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Sally Loan

Welcome to about.me (about dot me) - 3 views

about.me

cel marketing about profile

shared by Sally Loan on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Sally Loan on 29 Sep 11
     
    What about for using this for CeL marketing?
  • bernard tan on 03 Oct 11
     
    nice idea. Especially we have so many website and portal everywhere ..now all in one page but there something I question myself... Would it be another portal to market to the people here before they actually get used to it..hmm
  • Sally Loan on 03 Oct 11
     
    That is true. Official site only includes FB, twitter.. what about CeL memolane, CeL slideshare, CeL picasa.. i am not sure, everything about CeL.
yeuann

Don Norman's jnd.org / Designing the Infrastructure - 1 views

www.jnd.org/...igning_the_infrastructure.html

shared by yeuann on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The infrastructure of our computer technology can be overwhelming. My computer's infrastructure gets more complex each year, and all this complexity requires attention. Upgrades and security modifications. The need to change passwords for many accounts, and the need to keep my list of passwords up to date, synchronized across all my computers. The need to reboot, defragment, do continual scans for viruses and malcontent software, the need to renew batteries and accounts. Backup files. It seems that every day I spend considerable time on the infrastructure. Because the ability to maintain infrastructure is seldom designed with care, each simple activity can become daunting. Each new device purchased requires installation, complete with registration, agreeing to unread but undoubtedly onerous legal conditions, and finding space and sockets for all the communication and power cable. Did I mention that these invariably require stopping all work, saving everything, and rebooting, after typing in a long, complex registration number? I should have.
  • Infrastructure is taken for granted. It is time it is given as much attention as the primary applications, else maintaining the infrastructure will itself become our primary activity.
  • It is time to work on infrastructure. It threatens to dominate our lives with ugliness, frustration, and work. We need to spend more time on the designs for infrastructure. We need to make it more attractive, more accessible, and easier to maintain. Infrastructure is intended to be hidden, to provide the foundation for everyday life. If we do not respond, it will dominate our lives, preventing us attending to our priory concerns and interests and instead, just keeping ahead of the maintenance demands.
  • yeuann on 07 Jul 11
     
    When I think about "infrastructure", I normally think about roads, wires, sewerage and so on. But how about educational technology and instructional design? From reading Don Norman's musings about infrastructure, I realized that if we want our technological implementations to be successfully adopted, very often it's essential to also consider the infrastructure needed to support our tech designs and implementations. Personally, I think infrastructure for education and instructional design need not always be physical things. They could be intangibles such as having to update a database, notify the relevant people in charge, call this person or that to come unlock the computer lab, etc. My mum's been a teacher for 40+ years. She's great. But she really hates the computer. Not because of the learning needed to use Microsoft Word. She's quite fine with it. But it's all the non-Microsoft Word things that she has to do - reboot, turn the computer on, manage the files, etc... - that makes her scream.  "It is time to work on infrastructure. It threatens to dominate our lives with ugliness, frustration, and work. We need to spend more time on the designs for infrastructure. We need to make it more attractive, more accessible, and easier to maintain. Infrastructure is intended to be hidden, to provide the foundation for everyday life. If we do not respond, it will dominate our lives, preventing us attending to our priory concerns and interests and instead, just keeping ahead of the maintenance demands." - Don Norman Food for thought: What are some underlying "infrastructure" (tangible and intangible) that I may encounter in an educational technology project? Are there existing infrastructure that I can take advantage of to minimize time and $? How can we minimize the amount of infrastructure maintenance needed?
Rachel Tan

Interview with Dr Ashley on Web 2.0 technology and its relevance to teaching - 0 views

sites.psu.edu/...-Interview-Dr-Ashley-Final.mp3

Web 2.0 Technologies

shared by Rachel Tan on 12 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Rachel Tan on 12 Jun 13
     
    My instructor from Penn State U shared his thought on the podcast. "I was very intrigued by his reference to Alan Kay when he talked about how the tools shape us via our interactions with them. Kay was (and is) most definitely one of the most visionary and original thinkers when it comes to technology and its applications. To be sure, this point about how the tools shape us is a very good one to emphasize. Tools are not innocuous things and metacognitive awareness can help both teachers and learners think about how their perceptions of ideas, concepts, etc are influenced by the tools they use to express their understandings of these things that they encounter." P/S Apologies for the poor editing by Rachel (first time using Audacity)
Kartini Ishak

