Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
This is hilarious =)
I am surprised that no student has tried this to my knowledge.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Trick Questions and Trick Answers
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
This is hilarious =)
I am surprised that no student has tried this to my knowledge.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Techno-Savvy
Dear just told me that Uncle has tagged us to his blog! keke..
Now that's 2 generations under one e-roof. *chortles*
Psst: You won't believe it, but I don't know how to tag blogs..YET!
Now that's 2 generations under one e-roof. *chortles*
Psst: You won't believe it, but I don't know how to tag blogs..YET!
InnOL 01 - Web 2.0
Last friday, InnOL did our first COLUMN session (A learning and social platform for middle to upper management, i.e Principals and above) for the year centering the topic of New Media and Web 2.0. Jeff started the session off with the video above about the changes in the education landscape due to new trends in technology.
Raymond Lee (DD of IDA tech planning) kick started the event with a grand introduction to the world of new media. Lets see how much of the following is new to us? Especially in education. How many of the following tools do we really use?
So what is web 2.0? Essentially, its user-defined content. In the old web, we get our info fed to us from websites. Now, with the advent of web 2.0, we the users are defining the content we receive. Don't like my interpretation? Comment below and voila! New content! We decide what we want to see, what we want to hear etc etc.
Web 2.0 is also about the seperation of form from content. Its about the difficulty of categorizing data today. Today, we tag our data so that if I wanted to find this blog article again, I can search for my tags which I added below. We can't arrange information like a library in the web. Search engines have to be more fluid than say "Click News, Click Singapore, Click Education. Search..." The age of compartmentalization is over and soon libraries will feel the problem as it is harder to label books by an arbitrary dewey decimal system.
Another classic example is the difference between google and yahoo I saw on Digg a few months ago.
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The next guy who spoke was Cherian George. I found his comments on fragmentation most enlightening. In the new generation Y onwards, what are our common experiences? Our parents had common Kampong days. Generation X had rather similar educational experiences. Generation Y onwards, its the ipod generation. Your choice of music genre. Your choice of movie and gaming pleasure. As a public speaker, its harder to tap on the common experience of a crowd for analogies, context and even humour. This is an interesting phenomenon. As a teacher, I still see some possible angles to pitch context that all my students would have experience in.
Well... I guess this long post constitutes me to belong to the foggie's generation as put by Walter Lim (last speaker on Old Stories New Media). Walter is an avid blogger who champions Heritage in Singapore. I can see the uphill challenge he has trying to fuse the world of History with the world of IT. But he is in good company with educators around. I see hope in this journey and great potential for education in the generation of Web 2.0.
Raymond Lee (DD of IDA tech planning) kick started the event with a grand introduction to the world of new media. Lets see how much of the following is new to us? Especially in education. How many of the following tools do we really use?
- Blogs
- Wikis (Not just wikipedia but the whole wiki concept)
- 2nd Life
- Skype
- http://www.earthsg.com/
- Youtube/Crunchyroll/Veoh etc etc
- Google News
- Google Docs
- Digg
So what is web 2.0? Essentially, its user-defined content. In the old web, we get our info fed to us from websites. Now, with the advent of web 2.0, we the users are defining the content we receive. Don't like my interpretation? Comment below and voila! New content! We decide what we want to see, what we want to hear etc etc.
Web 2.0 is also about the seperation of form from content. Its about the difficulty of categorizing data today. Today, we tag our data so that if I wanted to find this blog article again, I can search for my tags which I added below. We can't arrange information like a library in the web. Search engines have to be more fluid than say "Click News, Click Singapore, Click Education. Search..." The age of compartmentalization is over and soon libraries will feel the problem as it is harder to label books by an arbitrary dewey decimal system.
Another classic example is the difference between google and yahoo I saw on Digg a few months ago.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The next guy who spoke was Cherian George. I found his comments on fragmentation most enlightening. In the new generation Y onwards, what are our common experiences? Our parents had common Kampong days. Generation X had rather similar educational experiences. Generation Y onwards, its the ipod generation. Your choice of music genre. Your choice of movie and gaming pleasure. As a public speaker, its harder to tap on the common experience of a crowd for analogies, context and even humour. This is an interesting phenomenon. As a teacher, I still see some possible angles to pitch context that all my students would have experience in.
