Old CV - 1996
Curriculum Vitae of Liddy Nevile
Summary of Major Domestic, Education & Employment Activities
1951 - 1963 Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School.
1964 - 1967 Arts Faculty/Law School at Monash University.
1968 Perugia University, Perugia, Italy. Married.
1969 Senior secondary mathematics teacher at Methodist Ladies' College.
1970 - 1973 Three children, and part-time employment. Completed B.Juris/LLB
1974 - 1980 Senior Tutor in Law, School of Business, CIT. Daughter in 1977
1980 - 1986 Educational Technology Consultant at Geelong Grammar School
1983-4 Convenor of Computers in Education Group of Victoria Services
1984-6 Director of Barson Research, Barson Computers Pty Ltd.
1986-90 Education and Technology Theme Co-ordinator at Australian Council for Educational Research
1990-1994 Director Sunrise Research Laboratory, Senior Lecturer, Business Faculty, RMIT
1992-4 Director of the Sunrise @ RMIT Professional Development Programme
1994 also Full-time Master of Education student at RMIT
1995 - Director Sunrise Research Laboratory, Senior Lecturer, Academic Services, RMIT
1996- Director, OZeKIDS Project
Books
Author
Nevile, L. & Dowling, C., 1986. Let's Talk Turtle.
Nevile, L. & Dowling, C., 1986. Let's Talk Turtle (Parents and Teachers Edition)
(These books were first published by Prentice-Hall in Australia, then by Reston Press in the US
and Cambridge Press in the UK. All the "Turtle" books are available in several computer-specific versions.)
Nevile, L. & Dowling, C., 1988. How Turtles Talk. Cambridge Unive -sity Press, Cambridge. Nevile, L. & Dowling, C., 1988. How Turtles Talk (Parents and Teachers Edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Nevile, L. (Ed.), 1987. Evaluation of uses of computers in education. Report of a UNESCO Regional Seminar, 24-29 May 1987. Hawthorn: ACER.
Nevile, L. (Ed.) 1990. LME5, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Logo and Mathematics Education. Hawthorn: ACER.
Nevile, L. 1994. Sunrise Retreats: Reflecting on Reflections on Moments of Teaching to Improve the Potential of Teaching Moments. Working Paper Number 1. Melbourne: Sunrise at RMIT.
Book Chapters
Author
1985 "Logo/84" in (ed.) Oakley, J, Computers in Education, pps 227 - 239. Sydney: Mitchell College Printery.
1993 with Mason, J, "Diagrams as Functions In Geometry" (for a book being produced by Centre for Mathematics and Technology Research, QUT)
1994 "From Local and Institutional to Global and Personal Computing" in Beatty, K., et al (eds.) Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Change in Teaching and Learning. Elsevier Science, North Holland.
1995 "Looking at, looking through and looking back at: useful ways of viewing mathematical software" in Jaworski, B and Burton, L, (eds.), Technology in mathematics teaching - a bridge between teaching and learning. Birmingham: Chartwell-Bratt.
1995 "Do users inhabit or build their Boxer environment?" in diSessa, A., Hoyles, C. and Noss, R. (eds), Computers and Exploratory Learning,. NATO Advanced Scientific Investigations Series. New York: Springer.
Journal Articles
1987. "A summary and discussion of 'Computers children and classrooms'." COM3, Journal of the Computer Education Group of Victoria, 13(3), 23-28. Melbourne: CEGV.
1987. "Education on a platter - the ultimate in shop-front CAI." COM3, Journal of the Computer Education Group of Victoria, 13(2), 3 - 6. Melbourne: CEGV.
1988. "The Sunrise School - a school of the future project." Victorian Bulletin of the Australian Computer Society, pp. 5-9. Melbourne: ACS.
1988. "LEGO/Logo - a wonderful theory but how does it work in practice?" COM3, Journal of the Computer Education Group of Victoria, 14(1), 16-18. Melbourne: CEGV.
1989. "Art and mathematical understanding: learning to see both the wood and the trees." In B. McMillan & K. Lai (Eds.) Computers in New Zealand Schools, 1(1), 14 - 16. Dunedin: Otago University.
