Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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The EIR Music that Never Ends
:
Dearest and Awesome EIR friends,
When we first set eyes on one another, I
know that we will connect and get on well real soon. True enough, we started
joking and dancing around to the tunes of Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk and Maroon
5 Sugar. Indeed, like what Ed Sheeran said in his song, we have “found love right
where we are” – right here in our EIR class as part of our happy EIR family. I
will cherish these beautiful moments spent with each one of YOU as we unravel
the wonders of EIR together over the past 6 days.
Thank you, my dearest friends, for giving me the opportunity to be
your friend, tutor, mentor and coach.
Without all of YOU, I will not be a lecturer and EIR will not be
standing strong today. I am grateful to all of you for your active
participation in making our EIR so memorable.
As I witness your intense concentration and eager eyes listening
to my daily motivation stories, I thank god for the fabulous gift of wonderful
students like all of YOU. Your enthusiasm to learn, perserverance and keenness to work on improving your EIR portfolio assignments,
warmed my heart as I thank god also for granting me the wisdom, strengths and
passion to add value and touch the lives of so many precious young people like
all of YOU.
To me, imparting EIR skills and knowledge through my personal
stories and other motivational stories to inspire all of YOU is like adding
SALT into your life. Just like the humble white salt gives taste to the food
you eat to nourish you physically, I hope that our EIR lessons have nourished
you emotionally and psychologically while empowering and guiding you to savour
the full meaning of your life.
As you end your EIR journey and continue
with the journey of life, let the EIR music to cheer you on as you allow the
"Fireworks" inside you to be ignited as "Lighters" in your
life as you "Hit the Lights" to develop your best potential to
achieve your dreams!.
Be the LIGHT to others by sharing the
marvels of EIR by writing an inspirational message to the next batch of EIR
students by signing the 1-minute autograph here.
Stay Positive & Marvellous Always!
Your Friend Always,
Ms Farida
EIR Subject Leader and Lecturer
25 March 2015
8:23 AM
Friday, March 20, 2015
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Hanging out with industry professional
:
Our students had a great opportunity hanging out with a Research Librarian from Singapore Management University today. The students interviewed the Research Librarian on various issues relating to multiculturalism, educational deprivation, biodiversity, mobile culture and serious emotional disturbance amongst youths. Great witnessing the rich exchange of knowledge among our EIR students and the industry professional. Best of all, this engagement was done in the comfort of our classroom via social media. As the lecturer, I am happy to observe my students' enthusiasm and interest in asking questions and opinions which helped them in adding value to their research work. They have shown responsibility to put in efforts to do a good research project. Keep up the good work everyone!
11:22 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2015
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DPA Mar 2015 – A Sweet Journey of Learning and Discovery
:
Dear DPA 2015 awesome friends,
A warm welcome to all of you! It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our
happy EIR family. Thank you for participating in this exciting journey of
discovering the wonderful world of the Internet. I am privileged to be your facilitator in
2015 as we enter into the 8th year of offering EIR DPA programme. I
am so excited to be connecting with you even before the official Apr 2015
semester begins!
Internet is increasingly becoming
exciting as well as challenging and I look forward to a thrilling journey ahead
with all of you. Together we can make your EIR journey a meaningful and
empowering one. Just like the ever-changing
and dynamic Internet world, EIR has also evolved to suit the changing needs of
our students. This year 2015, we continue to harness the power of social media
through collaborations with industry partners.
I am excited to witness the rich
exchange of knowledge between all of you and several industry partners as you
virtually interview them on Google+Hangout
to gather your research findings. If you already have social media
presence, we invite you to promote awareness of your research topic via
Facebook and engage in active live sharing of peer feedback and comments via
Twitter during the final presentations. Besides engaging discussions in class, we
will also learn outside our classroom
via an exciting site visit and educational trip to iExperience@Esplanade.
With the beginning of our EIR journey together, let us open up our hearts and
minds to enjoy learning and experience growth and development in our
lives. Allow me to be your teacher,
coach, mentor and friend as I work to do my best to develop the best potential
in each one of you. Let the lessons learnt fill up your hearts and minds like SUGAR
which will sweeten your journey of learning and discovery, especially when
it turns up a bit bitter along the way.
Check out the inspirational
quotations from your senior EIR students who have experienced the joy of
learning together with our warm EIR family during the October 2014 semester. Enjoy your exciting EIR journey of awesome
research endeavours!
Your friend,
Ms Farida
EIR subject leader & tutor
March 2015
4:48 PM
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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EIR Rocks and Empowers
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Dear awesome EIR students,
Our EIR journey ends this week with a 12-year legacy of quality teaching
and learning experiences using social media technologies. As always, all of YOU
our dearest students, have once again made our EIR journey an enjoyable and
meaningful one. Thank you for your warm friendship and trusting us to be
your teacher, coach, mentor and friend throughout our EIR journey together,
even though we come from different Schools. Thank you for opening up your minds
to enjoy learning and experience growth as you interact and exchange views with
the industry partners and EIR Alumni over Google+Hangout and during the site visit
to iExperience, despite other commitments in your life.