Student Ryan Kessler Transformed His Workflow, Raised His GPA and Left His Te... - 1 views

blog.evernote.com/...-at-home-back-to-school-series

evernote productivity learning

shared by Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • I use Evernote, Everywhere: Android (phone and Tablet) Windows Web Clipper (Chrome)
  • 1. Evernote for staying focused
  • 2. Evernote for getting organized
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  • 3. Evernote for lightening my load and connecting all of my devices
  • scan paper documents using Droidscan
  • 4. Evernote for group projects and class discussions
  • 5. Evernote for crunch time
  • 6. Evernote for learning a foreign language
  • 7. Evernote for building my future
  • Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11
     
    A story on how a college student used Evernote which helped his workflow of how he studied and tips on how using Evernote helped him get organized and focused on tasks. 
  • Shamini Thilarajah on 22 Sep 11
     
    Thanks for making my life easy! ;)
Pratima Majal

About - App Inventor for Android - 1 views

www.appinventorbeta.com/...index.html

app android

shared by Pratima Majal on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • App Inventor for Android Create apps for your phone! Creating an App Inventor app begins in your browser, where you design how the app will look. Then, like fitting together puzzle pieces, you set your app's behavior. All the while, through a live connection between your computer and your phone, your app appears on your phone. Read more... App Inventor is a part of G
  • App Inventor is a part of Google Labs
yeuann

Startups are about to blow up the textbook - Fortune Tech - 0 views

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open-source E-Learning learning education

shared by yeuann on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • "CK-12 basically looked at STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] and broke it down into the 5,000 fundamental concepts, and they mapped them all together," Chakrapani says. "It's not about creating a textbook and every three years putting out a new edition so you can capture more revenue. It's about thinking how a student learns."
  • "And then you go back at the end of year with teachers, see what students struggle on, and revise and improve the book. Each year, the text gets better."
  • Free educational resources -- like a university course on Coursera, for example -- may be available for students to use at no cost, but students cannot reuse, remix, or repurpose that course content however they'd like. By contrast open-source materials like CK-12's materials are not only free, but can also be freely repurposed in any way a student or teacher sees fit.
Ashley Tan

Seth's Blog: The brand is a story. But it's a story about you, not about the brand. - 2 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...t-you-not-about-the-brand.html

social media

shared by Ashley Tan on 14 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Ashley Tan on 14 Apr 13
     
    For all of us that are pushing our social media efforts. Here is a lesson nugget from Seth Godin. "Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning."
Ashley Tan

Book Review: Design for How People Learn, by Julie Dirksen by Clark N. Quinn : Learning... - 0 views

www.learningsolutionsmag.com/...-people-learn-by-julie-dirksen

cel design learning

shared by Ashley Tan on 25 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Ashley Tan on 25 Jan 12
     
    For IDs. The book focuses on a very practical approach to designing learning, drawing upon what we know about how our brain works, and then applying it. And, most importantly, the book goes beyond the traditional ID paradigm about intro, concept, example, etc., and includes the emotional (motivational) side of the equation. Dirksen also (thankfully) points out the role of performance support, helping designers recognize that not every solution is a course.
bernard tan

Singapore Education Minister joins the blogosphere - 0 views

www.todayonline.com/...Minister-joins-the-blogosphere

tech mobile todayonline education blog nie

shared by bernard tan on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Education Minister Ng Eng Hen officially entered the blogosphere on Oct 1, joining the likes of Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan and Foreign Minister George Yeo.
  • Dr Ng told MediaCorp via email that penning his thoughts in cyberspace is an avenue for him to engage the public in a more personal way. His foray online "is an additional platform for me to communicate with parents and the public",
  • Apart from blogging about events or trips he had attended, Dr Ng also shares pictures taken during his official functions and visits. Dr Ng has also written on issues facing the education system.
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  • Dr Ng added that the blog is "where I share my thoughts and observations about education matters or related topics of the day. "I find it a useful way to capture reflections that arise from events that I attend or current initiatives that we are working on in education".
  • bernard tan on 21 Oct 10
     
    Our education minister Dr Eng Hen uses pens his thoughts in BLOGS to engage the public in a more personal way, sharing his thoughts and oberservations about educations matters. or related topics of the day.
Mazlan Hasan

Five questions with: Jeff Swain, ETS innovation consultant, on the iPad and education -... - 0 views

