Job vs Career
‘A job is what you do for other people. A career is who you are’, Mark said. He told me that a career mission is driven by a desire to solve a particular set of problems. Your job is just whoever happens to be paying for you to do your mission at any one time. A career potentially spans many of these mission oriented jobs.
Inger Mewburn (The Thesis Whisperer), in How to be an Academic
Online teaching and learning for practice-based disciplines
Last August I wrote about the blended learning challenges I’d embrance in the new Design Communication subject at JCU.
When I started working at JCU I was given the Design Communication subject with students both in Townsville and Cairns, both groups enrolled at the same time and part of the same subject, while I am based in Cairns only. It soon became clear to me that, with the resources JCU makes available – it has invested a lot in online technologies, from Blackboard platforms with Collaborate tools, to Mediasite capability, videoconference equipment, document cameras and so forth – blended learning was the way to go. Read more…
Darkest Hour
Watched Darkest Hour last weekend. 5-star movie in my opinion, with a great quote to finish it up: Read more…
Month in review: November and December 2017, and January 2018
This condensed month in review post is unusual – a first to be fair! – and these past three months have been eventful ones. On 12th November I left Cairns to atend the International Urban Design Conference in the Gold Coast. From there I flew to Brazil where I participated in an examination panel in my old Architecture and Urbanism School where I did my Masters and was a keynote speaker in an event in the Architecture School where I undertook my Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism. Read more…
SILVIA TAVARES 