new media education

Post workshop reflections: Using Wikis for communication

Yesterday I conducted a 1.5hr workshop for 17 participants, on "Using Wikis for Communications".After the session, I told the course coordinator I didn't quite 'nail it down' this time round. I felt...

Quoted in ST article, about Twitter (or "How I deal with angry situations if I'm blogging about it")

Last week, ST journalist, Serene Luo, emailed me asking if I could provide some comments for an article she's rushing out. Because some of her questions had to do with NLB's official policy, I...

Thoughts from the New Media Seminar 2009 (for the Singapore civil service)

Yesterday I attended the New Media Seminar organised by the Civil Service College. I was there to speak, as a representative of my employer the NLB, to share learning points from NLB's new media...

Post-talk reflections: "Beyond Digital Literacy" - Catholic High School, 10 April 2008

There is an on-going need to educate students on the finer points of discerning information from Internet sources, as I observed from my talk to the entire cohort of Secondary Two level boys at...

Speaking at USF (Part 9): Perspectives

[From Part 8]I've found a few blog posts about the talk. The links will be added here as I find them. And I'll blog about some of them.Here's one by Steven, a Davies Forum scholar. A young man called...

Speaking at USF (Part 8): Slides

[From Part 7]I felt the talk went well. Let's see what the audience say. David asked his students to blog their thoughts about the session. Folks, do email me your links!Was impressed by David's...

Speaking at USF (Part 6): Social Media & Singapore Public Libraries

[From Part 5]Part of my talk will cover how the Public Libraries in Singapore are using new media* to target Children, Teens, Adults and Senior Adults.I'll share why we started these blogs, some...

Speaking at USF (Part 5): Structuring the talk

[From Part 4]Not sure if you're familiar with the superhero character called Midnighter (if not, check out Warren Ellis' The Authority and Stormwatch series -- great stuff, imho).I'm referring to...

Speaking at USF (Part 2): Planning for my talk for the Davis Forum

[From Part 1]When David first contacted me, his course syllabus wasn't posted yet. What I knew was his students were expected to "learn about digital literacy by exercising digital literacy".About 20...

Talk & workshop: "Introduction To New Media Communications" Course

Just finished adding the finishing touches to my slides for a seminar organised by the Civil Service College.It's a two-day event from 11th to 12th October 2007 (course details here; also posted...