title: Learnings through explorations of the teaching space: Creating climates of collaboration

authors: Coleman, Claire

abstract: Beanbags,  adjustable  tables,  retractable  walls,  high-speed  internet  and  numerous  digital  devices dominate the current concept of the modern classroom. Urged by the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to build all new classrooms as Innovative Learning Environments (Ministry of Education, 2015), more and more students are finding themselves operating in spaces of various shapes and sizes. Influenced by the PST framework by Radcliffe et al. (2008), these environments tend to focus on creating a balance between the elements of pedagogy, technology and space. While the jury is still out on the benefit of the ILE spaces, there has been universal agreement that education needed to rethink the outdated single cell design (Benade, 2016).

text: Learnings through explorations of the teaching space: Creating climates of collaboration Beanbags,  adjustable  tables,  retractable  walls,  high-speed  internet  and  numerous  digital  devices dominate the current concept of the modern classroom. Urged by the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to build all new classrooms as Innovative Learning Environments (Ministry of Education, 2015), more and more students are finding themselves operating in spaces of various shapes and sizes. Influenced by the PST framework by Radcliffe et al. (2008), these environments tend to focus on creating a balance between the elements of pedagogy, technology and space. While the jury is still out on the benefit of the ILE spaces, there has been universal agreement that education needed to rethink the outdated single cell design (Benade, 2016).

year: 2020

title: Master of Music in Composition

authors: Connors, Teresa Marie

subjects: Multimedia Collaboration

abstract: This portfolio of compositions involved the creation of multimedia works within the context of collaborative artistic practice.  

This interest has resulted from my increasing participation in multidisciplinary collaborative projects in recent years as a composer and singer.  In the portfolio of works I have drawn on a range of theoretical texts from the fields of cognitive science, psychology, sociology and spirituality to develop a supportive discourse with which to reflect on the creative intersection of activities.

Five collaborative compositions were created and realised.  These range from a self-generative installation to a traditional film score.  

To examine the creative process, I have constructed a continuum that situates each piece between polarities of product or process-driven work.  

On one side of this continuum is Beads, a generative sound/video installation which explores video tracking as a compositional agent.  At the opposite pole is The Old Woman in the Woods, a typical cinematic film score.  

Situated between these two extreme points are Terroir, Let It Go, and Aspects of Trees.  Aspects of Trees is a hyperimprovisational system for visual projections, live cello, and software application.  Let it Go explores the balance between improvisation, composition and “composed” instruments.  Terroir is a fixed media experimental film which uses a single data source collected from an old cell phone.

text: Master of Music in Composition This portfolio of compositions involved the creation of multimedia works within the context of collaborative artistic practice.  

This interest has resulted from my increasing participation in multidisciplinary collaborative projects in recent years as a composer and singer.  In the portfolio of works I have drawn on a range of theoretical texts from the fields of cognitive science, psychology, sociology and spirituality to develop a supportive discourse with which to reflect on the creative intersection of activities.

Five collaborative compositions were created and realised.  These range from a self-generative installation to a traditional film score.  

To examine the creative process, I have constructed a continuum that situates each piece between polarities of product or process-driven work.  

On one side of this continuum is Beads, a generative sound/video installation which explores video tracking as a compositional agent.  At the opposite pole is The Old Woman in the Woods, a typical cinematic film score.  

Situated between these two extreme points are Terroir, Let It Go, and Aspects of Trees.  Aspects of Trees is a hyperimprovisational system for visual projections, live cello, and software application.  Let it Go explores the balance between improvisation, composition and “composed” instruments.  Terroir is a fixed media experimental film which uses a single data source collected from an old cell phone.

year: 2013

title: Bicultural challenges for educational professionals in Aotearoa

authors: Glynn, Ted

abstract: As educational professionals in New Zealand at the approach of the twenty-first century, some 158 years after the Treaty of Waitangi, we face some major challenges in examining our bicultural goals and achievements. In this paper I explore some of these goals and achievements which I believe must be addressed in our pedagogical practice and in our educational research.

text: Bicultural challenges for educational professionals in Aotearoa As educational professionals in New Zealand at the approach of the twenty-first century, some 158 years after the Treaty of Waitangi, we face some major challenges in examining our bicultural goals and achievements. In this paper I explore some of these goals and achievements which I believe must be addressed in our pedagogical practice and in our educational research.

year: 2015