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two pd videos

TYH — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:09:43 +0000

am gearing up for an afternoon workshop next monday, and these are two videos (only one to be shown) that we came across during our explorations (“thanks Matt”).

1. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves (via TED)

2. Technology …

Two new books published for teachers!

TYH — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:18:46 +0000

(cross posting my 3-mths old post in The ICT Connection Happenings blog, which is opened to ‘members’ only)

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It’s been 1 year since the launch of The ICT Connection portal. Part of our objectives…

content analysis is … a revision

TYH — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:50:31 +0000

Content analysis has been described as a “research technique for the objective, systematic, quantitative description of the manifest content of communication” (Berelson, 1952, p. 519). This definition allows for a variety of textual analyses that typically involves comparing, contrasting, and
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plastic recycling numbers, what’s safe?

TYH — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:45 +0000

have the need to replace juniors’ PLASTIC water bottles lately, but can’t quite recall which “numbers” to buy, so did a quick lookup [e.g. here & here], and the magic numbers are:

OK – 1, 2, 4 & 5 …

Norton Online Family Report for Singapore

TYH — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:59:35 +0000

gotten this set of materials though i can’t see the actual report on symantec’s site yet. a good read, or should i say must, for SG teachers and parents. not too sure if our students/kids will read this, probably not …

notes – content analysis and grounded theory seminar

TYH — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:25:21 +0000

this morning a couple of us went for a Content Analysis and Grounded Theory in Qualitative Research seminar conducted by Prof Peter Taylor (CRPP), 0930-1130hr, NIE5-01-LT11. here’s my personal set of notes. some symbols to take note: (1) words …

web2.0 simply defined

TYH — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:29:13 +0000

these few days were in and out of major meetings reporting and demoing on the upcoming The ICT Connection website, and was guided to think of the website’s next phase of development. the idea of building a community among teachers …

Learning about learning

TYH — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:51 +0000

learning is our core business but at times if you are asked “how do people learn?” we may not be able to give an answer outright or an explanation following the latest development in learning sciences research. chanced upon this …

50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

TYH — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:03:09 +0000

if you’re an EL/CL/ML/TL/any other language teacher and seeking ideas to “web2.0″ your language classrooms, check out this resource put together by Alan Levine. the idea’s not too difficult:

Excellent statistics references

TYH — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:47:10 +0000

am doing stats ‘OJT’ these days for my current research and come across these TWO excellently (IMHO) written text (language’s simple n clear, explanations’ in-depth for newbies like me):
1. Tabachnick, B.G., & Fidell, L.S. (2001). Using Multivariate Statistics (4th …