Check out the new NUS Web 2.0 Directory!
It currently lists Blogs, Social Bookmarking sites and Wikis maintained by people in NUS. The directory can be viewed by everyone. NUS users can log in and contribute to it.
As with Blog.nus, please list Web 2.0 sites used in teaching, learning, research and administration.
Dear friends,
My brother, Wiki.nus, was on the fritz since early this morning.
It got so bad that he was coughing out a stark "Connection Interrupted" message on the Wiki.nus home page.
After some emergency surgery, Wiki.nus is up and running again.
Still, he's not 100%.
The people at CIT are working on him, together with Wiki.nus' creators: Atlassian.
So, if he's a bit cranky at the moment, give him some time. Hit the refresh/reload button and hopefully, that will give Wiki.nus a jumpstart.
The CIT team apologizes for the intermittent Wiki.nus service.
Regards,
Blog.nus
If you use a feed reader and you are only interested in a particular category in a Blog.nus blog, you can subscribe to just that category.
For example, the Edublogs Tips category of this blog is here: http://blog.nus.edu.sg/blog/category/tips-tricks/edublogs-tips/
All you need to do to get the feed is to add 'feed/' to the end of the URL, so you will get this: http://blog.nus.edu.sg/blog/category/tips-tricks/edublogs-tips/feed/.
Subscribe using that URL, and you will only get the latest updates from that particular category in your feed reader.
Neat, eh?
Depending on the version, this may work on other WordPress blogs too.
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd Ed.), edited by Terry Anderson, is now available in the Central Library.
This book consists of a number of papers covering four areas:
Just flipping through, Part 2 seems quite interesting as it covers various Web 2.0 and social media tools that can be used in education.
The book will be of interest to educators, learners and those who are involved with educational technology.
But you have to wait to me to be done with it first. =)
Oh yes, there is something else that is interesting about this book. It is published under a Creative Commons license, so you can download it and print it out yourself. At almost 500 pages, I suggest you just print the chapters that interest you. Or you can be next in line to borrow it at the library.
In the mean time, you can also borrow another book on classroom blogging which details very practical steps to using these tools for teaching and learning.
If you are interested in finding out what other blogs there are on Blog.nus, check out the newly minted Directory. So far, there are a few module-based blogs, which is a natural extension from our previous blogging platform. There is also a blog for one of CIT's new services and another which cuts across a range to subject areas. You can also see the latest content from these blogs on the right-hand sidebar under Latest around Blog.nus.
There is also a new FAQ page. As Blog.nus gets more visitors, I've encountered some recurring questions and issues. So, I've complied them into a page. It's disorganised at the moment, but I hope to make it more structured and navigable (navigatable?) as Blog.nus grows. Please check out the FAQ if you have questions or have encountered an issue - the answer might be there. If it isn't, please contact me: 