CIT is hosting a seminar about Emerging Web Technology – Microsoft Silverlight on Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 2.30pm at the CIT Auditorium, Level 2, Computer Centre (map). IT professionals from Microsoft will provide their perspective on web trends and the ways Microsoft Silverlight technology is supporting them. Staff and students are invited to attend. Register here.

CIT supported an APRU multi-party video conference involving 16 universities. The first APRU Video Conference Session on Grid Computing was hosted by National University of Singapore on 21 October 2009. Over 30 participants from Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States took part in the video conference. Representatives from six universities presented their campuses’ development, management and use of Grid resources for research computing and infrastructure.

CIT successfully supported the campus-wide eLearning Week from 5 Oct to 10 Oct 2009. Almost 1000 modules had online lectures during eLearning Week.

CIT has integrated the Centra, a Virtual Classroom tool, with IVLE. Interactive and collaborative lectures/tutorials can be conducted online involving students anywhere around the world using IVLE’s Virtual Classroom software.

Spotlight

eLearning in emergencies

IVLE

Get organised with the IVLE Lesson Plan

CIT recommends that faculty staff set up lesson plans in IVLE for all modules. This will allow students to get a week-by-week (or topic-by-topic) view of the module, as well as the relevant links to resources for that week (or topic). Here’s a quick Lesson Plan tutorial.

eLearning

Virtual Classroom through Web Conferencing

The simplest ways to conduct tutorial sessions online is via IVLE chat rooms (live) or IVLE discussion forums (asynchronous). However, you may want a more dynamic and interactive environment to conduct your lessons. This is where web conferencing is useful.

Faculty Voice

Google Docs – An Apt App

Assoc. Prof. Eleanor Wong, Director of the Legal Skills Programme at the NUS Law School shares how she used Google Docs to aid in improving her students’ writing.

News

Screen Recording simplified

Camtasia Relay is now available to all lecturers for your screen recording needs. Screen recording, also known as screencasting, allows you to record your computer desktop as well as your audio narration. Anything which can be displayed on your computer screen can be recorded.

eLearning was constantly mentioned in the press as the spectre of the H1N1 pandemic flu outbreak threatened to shut down schools. Thankfully, this flu strain is not yet highly fatal. Nevertheless, the question bears asking: What happens if everyone has to be quarantined at home today?

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