July 2005 Archives
Cool stuff, gotten this piece of news off The Student Tablet PC blog, MS has released the Microsoft Education Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition which serves 5 applications:
Equation Writer
Now it�s easy to add mathematical expressions to your papers. Handwrite a math equation, and then convert it into a neatly typewritten image to paste into a report or a presentation.GoBinder Lite by Agilix Labs, Inc.
Keep track of your schedule with this planner. Use your tablet pen to jot down quick reminders about class schedules, project deadlines, and extracurricular activities.Hexic Deluxe for Tablet PC
This full-featured puzzle game from MSN Games has a new spin for Tablet PCs. Now you can rotate pieces easily with your tablet pen.Ink Flash Cards
Create flash cards to help you learn facts or study for an exam. Handwrite a question on the front of a card and put an answer on the back. Draw, insert graphics, and add text too. After you build a set, you can review the cards to test your knowledge and flag which ones you need to review again.
Send to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Keep all of your class notes and research in one place. Send web pages, pictures, and other files to OneNote, and annotate or highlight them with your tablet pen. Use the OneNote stationery created for college students, and read helpful tips for using OneNote at school.[source: The Student Tablet PC blog]
Together with the release is a flash demo that describes it all :-)
Check out the full list of Resource for Student by MS.
"Why does 0!=1?" zhongwei, my ex-student prompted me this question, scratching my rusty brain, i vaguely remembered n!= 1*2*3*...*n, but how does 0 comes in? read on if you want the answer ...
the workshop was completed. thanks to jeffery for helping out during the hands on.
here's the soft copies of the slides/handouts for the day, pls feel free to download, print and/or modify for use.
1. Presentation slides (ppt)
2. Blogger.com HOWTO
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO
today, seng chee has once again kindly invited me to share on (edu)blogs, 17 excited HODs are with me today, and it is now the break time, aka action time for me :P
will be going on to blogger.com account creation later, for the time being, just upload a few pictures to capture moments of the past 1 hour :)
This is a paper presented by Dr Soo Wai Mun at the Educational Research Association of Singapore Conference 2004. The abstract:
Blogs are online journals that individuals publish on the Internet to reflect on mundane as well as serious issues of heart and mind. Like many email services, blogs are now freely available and form another communication channel for the Internet community. From outpours of individual tantrums to academic discourse of the Harvard Law School, blogs have proliferated far and wide. It is not surprising that blogging is becoming an instructional strategy for education.This paper presents an overview of blogging, and relates it to practical educational applications. It highlights instructional strategies that enhance blogging as tool for teaching and learning. A case study where these strategies are applied is presented to
reflect on its strengths and weaknesses.
Teachers may find the sections on "Applying instructional strategies for blogging" and "Creating qualitative assessment rubrics for blogs" applicable to our teaching and learning tasks.
Dr Soo has kindly gave his consent to make available the paper for download. Download the paper here :)
The NewsinChinese blog grabs Chinese Xinhua News Agency's RSS feeds, and employs an automated script to give on-the-fly "mouse over" translation. Cool! Check it out ;-)
Thanks for all the feedback given, it's a great learning experience for me to hear from all of you :-)
Just to recap on the things that we have done:
Part 1: Overview and hands on blogger.com
This is the part we spent quite some time on and many of us were able to follow. Blogger.com is but one of the many freely available platform to create a blog.
Part 2: RSS and bloglines.com
Bloglines.com is an online RSS reader that can assist us in monitoring updates in blogs. (Note: this is not blog creation)
Due to time constraint and the design of the authentication process, a hands-on wasnt qutie possible. Do try to follow the user guide and you should be able to setup an account.
For a start, you can try to subscribe to the blog that you have created on Friday. Post something new, and see it being 'highlighted' in bloglines. That should give you a feel of how it works.
Last but not least, here's the softcopies of the presentation and documentations:
1. Presentation slides
2. Blogger.com HOWTO
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO
Hope you'll find blogging a useful tool, cheers :-)
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It's break time now, we (abt 31 of us) are all blogging away (on blogger) for the past hour :-)
After this break, we'll be looking at Bloglines.com, an indispensible tool for teachers :P
Time to go for my break too! *hmm* if only i have brought my sd reader ...
Just compiled some slides for use if there is a need to present a quick overview of blogs and edublogs (blogs in education).
If you need the presentation, grab it here.
If you want to distribute it as handouts, grab the pdf file here.
Feel free to modify for your own needs ;-)
Cool stuff! This TPC released by Motion Computing is really becoming a "handleable" size. I have always find the present TPCs still too big for portability. Cant wait to get my hands on one of these to experience the size, but likely have to wait quite a (long) while :|
the server has been experiencing error 500 these 2 days with the mt.cgi, it's affecting my updates and the helpdesk is not responsing to my emails, wat's going on? *arrgggrrhhh*
The MOE ExCEL Fest 2005 starts today and Nan Chiau High School has 2 projects ("Harnessing Edublogs" and "CERDIK") participating in the SchoolWorks! section exhibition.
ExCEL stands for Excellence through Continuous Enterprise and Learning, and parents and the public will be here to experience schools� innovative efforts in teaching and learning.
If you will be here (Suntec Convention Centre) today or tomorrow, do visit us :-)
Oh btw, we are also setting up some laptops for visitors to have a hands-on blogging experience! Yup, the "5 minutes, 3 steps blogger blog creation".
Read this post off Craig Nansen's blog, which is about Bernie Dodge's presentation at the NECC.
The tool seems to combine the advantages of a blog (ease of use, template driven), a wiki (collaborative development) and development tools (templates, themes and design patterns) built in. A number of different authors can work on the same WebQuest, and it is hosted on his server so that FTP software is not needed. He is also planning on having a graphics library so teachers can easily add graphics to their WebQuests.
URLs:
"Garden WebQuest - Unveiled" posting
The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University