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ipad mobile education

shared by Mazlan Hasan on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Two things really struck me about the iPad during my time with it. The first was how it extended my activity in reality. The touch screen feels like an natural extension of myself.
  • This is a huge paradigm shift
  • the device changed my perception of connecting
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  • I found myself thinking less about Web pages and urls and more about specific places to go, places within places.
  • It's not that the iPad does everything well but it does do everything I need it to do well enough
  • Instead of comparing it to a cellphone or a laptop we should be exploring its potential for new ways of meaning-making.
  • test out the educational value
  • iPad is a Kindle killer in the e-book category because it creates a more intimate reading experience.
  • Because it can do the things I need to do when I'm on the go, the iPad has turned my laptop into my new desktop.
  • Make it a content creation device as well.
  • it's come in quite handy with my dissertation work. Using an application called Papers which I have on both my laptop and the iPad, I am able to access various education and research databases, download articles, and mark them up
Kartini Ishak

10 Things CMOs Need To Know About Google+ - On Marketing - Views On The Business Of Bra... - 0 views

blogs.forbes.com/...cmos-need-to-know-about-google

social media google+

shared by Kartini Ishak on 20 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Google+ is already indexed and searched by Google, making marketing searches much easier than other platforms. Just drop “site:plus.google.com” before any search in Google, and you’ll see what people are saying about you inside the platform.
  • Don’t think “social network.” Think “communications backbone.” This tool allows for private collaboration (privacy is much easier to understand here, but it does require some learning), and permits a “one stop” kind of area for talking internally and externally without causing problems. And it works with email, not in lieu of email.
  • Google+ evolves from Gmail. No matter what the kiddies say, email is still the digital communications backbone of the modern world. SMS might feel like second place, but it’s a distant second. Google+ is very tied to Gmail, with hundreds of millions of users. It feels very natural as an extension in a way that Twitter and Facebook do not.
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  • A social network made by Google impacts search. Google isn’t saying it like that, because they wouldn’t want to cause a panicking stampede, but think about this: Google has all the data from Google+. They can’t get any data from Facebook. Google controls search. Where would you cast your vote for search-improvement activities?
  • Kartini Ishak on 20 Jul 11
     
    The "plusses" in Google+
Sally Loan

A Teacher's Guide to Twitter | Once a Teacher…. - 0 views

onceateacher.wordpress.com/...a-teachers-guide-to-twitter

Twitter

shared by Sally Loan on 26 Apr 11 - Cached
  • You’ll hear people talking about the Twitter “stream”.  This is derived from a beautiful metaphor in which the tweets people send out can be considered drops of water in a stream.  You’re standing on the bank, enjoying the stream as it passes, but you can’t worry about enjoyoing every drop of water that’s there. 
  • If you start a tweet with @(username), this will automatically land in that person’s “@replies” folder.  You’ll notice that if you reply to something someone said, your message will automatically start with this “address”. 
  • If you want to share what someone else tweeted, it is only polite to give them credit by including “RT @(username)” somewhere in your message.
bernard tan

What about me by Intel - 1 views

www.intel.com/...what-about-me.html

social_media infographic

shared by bernard tan on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • bernard tan on 20 Mar 13
     
    Creates a Infographic of yours social media usage by using this web application here.
yeuann

Skeuomorphism & Storytelling / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin - 0 views

tobiasahlin.com/...skeumorphism-and-storytelling

design apps iPad iphone

shared by yeuann on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Designers love to hate skeuomorphism. It’s just decoration, they say. It’s completely useless. It will go out of style. Or as Mark Boulton, co-founder of Five Simple Steps, put it on twitter: I really wish everyone would stop making digital things look like real things. A screen is not a drop shadowed, bevelled, wooden plank. Yet Apple and many other software developers continue to use it heavily in some of their apps. Many hate without asking: Why? Why is Apple and so many others continuing down this path? They have all lost their sense of good design, surely. No?
  • Skeuomorphism is about communcating and reinforcing feelings – getting an application to become a memorable experience, not just a tool. It’s about communicating the purpose of a UI, not only the functions it enables.
  • An interface that is not only easy to use, but fun to use, engages the user and creates an experience where obstacles are easier to overcome, and thus an experience where the product is easier and more effortless to use. Done right, skeuomorphism can retain the simplicity and ease of use of an interface while empowering users to act.
  • yeuann on 14 May 12
     
