This Teaching Life

In part 2 of this special episode for the NAIDOC Week, Professor Barry Judd continues his conversation with host Wajeehah about indigenous studies in Australia, identity diversities, and more.

Guest speaker: Barry Judd

Host and editor: Wajeehah Aayeshah

In this special episode as part of the NAIDOC Week, Professor Barry Judd talks to host Wajeehah about indigenous studies in Australia, identity diversity, and more.

Guest speaker: Barry Judd

Host and editor: Wajeehah Aayeshah

In this episode, Hannah Buchan, President of the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU), shared her insights on student diversity and strategies that work for creating inclusive classrooms.

Guest speaker: Hannah Buchan

Host and editor: Xia Cui

Debra McDougall teaches an interesting subject called the secret life of students, where students get to collaborate with University staff to conduct ethnographic research and investigate issues essential to their learning experience. In this episode, she chats to host Wajeehah how she does it, and also shares some great tips for project based subject design.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Debra McDougall

Editor: Xia Cui

In this episode, Lars Wallner from Linköping University in Sweden chats about how his university has been impacted by the pandemic, and use of Comics in discussing social issues in education.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Lars Wallner

Editor: Xia Cui

Dr. Megan McIntosh has extensive experience in student advising, and in providing training for advisors. In this episode, she shares insights into the key matters academic advisors need to consider when advising students from diverse backgrounds.

Guest speaker: Megan McIntosh

Host and editor: Xia Cui

Associate Professor Jackie Dutton is the Convenor of French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She also teaches some really fascinating subjects: A Taste of Europe, and Going Places - Travelling Smarter. In this episode, Jackie talks about language learning during the pandemic, the use of objects in mastering conversations in French, and travelling smarter in this time of isolation.

Guest speaker: Jackie Dutton

Host and editor: Xia Cui

The article mentioned in the episode: LEARNING A LANGUAGE AT HOME, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

The undergraduate certificate courses mentioned in the episode:

Italian Russian German French Spanish

To search for more courses like these, visit https://www.courseseeker.edu.au/

Now the first semester of virtual campus just ended, Alison Horbury in this episode chats to host Wajeehah about her experience: what's challenging, and what works!

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Alison Horbury

Editor: Xia Cui

This season special provides a collection of snippets from the episodes we've had so far about online teaching: What's it like? What are the top tips from your colleagues? Listen on to find out.

With thanks to voices from:

Alison Horbury

Mara Favoretto

Nonie May

Ruonan Zeng

Delia Lin

Lily Brown

David McInnis

Lauren Bliss

Louise Oliff

Tom Whitford

Editor: Xia Cui

In this episode, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway from the School of Languages and Linguistics reflects on her online teaching experience in the first semester of 2020, and gives some top tips on engaging students in subject content.

Host: Wajeehah Aayeshah

Guest speaker: Chloe Diskin-Holdaway

Editor: Xia Cui