In teaching students, I have tried to include people outside of my circle to speak from their space to my students. This allows the students to listen to perspectives they would otherwise not have known. It encourages them to see how theoretical lessons in class can translate into meaningful projects and processes in the workplace. While I have not recorded all these sessions, the ones I have listed on my blog include Roslyn Albaniel and Ruth Waram some years ago. However, this semester, I decided that it would be good to go down this path again as the unit I was taking was new and needed fresh ideas from other people than me.
The first person to accept my invitation was Bronwyn Kili. As a youth activist, she talked about here experiences of using social media/digital media to run numerous social and community campaigns she was part of.
The next person that accepted my invitation was Helen Tuka. She has worked in various organisations over the years and completed a Master of Communication from RMIT in Melbourne Australia. She now works as the Marketing Director for DWU.
She talked about marketing strategies that the University uses particularly those on social media. She also focused on how 'branding' is important in maintaining corporate identity and recognition of products/services. She also focused on the challenges faced by organisations as they improve their corporate branding and create a communication strategy.
The last person to come speak to my students was Picky Airi. Mr. Airi is the Director for the Center for Learning and Teaching at DWU. He did a session on using software applications in developing animations. He pointed out the various applications such as Doodly, Toonly and Videoscribe. During the session, the students installed the software called Videoscribe on their laptop and then proceeded to develop a short story animation.
