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Public Service Announcement: Blood Donation 3rd to 5th October

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:49:00 GMT

Something not EdTech related, but very important:

The NUS Chapter of the Red Cross Humanitarian Network has organized a Blood Donation Drive on campus. Please donate blood if you can. It might save someone's life.

Blood Donation Drive
Wed 3 October to Fri 5 October
1000 hrs to 1600 hrs
MPSH 4

To find out more or to register, please contact nusredcross [at] yahoo [d0t] com [d0t] sg

BlogWatch: s/pores - New Directions in Singapore Studies

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:01:00 GMT

s/pores is a new e-journal run by a group Singaporean academics, mostly based in NUS:

This e-journal aims to provide a much-needed multi-disciplinary platform for the dissemination of works investigating different aspects of historical and contemporary Singapore society. Moving beyond statist perspectives, the journal encourages research that opens up space for recalibrating the status quo in Singapore....
s/pores is an interplay of the short form, the lower case, the plural, the backslash-the informal, the non-elite, the multiple, the oblique. Pronounced ‘spores’, our title also denotes the dispersal of seeds of ideas, some of which should fall on fertile ground. s/pores is therefore simultaneously a declaration of authorial positioning as it is a statement of our hopes for a more variegated Singapore.

The first issue touches on pre-1965 Singapore as a starting point to explore alternative narratives to the Singapore Story.

A Tomorrow.sg post highlighted Hong Lysa's The Continuing Saga of Singapore's Story, which uses S. Rajaratnam's passing as a focal point to examine the lack of diversity in our foundation stories. This article is heavy going for a blog format, as are the others, but they are worth the time to read.

The s/pores team also invites contributions:

Contributions should be the result of scholarly research, but need not be presented with the full formal conventions of an academic product. In fact, the injunction is that intimidating academic-speak is out. We want to provide room as well for reflective essays, proposals and tentative findings for new areas of research.

This is one blog that I will definitely continue reading.

UPDATE s/pores now offers PDFs for printing. PDFs for Vol 1 Issue 1.

Technorati Tags: singapore, singapore studies, history, politics, society, journal, blog

Macs in Education and NUS

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:05:00 GMT

NUS isn't the most Mac-friendly environment in the world, from what I gather from users on campus. But they love their machines and wouldn't give them up for the world. I came across a few Mac resources over the past couple of days, so I thought I'd share...(read more)

NUS Open House 2007

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:48:00 GMT

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)

RSI podcast on NUS Centre for Life Sciences

Kenneth Gerard PINTO — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:30:00 GMT

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)