that content alone would not provide a sufficient basis to build a profitable online regional newspaper site. The findings were analysed in relation to the literature, newspaper site content and editorial staff interviews. Despite regularly accessing online newspaper sites, it was found that users are unwilling to pay for the experience. Users indicated a desire for a higher level of interactivity, in addition to the content, which is currently provided, by online regional newspapers. Evaluation of user attitudes to web based newspapers provides a foundation for future research into the development of effective for profitable online newspapers.
- Description: Master of Business
What can we say about 112,000 taps on a Ndjebbana touch screen
- Authors: Auld, Glenn
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education Vol. 30, no. 1 (2002), p. 1-7
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- Description: In a remote Aboriginal Australian (Kunibidji) community, three touch-screen computers containing 96 Ndjebbana-language talking books were made available to children in informal settings. The computers' popularity is explained by the touch screens' form and the talking books' intertextual and hybrid nature. The Kunibidji are transforming their culture by including new digital technologies that represent their social practice.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000139
"Drugs on the mind" : dual diagnosis : the experience of mental health professionals
- Authors: Soar, Rod
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: Recent publicity has focused on the problems created by the usage of illicit drugs in the community. The growing use of illicit drugs throughout the Grampians region and the lack of resources and professional services available to regional and rural areas raise many questions as to treatment options and the accessibility and appropriateness of drug and alcohol and mental health services. Despite the fact that mental health professionals in rural/regional areas are expected to deliver the most appropriate care to individuals with a comorbid drug and alcohol and psychiatric disorder, a number of these rural/regional mental health professionals have limited preparation and experience in dealing with dual diagnosis issues. This phenomenological study focuses on the area of dual diagnosis, specifically the experiences of health professionals who care for clients diagnosed with a serious mental illness and a coexisting drug and alcohol disorder. Results are described in the form of four themes, which emerged from data collected during in-depth interviews with 13 mental health professionals who care for clients with a dual diagnosis. The themes captured in this research will be described using metaphors as headings. The first theme Sink or swim represents mental health professionals’ initial preparation to care for this group of complex clientele. Treading water symbolises mental health professionals’ endeavours to keep their head above water and reflects on their feelings while endeavouring to do so. Rowing against the tide describes mental health professionals’ understanding of clients’ drug misuse, which impacts greatly on the level of care.
- Description: Master of Nursing
.comUnity : A study on the adoption and diffusion of internet technologies in a regional tourism network
- Authors: Braun, Patrice
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This thesis describes the initiation and evolution of an action research project, which investigates the adoption and diffusion of Internet technologies in a regional Australian tourism network. The research evolved out of a portal development consultancy. The aim of the study was two-fold: to investigate the nature of the change process when a collaborative network seeks to adopt e-commerce; and to determine how the change process differed in the face of incremental change (adding some e-commerce solutions to the network), or radical change (changing the overall business model). The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of the economic, strategic and social potential of regional business networks in the current techno-economic climate. The study builds on Rogers' (1995) seminal work on the diffusion of innovations and makes a unique contribution to existing diffusion studies by its focus on the nature of the network links as the unit of analysis; and by its application of an action-oriented methodology to untangle the effects of the embedded network structure on diffusion. The study suggests a strong relationship between diffusion and network positioning, both in terms of place (status and position in the network) and space (the geographic make-up of the network). Diffusion further hinged on network cohesion, actors' trust in and engagement with the network. Adoption of e-commerce was obstructed by actors’ worldview; lack of time, reflexive learning, and commitment to change. The incorporation in the study’s diffusion framework of contextual moderators such as network position, worldview, trust, time and commitment considerably extends Rogers’ traditional diffusion framework. Based on its emergent analysis framework, the study introduces a dynamic change model towards sustainable regional network development. It is suggested that both the diffusion framework and the regional innovation model developed in this study may, either jointly or separately, be applicable beyond the tourism and service sector.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
A just war or just another war : On the ethics of war with Iraq
- Authors: Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Humanist: Publication of the Council of Australian Humanist Societies Vol. 72, no. (2003), p. 6-8
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A lifetime measure for telecommunication network : Theoretical aspects
- Authors: Dzalilov, Zari , Rubinov, Alex , Ouveysi, Iradj
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ICON 2003 - 2003 11th IEEE International Conference on Networks, Sydney : 28th September, 2003
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- Description: A new measure for network performance evaluation called topology lifetime was introduced in [Maxemchuk, N et al., May 2002], see also [Maxemchuk, N et al.]. This measure is based on the notion of unexpected traffic growth and can be used for comparison of topologies. We discuss some advantages and disadvantages of the approach from [Maxemchuk, N et al., May 2002] and suggest some modifications to this approach. In particular we discuss how to evaluate the influence of a subgraph to the lifetime measure and introduce the notion of the order of a path. This notion is useful if we consider a possible extension to the set of working paths in order to support the traffic for the time that is needed for installation of new facilities.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000361
A program visualisation meta language
- Authors: Stratton, David
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The principle motivation of this work is to define an open PV architecture that will enable a variety of visualisation schemes to interoperate and that will encourage the generation of PV systems and research into their efficacy. Ultimately this may lead to more effective pedagogy in the field of computer programming and hence remove a barrier to students entering the profession.
- Description: Doctorate of Philosophy