— Connor's Teaching — 

Through my role as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne I have taught:

• Technologies for Information Systems (615140)
• Multimedia and Communications (615280);
• Industrial Project (615370).

My supervision experience includes:

• Honours Supervision 2001 with Steven Howard at (Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne):
  • Martin Cholewka: Maximizing constructivist learning of programming concepts in a multimedia environment through user control over cognitive load.
• Masters Minor Thesis supervision with Yun Yang (Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology):
  • Tushar Pancal: Information architectures in e-commerce sites
• Masters Research Report supervision with Gitesh Raikundalia (Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology):
  • Rueben Neelshan Sarvananthan: The use of metaphors in online shopping

I have taught:

• Introductory Human-Computer Interaction (Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore & Swinburne University, Australia);
• Web Development (Swinburne University, Australia);
• Multimedia (Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore & Swinburne University, Australia);
• Communication Skills (Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore).

I also supervised numerous Web development and multimedia development projects at Temasek Polytechic in Singapore.

• Program Manager
  • Bachelor of Multimedia (Multimedia Software Development), Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology 1999-2000
• Subject Co-ordinator, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology 1999-2000
  • Advanced Web Development
  • Multimedia Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction
• Subject Co-ordinator (with Cate Dowd), Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne 2002
  • Multimedia and Communications (615280);

I was fortunate enough to win two awards while teaching at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore:

• Teaching Excellence Award 1996-7 (shared with another member of academic staff).
• Innovation Award for use of Web-based learning 1997-8 (awarded to a teaching team of which I was a member).

Thanks to my then colleagues Stephen Hall and Grace Kwan for their support for the first award and to the "Dream Team" for their hard work to win the second award: Ian Douglas, Yow Hon Kong, Shell Ching, Ong Eng Huat, Fang Ming Yar & Douglas Finnegan.