1990. "The Sunrise experience: theory and practice in an Australian educational community." In R.N. Cassel (Ed.) Education, 110(4), 440 - 445. Wisconsin: Petersen Press.
1992. "A Sunrise Microworld" (full text) in Australian Journal of Educational Computing. Brisbane: QSITE.
1995. "Sense making and Sensitivities: New Pedagogies? New Practices? New Acceptance of Old Ways of Learning?" in Australian Journal of Educational Computing.
1996 - "Internet and Electronic Learning" in Access, librarians journal?
Published, Refereed Conference Presentations
1987 "Logo is a language: so what?" In J. Hancock (Ed.) Tomorrow's Technology Today, Proceedings of the CEGSA Annual Conference, (pp. 187-190). Keynote address at the Computers in Education Group of South Australia's conference. Adelaide: CEGSA.
1987. "Recursion - should it be avoided or does it liberate?" In W. Caughy (Ed.) From Now to the Future, proceedings of the Mathematics Association of Victoria Annual Conference, (pp. 237 -240). Melbourne: MAV.
1987. with Jones, A., "Learning environments: can they be items in a mathematics curriculum?" In W. Caughy (Ed.) From Now to the Future, proceedings of the Mathematics Association of Victoria Annual Conference, (pp. 147 - 150). Melbourne: MAV.
1987. with Jones, A., "Problem solving for teachers." In J. Hillel (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third international Conference for Logo and Mathematics Education (pp. 173 - 178). Montreal: Concordia University.
1987. with Tatnall, A., "Artificial Intelligence and education: a new direction or more of the same tired old thing?" In The Australian Computer Conference Proceedings (pp. 830 - 840). Melbourne: ACS.
1987. "Introduction to Boxer." In Proceedings of the Australian Computers in Education Conference, ACCE. Canberra: CEGACT.
1988 with Vogler, L., "Light houses and other sources of information." In P.Alp (Ed.), Golden Opportunities, Proceedings of the Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference, ACCE, (pp. 235 - 252). Perth: CEGWA.
1988. with Fallshaw, M., "What's in a possum?" In P.Alp (Ed.), Golden Opportunities, proceedings of the Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference, ACCE, (pp. 231 - 235). Perth: CEGWA.
1989 "Redefining mathematics education in a Sunrise classroom." In U. Leron & N. Krumholtz (Eds.), Proceedings of the fourth international Conference for Logo and Mathematics Education (pp. 201 - 208). Haifa: Israeli Logo Centre.
1990 "The computer as an intellectual equal." In A. McDougall (Ed.), Back to the Future, proceedings of the annual CEGV conference. Melbourne: CEGV.
1991 "Can Epistemological Pluralism make mathematics education more inclusive?" In Proceedings of the Psychology and Mathematics Education Conference. Assisi, Italy: Universita di Genova.
1991. with Loader, D., "Educational Computing: Resourcing the Future." An IARTV Occasional Paper, No. 22, Sept 1991.
1991. "What would Piaget say?" In Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Computers in Education, Bond University. Gold Coast, Queensland: CEGQ.
1992. "A Sunrise Microworld" in Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Computers in Education, Melbourne. CEGV.
1992. "Teaching Recursion as Shifts of Attention" in Proceedings of the Psychology and Mathematics Education Conference. XVI, Durham. New Hampshire: PME
1992. "The Kids Are Constructing So The Teachers Are ..T' in Proceedings of the Mathematics Association of Victoria Annual Conference, Melbourne;
1992. "An Educational technology: can it include discipline and maintain diversity?" in proceedings of the Australian Association for Educational Research Annual Conference, Deakin University.
1992. "Sunrise - A Bright Light On Experience", presented at Queensland Society for Information Technology Annual Conference but not published (in error).
1993 with Mason, J, "Diagrams as Functions In Geometry" at International Geometry Conference held at QUT
1993. with Mason, J, "Diagrams as Function Collages" in Proceedings of the Mathematics Association of Victoria Annual Conference, Melbourne;
1993. with Mason, J, "Looking at, looking through and looking back at mathematical software" in Proceedings of the Technology in Mathematics Teaching International Conference. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham.
