Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
No one knows everything, but everyone knows something
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 17, 2009
That was my favourite quote from Polivka’s recent blog entry. Simple but true.
Call it what you will, crowdsourcing or the wisdom of crowds, it is here to stay and evolve. Information, knowledge and power lie not only in the Internet, but also in the people and the connections between people that network via the Internet.
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It’s context, not isolation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 27, 2009
I found this Vimeo video from a ReadWriteWeb article, You Can’t Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel.
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It has little to do with education. However, it reminded me of something I try to emphasize in the ICT course that I facilitate and am now harping on in the EdPsyII course. What makes learning meaningful is context, [...]
Another ending
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 20, 2009
For two of my classes, this week marks the end of the ICT course. The other two classes have two more weeks to go as they are in another programme.
If you ask me, I think they should all move at a slower pace so that they have time to let things simmer or sink in. [...]
Come into the light
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 15, 2009
I followed Tuck Soon’s tweets as he attended a briefing on baseline ICT standards for students. His culminating tweet:
Baseline ICT Pupil Standards in Singapore http://bit.ly/1B7WV2 Notice the huge emphasis on Microsoft Office and lack of Web 2.0 #edtech
In light of all Singapore schools adopting Google Apps for Education by the end of this year and [...]
Google Apps in schools
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 24, 2009
Two days ago, I tweeted MOE’s press release on how all schools here were adopting cloud computing in the form of Google Apps. I thought that was wonderful news.
What do other people think of it? Chris Dawson who is far away in Massachusetts and a fan of Google Apps seemed pleased for us, but he [...]
RSS via Netvibes
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 27, 2009
I’ve had a Netvibes account ever since Netvibes promised new ways of pulling and pooling content. But I abandoned it a while back when it did not deliver as much as I wished. I have renewed my interest in it because of a helpful comment from a visitor to my blog recently.
As a result of [...]
RSS of my classes
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 26, 2009
Ever wonder what the RSS feeds of my classes looks like?
I use Google Reader to follow the entries and comments in group blogs maintained by my teacher trainees. I also use Vienna on my Mac to track the total counts or to archive good postings (click image below to view larger version).
I opted to rename [...]
What do you see?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 24, 2009
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I’ll admit that I did not know what this year’s National Day Parade theme song (above) was because I don’t watch MediaCrap/MediocreCorp TV. I listened to and watched mrbrown’s remix first as soon as it was released (below) and then decided to look for the original.
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Is Google making us clever or stupid?
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 10, 2009
Last year, a writer at The Atlantic asked Is Google Making Us Stupid? Recently another writer from the same publication wondered if the opposite was true. They might seem to be taking different sides, but they are really providing depth to the same coin.
The first author said:
the Net seems to be doing is chipping [...]