- Maplestory, Runescape, Gunbound
- Mocca's "over there" is still a good joke to crack
- Mr Brown was good last 2 years or so
- Hi5, Barney, Power rangers etc
Well... I guess this long post constitutes me to belong to the foggie's generation as put by Walter Lim (last speaker on Old Stories New Media). Walter is an avid blogger who champions Heritage in Singapore. I can see the uphill challenge he has trying to fuse the world of History with the world of IT. But he is in good company with educators around. I see hope in this journey and great potential for education in the generation of Web 2.0.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The Pressures of a First Post
5th of February... 5 weeks have past since I began my new job at MOE HQ as an ODO. Thats an Organization Development Officer to those wondering. Its one letter away from becoming a DODO too.
Having only been working in a school all this while, coming over to MOE HQ is really a culture shock. Some interesting facts worth sharing...
1) There are 12 Directors who lead 12 Divisions!
Bleach Coincidence???
2) Lotusnotes ROX! My new email account has calender function and the ability to check calender with other people in MOE so that we can figure out meeting dates. This is really important since we work from 9 - 6 walking from 1 meeting to another.
3) I get my own Name Card. I got 1 box of name cards today. I was so happy, I wanted to go around Bouna Vista MRT station distributing them.
4) MOE HQ uses an air-con system that is ground up. This changes all our Physics textbooks on this concept. (See below)
Thats all for now...
I am quite inspired by the work I am doing. After doing this budget work for an overseas study trip, I think I am going back to school to set a PBL based on this math problem. Something along the lines of...
Your Director has tasked you to budget a trip to Microsoft HQ to study the innovation practices there. Craft a budget proposal for the trip.
Include a matrix representing the number of people for the trip, the number of nights agains the trip expediture.
Factor, flight cost, accomodation cost, possible fuel hike with impeding war with Iran etc...
Use data taken online, hyperlink all websites used. Good luck.
Yep... Quite inspired now. =)
Having only been working in a school all this while, coming over to MOE HQ is really a culture shock. Some interesting facts worth sharing...
1) There are 12 Directors who lead 12 Divisions!
Bleach Coincidence???2) Lotusnotes ROX! My new email account has calender function and the ability to check calender with other people in MOE so that we can figure out meeting dates. This is really important since we work from 9 - 6 walking from 1 meeting to another.
3) I get my own Name Card. I got 1 box of name cards today. I was so happy, I wanted to go around Bouna Vista MRT station distributing them.
4) MOE HQ uses an air-con system that is ground up. This changes all our Physics textbooks on this concept. (See below)
Thats all for now...I am quite inspired by the work I am doing. After doing this budget work for an overseas study trip, I think I am going back to school to set a PBL based on this math problem. Something along the lines of...
Your Director has tasked you to budget a trip to Microsoft HQ to study the innovation practices there. Craft a budget proposal for the trip.
Include a matrix representing the number of people for the trip, the number of nights agains the trip expediture.
Factor, flight cost, accomodation cost, possible fuel hike with impeding war with Iran etc...
Use data taken online, hyperlink all websites used. Good luck.
Yep... Quite inspired now. =)
The Medical Interview
Dear and I had dinner with JoyJoy.
At Haagen Daaz, Dear had an epiphany on how medical interviews should be conducted:
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 1: Find me the rabbit's heart.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 2: Amputate the rabbit's foot.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 3: Sew back this foot back to the rabbit.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 4: Perform an autopsy on the rabbit.
A bit p(G) and morbid, I know. But it was so spontaneous. :)
At Haagen Daaz, Dear had an epiphany on how medical interviews should be conducted:
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 1: Find me the rabbit's heart.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 2: Amputate the rabbit's foot.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 3: Sew back this foot back to the rabbit.
*knock knock*
For Interviewee 4: Perform an autopsy on the rabbit.
A bit p(G) and morbid, I know. But it was so spontaneous. :)
In Planning...
“Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will praise Him, my Savior and my God." Psalm 42:11, NIV
"The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." Deuteronomy 31:8, NIV5
“Peace, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Where's Wally?
How many snails have you spot?As usual, Dear was sharp-eyed and he spotted the snails just feets aways from his house when we were returning from Baptism Class yesterday evening. It was after a day of rain and the air was fresh. Oh spring beckons! It was still drizzling but I wanted to capture this happy sight.
BMC was a joy and I think we have drawn closer to Him and each other. Our group has many quirky characters (us included, I think) and our leaders were inspirational both as followers of Chist and as a couple. Our group lead worship yesterday and we had our own rendition of Thank You For the Cross. I had a little fiasco with the lyrics. Dear is the guardian of the secret to my booboo. *chortles* We discussed about the Tyranny of the Urgent which is a really special piece of advice. But that's for really for another post. :)
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