    A very insightful article for our MDs...
Kartini Ishak

Twitter as a Metacognitive Support Device by Alan Reid : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views

www.learningsolutionsmag.com/...a-metacognitive-support-device

twitter metacognition education learning

shared by Kartini Ishak on 24 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • From an instructor’s perspective, Twitter offers the ability to prompt students throughout the learning process by asking them to reflect on learning strategies and time management, which ultimately raises metacognitive awareness.
  • While the use of Twitter only shows a slight increase in grades (about .5 percent), it substantially improves engagement and motivation
  • Twitter enhances the social presence outside of the classroom, which leads to overall course satisfaction.
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  • if student satisfaction, engagement, and metacognitive awareness are all part of your definition of a successful course, then introducing Twitter in your classroom may be an option for you.
  • Twitter is not static. Rather, it is an interactive tool under learner control. Further, Maria Bannert refers to a metacognitive support device that “focuses students’ attention on their own thoughts and on understanding the activities they are engaged in during the course of learning.” When used explicitly as a tool to improve self-regulation through metacognitive support, Twitter becomes very effective.
  • Kartini Ishak on 24 Aug 12
     
    An interesting article on how Twitter can be used as a metacognitive - thinking about your own learning - supportive device. 
Ashley Tan

Open educational practices - 0 views

steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/...pen-educational-practices.html

oer open educational resources practices cel

shared by Ashley Tan on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • I spoke about Open Educational Practices, (including Open Educational Resources and Open Scholarship) a subject which I am learning more about all the time as the movement grows and gains traction. You see, the idea behind open practices is that anyone can gain access for free, at any time and in any place - courses, software, ideas, knowledge, people... OEP requires everything to be open - for access, scrutiny and repurposing. So whether it's licensing agreements such as Copyleft or Creative Commons, or open access journals, or even massively online open courses, the open educational practices are gaining ground and influence in the academic world.
  • It's not going to be easy to change a model where knowledge has become a commodity though. Too many powerful people and organisations stand to lose a lot if everything becomes 'free' and open. But things are changing slowly. The publishing houses who once had a strangle hold on academic journals are beginning to lose their grip. Some are having to change their business models. Google Reader and Google Books for example, are giving us all more than a glimpse of the pages of just about every book that has ever been published. And open access journals are opening up knowledge for all without payment. So when a student comes up against a paywall - what will they do? They will go elsewhere of course - to the free versions that are out there on the web.
casey ng

Every things you want to know about HTML 5 - 0 views

www.w3schools.com/...html5_intro.asp

html5 w3c internet explorer

shared by casey ng on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • casey ng on 19 Nov 10
     
    This is a excellent source to know about HTML 5 which is created by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). The W3C site exlplain new features about HTML5, but bear in mind that HTML5 is still work in progress. The latest versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support some HTML5 features. Internet Explorer 9 will support some HTML5 features.
Kartini Ishak

Twitter Reading List - 0 views

www.c4lpt.co.uk/...twitterrl.html

twitter microblogging reference tools reading education resources

shared by Kartini Ishak on 15 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Twaining in Twitter, Terence Wing, Learning solutions magazine, 3 February 2011
  • Twitter in education, what next? presentation by Dave Hopkins, 11 September 2010
  • A framework for teaching with Twitter, Mark Sample, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 August 2010
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  • 5 Examples of How Schools Are Using Social Media to Enhance Learning buzzmarketing daily, 5 March 2010
  • Social network tweets to classes, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, 5 February 2010
  • In-Class Tweeting in a Large Lecture Class, Tiffany Gallicano, 30 January 2010
    • Kartini Ishak
      Kartini Ishak on 15 Feb 11
       
      Those I've highlighted are the articles which I've read and find useful as resources as to how we could use such social media to engage our audience and interact simultaneously with them and learn at the same time. 
  • gust 2009 Twitter Style Guide, Sherry Main, Social Media Today, 16 August 2009
  • Twitter Scavenger Hunt Helps Students Learn More About Campus,19 Au
  • 25 Twitter projects for the college classroom, OnlineColleges.net, 10 August 2009
  • Twittering in an educational setting, Elizabeth Hannan, Social Media Today, 17 May 2009
  • Twitter as a Learning Tool.  Really. Pat Galagan, ASTD, March 2009
  • Kartini Ishak on 15 Feb 11
     
    'How to use Twitter for Social Learning' is a great site to bookmark and explore. This site contains over 200 + articles and resources about using Twitter for Learning and is a great resource. 
rahim azhar

How Your About Page Can Make or Break Your Blog - 1 views

www.problogger.net/...ge-can-make-or-break-your-blog

shared by rahim azhar on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Here’s how to avoid that—and how to ensure your About page makes your blog, rather than breaks it.
rahim azhar

What Is Ookaboo? | About Ookaboo - 0 views

about.ookaboo.com/...what_is_ookaboo

shared by rahim azhar on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ookaboo is a collection of free pictures, indexed by precise terms from the semantic web. All pictures on Ookaboo are in the public domain or are under Creative Commons -- that means that you can use our pictures for your web site, classwork, or other creative projects!
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