Posted by: ashleytan on: September 5, 2009
Every semester, I set aside time to meet my teacher trainees online during e-learning week. Reason? It is just good teaching sense to be available!
So I make myself contactable by Skype early in the semester, and sometimes after they have experienced Second Life later in the semester, I also offer to meet in the [...]
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 19, 2009
The online Straits Times decided to feature something from My Paper (slow news day?) and in the Breaking News section no less.
The article? Kids’ errors posted online. A secondary school teacher posted “her students’ poor English usage in their assignments on her Facebook account.”
Of course people had a reaction to that. The article was careful [...]
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 21, 2009
Take note of these do’s and don’ts if you use the “Electric Friendship Generator” and Facebook!
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 10, 2008
Anyone who is afraid of the democratizing effect of Web 2.0, be it in politics or education or elsewhere, will read this Wired article and say I told you so.
The article was about a former high school girl, Katherine Evans, who created a Facebook profile of her English teacher and invited other students to [...]