Today our Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting met face-to-face by the first time. We met in Bathurst, Albury and online. Over half of our team (16 people) were available for this inspiring day. We spent time working out WHY we are doing our research. We also established a Twitter community.
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Today I attended the School of Education School Board meeting. Here is a sentence from the agenda documents:
We have received an enormous number of requests for ... assessment extensions as well as approved withdrawals this session. In addition to COVID health issues, mental health, financial and personal circumstances have been strong reasons for these student applications.
In Australia, 2022 has been a challenging year, including that we have the highest numbers of COVID cases in the world (since we were in lockdown when other countries experienced this in 2020 and 2021). In previous years when someone had difficulties, others were available to step up and support. This year, many people have things going on, so there are fewer people who can step up to enable life to keep going.
Thank you to the generous Prof Bronwyn Hemsley @BronwynHemsley and Dr Liss Brunner who have shared their slides and resources for me to prepare a talk to the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme about tweeting.
Here is a gem from Liss
Here are some images from my work that I will use
Here are some accounts that I will share in my talk:
Today the leaders of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme met to put into place plans for our ECIR research, research assistant, PhD student, team meeting (27 June 2022), communication strategy, future conference, and potential international research agreement. I really enjoy working with the productive and supportive ECIR leadership team.
VietSpeech has been profiled in the Charles Sturt University Research Bulletin
Faculty of Arts and Education: SOE Media Contributions
VietSpeech Team Recently, the VietSpeech team hosted an online launch of the free bilingual book titled "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ". The 52-page book aims to support Vietnamese-Australian children and families to maintain their home language and enhance speech skills in Vietnamese and English. It contains many strategies to support families’ teaching of Vietnamese every day at home. The free book is available here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/info
This book is the culmination of the VietSpeech research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery ARC Discovery Grant is titled Vietnamese-Australian children's speech and language competence (DP180102848) that began in 20218 and concluded in December 2021.
VietSpeech team members are here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/team
More details https://about.csu.edu.au/community/events/upcoming/online/vietspeech-book-launch
The CSU media release is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/in-brief/research-delivers-free-bilingual-book-vietspeech-to-be-launched-online
