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March 2007 - Posts

Philosophy, blogs and forums

In her article about using blogs to teach philosophy , Linda E. Patrik touches on the blogs vs forums issue, in the context of learning management systems. (For Blackboard, substitute IVLE.) Her blogging model involves student blogging. This is the approach Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:18 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

A short note on copyright

Thus far, I have not touched on intellectual property issues because I feel that these have been adequately covered in the media and on campus. The university's policies regarding use of IT resources are also quite clear on copyright. Nevertheless, it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:09 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Nexus 2007 Coverage

As it turned out, I was ill over the weekend and couldn't attend Nexus 2007. Nevertheless, I managed to get a glimpse at what was going on at the conference. I liveblogged SMS updates from Siva, who works at the Raffles Museum over at Science. The liveblog Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:27 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 2 Comments
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Four motivations for blogging

Likehack.org highlights Tom Haskins' different motivations for blogging : Distraction blogging Archive blogging Conversation blogging Democratic blogging Distraction blogging falls squarely into the myopic view that the mainstream media loves to propound. Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 4:52 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Creating a static page

In a previous post (see point 4) , I mentioned that it is possible to create static pages in these blogs If you use the module blog as a website, you might have some information which will remain relatively stable over the course of the semester. This Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:54 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 6 Comments

Nexus 2007

Nexus 2007 is a conference about the confluence of the latest in business and technology. It aims to explore pioneering trends in web and mobile technology. While the conference topics won't touch on education per se, I'm sure that what I learn there Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:06 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 2 Comments
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Science on blogs

We don't have many science-related blogs in NUS, which is somewhat surprising considering that science matters, particularly their impact on society, are highly bloggable. There's Habitatnews , a natural history news blog maintained by N. Sivasothi of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:41 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Just keep swimming

Apologies for the lack of a post last Friday. Since February, I've been trying to post once every workday. Some bloggers feel that quality should take precedence over quantity. I agree... to an extent. If you recall the early days of the Internet, when Read More...
Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 1:53 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

Blogging for Education

I've thought long and hard about highlighting this post by a former NUS student. Kian Ann was a Computing student who has now gone full-time into promoting blogs for marketing. He writes about his sociology lecturer: What the lecturer did was he used Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:18 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Reframing the Blogs vs Forums debate

I've been asked many times what's the difference between the two . I suppose it's a consequence of structuring these as module blogs. If we look at blogs through that lens, then yes, blogs are similar to forums in many respects. But I want you to look Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:35 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

What can I now do that I couldn’t do before?

Tribolum wrote that in reference to Microsoft's attempts to wow the public with Vista . The problem? Microsoft's insistence on triumphing features, rather than the possibilities the operating system enables. This is doubly so as " operating systems aren’t Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:35 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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NUS Open House 2007

The NUS Open House was held over the weekend. Many potential students visited, sampling life and learning in NUS. What did they think? There is probably no better way to get unsolicited, raw feedback from this particular segment than blogs. I use Technorati Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 10:48 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Getting started in teaching with technology

A little multimedia goodness for the weekend. Shaping eLearning @ NUS is a nine minute Breeze presentation about the various means you can use to teach with technology. Take in all that the Centre of Instructional Technology has to offer. If that's not Read More...
Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 3:34 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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First Bahasa Melayu post & more about Blogs vs Forums

Most of the NUS Module Blogs are written in English. However, there are a few foreign language blogs such as Basic Translation and Advanced Translation - both Chinese language blogs. A couple of days ago, we had the first module blog post in Bahasa Melayu Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:27 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 1 Comments

What Is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education

Stephen Downes comments on a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC - a UK body promoting the use of ICT in teaching, learning and research) report by Paul Anderson: If you are new to Web 2.0, this is an excellent introduction. The author depicts Web Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:29 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Students blogging to learn

Alex Mitchell, from the Communications and New Media Department, has been getting his students to blog as part of their assignments . Kevin Lim, down the road at SIM, does likewise . A few days ago, I came across a Pei Hwa Secondary School group project Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:13 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 2 Comments

Wikipedia, secondary sources and authority

I'm not sure how prevalent this is here but there is a big debate going on in the United States about using Wikipedia for research . Andy Carvin at learning.now points out that Middlebury College officially disallows citations from Wikipedia . However: Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 10:04 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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February Statistics

Here are the Module Blogs usage figures for February 2007. This month's statistics provide for some interesting reading. The Industrial Design Thesis Project ID4104 blog was the most active blog in February. Assistant Professor Yen Ching-Chiuan has posted Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:59 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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