Cyberspace and Information Operations Study Center Social Media site This site has a whole lot of interesting social media links aiming to understand the role of social media in terms of information management and cybersecurity from a military perspective. Scroll…
Author: lwise
I am a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and online learning specialist with an interest in taekwon-do, web stuff, cycling, indoor soccer and sundry other things. My staff profile at Swinburne is at http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/staff/profiles/lwise.htm. My lab website is at http://mocapsuite.edublogs.org/. I have bursts of web activity, and then large lapses. And so it's been since Al Gore invented the internet.
Are Bert and Ernie gay?
Are Bert and Ernie gay? Back in 2007, Sesame Workshop addresses the issue, saying: “[Bert and Ernie] are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They do not exist below the waist.” Who would have thunk it –…
Hungry for more: the art of addictive TV
Bingeing on TV serials (from The Age) An article in The Age on the way in which TV serials are created to be addictive and the new style of “binge watching” due to availability via the internet …
5 Tips for editing your own writing
5 tips for self-editing This article contains some good hints for how to improve our own writing – and the blog site provides a good opportunity to put these hints into practice and to develop a habit of writing prolifically…
The longitudinal association of childhood school engagement with adult educational and occupational achievement
The longitudinal association of childhood school engagement with adult educational and occupational achievement: findings from an Australian national study – Abbott-Chapman – 2013 – British Educational Research Journal – Wiley Online Library. Interesting Australian study that Ben alerted me to…
Hyperbole and a Half
Hyperbole and a Half. This is a really interesting account of depression from the inside – powerful writing and possibly a useful read for psychology people 🙂
Melissa Etheridge: Jolie’s mastectomy was ‘fearful’ not ‘brave’
Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer Scare Prompts Help Line Surge. An article via The Age website portraying Jolie’s choice of mastectomy to avoid breast cancer as an act of fear, not bravery and that there were other ways of lessening the…
Digital Technologies and Training Group
This is the new blog for the Digital Technologies and Training research group at Swinburne University of Technology. Our research spans a range of different areas, focussing on digital technologies (digital devices, social media, simulators) and training (academic training and…