Stuff for Students

Here's where I stash stuff I have created or assembled for my students in the various university media or journalism courses in which I teach.

Firstly, here's some very, very important and useful Computer Safety and Ergonomics information I always provide to all my students. When you have personally experienced some of the symptoms of computer-related over use injuries, such as cramps across the shoulders, tingling forearms, eye strain, and, in my worst experience so far, agnoizing sciatica down one leg which meant I had to take some classes lying flat on my back and yelling up at the students so they could hear me, you take this information extremely seriously, and impress it upon your students because of your personal experience of it.

Download the Handout, Print It, Stick It on your wall near your work area or computer and follow its advice! (a small .pdf format file).

I nicked this from the leading Macintosh List, TidBits, years ago.

I have ripped out the older PowerPoint lectures and other stuff and will add to this page during Semester 2, 2003. Please e-mail me if you'd like those older items.

Knowledge and the Internet - QUT Journalism Information Systems Lecture - March 2003

NEW - Knowledge and the Internet - QUT Journalism Info Systems - August 11, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio]

NEW - Databases and Journalism Pt. 1 of 2 - QUT Journalism Info Systems - September1, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio]

NEW - Databases and Journalism Pt. 2 of 2 - QUT Journalism Info Systems - September 8, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio]

NEW - Using the Net in the Pacific - QUT Journalism Info Systems - September 15, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio]

NEW - Palagi's Intro to Pacific Broadcasting - QUT RTVJ1 - September 17, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio]

NEW AUDIO - Radio Australia's 'Pacific Beat' Pacific Focus - 18 September, 2003 - Media Expectations under Review in Vanuatu - Windows Media off the RA Pac Beat Site & Real Audio Here.

NEW - Palagi's Intro to Pacific Media - QUT International Journalism - September 23, 2003 [LISTEN - Real Audio (Edited)] The Real Audio of the RTVJ1 & Internat Journ are pretty much the same, but the latter adds Fiji-based print media.

NEW - The Third 2003 George Munster Lecture - ABC Radio National, 21/9/03 - 'Reporting the Asia-Pacific Region'. [Transcript off Centre for Independent Journalism, UTS, Site][Windows Media off ABC Site] Scroll down these Pages, respectively, to find the Links for the Third Lecture in the 2003 series.

If one substitutes 'The Pacific' and equivalents for references in this Lecture to 'Asia' or 'Indonesia', the criticisms of and observations about Australian journalistic coverage of the Region are largely identical.

Original PowerPoint Lecture Displays -

Knowledge & InterNet (Aug 11, 2003),

Databases & Journalism Pt 1 (1 Sept 2003)

Databases & Journalism Pt 2 (8 September, 2003)

(These original PowerPoint displays are rather large < 1.5 Meg...:(...)

Using the Net in the Pacific (September 15, 2003)

Palagi's Intro to Pacific Broadcasting (September 17, 2003) [This PPT is HUGE..:(...)

Palagi's Intro to Pacific Media (September 23, 2003) [This PPT is Really HUGE...:(..)

Voice Production Resources for Broadcasters CD ROM

I was in Suva, Fiji, for the last fortnight of September, 2001, leading a Regional Television Presenter's Workshop for television presenters from Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, and Tuvalu which was funded by the French Embassy to Fiji and other Pacific anglophone countries. While I came well equipped with video resources of quality television presentation, and an excellent news broadcasters book and cassette from the then Queensland University Journalism Department, I had almost no voice presentation examples.

Nikhil Singh, Fiji TV News, (on camera), Yvette Issac, Tuvalu TV News (on set), Me (watching studio monitor), Suva, September, 2001.

See my Pacific Odyssey Page for more on this Workshop.

I regard The Voice as one of the neglected components of broadcast journalism training - just listen to some radio or television presenters or reporters and you'll hear what I mean - so I've spent at least a week on The Voice in every broadcast journalism course I've ever taught, and emphasized The Voice in every broadcaster's workshop I've ever run.

My frustration in Suva at not having more resources to hand finally provoked me to assemble a pile of voice training resources, featuring Australian radio and television presenters 'at work', the cassette tape from the UQ Journalism Kit (with their permission), a range of actors 'at work' for inspiration and suggestion, and commentary from me drawn on my experience of working with students and others in Australia and the Pacific to improve their broadcast voice presentation. Anybody who teaches broadcast voice production, either as a specialist or, like me, as a media and journalism educator working with broadcast journalism students, would have their own scattered set of resources. I pulled mine together into a stand-alone kit. There's nothing fancy about the CD ROM. It's designed for use by people who could be using anything from an ancient 386 MS-DOS computer to a State of the Art Pentium or Power Mac in the extremely uneven technological environment in the Pacific.

The whole thing was turned into a CD ROM laden with Real Audio™ clips, assembled as a Stand Alone Web Site, thoroughly tested by friends and myself on Macs and Windows machines, and dispatched to the organizer of the September, 2001, workshop in Suva for distribution to workshop participants.

As far as I know there's no commercially available product which contains the wealth and depth of material my Voice Production Resources for Broadcasters CD ROM contains (though, admittedly, copyright laws could well prevent the assembly and commercial sale of this kind of thing). I got around the copyright laws, I hope, by making the thing on a 'not for profit educational use only' basis, distributing it free to a small target audience in Pacific developing countries, making sure I did not use more than 10% of any one 'work', inserted the audio clips in a context which resembles 'for scholarly critique and review', and included Links to places where users of the Kit can purchase complete copies of various examples only small parts of which are on the CD ROM.

The CD ROM is now being used by broadcasters in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Nauru, and Tuvalu, as well as a resource kit for broadcast journalism students at the Queensland University of Technology.

Please e-mail me if you'd like more information on the Voice Production Resources for Broadcasters CD ROM.

Some Fairly Recent Writings

Here's a Paper I presented at the 2000 Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Conference at Ballina, Northern New South Wales, on July 5, 2000, on Ethics and Domination - The Creation and Development of Rural Community Television News.

In that Paper I make reference to another of my writings, a Book Review Essay entitled Shooting the Messenger, in which I discuss the notion of 'domination in practice'. Elsewhere on my Site there's a Web Site for LINC TV I created in early 1997.

There's also a Draft Community Broadcaster Management Plan Web Site I developed from a project one of my Southern Cross University media students developed.

You might be interested in how I created the attached Sites.