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Sally Loan

4 Essential Steps to Teach a New Concept/Technique - 1 views

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    A nice blog entry on steps to teach a new concept/technique. And for those interested in photography, there is some nice tips too.
Kartini Ishak

Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins - Smashing Magazine - 2 views

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    Useful ideas to using innovative techniques to make form-filling less of a hassle. Useful source for future! 
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    Not just the future... the suggest would work now because they are user-friendly and secure! :)
bernard tan

The Pomodoro Technique - 1 views

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    Staying focused on a task is hard can be hard in this digital world with your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and surfing Web, email eating up your time. If you like you can read up on applying Pomodoro technique to get the best out of the situation. Get the free PDF here.:)
Rachel Tan

Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos | Fac... - 2 views

    • Rachel Tan
       
      Dr Ashley, I agree with you and posting a question at the beginning of the video is an excellent strategy. That is how I learn. I need to know the question upfront so that I know what to pay attention to in the video.
  • Embed short graded or self-assessments either in the video itself, or at the end of each video. Including one or two multiple-choice questions or requests to post to a forum—either between scenes (using a post-production editing tool such as Camtasia or Captivate) or after the video—alerts students to the “take homes” they should be getting from the material. It also helps teachers assess, at point of contact, whether students understand the major concepts.
    • Rachel Tan
       
      This (self assessment) is absolutely necessary to give learning a chance to happen, as we develop open learning courses. This applies to Google Sites training resources out there.
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  • Video as a way to strengthen online research skills while driving conceptual understanding.
    • Rachel Tan
       
      Dr Ashley, this is a really good article - timely, very useful. Thanks for sharing!
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    For IDs and VCDs! Quote: "there's a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it" Article goes on to suggest strategies for incorporating videos into lessons. 
Kartini Ishak

Prototyping for the Apple iPhone using Fireworks | Adobe Developer Connection - 0 views

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    Using this technique to build your iPhone prototype in Fireworks gives you a number of advantages that can help you, your stakeholders, and potential users of your app to get the best possible preview of how it's going to work.
bernard tan

5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today | Webdesigner Depot - 1 views

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    nice cross browser css3 technique
bernard tan

Tap-Ahead Design Pattern: Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids - Smashing Magazine - 1 views

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    Eveleen You might want to get the interns to see this. It about searching technique on mobile. Tag Ahead make use of auto search like google to reduce typing on mobile device which is hard for typing and save alot of time and bandwidth on errors searches.
bernard tan

Gamification for LevelUp Photoshop - 1 views

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    woot. interesting adobe adopting the idea of gamification to get people to learn photoshop techniques in their marketing. watch the trailer. Other than marketing idea aside, do try it if you want to win your own personal copies of photoshop latest ver.
Eveleen Er

New technique turns 2D patterns into 3D objects using nothing but light - 1 views

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    Not related to our work but this is very interesting
Ashley Tan

PolivkaVox: Why social networks are powerful for learning. - 2 views

  • Typical instructional design and pedagogy focus on breaking down a subject into component parts, gaining mastery of those parts, whether they are steps in a process or techniques or parts of the anatomy, and then reassembling them in the learner's mind and in practice so that the result is overall mastery of the broader subject. That may be oversimplified, but this basic approach goes back to Aristotle, at least. It's not debated in education, it's assumed that this is the best approach for learning anything, including complex processes or highly nuanced behaviors in shifting contexts.
  • Centola's conclusions. He studied positive changes in people's behaviors regarding health care, changes that resulted directly from placing subjects in carefully designed social networks with the goal of improving their health decisions. What he concluded was that smaller, tighter social groups had more success improving health behaviors than larger, looser social groups (ie, the typical Facebook connections). Maybe you already see what it took me a while to notice. Both of them had success. Social networks designed for a specific purpose can do something pretty amazing: They can change people's behaviors. Any educator or trainer whose goal is actually to impact both thinking and behaviors (to change lives!) rather than just getting people to pass a test or check a box, should be paying close attention. And maybe getting a little excited.Researchers in education have long known the power of social groups to alter behavior. Brown, Collins, and Duguid made this case a while back
  • these three went on to say that highly complex behaviors are picked up, absorbed, through relatively informal social exchange more quickly than they could be if they were "taught" in the usual break-it-down sense. We're talking about complex behaviors. Processes. Highly nuanced interpersonal interactions. Centola's study suggests to me that we now have an online tool, the social network, that is fully capable of carrying the power of culture to shape behaviors and establish norms. And it can be done on purpose.
rahim azhar

