User:Leighblackall

An animated gif portrait of Leigh, made by Emma while they worked together in Darwin

Leigh lives in Melbourne Australia with his beautiful wife Sunshine, their daughters Eve and Maya, and their dog Lego. Leigh enjoys outdoor recreation with a passion for back country telemark skiing, and fond memories of rock climbing and cycle touring. He also enjoys tinkering with permaculture design and ideas for post industrial living.

Leigh’s professional interest is in educational development, focused on open and networked learning and research, using social media and community engagement. Leigh currently works with the Faculty of Health Science at La Trobe University.

Sunshine wants Leigh to find a small block of land by a river, free them from wage slavery, and go back to being an artist, growing vegies, running goats, and raising babies - Leigh whole heartedly agrees. In the meantime, slave on...

Contact

• eMail: leighblackall@gmail.com
• Phone: +61 0404 561 009
• Site: http://leighblackall.com
• CV

Teaching and educational development

• La Trobe Health Sciences - Working with staff at La Trobe University to develop and pilot a range of subjects with open educational practices.

• Health education and development - Working with Rick Hayes in 2012 through 2013 at La Trobe University to develop an open online course
• Health of Indigenous and other Australian Cultures - Working with Nick Stone in 2012 through 2013 to develop an open online course
• The Bouverie Centre - Working with Robyn Elliot in 2012 through 2013 developing post graduate courses in family therapy
• Professional Development for Teachers of Health Professionals - Developing a range of activities and programs through 2013 that support the professional development of teachers of health professionals
• La Trobe University Open Conference - Working with a group of staff from across the university, to convene an open conference about open education
• La Trobe University - sparked by another Wikiversity user who is building a page on Australian Universities, I've collected La Trobe related material on Wikiversity to compile a page for LTU
• Activity, assignments and assessment - Ongoing effort to collect short descriptions of alternative approaches to assignments and assessment

• News videography - Working with David Blackall in 2012 through 2013 at the University of Wollongong to develop an open online course
• The Business, Politics and Sport 2011 - Working with Keith Lyons in 2011 at the University of Canberra to develop and deliver an open online course
• Contemporary Issues in Sport - Working with John Dodd in 2011 at the University of Canberra to develop an open online course. Work is incomplete.
• Creating accessible courses - A work in progress
• Facilitating Online - Working with Bronwyn Hegarty in 2007 through to 2009 to develop and deliver an open online course
• Flexible learning - Working with Bronwyn Hegarty in 2007 through to 2009 to develop and deliver an open online course
• Composing educational resources - A work in progress
• Social Media - A work in progress
• Doctor of Philosophy - A work in progress
• Wikipedia editing workshops
• Radical ideas for educational organisations
• Assessment in open education

Less developed:

• Open academia in practice
• Networked teaching
• Networked learning
• Using social media for teaching and research
• Wikis for research
• Everything you need to teach and learn online

Research

All these are in terrible disarray. Some are nowhere near developed, others are somewhere near complete, but all are in a state of continuous wiki fiddle:

• Tomorrow's PhD
• My own PhD
• Open Online Courses and Massively untold stories
• Networked learning a biomass heat transfer system
• Journalism studies and Wikinews
• An ethical framework for ubiquitous learning
• Open academic practice and Excellence in Research Australia
• Open academia survey
• EResearch in education: Open and networked practices and the rise of the citizen researcher
• Notes on Bowers' False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning
• Education as instrument of colonisation
• Institutions and communities
• A crisis for institutions, opportunities for teachers
• Open academia: Principles and practices
• Open education and research at the University of Canberra
• Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations
• Sustainability considerations relating to the use of Second Life for education
• Socially constructed media and communications

Engagement

• Wikipedia in Education Symposium, University of Sydney
• Wikipedia Training Day, Bendigo 2013
• Wikimania 2013 Presentation
• Wikipedia training day, Kingston Tasmania
• Wikipedia training day, Hobart VET
• Interview about open education
• Greater Access Choice and Flexibility: Learning at University of Canberra
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Orienteering
• ACT Teaching Nursing Home Bid
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia
• UCNISS
• University of Canberra
• OpenUC
• Proposed policy on intellectual property
• RCC2011
• RCC2010
• UCIP
• Sustainable Business textbook
• UCNISS Study tours

Other

• Performance review 2010
• Jean Pain composting

Official policies

Assume Good Faith - Be bold - Bots - Civility - Community Review - Exemption Doctrine Policy - Privacy Policy - Privacy Policy (Meta) - Reliable sources - Research guidelines - Rollback - Verifiability - What is Wikiversity

Proposed policies

Academic freedom - Blocking policy - Bureaucratship - Chat channel policy - CheckUser policy - Child protection policy - Cite sources - Course Titles and Numbers - Course protection policy - Deletions - Disclosures - External links - Make no assumptions - Manual of Style - Naming conventions - Network naming conventions - Original research - Page protection templates - Polls - Respect people - Productive Forking and Tailoring is Encouraged - Real world schools - Scholarly ethics - Subpages - Username - User page - Vandalism - What Wikiversity is not - Catalyst