Area of study Lecture (Sydney Convention center) (1 Viewer)

[Rick_v]

Anyone catch the lectures at the Convention Center? What did people get out of it or think about it? Personally I felt it was abit to much like a processed verson of what my teacher has been telling me. First speakers presentation was fairly uneventful, the second speakers had some intresting points to make and the thrid speaker was talking mainly about the paper... for $30 i expected at least some handouts and easier to read slides that didn't dissapear within a few seconds (by the way... was it just me or when the second speaker's (i think) slides bombed out and the screen when to the desktop, in small writting "I like penis" poped out?)

 

[ur_inner_child]

Class of 2004: DID WE GET AN AOS DAY!?!??!

 

[melsc]

The 2nd two were ok...but i wanted hand outs too...ahh well...

 

[menty]

gay. waste of money lol. 1st was utter bs.
lol @ the bluejacking there

 

[Sarah168]

Class of 2004: DID WE GET AN AOS DAY!?!??!

Yeah we did. Same one. I went to it. Wasnt that good. Waste of money.

 

[zahid]

The 2nd two were ok...but i wanted hand outs too...ahh well...

I ended up writing 14 pages of notes, Some of the stuff they were talking about was quite good.....at-least i think anyway....oh yes believe it or not the Powerpoint on the Big Screen stuffed because my friend was playing with his PDA, my teacher found out but we all chose to be quite, when we went back to school he copped it HARD.

 

[chooky_girl26]

Me caught it

I went to the DARLING HARBOUR CONVENTION CENTER.... it wasn't sydney's one silly Hehehe yeh there was so many people their... i swear... and that guy... how he yelled out that thing in the second talk i think it was... that was so immature... but so funny
Some people look so young that are doing HSC 05 i was quite surprised.
They gave us lots of information... some others in my school Bowral high... thought the first lecture was the best... she i felt went on alot... about nothing... and kept saying the same things... she prepared her speech for a university lecture then a talk to 16-17-18 yr olds. I got lost within a few minutes... The scond lecture i thought was pretty good they went through all the board of studies excerpts and explained it all ... it was really interesting. And the last lecture was good the PARTE , FIRM ICE and SANDWICH
hehehe ne way that is my opinion
Cheers

 

[Sarah168]

parte, form, sandwich..sounds like they just re-hashed last yr's presentation

 

[dimsims]

Aos day

Chlorophyll, more like borephyll.... was that yelled out or what that part of his power point presentation?? We had a large discussion about that. The whole day was boring and i got the stupid plug it in plug it in song stuck in myhead tho. During the lecture a guy behind me passed me a note saying "i am a zebra". We thought it was quite weird. I cant believe there were 3500 people there.

Does anyone want a copy of the notes???? i can post here if you like. let me know if you want them cause i aint doing it for nothing.(great language for an advanced student)

-Ky
Ps on the train trip home another passenger told me i was a bad singer

 

[slinky1329]

Yea, could you please post a copy of the notes? I couldn't really take any coz my frnd kept stealing my note pad and attempted to play noughts and crosses on it....

 

[bibi_viv]

not particularly interesting...

the lectures were too general...

and the stupid powerpoint... couldn't even read it and he was going so fast that i couldn't write anything!

for some of the analysis... i think people from my school did same or even better analysis of the stimulus texts than some of the analysis of that were presented! but i couldn't take down the notes on them coz the ppt was going so fast. i want to see how different people analysed the texts. anyone have analysis notes they would like to share?

but the lectures were good in that it gave me some new ideas...

i didn't take much notes down... wish they gave us some handouts...

anyone care to share their notes?

THX THX!

 

[dimsims]

Okay so these are the notes my English teacher wrote up on the board for the class. These are what he wrote down
· Lecture one

· Economic circumstances can dictate whether you go on a journey or not.

· Reason for journey- set out to achieve goals

· Metaphorical journey- movement of imagination

· A journey changes us

· Texts will compel us to think about change.

· Basis of journey is that we learn something

· A journey does not always change us- we repeat our mistakes

· Our imagination compels us to think about things and places out of our comfort zone or level of knowledge and understanding.

· Metaphor: When we compare 2 things but hide the fact of the comparison.

· Mental wondering- responder experiences

· Similar to the meandering and impressions of a poem.

· Journey concept; is no longer just an academic or literate term but is now part of the zeitgeist and popular culture.

· Anthropomorphism (spelling??): living vicariously through animal characters

· Didactic: teaching you in a repetitive way. Focus only on one thing

· Text 1 (The road not taken)

· Culturally dominant view

· Morally didactic

· Individualism

· Disrupted view:

· Purpose not meant to be morally important

· "Claim" both roads as good

· Control in life delusional

· Note: all people don’t have choice

· : It is culturally dominant view

· Text 2 (book cover, the ivory trail)

· Prompts an imaginative journey to read.