1993. "Ubiquitous laptops - just what differences can we discern in their presence?" in Proceedings of the Technology in Mathematics Teaching International Conference. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham.
1993. "Sunrise and the lure of experience" in Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Computers in Education. Sydney: University of Western Sydney.
1993. "Ubiquitous personal computing - can we 'see' how it's different?" in Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Computers in Education. Sydney: University of Western Sydney.
1993. "Given that every student has a portable personal computer ..." In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Technology in Education, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.. MIT Press.
1994. "Sunrise: From local and institutional to global and personal computing" for International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 3.2 Computers at University Level's International Working Conference, Melbourne, July 6 - 8. (published on compact disc)
1994. "Going 'Notebook': What are the Implications for Students now and in the Future?" in Proceedings of CAUSE '94 in Australasia. Melbourne: CAUSE 94.
1994. with Williams, D., "Boxer Boxes: Collaborators and Mediators of Student Expression" in Ryan, M. (ed.), APITITE 94, Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Information Technology in Training and Education Conference. Milton, Qld: APITITE 94 Council.
1994. with Mathews, P, "Educational Technology - the Problem of What's Where That is Worth Reading" in Ryan, M. (ed.), APITITE 94, Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Information Technology in Training and Education Conference. Milton, Qld: AP1111E 94 Council.
1994. "Advanced Computational Environments for Education" in Steele, J. and Hedberg, J., (eds.), Learning Environment Technology, Selected Papers from LETA 94. Adelaide: AJET Publications Limited.
1994. Keynote address at Northern Territory University Open Learning Conference, Darwin.
1995 "Does the World Wide Web make it Worse for Naive Users" in Debreceny, R & Ellis, A (eds), Ausweb95: Innovation and Diversity, Proceedings of the First Australian World Wide Web Conference. Ballina, NSW: Southern Cross University.
1995. with W Cartwright and S Ashdowne, "Designing a Virtual Atlas on the World Wide Web" in Debreceny, R & Ellis, A (eds), Ausweb95: Innovation and Diversity, Proceedings of the First Australian World Wide Web Conference. Ballina, NSW: Southern Cross University.
1995. "Sense-Making and Sensitivities: New Pedagogies? New Practices? New acceptance of old ways of learning?" for Australian Journal of Educational Computing (forthcoming).
1996 Constructive multimedia? more satisfying than interactive multimedia or hypermedia? A CD with a hole? with programming tools for users? for ACEC
Conference Presentations (Microfiche Publications)
1988 with Jones, A., "Sprinkle, immerse, drown: the role of computers in pre-service teacher education maths courses." Australian Association for Research in Education, Armidale, N.S.W.
1988. "The Sunrise School - challenging the nature of information." Invited lecture at International Federation of Library Associations Annual Conference in Sydney.
Conference Presentations (not published) and Panels
1987 A teacher's view of computers, potential and learning. Keynote address to the New Zealand Computer Education Conference, Christchurch.
1987with Tony Jones, A. "Poster session on problem solving for teachers." Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME-XI, Montreal.
1988 "A Sunrise mathematics course." Presented at Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Victoria at Deakin University.
1989 "Sunrise Enterprise". Invited speaker at Senior Education Executives Seminar, Commission for the Future.
1989. Presentation "The Sunrise School - Challenging the Nature of Information"at Victorian Institute for Educational Research seminar
1989. Invited speaker on Elementary Panel, World Conference on Computers in Education, Sydney, July.
1989. Invited speaker on LEGO/Logo Panel, World Conference on Computers in Education, Sydney, July.
1989. Invited Presentation at Creative and Critical Thinking Conference, University of Melbourne, September.
1989. Cognitive theory and computing panel, Australian Psychology Society Silver Jubilee Conference, Melbourne, September.
1991. Invited speaker on "Resourcing the Curriculum: Views of the Future for computer Technology in Schools" at IARTV Seminar.
1991. Australian Representative at the Third East-West Invitational Seminar in Prague, Czechslovakia 1993 "Technology as a lens through which to view education" Opening address at Australian Photography Educators Annual Conference '93, Melbourne.
1991. "Is Instructing to constructing as informing is to conforming? presented at Australian College of Education Annual Conference, Melbourne.
