Monthly Archives: April 2009

Media training seminar by Richard Morecroft from the ABC

Posted on April 28, 2009 by matthewbower

This morning Richard Morecroft led a 3 hour Media Training seminar for the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University. Pertinent points included: When being interviewed try to maintain eye contact while listening to a question (demonstrating concentration) and keep … Continue reading →

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Macintosh workshop

Posted on April 22, 2009 by matthewbower

The Mac workshop I attended today was most informative and covered the following Mac apps: iTunes: can also be used as a content manager for PDFs as well as audio (but not all file types). iPhoto: Using faces and places … Continue reading →

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Statistics Texts

Posted on April 8, 2009 by matthewbower

Alan T., a fantastic statistics lecturer from Macquarie University, kindly recommended to outstanding statistics texts to me: “Statistical methods for psychology” by David C. Howell, and “Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences” by James P. Stevens. Both of these … Continue reading →

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Research databases

Posted on April 7, 2009 by matthewbower

Today the presenter at a research seminar  explained the difference between research databases offered by the  Macquarie University library. Publisher databases like Informaworld, Science Direct, Sage and Informit were preferred over secondary databases due to their speed and reliability. As … Continue reading →

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