Lisa is a passionate advocate for integrating new technologies across curriculum areas in K-12 and higher education. She has a background in visual arts and has worked in media organisations as well as the education sector. Her current role is in the school of education at Southern Cross University where she lectures in New Media and Emerging Pedagogies for Secondary School as well as Instructional Design for Vocational Education. Her PhD research is investigating teaching and learning in virtual worlds for pre-service teacher education. Lisa hosts the higher degree by research virtual worlds working group on SCU Interaction Island in Second Life.
Journal articles
What about the firewall? Creating virtual worlds in a public primary school using Sim-on-a-Stick (with Kate Booth), Australian Educational Computing (2013)
Virtual worlds are highly immersive, engaging and popular computer mediated environments being explored by children...
Pre-service teachers designing virtual world learning environments (with Kate Booth), International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (2012)
Integrating Information Technology Communications in the classroom has been an important part of pre-service teacher...
Virtual arts: visual arts education in the virtual world of Second Life (with Allan Ellis), Australian Art Education (2010)
Virtual worlds are emerging as the new frontier in the use of ICTs for the...
ICT in the secondary visual arts classroom (with Renata Phelps), Education Technology Solutions (2009)
Conference publications
Sustaining the future through virtual worlds (with Sue Gregory, Frederick Stokes-Thompson, Helen Farley, Sheila Scutter, Penelope Neuendorf, Shane Mathews, Jaime Garcia, Grant Meredith, Scott Grant, Angela Giovanangeli, Andrew Cram, Tracey Muir, Jenny Grenfell, Anthony Williams, Angela McCarthy, Brent Gregory, Stefan Schutt, Denise Wood, Lindy Orwin, Ian Warren, Matt Bower, Des Butler, Jay Jay Jegathesan, Eimear Muir-Cochran, Clare Atkins, Karen Le Rossignol, Dale Linegar, Ben Cleland, Lyn Hay, Simeon Simoff, Mathew Hillier, David Ellis, Yvonne Masters, Ieva Stupans, Caroline Steel, Charlynn Miller, Merle Hearns, Ross Brown, Kim Flintoff, Belma Gaukrodger, Ian Larson, Xiangyu Wang, Edith Paillat, Ning Gu, and Anton Bogdanovych), Future challenges: sustainable futures: Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) (2012)
The architecture of learning spaces: designing in a virtual world for pre-service teacher education (with Allan Ellis), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (2012)
Teachers have always been required to work within the classroom spaces provided to them. The...
What about the firewall? creating virtual worlds in a public primary school using 'Sim-on-a-Stick' (with K Booth), Australian Computers in Education Conference (2012)
Virtual worlds are highly immersive, engaging and popular computer mediated environments being explored by children...
Developing a checklist for evaluating virtual worlds for use in education (with Allan Ellis), Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 (2011)
The popularity of user-generated content in Virtual Worlds provides educators with an extensive range of...
Facilitating creativity in pre-service teacher education courses through their engagement in virtual worlds (with Marianne R. Logan and Allan Ellis), iVERG Conference 2011: Immersive technologies for learning: virtual implementation, real outcomes (2011)
Other eg. reports, unpublished papers, presentations
Changing worlds: Virtual worlds for higher degree research, supervision and networking. (with Sue Gregory, Allan Ellis, Helen Farley, Scott Grant, Frederick Stokes-Thompson, Merle Hearns, and Lindy Orwin) (2011)