1991. "Do users inhabit or build their Boxer environment?" at NATO Advanced Workshop on Computational Environments for Exploratory Learning, Asilimar, Calif.
1994 Invited speaker at ASET (NSW) Annual Conferencd, Sydney, November
1994 Carey Grammar School Professional Development Conference, Carey, Kew, January 28.
1994 Manufacturing Engineering Department's Annual Retreat, Marysville, February 10.
1994 Engineering Students Orientation Camp, Somers, February 21.
1994 Graduate students seminar on Notebook Computing at Melbourne University, March 15. 1995 Keynote speaker at School Librarians' Association of Victoria Annual Conference in
1994 Morwell, May, "The Information network: Integrating Electronic Information into the Curriculum".
1994 Invited Speaker at JCSAV Seminar on Internet, Melbourne, June
1994 Independent Association of Registered Teachers of Victoria's Seminar on Internet, Melbourne, June
1994 St Michael's Grammar School Seminar on Internet, Melbourne, August
1994 the International Learning Opportunities Through the Use of MultiMedia Conference, MLC, September
1994 the Computer Education Group of Victoria's Annual Conference, September
Seminars and Workshops
1986 Many workshops in educational computing practices in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and North Korea.
1987 UNESCO Regional Workshop on Evaluations of the Uses of Computers in Education, University of Melbourne,. (Committee member and workshop presenter.)
1987 UNESCO Regional Workshop on Mathematics and Science, RMIT. (Committee member and workshop presenter).
1987 VCAB/ State Board of Education/ ACER full-day seminar on the implications of computing for education with Professor Hal Abelson, November.
1991 Invited Workshop at the Catholic Education Office of Victoria's Curriculum Co-ordinators' Conference, University of Melbourne, November.
1991 Invited seminar at Educational Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts. 1992 Invited seminar at Learning and Epistemology Group, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1993 Winter Weekend of Mathematics, Open University, UK;
1993 Consultant with David Loader and Prof. John Mason to New South Wales Department of Education for Schooling Beyond 2000 Program.
1993 Awakening Awarenesses Workshop for Swedish Mathematics Teachers in Lapland, Sweden.
1993 speaker at Bolt Berenck and Newman, Boston, US, to design team for US Schools of the Future Programme.
1993 NATO Advanced Workshop on Imagery, Nottingham, UK, April.
1993 NATO Advanced Workshop on Computational Environments, Asilimar, USA, November.
1993 `Noticing' Workshop for Faculty of Business, Edith Cowan University, Perth, November.
1993 Queensland University, Faculty of Education, on Interactive Video as a Research /Teaching Medium, September 7-9
1994 Workshop on Programming for Northern Territory Mathematics Teachers Association's Annual Conference in Alice Springs, April.
1994 Invited exhibitor in educational innovation section at EduTech '94, World Congress Centre Melbourne, June.
1994 "Distance Education - Modes of Delivery and Interaction for the Next Decade" for UNESCO Regional Seminar for Educational Administrators in Melbourne, September.
1994 Invited Participant in National Scholarly Communications Forum's Round Table on Public Access to Communications Networks, Canberra
1994 Keynote address at Northern Territory University Open Learning Conference, Darwin.
1995 Three workshops on the use of Internet, and development of the virtual conference site, for the International Congress on Mathematics Instruction's Regional Conference on Collaboration in Mathematics Education, at Monash, in April.
1995 3 - day Workshop on Interactive MultiMedia and Internet for Northern Territory University and the Department of Education, February in Darwin.
1995. Invited Participant in National Scholarly Communications Forum's Round Table on Intellectual Property Issues in Scholarly Communications, Sydney. June.
1995. Two Workshops on the Effective Use of Technology in Primary Mathematics, Hamilton, Victoria, June for the Mathematics Association of Victoria.
1995. Three Workshops on Internet in Darwin for Northern Territory University and Department of Education, July.
Conferences and Seminars Convened
1987 - 90 Annual conferences of the Computers in Education Group of Victoria. (Conference Committee member.)
1988 Educational Computing; Ritual or Revelation? Melbourne.
1989 Information Technology and Education, annual conference of the Computers in Education Group of Victoria, at Latrobe University.
