Author: TYH

A Singaporean Chinese Language Teacher
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KnowNet – Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning

This few days we have been talking about looking at Open Source Software (OSS) for possible applications in schools, to support teaching and learning. Chanced open this site(KnowNet), home to 2 OSS, namely Plone and Zope.
For future reference purpose:

Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications.

Plone is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.

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Blogs used in NUS tutorials

Some lecturers in NUS have used blogs for their courses, as well as to keep track of their research students.
Blogs are especially useful for popular courses taken up by a large number of undergraduates. Instead of setting up tutorials for all students, they conduct some of the tutorials online, by adding their comments to a discussion set out in a blog. Marks will be awarded based on their responses at the end of the courses.
Looks like the students are embracing blogs quite well, as seen from the responses. Read the article for the full report in STI.
And thanks Agnes for pointing me to the article 🙂

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Games, for education

Chanced upon this website while browsing the orange-covered “Engaging IT” CD produced by ETD in 2004, well, and it happens that this morning during meeting that the big word GAME was brought up.
I/We belong to a generation (may not hold true for everyone of the same age group though) of gamers where we have witnessed computer games giving off only beeps thru the good old PC speakers, to the 3D Live surround sound games today. Looking back, some of the facts that we gathered are from the games we have played. Hmm … let me recall the optimum height to fly a F-16 for maximum fuel efficiency …
Need more time to explore this website in evaluating its educational value, but the games are surely engaging 😛
Funbrain.com, check it out here.

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The state of blogging in US

Some figures extracted from this report by Pew Internet & American Life Project enlightened us to the extend of blog awareness in America:
Of the sample size of 1324 pple,
– 38% of people know what a blog is
– 27% of people read blogs (representing 32 million, 58% increase since Feb 04)
– 12% have posted to blogs
– 7% of people own blogs (8 million)
– 5% of people use RSS
Wonder what’s the figures like if a similar survey were done in Singapore, especially if targetted at students. This figure can prove useful for our use of edublogs in teaching and learning.
[Source: Weblogg-ed]

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