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The ICT Connection, Launched!

after near 7 months of work, from conceptualising to engaging vendor to put things together in machine-understandable language for human-comprehensible output, The ICT Connection was finally launched last week at the iCTLT 2010. let’s not think abt the work ahead for a while :P cos in actual fact, the real work of populating the portal with ICT lesson examples has just started. here’s the video of the launch scene, and the launch animation to mark the moment :)

through The ICT Connection, we hope teachers will be able to learn about ict pedagogies that can enrich and transform the learning environment of our students. teachers can also find ict lesson examples created for teachers by teachers, which integrate pedagogy and technology to cultivate self-directed (SDL) and collaborative (CoL) learners. all teachers are welcome to make use of these ideas and also share their ict-based lessons with fellow teachers.

as part of the on-going promotion of the portal, “do visit us today ;) ” *hehe*

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it’s feb – time to change your wallpaper

when’s the last time u changed your wallpaper? citing this para off smashingmagazine:

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it


(Designed by Ashleigh Liggett from United States)

it’s time to change your wallpaper ;) and smashingmagazine.com is offering you a nice SEVENTY 70 choices! (:

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Free royalty-free icons

if you often like to use little graphics/icons in your presentation, student handouts etc, and you’re recycling ms clipart too often, check out these nicely created FREE icon sets by IconEden (:

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Free technological resources anyone?

believed this is not the first time i’ve seen this blog but this is the first time i create a post to remind myself of it in future:
Free Technology for Teachers
if you like to use animal photos in your lessons, you can read about it here;
if you like to see more examples of educators’ blog (a major reason is you cant find much of it here), you can read about it here;
if you like to find out more about copyrights and possibly teaching your students on the topic, you can read about it here;
… the list’s non-exhaustive. i believe you’ll find most, if not all, entries useful. enjoy (:

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Network tools from M-Lab

read about these few Internet measurement tools via /. :

  1. Network Diagnostic Tool – Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.
  2. Glasnot - Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.
  3. Network Path and Application Diagnosis – Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.

Other tools are still in development as M-Lab is “only at the beginning of its development”. The first two tools look especially interesting to me (:

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