Teens Find New Ways To Manage Facebook - 0 views

  • Microsoft Research New England researcher danah boyd (boyd uses an all lowercase name) calls two of the techniques "super-logoff" and "whitewalling".  She outlined what she calls "risk reduction strategies"
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    Teens find ways to privatised their Facebook.
bernard tan

Challenges of Interface Design for Mobile Devices » Yahoo! User Interface Blo... - 1 views

  • designing for a mobile device can lead to a solution that is worlds different than its desktop equivalent.
  • Context of Use
  • Users have a very specific need and desire to accomplish their goal in the easiest and fastest way possible. This fact alone helps explain why mobile interfaces are designed the way they are
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  • Feature sets are optimized to streamline common use cases Use typography to show hierarchy and importance Features are progressively displayed Large buttons are used to make interactions actionable
  • Context of the medium
  • Dealing with phone numbers and other mobile friendly data Displaying information on a smaller screen Not using a cursor Device speed and network latency
  • Designing with awareness to context will yield a more atomic design that instead of introducing users to a proverbial blank canvas, will guide them toward accomplishing important tasks. Having to deal with slow data speeds, high network latency, smaller screens, and an unpredictable mode of use only reinforce the need to isolate an application’s essential features and offer access to them when contextually appropriate. Next time you design an interface for a mobile device, remember to consider context of use and context of the medium as part of your design strategy.
  • To design an experience that can gracefully coexist with others tools, one needs to understand what kind of media can be processed by specific mobile internet browsers, and when onboard applications are launched.
    • bernard tan
       
      need to find out hows web app can interact with other apps... especially how we can integret that into harmonia and dropbox feature...
  • Using traditional web development techniques of creating fluid designs that scale horizontally is the fastest way to deploy a single design to many different mobile devices.
    • bernard tan
       
      for azhar ... on creating a fluid layout for harmonia so that it fit all devices.
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    While reading for ideas on doing mock up mobile interface, i stumbled this. very interesting read on designing for usability for mobile devices and why it is not just a scale down version of your actual desktop website.
bernard tan

Preparing your iPhone App for Higher Resolutions - 0 views

  • The iPad has a bigger screen, and so it has a bigger resolution. With the iPhone 4, however, Apple did something different: they increased the resolution without changing the physical size of the screen. This makes for a higher pixel density, pixels are smaller and more tightly packed. In one square inch of the iPhone 4’s screen there are around 106 thousand pixels (at 326 PPI, or Pixels per Inch), while the older models have only about 26 thousand (at 163 PPI) in an inch – 4 times less! This makes graphics on the screen seem like continuous lines, because your eye can’t see the individual pixels. Apple calls this technology the “Retina Display” because they claim the human eye (the retina) can’t physically see the pixels at this resolution.
  • Using Two Images The official way of adding high-resolution support to your application is by having two versions of each image, one in “regular” resolution and one in double resolution. Whenever your application is viewed on the Retina Display, the larger image will be loaded automatically. This method allows for full and precise control of how your application will look in each case, and is very easy to apply to your existing applications. The full size image file should be named however you want, such as “Button.png”. Use this image name in your code and Interface Builder wherever you want to reference the image. The double-size image should be twice the size of its matching smaller image and named exactly the same with “@2x” appended to the name. In our example, we would name it “Button@2x.png”. Unfortunately, this technique will not work on the iPad; a pixel-doubled application will not load the higher resolution resource. This will probably be addressed in the future iOS 4 update which is scheduled to come to iPad this fall.
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    FYI. In case you are wondering why the term Retina Display on IPhone 4! Preparation of 2 set of images doesnt work here for the different devices?
Ashley Tan

ingentaconnect Video recording lectures: Student and professor perspectives - 6 views

  • This paper investigated the use of special eyeglasses designed with a built-in video camera and microphone for the purpose of recording classroom activities from the point of view of both the professor and the student. The aim is to eliminate the need for dedicated video recording in the classroom. This paper reviewed the various techniques used to record a lecture and highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of each. It also presented 10 activities from the point of view of the student and the professor, which may play a role in improving students' understanding of the lecture. The videos produced by the professor and student cameras were reviewed in terms of their effectiveness and usefulness with regard to the 10 activities. The results were analysed and conclusions were drawn based upon the findings of this study.
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    For the video team to read.
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    Looking at the abstract, it's indeed powerful if this kind of special eyeglasses is available in the mass market. Then again, due to my limited capability, access to the review for this research is not possible, as such, thus wouldn't know the actual effectiveness & usefulness of this study. Hopefully, details of similar studies done elsewhere may be available over internet in future.
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