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Pitfalls for new professional archaeology bloggers

mickmorrison
October 16, 2014

This is the last of three posts for students in my Introduction to Professional Archaeology topic, as well as other people who are new to blogging about archaeology. You can read previous posts here and here. So you are considering starting a blog…

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Archaeology Teaching and learning Uncategorized

The benefits of blogging for professional archaeologists

mickmorrison
October 15, 2014

In a post earlier this week I provided a brief account of why blogging is of interest to archaeologists and also touched on aspects of the history of ‘archaeo. blogging’. I’ve taken the time to do this to provide students in my Introduction…

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Archaeology Teaching and learning Uncategorized

Social media and professional archaeology in retrospect

mickmorrison
October 13, 2014

This is the first of two posts directed at students enrolled in an online topic that I teach at Flinders University on Professional Archaeology.  The focus of this week’s module is to encourage students to critically evaluate the role of…

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Teaching and learning

Minimising the misery and pain: tips for completing a Doctoral Thesis

mickmorrison
March 30, 2012
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Long time readers  know that I’m a relatively freshly minted PhD graduate (2010 vintage) and a quick browse through some of my earlier posts here or on twitter would no doubt reveal some of the anguish and horror that I…

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Teaching and learning

Apologies for the break (and a brief update)

mickmorrison
May 25, 2011

What can I say? Work is frantic at the moment and consequently my blog and twitter stream are a great deal quieter than normal. That’s academic teaching for you. However, we’re now almost through our first semester here in Australia…

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Archaeology Teaching and learning

The risks of professional blogging

mickmorrison
March 14, 2011
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Colleen at Middle Savagery has been facilitating a discussion about archaeology and blogging for the past few weeks and this week the question she poses is: What risks do archaeologists take when they make themselves available to the public via…

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Teaching and learning Tech and geospatial

Digital archaeology: a workshop

mickmorrison
February 23, 2011
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I have agreed to present a half day workshop in my Department here at Flinders University on what I am calling ‘Digital Archaeology’. It’s aimed graduate students in our archaeology and cultural heritage programs who want to know more about how digital/web technologies…

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Teaching and learning Weipa Mission

The underbelly of an archaeology fieldschool

mickmorrison
December 8, 2010

In June-July next year I am running an Indigenous archaeology fieldschool for students enrolled at Flinders University (see About.com’s post on fieldschools if you’re not sure what they are). It’s quite a daunting task, particularly since I’ve not organised a…

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Teaching and learning

Student Tweeting – and learning?

mickmorrison
October 5, 2010

I just read a short post  at the Chronicle of Higher Ed about twitter and teaching and one quote in that story struck me: Before Mr. Junco started using Twitter in class, he says, hardly any of his students had…

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Teaching and learning

Blogging and University based learning

mickmorrison
September 15, 2010
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I’m developing an online/flexible delivery mode version of a topic I’m teaching this semester here in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University. The subject is a graduate level version of Indigenous Heritage Management in Australia, which is an important…

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