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Affirmation
13/01/2012 08:50
Mrs Frances Ess, a senior teacher who is on attachment with us, started attending my AAG233: Climate and Climate change class as part of her observation on how university lecturers teach. At the end of the session, I gave her a ride home as the class eneded at 1815. We chatted in the car and I...
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Climate Change Education workshop
10/01/2012 09:09
I conducted a workshop on climate change education yesterday at Westwood Secondary School. It was O level results day so we could only spend 2 hours on the workshop. There was good initial feedback and I have been invited to go back to the school for an extention run so that we could deal with...
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Oral Defence and grade anxiety
31/10/2011 08:42
Today marks the last group of oral defense for ACG321. This time I have decided to do individual oral defense of their unit plans. An interesting observation is that despite the numerous attempts at reassuing them that the oral defense to help them improve thier own understanding of the unit...
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Is Testing the way to go?
16/09/2011 09:03
We administered a class test yesterday modelled after 3 O level questions for our teacher trainnes in ACG321 who are learning how to plan for instruction. As part of teesting their prior content knowledge, and as part of allowing the trainee teachers to understand where their gaps in...
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New Term Starting
08/08/2011 10:57
A brand new exciting semester is starting today. Look out for new postings here on my reflections of my teaching epxereince this coming few months.
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Less than 24 hr
20/11/2010 13:09
It's less than 24 hr to the conference trip and things are looking good.
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Scaffolding field-based research
17/06/2010 14:18
I was just clearing up my office at the end of semester when I realise I had to deal with a thick pile of field reports. These were submitted by the students who went to the Hanoi fieldtrip with me in December 2009 and I must say I am very pleased with the academic quality of the reports. Perhaps I...
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mATSI
20/04/2010 09:57
I recall a very engaging session at the AAG where Professor Sarah Bednarz and her team used the mATSI inventory to assess student attitudes to human Geography. I just read up on it and created a modified mATSI, sort of a mmASTI to study the attitudes of teachers using Web 2.0 for teaching and...
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Photographs from Washington DC
16/04/2010 13:29
Here are some photographs from the past few days. Enjoy.
LINK
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AAG Meeting 2010
15/04/2010 19:26
I have finally presented my papers at the paper session on Mobile Devices and Fieldbased learning on Geography and the panel session on climate change education initiatives with the AAG. What's interesting is the networking rather than the paper presentations. Apparently, someone who...
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News
Survey on the role of Social Networking software (Facebook) on teaching Geography
24/11/2008 22:38
Please help me complete this survey if you are a Geography Teacher. Thanks a million.
CLICK HERE
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Talk on Innovation, Discovery & Enterprise 2.0
06/11/2008 07:17
I'll be giving a talk at River Valley High School on 6 Nov 2008 on Innovation, Discovery and Enterprise. The talk is focused around Web 2.0 and the concept of disruptive innovations. Here is a preview of the slides:
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Kranji Countryside - new routes for Geography Fieldtrips
20/10/2008 12:41
I spent the entire morning on Saturday 18 October 2008 driving around Kranji, Lim Chu Kang and Neo Tiew Road. The new D'Kranji farmstay resort has started operations but is not due for its grand opening till 15 November 2008. As part of my innate interest for the field, I decided to trael around...
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New Look-and-Feel to the website
12/09/2008 13:41
Annoucning the new look and feel of the website to celebrate the first ever Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore in 2008. This revamp was also done as someone commented on how meek and weak the green and blue theme looked.
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Come hear me speak
08/08/2008 15:35
I have been invited to give a talk at the
Public Forum on "Environmental / Climate Change and Biodiversity "
Jointly organised by the Singapore Institute of Biology & Singapore Science Centre
Saturday 23 August 2008, 9am - 12:30 pm
Maxwell Auditorium, Singapore Science Centre
Here is a...
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