2020/2021 Skills Workshops - Video Links

Dr Chris Roche: Maximise your performance – Exam and Assessment Secrets

Dr Chris Roche (Teaching Fellow and Faculty Head of STEMM) presents a skills workshop to assist students in their  exams and end of year assessment preparation.  

  • Maximising Performance in Exams Part I: Introduction Contents and Intro to ANKI  Watch
  • Maximising Performance in Exams Part II: Exam Secrets Tips and Tricks Watch

Xander Hoskinson: Introduction to Blockchain Technology

Introduction to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies.

Alex Wright and Sapna Kumar: Exam Preparation 

Do you have an online exam coming up? Have you been asked to write an essay in 24 hours?

Get inside the marker’s head in this session with Sapna Kumar (Teaching Fellow and Academic Head of Business) and Alex Wright (teaching Fellow and Academic Head of Arts and Social Sciences). We will be answering your questions, and giving tips and tricks for online assessment. Sapna will also share some meditation techniques that calm the mind to set you up for success. 

Ben Adler and Nicky Gluch: Bulletproof Essay Writing

When you write an essay, do you feel like you’re peering into the void, staring at a blank screen and hoping for the best? Well, it doesn’t have to be that way! If you’ve ever been told that your essays are ‘unclear’ or ‘unstructured’, that you haven’t ‘analysed’ properly, or that you haven’t ‘answered the question’, then this workshop is for you.

Ben Adler (Teaching Fellow and Faculty Head of Musicology) and Nicky Gluch (Senior Academic Tutor) are both published academics who have taught and marked essay writing subjects at the University of Sydney and UNSW. 

Tom Galvin: Excel Workshop – Mouse Evasion

Workshop suitable for any degree to help you work easily and more efficiently with excel. We will focus in this workshop on using the mouse as little as possible, and trying to interact with excel almost exclusively through the keyboard. Explore how relevant and helpful it is to have this skill, regardless of what you are planning on going into. Whether it is any type of business role, academic research, engineering, medicine etc. a good sense of excel is really powerful, and can cut down time on simple tasks. 

Hogan Wang: How to get Published in the Medical Sciences

Ever wanted to be more than just an et al.? Want to learn how to get your name onto papers which first year uni students will find on Google Scholar to pad their reference lists with? If you want the know how on the publication process, this workshop is for you. We’ll go through how to find the right team, generate a manuscript and submit for publication.

Clarissa Luk: Optimising your Time and Effort

This workshop will explore “the science of a perfect day”: ergonomics + productivity science as we as optimisation of schedule. Students may wish to do some pre-reading here: https://blog.doist.com/daily-schedule/. We will cover the often overlooked but critical skills which define your productivity and give you the tools to excel!

Kiran Gupta: How to Write an Opinion Piece

In this workshop Academic Area Tutor Kiran Gupta will teach the nuances of how to write an opinion piece. He will go through a number of the common pitfalls of opinion writers before going into how to construct a nuanced argument. Kiran will also workshop opinion ideas and provide tips on how to get an opinion piece published in the big papers.

Clarissa Luk: MATLAB Basics – Workshop A – MATLAB Introduction to Syntax, structure and functions

Workshop A – MATLAB Introduction to Syntax, structure and functions MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language, which is fundamental to engineering modelling and analysis. This workshop consists of two parts, to give you an introduction (or revision) of the MATLAB basics so you can use it easily, efficiently and effectively.

Clarissa Luk: MATLAB Basics – Workshop B – MATLAB Applications

Workshop B – MATLAB Applications MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages

On-Demand Video Workshops

Semester 2, 2021

MATH1014 – Introduction to Linear Algebra Practice Exam

Academic Tutor – Patrick Mahony

MATH1002 – Linear Algebra Tutorial Links

Academic Tutor – Patrick Mahony

Series 1: EndNote - Dr Chris Roche

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11