Using NUS Module Blogs : Announcements

Attack of the Animal Behaviour Students!

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:35:00 GMT

In a first for NUS Module Blogs, students of LSM1303 Animal Behaviour are posting their assignments to a student blog. They have flooded the home page with their posts, highlighting the peculiar, wondrous and sometimes human-like behaviour of our animal friends.

The students' brief is to highlight interesting content about animal behaviour in a lively manner, suitable for the person-on-the-street. This can be a challenge as the students have to get the attention of the readers without dumbing down or distorting facts.

Get wild at the LSM1303 students' blog.

Youtube and beyond: What you want to know but never knew who to ask

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:55:00 GMT

If you've been wondering how to create your own videos for the web, wonder no more. Kevin Lim is conducting a talk on video for the web next Tuesday. He knows his stuff, and he is really passionate about what he does. This talk will be worth your time. And it's free!

“Youtube and beyond: What you want to know but never knew who to ask”
A public talk on the present and future of online video sharing by Kevin Lim

When
Tuesday, 19 Jun 2007
7:00PM - 8.30PM
(I’ll be there at 6pm for the early birds!)

Where
Multi-purpose Room, Central Lending Library
(Basement of National Library, Victoria Street)
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What
Youtubers, Videobloggers, Video podcasters, or anyone who wants to get started with sharing videos online, this interactive session is perfect for you! Here are 5 reasons why you have to join in:

* Explore the world of free video sharing services -> going beyond Youtube
* Learn tips to producing great video for web -> high quality, small file size
* How to protect yourself by staying legal -> copyright, Creative Commons
* See the future of online videos -> Lifecasting and searching within videos
* Make friends and show your clips with fellow video bloggers!

Plus: If there’s time, learn how to videocast without spending a bomb on web hosting, by integrating Internet Archive with your blog.

Who
Kevin Lim [of theory.isthereason.com] is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication and is teaching in the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He studies the wide-ranging cultural affordances of technology, focusing particularly on the pedagogical aspects of social media. Being passionate about making and sharing videos, Kevin is currently challenging notions of virtuality through his modular “sousveillance” backpack. In an attempt at enhancing the usefulness of video, this unique backpack allows him to experiment with lifecasting, ambient intimacy, and video as a form of memory prosthetic (also see eyetap and wearcam).

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Latest IDEAS

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:28:00 GMT

The latest issue of IDEAS is out now. In this issue we:

highlight Web 2.0 and how it impacts education,
provide important information about the IVLE upgrade,
give a preview of Respondus - an offline assessment authoring tool,
call for your contributions to Faculty Voice,
introduce the Campus Partnership Programme, and
announce an upgrade to the Classroom Performance System.

Technorati Tags: web2.0, personal learning environment, PLE, education, ivle, integrated virtual learning environment, respondus, Campus Partnership Programme, Classroom Performance System

On hiatus

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:51:00 GMT

Apologies for the lack of updates recently. I've been tremendously busy. Posting frequency in other module blogs has diminished too because of the exam season.

I have recently worked on the CIT website revamp. Check out the nifty widget that pulls headlines from the IDEAS newsletter! Speaking of IDEAS, a new issue will be out soon. And I will be writing the IVLE guides for the brand new version that we will launch soon.

Book on classroom blogging available in Central Library

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:19:00 GMT

There are a few books about blogs in NUS Libraries . Most of them deal with either personal blogging or business blogging. Yes, blogs are being used in public/customer/corporate relations and in marketing. However, I couldn't find any books on blogging...(read more)