Penny’s Profile
If you wish to contact me, please email me at p.coutas [at] murdoch.edu.au .
Education
Murdoch University, 2007-present.
Currently studying towards a Doctorate of Education
The Australian National University, 2005
Honours in Asian Studies
Awarded the University Medal
Murdoch University, 2004
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) / Bachelor of Asian Studies (Language Specialist, Indonesian)
Awarded the University Medal
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta State University), Indonesia, 2002
Studies in the Faculty of Education
Universitas Gajah Mada, Indonesia, 2001
Studies in the Faculty of Arts
Awards
2007-present: The Australian Postgraduate Award
2007-present: Murdoch Excellence Scholarship
2005: The Australian Federation of University Women ACT Prize
2005: The Australian National University Honours Scholarship
2004: Valedictorian, Murdoch University
2004: WA Secondary School Executives’ Association Prize
2003: Highest Achievement for a Part II History Unit
2000, 2002, 2003, 2004: Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence
Work History
2007-present
School of Education, Murdoch University
Tutor and marker for various undergraduate and postgraduate units within the School of Education
Research Assistant for Dr. Dorit Maor
Research Assistant for Dr. Laura Perry
2007
Melville Senior High School
Teacher of Indonesian
2006
Melville Senior High School
Teacher of Indonesian, Society & Environment, Computing, ESL, and English.
2006
Oxford University Press
Educational resource reviewer.
2005
ACT Department of Education and Training
Relief teacher at a variety of high schools in the ACT.
2005
School of Education, Murdoch University
External tutor.
2004
Melville Senior High School
Teacher of Indonesian and Computing.
2004
Carawatha Primary School (Now Caralee Community School)
Teacher of Indonesian.
Professional Associations
The Westralian Indonesian Language Teachers’ Association (WILTA)
Committee member 2006 - present.
Webmaster and Membership Secretary, 2009.
Newsletter editor for Warta WILTA, 2006 - 2008.
The Asian Studies Association of Australia
Teachers’ Representative for the 2009 Committee
Member of:
The Modern Language Teachers’ Association of WA (MLTAWA)
The Educational Computing Association of WA (ECAWA)
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL)
The Asia Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (APACALL)
Publications
Coutas, P. (2008). Fame, Fortune, Fantasi: Indonesian Idol and the New Celebrity. In Heryanto, A. (Ed.) Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid identities in post-authoritarian politics (pp. 111-129). New York: Routledge.
Coutas, P, & Jones, T. (2008). Information communication technologies as a resource for learning and teaching. In FLOTE - Facilitating The Learning of Languages Other Than English. http://www.flote.edu.au/.
Coutas, P. (2008). More on information communication technologies as a resource for learning and teaching. In FLOTE - Facilitating The Learning of Languages Other Than English. http://www.flote.edu.au/
Coutas, P. (2006). Fame, Fortune, Fantasi: Indonesian Idol and the New Celebrity. Asian Journal of Communication, 16(4), 371-392.
Presentations and Workshops
I regularly facilitate hands-on workshops on the use of ICTs for learning and teaching Languages. Some favourite topics are:
- Blogging
- Mobile Learning
- Languages in SecondLife
- 23 Things for Languages Teachers (9 week programme)
- The Language Teacher’s ICT Toolkit
- Social and Educational Online Networking
Some of my more recent formal presentations include:
Exploring the hype(r) of languages learning and teaching. Paper presentation at the EuroCALL 2009 Conference Gandia, Spain, September 2009.
Hypermedia ethnography (on a shoestring!): A new methodology for qualitative research in language learning and teaching. Poster presentation at the EuroCALL 2009 Conference Gandia, Spain, September 2009.
How tweet IT is: Expanding your professional learning network. Invited presentation at the Modern Foreign Language Teachers’ All Seasons Conference, Adelaide, August 2009.
Exploring the hype(r) of languages learning and teaching. Paper presentation at The Australian Federation of Modern Foreign Language Teachers Association Conference, Sydney, July 2009.
Exploring the hype(r) of languages learning and teaching. Poster presentation at EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference 2009, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, May 2009.
PLE for librarians. Panel symposium at EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference 2009, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, May 2009.
An invite to my BALL: Reflections on blogging for learning, teaching, and researching languages. Paper presented at the Globalization and Localization in CALL (GLoCALL) Conference, Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 2008.
Straight to Facebook: An exploration of online social, educational and academic networks Presentation for Academic Work Matters, Murdoch University, August 2008.
The Indonesian teacher’s toolkit. Invited presentation at the Canberra Indonesian Teachers’ Network Meeting, Canberra, July 2008.
Pusing banget, sih! Poster presentation at the SLanguages Conference in SecondLife, May 2008.
Are you blogging this? Presentation at the Westralian Indonesian Language Teachers’ Association Term 2 Workshops, Leederville, Western Australia, 2008.
mLearning for LOTE learning. Presentation at the Educational Computing Association of WA Annual Conference, Mandurah, 2007.
m-Learning, myLearning, myWay. Paper presented at the Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators Conference 2007, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
