http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/1 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:41:34 GMT 2013-03-21T09:41:34Z http://images.swinburne.edu.au:80/jspui/retrieve/46519/photo.png http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/1 http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/2671 Title: Swinburne Childcare Centre Description: Photograph originally appeared in the 'Swinburne Newsletter', 21st May 1987.; Left; Joel Rix-Arnott, Sheralyn Campbell, Co-ordinator, Swinburne Child Care Centre Naomi Vallins Course Co-ordinator, Swinburne Child Care Assistant Course. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:57:58 GMT http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/2671 2007-06-01T04:57:58Z http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5910 Title: China Market Forecast 2013 Description: Kenneth Chern, Professor of Asian Policy and Executive Director of the Swinburne Leadership Institute, joined the Hon Dr Craig Emerson MP, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, and Dr Liu Ligang, ANZ Chief Economist for Greater China, in addressing the 'China Market Forecast 2013' held by the Australia China Business Council in Melbourne on 15 February 2013. Addressing an audience of 200 guests, Professor Chern spoke on "China, USA. and Australia, Implicatiions for the Asian Region." Professor Chern analysed how the relationships among these three countries would impact the Asia-Pacific in coming years, explored how public moods can have a deleterious affect on all countries' foreign policies, and explained why strong leadership was required to reconcile such shifting public moods with enduring national interests and international cooperation. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5910 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5909 Title: Swinburne staff wins ELICOS award Description: Teaching staff from Swinburne College have been awarded the 2012 University of Cambridge Award for Action Research in English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS). College teachers Damien Herlihy and Zeke Pottage's research on the use of VoiceThread, a Web 2.0 technology, to assess their students' spoken English was judged the most outstanding project in the ELICOS Action Research program. The national award was presented at the recent English Australia conference in Sydney. VoiceThread enables students to post audio, video or text comments on a presentation. Mr Herlihy and Mr Pottage investigated how using this tool impacted students' motivation and speaking performance over the course of a ten-week advanced English course at Swinburne College. "Often in the classroom discussion is fleeting and teachers have very little time to reflect and give students feedback in the way that is possible with writing," Mr Herlihy said. "VoiceThread provides a platform to do this." In their study the teachers introduced the technology to two groups of students, and interviewed them to see what could be improved. "We gave detailed feedback on pronunciation, fluency, language and content via this platform," Mr Pottage said. "At the end of the course, we looked at the students' overall improvement through using the VoiceThread program. "We found that most students felt their spoken English had improved over the duration of the course and that the use of VoiceThread played a strong role in this." One of the key features was listening and re-recording - students found it useful to be able to listen to their own recording and then re-record their ideas after reflecting on the weaknesses of their earlier attempts. The study found that more introverted students appreciated the opportunity to speak outside class, as they often missed out in group discussions and spoke relatively no English outside the classroom. "Web 2.0 technologies aren't a ‘silver bullet' in education, but rather another tool in a teacher's inventory that can be used to maximise student engagement and outcomes in English language classrooms," Mr Pottage said. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5909 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5908 Title: Swinburne team suave completing course 4 Description: For the second consecutive year a team of Swinburne University of Technology engineering students has won the National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition. Seventeen student teams from universities across Australia and New Zealand tested their robotics skills at the competition held in Swinburne's Advanced Technologies Centre on Friday 21 September. Their robots were required to traverse a chequered board avoiding obstacles to collect coloured blocks and deposit them in squares with corresponding colours. Swinburne's Team Suave won the inaugural competition in Sydney last year, earning Swinburne the right to host this year's contest. Last year's Team Suave members Jeremy Wu and Ben Smith were joined by Jason Austin to create a robot for this year's competition under the supervision of Dr Zhenwei Cao, Program Coordinator, Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Swinburne. Their robot completed the set of predefined tasks in just over four minutes at the live competition, thus earning the Swinburne team the most points and a $3000 cash prize. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://images.swinburne.edu.au/jspui/handle/1111.1/5908 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z