David Reid
Lecturer in the School of Learning and
Development
Room 243 Education Faculty Building
(A35)
phone/voicemail 9351-6341
email
d.reid@edfac.usyd.edu.au
Updated January 2004
Lecturer in
Educational Technology within the School of Learning and Development.
My main interests are in the realm of affordable and relevant
classroom oriented technology.
I teach courses in basic audiovisual presentation techniques/resource production, computer literacy and Hypertext design.[some examples of student work]
My most recent computer adventures have involved putting the papers from several Faculty supported conferences on the web. This was undertaken using Adobe Acrobat applications. While the process seems simple, there were traps for young players and I would be interested to share with others using this form of web publishing. See below for a link to a simple experiment with a Web construction tool called MYRMIDON, from terrymorse.com. which seems an even simpler way of delivering word processing to the web. The experimental pages were originally word processed in ClarisWorks4.
I have a research interest in children's television and am in the process of developing a uses and gratifications analysis of the way the elderly relate to television.
My overseas experience includes working for
Australian Aid projects in Thailand and the Philippines, as well as
several trips to Thailand with groups of practice teaching students.
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I am presently involved in the Faculty's MTeach program as one of the team developing IT based resources for this course.
Course Outlines for some B Ed and MTeach offerings for 2001. (these outlines are reproduced through Myrmidon)
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AV
4 IT notes |
For access to some Mac oriented HELP PAGES click here Pages constructed for the Faculty to answer FAQs |
Collection of tutorial sites for Claris Home Page These and the sites accessed below are alternatives to notes and texts provided in class. The value is variable and the styles differ. Please notify me if you find better sites or are crticial of ones listed here A general web builders tutorial. GOOD VALUE http://internetbrothers.com/tiptool.htm |
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Teaching Strategies Site This is Neville Goodwin's collection of teaching preparation and lesson planning materials. Much of the content is taken from student produced work. |
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Collection of tutorial sites for Pagemaker
A collection of Macintosh web information centres and ezines |
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Trial Powerpoint web site. A simple powerpoint presentation saved as an HTML file |
Cindy Ohora's Claris and Mac page A stunning, helpful, friendly guide. |
Collection of tutorial sites for Powerpoint
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Electronic Newspaper Links a list of many of the electronic newspapers available. Useful for humanities student especially. |
Apple Computer Australia Source of technical information, downloadable system updates and lots of advertising about new equipment etc. |
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link to "School ain't what it used to be" Useful article for practising downloading text |
Myrmidon notes on Claris HomePage An example of how Myrmidon produces HTML pages. |
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http://school.discovery.com/ a collection of sites with resources for teachers |
Link to Syllabus Web Advertorial for Syllabus Magazine, but contains useful online articles as well. |
link to Webteacher Software site, especially for non-programmers. Tutorial material very good, especially for JAVA |
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Some work in progress notes on Word 6 A short set of tutoral notes. |
mailto: d.reid@edfac.usyd.edu.au
