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February 2007 - Posts

Weighing the Pros and Cons

Elizabeth Lawley, Director, Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology (New York), blogs about a conversation she had with a few colleagues, one of whom offered two reasons not to blog: A sense of obligation to keep on blogging once Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:31 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

My EdTech Reads

I keep up with developments in educational technology out of interest, as well as to maintain this blog and to be in the know. Here are a few of the blogs and news sites I read. Christopher Sessums' Thoughts on learning, teaching and computing Chris is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:14 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 3 Comments
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Conversational Blogging

Blogs are about conversations. While most people conceive blogging as writing your own blog, it's very much about reading others' blogs and responding. Google the area of your interest; you'll probably find blogs about it. Then follow Darren Rowse's tips Read More...
Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 10:23 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

RSI podcast on NUS Centre for Life Sciences

Listen to a 5-minute podcast on the new Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS) - download the mp3 (via RSI). On a related note, besides educational use, there is plenty of scope for new media tools to be used in corporate and public communication. The School Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:30 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Blogs in the YouNiversity

Henry Jenkins , Director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program puts forward the concept of the YouNiversity, suggesting that blogs will play a central role : Blogs represent a powerful tool for engaging in these larger public conversations. At my Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 11:10 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Adding photos and videos

This post explains how you can add photos and videos to your blog post. First, an explanation is in order: You might have noticed there is a photo gallery function in Community Server. However, due to the way we have deployed Module Blogs, the photo gallery Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:17 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

Your daily dose of thought-provoking missives

Semester is back on track after the Chinese New Year break. I hope it was a good one for all of you. Instead of pointing out something blogging/web 2.0-related today, I will introduce a website called Arts & Letters Daily . As the title implies, AL Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:16 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Wishing students and staff from NUS and very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! Stay safe and enjoy the super-long weekend. =) Read More...
Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 10:55 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Chris Anderson on FORA.tv

Heard of The Long Tail ? Chris Anderson's Wired article , now a expanded into a book, explores: The theory... that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:01 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Annotation

Fleck and Mojiti are two online annotation tools that I've been exploring. They help web surfers to refer others to precise points in a web page or video respectively, as well as to add descriptive notes. Fleck can be deployed in several ways. You can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:06 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 5 Comments

January Statistics

Here are some NUS Module Blogs statistics for the month of January. Besides this blog and PH2205 Disputing the Dao , the top 5 blogs in terms of views are module blogs from the previous semester. The most active module blogs are Disputing the Dao (25 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:49 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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The Digital Native and Learning with Tech

The Biomedical Multimedia Unit at the University of Melbourne has come up with a preliminary report which details first-year students' use of and engagement with technology (kudos to collegewebeditor once again). The report has this to say about blogs: Read More...
Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 12:30 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Warwick YouTubes its research

The University of Warwick , one of the most innovative universities in terms of social software usage and social networking prowess, has been producing short video news items and putting them on YouTube . The video above, discussing the phenomenon of Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 2:47 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Web 2.0, Biodiversity and Viral Videos

The video about Web 2.0 I posted a couple of days ago keeps on popping up on the blogs that I read. NUS student, November Tan, highlighted it too, reflecting on how she uses the read/write web to help build environmental awareness and interest in Singapore's Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:27 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Blogs as a student reporting tool

Like Instructor Alex Mitchell over at the Communications and New Media Programme, Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed Reality Lab , gets his students to blog. The MXR Blog is a group blog running on Mambo , where team members Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:08 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes

Numerous educational technologists and social media advocates have linked to this short video titled The Machine is Us/ing Us . It is the work of Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Michael Wesch , from Kansas State University. The video summarises Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:33 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments