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mySF Project podcast, number 35 Direct download: Podcast thirty-five reviews Exploring Genre: Science Fiction by Barbara Stanners, a recent Australian text for secondary schools published by Phoenix Education. The text covers some familiar ground but includes fresh ideas for studies, as well as incorporating focus questions and essay response tasks. However, there are problems ... The script for this podcast with links and a selected bibliography is available here. |
10 Oct, 2010 |
| 34 |
mySF Project
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15 Aug, 2010 |
| 33 |
mySF Project podcast, number 33Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/pataphysics/mysf_033_2010_07_07.mp3
Three SF DVDs released in 2009 or 2010 are discussed for use with students in lower secondary classrooms; Astroboy, Planet 51 and Monsters vs Aliens. The script for this podcast with links and a selected bibliography is available here. |
July 7, 2010 |
| 31 |
mySF Project podcast, number 31Direct download: mysf_031_2010_04_21.mp3
SlowAlan's Steampunk mp3 file, 'I am stretched on your grave' available here: 5.5Mb
Two 'Steampunk' texts are discussed here, Richard Harland's World Shaker and Otomo's Steamboy on DVD. Both are recommended for use with lower secondary students and some scaffolding for the movie and new novel is suggested. With a furtive glance in the preternatural smog two other texts are noted, Victory by Broadmore and Mieville's Perdido Street Station, both with strong Steampunk elements. The script for this podcast with links and a selected bibliography is available here. |
April 22, 2010 |
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mySF Project podcast, number 30Direct download: mysf_030_2010_01_11.mp3The Science Fiction Handbook was published by Booker and Thomas in 2009. This text is reviewed and recommended for a variety of purposes, including for secondary teachers of SF. The review looks in depth at the Handbook and makes some suggestions for just one small section of the text, looking at the social and political perspectives found for Wells' most famous SF novellas. The script for this podcast with links and a selected bibliography is available here. |
February 13, 2010 |
| 29 | mySF Project
podcast, number 29 Direct download: mysf_029_2010_01_11.mp3 This podcast script relates to the use of Victor Kelleher's short novel for Young Adults, Taronga, published in 1986. The novel falls readily into the Post-Apocalyptic (PA) sub-genre of SF and is very useful for younger secondary students. It leaves them with an extraordinary and visual narrative of a future Sydney where tigers might stalk the streets and two young people have to struggle to survive a cruel world. The novel is also useful to critique this PA sub-genre and to discover the different purposes of these narratives. The script for much of this podcast is available here. Further materials for a major project on teaching Year 8 students about PA narratives including a major assignment, videos and a reflection on the process by MichaelS and Anne is available here. |
January, 2010 |
| 28 | mySF Project
podcast, number 28 Direct download: mysf_028_2009_12_29.mp3 Discussion of Oshii's film PatLabor 2 in the light of Bolton's analysis from Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Suitable for teachers of upper secondary students with an interest in Mechas, Anime and computer mediation of reality, whatever that might be. The script for much of this podcast is available here. |
December, 2009 |
| 27 | mySF Project
podcast, number 27 Direct download: mysf_027_2009_06_27.mp3 Interview with Thea van Os, learning technology specialist, SF fan. Thea speaks of the best technologies for secondary teachers to share SF with their students - as collaborations, as communities. With a wealth of experience and a lively interest in the genre she recommends technologies as wild as SF itself. The interview does not have a script, but here are some of the cool tools she recommends: Kahootz 3 for younger secondary students Ning Wiki social networking space VoiceThread sharing - documents, sounds & videos Animoto - PPT on steroids, Theas says |
June, 2009 |
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mySF Project podcast, number 26 |
June, 2009 |
| 25 | mySF Project
podcast, number 25 Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/pataphysics/mysf_025_2009_06_23.mp3 Interview with Rich Pascal, creator and chief lecturer of the 'Speculative Fiction' course from the Australian National University (ANU), looking at SciFi, Gothic and Magic Realism texts. The interview itself does not have a script. Instead, there is available a sample essay by Jane, from the course. Click here for Jane's essay from the Speculative Fictions course. Please be aware it is a Single Web file format, a Microsoft '.mht' file, of 114k. |
June, 2009 |
| 24 | mySF Project
podcast, number 24 Direct download: mysf_024_2009_06_21.mp3 Full script: Pixar and Disney's Wall-E: a look at AI, robot romance and some background to human relationships to machines ... of loving grace |
June, 2009 |
| 23 | mySF Project
podcast, number 23 Direct download: mysf_023_2009_04_25.mp3 Full script: Discussion of the use of 1950s X Minus One podcasts as scaffolding or 'Good to go' podcasts, with simple suggestions for assessment |
April, 2009 |
| 22 | mySF Project
podcast, number 22 Direct download: mysf_022_2009_01_15.mp3 Full script: Matheson's I am Legend and the three movies based on this novel, looking at Post-Apocalyptic and Last Man narratives. |
January, 2009 |
| 21 | mySF Project
podcast, number 21 Direct download: mysf_021_2008_12_29.mp3 Full script: Discussion of the film Eagle Eye with associated films as a good entrance to views of the uneasy relationships between privacy and technological surveillance. Notes relate to a middle to upper secondary group and could be part of the Ghost in the Shell theme area. |
December, 2009 |
| 15 - 19 | Full scripts for x4 podcasts: Discussion for teachers of Podcasts 15-19, covering Dozois' 22nd annual anthology of the Year's Best Science Fiction. Amongst the writers discussed briefly with ideas about use in the secondary classroom are Murphy, Rosenbaum, Moles, Kress, Gacigalupi, Flynn, Harrison, Bisson, Kelly, Baker, Vinge, Singh, Cowdry, Sanders, Abraham, Davies, Baxter, Kiernan, Dubois, Reed, di Filipo, Cambias, Arnason, Hamilton, Melka and Williams. | July, 2008 |
| 13 & 14 | Comments for teachers on several stories from Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Authors covered include Walter John Williams, William Sanders, Christopher Rowe, Anne McCaffrey, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Kathi Maio, Thoedora Goss, Roger Dutcher and Vernor Vinge. | April, 2008 |
