Rambling Librarian:: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian | |
| From Sony Singapore:The purpose of this project is to visit schools in remote areas with books for children and teachers who would otherwise not have access to such learning materials.Sony Singapore... | |
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| This was in-progress when I passed by the National Library event plaza this evening:The NLB was getting ready for this... | |
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| [From Part 9]OK, my final post regarding the Three-day PBL symposium. No substantial insights, I've to qualify.As I mentioned in Part 1, I didn't have any specific expectations of the symposium. My... | |
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| [From Part 7]On Day-2. 11 June 09."What happens if, in a student-led discussion, the entire group goes off track and doesn't grasp basic concepts that they are required to have?"I asked my friend Mr.... | |
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| [From Part 8]I've heard the term "Student-centered Learning" being mentioned a few times during the three-day symposium. I've a better appreciation what the phrase means, now that I read articles... | |
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| [From Part 6]Day 3, Jun 12, 2009.During the break, one of the RP librarian, Sharen, was kind enough to give me a tour of their library.It was my first visit.Their library opened in 2006; here's a LAS... | |
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| [From Part 5]Day-3, 12 June 2009.Mr. Yow Hon Kong, Republic Polytechnic's (RP) Deputy Director, Office of Information Services. He shared about their IT implementation rationale.RP started with a... | |
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| Day-2, 11 Jun 09.i) Presenter Dr. P'ng Tean Hwa (co-author Irene Tan Ai Lian). UCSI University, Malaysia. "Assessing Learning through Reflective Essays in Music Education"Quick notes (italics are... | |
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| Day-2. A guided-walkabout of the campus just before we broke for lunch.Impressive place.I'd have loved to study there.We didn't get to tour the library though. Though I learned that the RP library is... | |
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| I'd like to think that the future of librarianship isn't for librarians to attend only library-related conferences, but to step outside of our industry into other related ones.Which is why I signed... | |
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