George Hatsidimitris - Educational Multimedia Developer Qualifications BSc UNSW (Psych.) M.Ed UNSW (currently undertaking) Advanced Certificate in Computer Service Technology Certificate IV Web Site Production Fellowships U21 Travelling Fellowship 2001 (Freiburg) ITET(Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology) Fellow 2001 Awards Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation 2006 for displaying leadership in the development of exciting and engaging learning and teaching spaces and online multimedia resources in physics.

Publications

• Hatsidimitris, G. & Kalyuga, S. (2011) A Cognitive-Based Model for the Design of Educational Animations. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (pp. to be advised). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Hatsidimitris, G. & Wolfe, J. (2011). Building an on-line learning resource, from inception to dissemination. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (pp. to be advised). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Hatsidimitris, G. (2010). The Scrollbar and Learner-control of Instructional Animations: Some Exploratory Studies. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (pp. 1744-1749). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Hatsidimitris, G. & Allen, B. (2010). An Online Resource for the Design of Instructional Videos and Animations. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (pp. 1024-1028). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Hatsidimitris, G., Connor, R., Ginges., J and Wolfe, J. (2010) Glimpses of Science: Multimedia-enhanced hands-on activities for primary school students, Teaching Science, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p39.
• Hatsidimitris, G. & Wolfe, J. (2010). Stills, Animations and the Scrollbar as Complementary Multimedia Design Tools. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2010 (pp. 651-657). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• Hatsidimitris, G., Smith, J. & Wolfe, J. (2010). Science animations and video clips as teaching elements and in multimedia context: the Physclips example. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (pp. 3574-3578).
• Hatsidimitris, G. and Wolfe, J. (2009) "Intuition, evidence-based guidelines and user feedback in multimedia teaching: The Physclips project" In Same places, different spaces. Proceedings ascilite Auckland 2009.
• Wolfe, J. and Hatsidimitris, G. (2006) "Introduction to relativity: a multi-level, multi-media resource", Teaching Science, 52, 28-31.
• McAlpine, I., Cunningham, M., Newbury, R. & Hatsidimitris, G. (2005). Multimedia Enhanced Active Learning Studio: a development in physics teaching. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 1900-1907). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Multimedia Projects

• Einstein Light - a collaborative project aimed at making the Theory of Special Relativity accessible to the general public.
• Physclips - An ALTC funded project in collaboration with Joe Wolfe and John Smith for teaching first Year university physics.
• Educational Resources
  • Exploratorials Presentation - A group project aimed at integrating Lectures, Labs and Tutorials.Also see the Exploratorials website, a multimedia enhanced approach to hands-on acitivities.
  • Trip to USA to look at Teaching Spaces
  • Biosnippets A multimedia resource on homeostasis (work in progress)
• Annual Report Articles
  • Planned flexible teaching and learning spaces
  • Web Tools for Teaching Physics
  • Distance Education

Contact Details

Mail Address

School Of Physics
University of New South Wales
NSW 2052

Email Address

georgeh@unsw.edu.au

Phone Number

61 2 93854546

Facsimile Number

61 2 93856060