1990 Telecom Sunrise National Videoconference with Professor Andrea diSessa, University of California at Berkeley, March.
1990 Telecom Sunrise National Videoconference with Professor Harold Abelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November.
1991 Telecom Sunrise National Videoconference with Dr Richard Noss, University of London, April.
1991 International mathematics education conference, LME5, Cairns, April. (Co-chairperson.)
1991 Telecom Sunrise National Videoconference with Professor Robert Glaser, University of Pittsburgh, April .
1992 Telecom Sunrise National Videoconference with Professor John Mason, Open University, UK.
1993 Metaphor and Metonymy, with Professor John Mason, Open University, UK, at RMIT.
1993 First International Boxer Conference, Melbourne, July.
1994-5 Six two-day professional development retreats for RMIT teaching staff (involving 50 staff members and 25 departments across the University.
Audio Visual - Substantial Websites for use by others
1995 Design of virtual conference for International Congress for Mathematics Education's
1995 Regional Collaboration in Mathematics Education Conference held at Monash University in April 1995 Design of electronic networks and implementation activities for Mathematics Association of Victoria
1995 Design and development of DPD website for NPDP Project - Department of Employment, Education and Training initiatives to use Internet to help isolated and disadvantaged teachers in their professional development.
Grants and Government / Industry Support
Telematics Course Development Trust Fund special grants
- 1987 $50,000 for Boxer development
- 1991 $50,000 for Boxer development
- 1993 $20,000 for development of Geometry in Cyberspace Project
Australian Government Department of Employment, Education and Training
- National Priority Development Fund - Strategic Initiative 1993 $75,000 for Sunrise @ RMIT
- National Priority Development Fund - Strategic Initiative 1995 NPDP in Victoria ???
- 1996 $102,000 NPDP in Victoria
- 1996 $5000 NPDP in Northern Territory
Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Technology
- 1996 $10,750 to develop W3C
ANZ Banking Group
- 1989 $20,000 for programmer
Victorian Education Foundation
- 1989 $20,000 for programmer
- 1992 $50,000 for Boxer Project
- 1994 $56,000 for Advanced Computational Environments for Education
Directorate of School Education (Victoria)
- 1995 $20,000 for Internet professional development specialist to design "Classrooms of the Future"
- 1995 $20,000 for Internet professional development specialist
- 1996 $14,000 for workshops in January for "Classrooms of the Future"
Joint Council of Subject Associations of Victoria & Mathematics Association of Victoria
- 1995 $15,000 and MAV, $5000 for Internet professional development specialist
Telecom Australia
- 1988 $100,000 for six visiting Sunrise Fellows & National Video Conferences
RMIT Strategic Initiatives Fund
- 1992 $100,000 for Sunrise @ RMIT
- 1993 $150,000 for Sunrise @ RMIT
- 1994 $75,000 for Sunrise @ RMIT
- 1996 $125,000 for working with EPI
Apple Computer, Toshiba Computer Australia, Microsoft, and other commercial computer sponsors
small grants of money and substantial hardware/ software support
Richard Pratt Foundation
- 1991 $500 grant
Methodist Ladies College consultancy
- 1988-92 $10,000 pa
Queensland Department of Education consultancy 1987 - 90 $10,000 pa
- 1988, 1989 $65,000 pa for evaluation of Sunrise Project at Coombabah State Primary School
Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria
- 1996 $25,000 to develop Asia-Pacific research office for W3C
Joint Council of Subject Associations of Victoria and Mathematics Association of Victoria
- 1995 $15,000 and MAV, $5000 for Internet professional development specialist to develop mathematics education opportunities on Internet
Current Research Students
1 information management doctoral student - studying how people attempt to use information for managerial purposes
1 land information masters student - designing and building a virtual atlas on Internet
I masters of education student - a National Library of Australia employee making an educators' page on the www for the Library
4 Computer science projects
- masters students building a digitial library based on PICS
- 3 months I computer science masters student
- 1 year of developing the web for education
- topic not yet decided
1 education masters student making an educational game and studying user engagement and humour
also proposed in 1997 - I masters student building a website/CD on drug abuse.