· Extratextuality: things outside the text that have meaning or provide assumptions

· "Not all journeys have an ending" enigma code- draws reader in

· Text 3

· Toad- acts upon people

· Rat acted upon (I laughed at this and I was told off for being dirty)

· Used to explore complex psychological ideas

· We live vicariously through the animals

· Now my notes (they don’t make sense)

· English Study Day
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· First lecture by Melissa Hardy

· · Representation of the journey.

· · Used the analogy of Australian idol being a journey

· · Vanity Fair- Reece Witherspoon’s character is dictated by economic circumstance.

· · The Internet is a journey. Internet explorer is marketed as a journey because you travel all over the world without leaving your seat.

· · scientific investigation can be imaginative.

· · Compass is fluid, tells us where we are headed

· · Map is fixed; concrete

· · Journey takes us from A-B

· · Text does not take us anywhere, we imagine the journey
· · Journey is over time

· · When we read a text we need to look over what we have learnt, what is different, what we can draw from text and speculations

· · Journey requires skill

· · Physical- landscape gives back transformation or inner knowledge
· · What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger

· · Rabbit proof fence- perilous journey across barren Australian lands, hostile forces

· · Metaphorical journey- we don’t move

· · Movement of imagination and conception of the world

· · Action takes place over time and distance

· · Causes us to move from one place to another

· · Journey is derived from French word meaning day

· · Concept relies on unity

· Metaphors
· · Searle - understanding and experiencing ine thing in terms of another
· · Aristotle- metaphors bring about learning

· Text 1:The road not taken

· · Which road leads where??

· · Culturally dominant poem

· · Poem about choices- we shape our own life

· · Individualism

· · Ideology assertion of individualism

· · Robert frost once said to a college professor that he was fooling everyone as the poem was not a metaphor but was talking about when he and a friend went walking his friend always which he could take both roads- biographical

· · Life is chaotic and less coherent- journey suggests

· · Life is irrational

· · Control in life is self delusional, what is the difference didactics

· · Methodologise our own self

· Text 2: Victor Kelleher The ivory trail book cover

· · Cover promotes desire- commercial

· · Prompts imaginative journey of what it might contain

· · Inner thoughts- should I buy it??

· · Physical journey: trip to the register

· · Victor Kelleher’s name stands out,

· · We have expectations of the book

· · Book is young adult fiction

· · Physical journey: coming of age story

· · Heroic youth: testing circumstances, blending of genres, ambiguity
· · These thoughts are reinforced by blurb on the bottom of the book
· · Defies common sense

· · Risk vs. opportunity

· · Download poems- Imaginative journey by Wordsworth

· · A transport one cannot contain- contradictory poem

· · Journey does not always have an ending

· · Physical journey has a destination

· · Salient elements- sphinx has light emphasis- young males eyes, shading
· · Vector lines: visible or invisible lines

· · Boy has non-returned gaze

· · Colour is culturally coded- red on cover represents danger

· · Sunrise at tope- new beginnings

· · Sunset at top- resolution, necessary engagement with religion

· · Reinforcing enigma- riddle of the sphinx

· · Shifting sands: change mystery

· · Movement out of darkness to light

· · Eastern religious architecture- non-westernised

· · Boy is young European protagonist

· · Spiritual growth or redemption

· · Clash of cultures/ civilization

· · Narrative of physical journey through space and time

· · Inner Journey to personal growth

· · Ideology of text- western materialism challenged by spiritualism

· · Imaginative journey: moving beyond binaries of east and

west.
· Text 3: The wind in the willows

· · Text specific for time and place

· · Rural English background foreign compared to our Australian geography

· · early 20th century, target audience middle to upper class

· · Formal language- almost archaic

· · Toad and rat key oppositions

· · Toad enthusiastic about journey- toad does all the active things

· · Rat is acted upon- over hears remarks- passive position

· · Different types of enthusiasm

· · Exploring parable

· · Longing for what is familiar

· · The world in the twitw, gypsy strikes excitement where as normally gypsies suffered persecution and were seen a s unreliable



I dont know if these will help but i hope they do.......need anything else pm me.
Love ky

 

[bibi_viv]

thx for your notes, dimsims!

what type of journeys is your school doing?

does anyone have notes for the poem "Journey to the Interior"?

thx!

Vxx

 

[dimsims]

thx for your notes, dimsims!

what type of journeys is your school doing?

does anyone have notes for the poem "Journey to the Interior"?

thx!

Vxx

i got notes the other day in school, i will post them later, i cant be bothered now

 

[shimmerme]

bit of a late reply here, regardless

yeah i was at the convention centre-
admittedly they didnt present any new or 'juicy' information (remember it wouldnt serve any good anyway, all originiality would be lost in the fact that 3500 people were listening)- and waaay too much information was crammed into too short of a time frame.

but i thought it was good, if for nothing else other than a (motivational) reminder of how many other people we'll be up against in the hsc, and how much they know and how much work they'll be doing.. and just to recap, and cover anything that may have been missed.

from me xx