mySF Project blog

The twenty-seventh podcast discussing some innovative and intriguing technological tricks and tools for teachers of secondary Science Fiction.

This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing.

This podcast is not included as a script but there are links to Thea van Os’ suggestions and solutions, found through the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.

Podcast 27 talks with Thea van Os, a past English teacher and SF buff and currently a coordinator of learning technologies, about the sort of learning technologies that are well suited to teachers of secondary Science Fiction.

The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 10.2M in size, in mp3 format, running for twenty-four minutes.

The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

mySF Project podcast, number 27
Direct download: mysf_027_2009_06_27.mp3
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The twenty-sixth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing Speculative Fiction with teacher and rising author, Conor Bendl.

This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing.

This podcast is not included as a script but there are links to Conor Bendl’s fictions published in anthologies by the Canberra Science Fiction Guild found through the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.

Podcast 26 talks with Conor Bendl about aspects of the Speculative Fiction unit he teaches to upper secondary students as well as his own fiction and his upcoming debut SF novel.

The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 10M in size, in mp3 format, running for twenty-eight minutes.

The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

mySF Project podcast, number 26
Direct download: mysf_026_2009_06_26.mp3
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The twenty-fifth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the recent Australian National University (ANU) course ‘Speculative Fictions’ with its author and chief lecturer.

This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005.

This podcast is not included as a script but there is a sample essay, by kind permission of Jane, one of the students in Rich Pascal’s Speculative Fictions course. This essay received a fine grade and relates to critical views of two texts, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and William Gibson’s Neuromancer found through the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.

Podcast 25 asks the author of the ‘Speculative Fictions’ course at the ANU about this unusual course with a special attention given to the SF aspects of the course. The discussion covers texts, the relationships between the three genres covered by the course and its reception by tertiary students.

The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 12M in size, in mp3 format, running for twenty-eight minutes.

The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

mySF Project podcast, number 25
Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/pataphysics/mysf_025_2009_06_23.mp3
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The twenty-fourth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the Pixar animation Wall-E in terms of teaching this excellent gem of a movie to younger secondary students as part of a study of artificial intelligence or humankind’s complex relationships with machines.

This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005.

The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project, including a resource list and links to related sites and sources.

The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 12M in size, in mp3 format, running for twenty-five minutes.

The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

mySF Project podcast, number 24
Direct download: mysf_024_2009_06_21.mp3
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