Article of the Week

Hi Folks

This is the article of the week - Do Millennials Really Study The Way that Many Advocates Claim they Do?

This article presenta a very interesting point of view (backed by research) that not all students are into Web 2.0 tools and what else academics claim they use to help them study. Read it as way for you to reflect on the importance of having good learning designs as opposed to using Web 2.0 tools to solve our problems! Click the link below to read this article and share your thoughts on it by hitting the comment button.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mkm5zz42jlq/kennedy.pdf

COP on 19 Aug 2009

Dear all,
here are the files to the presentations at the COP.

1) Director EDU's presentation
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmnykljgq2n/COP_Edu.ppt

2) Cheryl's presentation on Intoduction to Web 2.0
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zcm1dyqg2ym/web2.0_COP.pdf

This is the video which Cheryl wanted to share... enjoy.

Use of Laptops in Lecture Style Settings

Hello folks,

came across this very interesting article on how laptops can be used to enhance teaching and learning in a lecture hall.

This is the article of the week. Have a look and leave a comment cos I would love to know what you think!

Click the link below to download and read the article!

http://www.mediafire.com/?nw3iylzwmgt

COP this Week!!!

Hi Folks

I hope you have had a great weekend! This is it! The COP is coming!!! This will be a great opportunity for us to come together in an informal environment and share good teaching practices and more importantly engage in each other's company! Refreshments WILL be provided and there will be 2 mini talks by Cheryl on potential Web 2.0 tools you can use (esp after the H1N1) and also a recent graduate of the CT programme Mr. Yap Chin Hooi from SMAE will be sharing how he used Facebook for his students. Hence, the programme will be as follows:

2p.m. - Address by Dir EDU for new Acad Staff (you should attend this if you have not attended a talk by Dir EDU before)

3p.m. - Refreshments cum meeting with P (you should attend this if you have not spoken to P before. he would like to meet all of you)

4p.m. - Sharing by Cheryl on Web 2.0 tools you can use

4:30p.m. - Sharing by Chin Hooi on Facebook

5p.m. - End

See you folks there! oH YES please do register at Events@SP

Lastly, if you can only come at 2:30 or 3p.m., please do also come and drop by!!

See ya!

Class This Week - Building A Teaching Portfolio *Online

Hi Folks

This is the FINAL class for this semester and it is ONLINE!! *Yipppeeeee!!!!! This week, the class is on "Building a Teaching Portfolio". This online workshop will cover elements of reflective practice as well as cover the elements that make up the portfolio. This will help you in constructing your own portfolio when you create one to signal the end of your CT obligations. However, please do continue to keep the portfolio as it will help you in your teaching career.

Just a few things to note for the online workshop.

1) You will have one week to complete the workshop and the cut off date is 18th August. Let me know if you need more time

2) The videos have been uploaded into the Reflective Practice in Action Blog in case when you play the workshop and the videos refuse to load. The blog will be used to input your thoughts from the workshop and you will need to complete all tasks. The blog can be accessed at http://reflectivepracticeinaction.blogspot.com/

3) The link for the Teaching Portfolio Template should be this instead. This is the most updated template link. Click HERE for the teaching portfolio template!

4) Should you need technical assistance, please email Mark!

Okay, here is how you access the workshop:

STep 1 - Log into Blackboard *YOU MUST DO THIS.

Step 2 - Copy and paste the following into your web browser

http://esp.sp.edu.sg/courses/1/ESD026/content/_1075715_1/dir_@5265666c65637469766520507261637469636520696e20416374696f6e2054657374.zip/Reflective%20Practice%20in%20Action%20Test/player.html

Step 3 - Go through the material and input your thoughts on the blog. Complete ALL 7 btasks please! Enjoy!!!

Article of the Week

Hi Folks

The article of the week features the use of technology for teaching and learning from Innovate. Check it out. I think these may be of interest.


In our first article, Ulrich Rauch, Marvin Cohodas, and Tim Wang
describe the Arts Metaverse, a virtual learning environment for the
three-dimensional reconstruction of important archeological artifacts
and sites, allowing students access to places and works they would not
otherwise be able to experience. In addition, students may create
reconstructions as well as visiting particular sites. Embracing the
principle that engaging students in the construction of a virtual
teaching and learning environment can create a participative learning
experience, the Arts Metaverse Project aims to enable students and
academics to become joint researchers in creating and sharing
knowledge beyond the walls of the university. See

http://tinyurl.com/l438lx


Our next two articles describe efforts to create learning
environments in Second Life. Mary Anne Clark offers a map to Genome
Island, a virtual laboratory complex constructed for teaching genetics
to university undergraduates, Genome Island also provides a public
space where anyone interested in genetics can spend a few minutes or a
few hours interacting with genetic objects. See

http://tinyurl.com/mwuuy6

Anne Hewitt, Susan Spencer, Danielle Mirliss, and Riad Twal report on
a collaborative initiative to create a virtual simulation exercise
focused on key competencies for students in a Master of Healthcare
Administration program. The exercise they design provides a previously
unavailable virtual counterpart to the tabletop exercises
traditionally used to teach emergency preparedness, allowing online
students to gain important hands-on experience and opportunities for
interaction.

See http://tinyurl.com/koqvkw

Albert A. Angehrn and Katrina Maxwell describe a simulation that does
not rely on a virtual world. Rather, their simulation, designed to
teach collaboration skills to managers and decision makers, relies on
an episodic video story to create a simulation narrative.
Participants, who may be online or on site, use group decision support
technology to facilitate their collaboration with a small team around
a series of mission-critical dilemmas; the decision a team makes at
each juncture determines how the narrative develops. The simulation
provides a learning experience that can help managers, decision
makers, virtual teams, and online communities reflect about the
challenges and opportunities of collaboration and group decision
making.

See http://tinyurl.com/kl7swd

Or read the entire newsletter:


http://www.innovateonline.info

2 Things!

Hi Folks

Happy National Day! More importantly, don't forget to have a well deserved long weekend this week! 2 issues before you scoot off for a break.

1) Have a look at the blog that a CT lecturer has created for herself and has graciously allowed me to share it. Her name is Sok Na (ABE) and you can read her blog at the following address:

http://www.yogi.edublogs.org/

2) This coming week will be last session for the CT workshops conducted on Wed/Thur thus semester. It is "Building a Teaching Portfolio" and it is ONLINE! Yippeeee!!!! So please do not come to class. Details of what to do will be available on Tuesday as Monday is a Public Holiday.

Last BUT not least, please do sign up for the COP on the 19th of August if you have not done so and also the CT Pedagogical Use of Notebooks in the Classroom Workshop which is to be held from 7th-11th of Sepetember. Cheers Folks!

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY FOLKS!

Class This Week + COP *V. Impt!

Hi Folks

I hope the weekend has been kind to you! We are nearly the end of our weekly classes. This week, my colleague Jessica will be talking you all on "Motivating Students". Classes will be at 2p.m. on Wed/Thurs at T4A21.

Also, please please do sign up for the Communities of Practice on the 19th of August if you have not done so. Dir EDU will be speaking to you before you will get a chance to interact with the P at tea break. Then, a lecturer from SMAE will be sharing on how he used Facebook for his students and Cheryl will be sharing on potential Web 2.0 tools which you can use for your own classroom. Those of you who can't make it, please join us for the next session. You will need to attend at least one COP before you finish your CT course to listen to Dir EDU and also to meet P. Cheers folks and have a great week ahead!!!