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MR JOHN MURNANE



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=1830
Work: 8344 8266
Fax: 8344 8739
Building: Alice Hoy Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Programming languages and environments for beginning programmers Australia
Robotics and problem solving in a computing environment Australia
Online teaching and learning Australia
Sociology of online multiplayer games Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2006
Bachelor of Applied Science Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1973
Master of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1985
Trained Primary Teachers Certificate Education Department of Victoria 31-Dec-1964

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Need for Two Communities
    Year: 2009
    Event name: IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ICT, Society and Human Beings 2009 and Web Based Communities 2009 - IADIS International Conference
    Page numbers: 59-66
    Publisher: IADIS Press(Lisbon)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Gearing up for Robotics: An investigation into the acquisition of the concepts associated with gears by teachers in a constructionist robotics environment
    Year: 2008
    Book: Learning to live in the Knowledge Society: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, IFIP TC 3 ED-L2L Conference, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Age, mobility and email


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Assistive Technologies
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 16-25
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  • The development of drawing in logo


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Art Education
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 54-65
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Retirement, Mobility and the Internet
    Year: 2007
    Book: Education, Training and Lifelong Learning
    Publisher: Heidelberg Press(Heidelberg)
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Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Bad computer science in beginners programming courses: "Considered harmful"? A case study of the Tufts graphical programming language
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Imagining the future for ICT and Education: IFIP WG 3.1, 3.3 & 3.5 Joint Conference
    Conference Publication: Imagining the future for ICT and Education: IFIP WG 3.1, 3.3 & 3.5 Joint Conference - CD Proceedings
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Hogskolen i Alesund/Alesund University College(Alesund)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • What did we think we were doing? Reflections on the History of Educational Computing in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Book: History of Computing in Education
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Norwell)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • ICT and the Teacher of the Future
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Sydney)
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  • Young Children and Learning Technologies
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Sydney)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Teaching Teaching Information Technology
    Year: 2003
    Event name: International Federation for Information Processing Working Groups 3.1 and 3.3 Working Conference
    Conference Publication: ICT and the Teacher of the Future: Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 89-91
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Sydney)
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  • The creation and maintenance of an online subject: some practical factors
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Advances in web-based learning - ICWL 2003, Second International Conference
    Conference Publication: Advances in web-based learning - ICWL 2003
    Page numbers: 114-121
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Computers in Education 2001: Australian Topics
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Simulation: The Visible and the Invisible
    Year: 2002
    Book: Progress in Education, Volume 10
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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  • Simulation: the visible and the invisible
    Year: 2002
    Book: Opportunistic challenges: teaching and learning with ICT
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An empirical study of junior secondary students' expression of algorithms in natural language
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Seventh world conference on computers in education
    Conference Publication: Computers in education 2001: Australian topics (selected papers from the seventh world conference on computers in education)
    Page numbers: 81-85
    Publisher: Australian Computer Society(Bedford Park)
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