Centre for Instructional Technology Blog
Posts tagged web 2.0
Social network Tweets to classes
Feb 5th
in ZDNet Asia, 5 February 2010
by Liau Yun Qing
Twitter has also found its way into education through other uses. At the National University of Singapore, Ravi Chandran, director of the Centre for Instructional Technologies, said his department uses a Twitter account to provide system updates to the university community.
He added that many departments in the university use Twitter as an informal broadcast medium for announcements, while some use the microblogging service to engage students….
Apart from wikis, blogs are used in teaching. NUS’ Chandran noted that blogs were one of the earliest social media tools used in NUS and were implemented as early as 2003. The school launched the NUS Module Blogs in mid-2006 and Blog.nus in 2008 to help the faculty and students set up their own blogs for learning.
Chandran added that the university has its own YouTube channel where public lectures and other videos are shared with a worldwide audience. In addition, videos on the services provided by NUS Libraries and NUS Career Centre are also hosted on the video-sharing Web site.
Buzz about BuzzEd
Mar 30th
- First-ever eLearning seminar in NUS – BuzzEd: eLearning possibilities illuminated
- Educators and vendors covered various aspects of educational technology
- Many attendees want BuzzEd to be an annual affair and to hear more from teaching peers