Though our EIR journey has ended, our learning has just begun. We
trust that we have empowered all of you with relevant and useful life skills
that will see you through life. We invite you to be leaders in your
own life by applying what you had learnt in EIR to benefit others around you.
As Bill Gates, Philanthropist and Inventor said, “As we look ahead into the
next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Our EIR journey has been like
the metaphor of driving a car on a highway, with the road ahead so far and
wide. We trust that the Internet research knowledge and life skills that you
had learnt in EIR has equipped and empowered you to drive your car safely and
effectively as you navigate through your journey of life.
We are happy to be able to
virtually accompany you on your journey through the Marvellous
Monday with Frida MOOC,
accessible via http://tinyurl.com/pcoamds. Let this MOOC be your BFF to accompany you through your
journey to achieve success in your life.
Spread the good news of EIR by writing an inspirational message to the next
batch of EIR students by signing the 1-minute autograph here. Stay Happy and
Marvellous Always.
Your Friend Always,
Ms Farida, on behalf of EIR Subject Team
27 January 2015
5:04 PM
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
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Growing the Seeds of Life
:
To my dearest and simply awesome EIR
students,
2014 marks the 11th
year that EIR was launched as a cross-disciplinary subject. EIR continues its
legacy of successfully delivering quality teaching and learning experiences
using social media technologies and flipped classroom activities. This will not
be possible and I will
not be who I am today without the amazing support of all of YOU, my dearest EIR
students and alumni, who have invested quality time and effort on our fantastic
EIR journey together. As you end your EIR journey this week and begin your new journey in your
respective courses of study, let’s cherish the good times we had shared by
applying what we had learnt in EIR into our lives. Its never easy to bid
farewell especially when we are just about to get to know one another better.
Thank you for your
warm friendship and trusting me to be your teacher, coach, mentor and friend
throughout our EIR journey together, even though we come from different Schools.
Thank you for opening up your minds to enjoy learning and experience growth as
you interact and exchange views with the industry partners and EIR Alumni over
Google+Hangout and during the site visit to iExperience, despite other
commitments in your life. I will miss all of YOU especially your smiles and
laughter as you work on your video and research project together as a team.
As I witness your
weekly perseverance and diligence to complete the Portfolio assignments, I
thank God for the gifts of wonderfully good students like all of YOU and
opportunity to touch the hearts and minds of so many precious young lives.
To me imparting EIR
skills and knowledge through my personal stories and experiences to inspire all
of YOU is like growing SEEDs of life. The EIR lessons and weekly coaching and
mentoring is like watering and nurturing the seed to grow into a tree with
branches, flowers, fruits and leaves. The branches are like your research team
members supporting one another. Now the seed has grown into a tree which
provides fruits and shade to others just like all of you who are now empowered to
sustain your academic and future professional life and guide others to unravel
the full meaning of their life.
Spread the good news
of EIR by writing an inspirational message to the next batch of EIR students by
signing the 1-minute autograph here. Stay Happy and Positive always.
Your Friend Always,
Ms Farida N.
4 August 2014
8:47 AM
Thursday, April 17, 2014
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Welcome to EIR The EPIC Journey of Growth & Learning
:
Dearest EIR
Apr 2014 students!
It gives me immense pleasure to welcome all of you to our most joyful EIR
family.
Thank you
for selecting EIR as your CDS for this Apr 2014 semester. You have made the right choice to be in this
exciting journey of discovering the wonderful world of the Internet. Wow!
EIR gets better and better each semester because of the wonderful participation
of EIR students like all of YOU!
Shortly
after the last run in March 2014, I have been very privileged to be given this
wonderful opportunity yet again to work with all of you the new batch of awesome EIR students! I am truly excited and
look forward to an exciting journey ahead with all of you. Together we can make
your EIR journey a meaningful and empowering one.
Just like
the ever-changing and dynamic Internet world, EIR has also evolved to suit the
changing needs of our students. This year 2014, we harness the power of social
media through collaborations with industry partners. I can’t wait to witness
the rich exchange of knowledge between all of you and several industry partners
as you virtually interview them on Google+Hangout to gather your research
findings. You will promote awareness of your research topic via Facebook
and engage in active live sharing of peer feedback and comments via Twitter
during the final presentations. Oh yes, we will also learn beyond our classroom
via an exciting site visit cum education trip to iExperience@Esplanade. There
will also be engaging discussions and interactions in class.
This semester you will be given the exciting opportunity
to experience a new teaching approach in EIR - Flipped Classroom which promises
a more engaging and interactive way of learning EIR. At the end of
the module, you and your group will also get to produce your own video
about your research findings.
With the beginning of our EIR journey together, let us open up our hearts and
minds to enjoy learning and experience growth and development in our
lives. Allow me to be your teacher, coach, mentor and friend as I work to
do my best to develop the best potential in each one of you. Let the lessons
learnt fill up your hearts and minds like the drops of RAIN that fall on dry
land to turn it into a fertile land with green grass, trees and beautiful
flowers and fauna.
Check out
the inspirational quotations from your senior EIR students who have experienced
the joy of learning together with our warm EIR family during the October 2013
semester and DPA 2014. Enjoy your exciting EIR journey of awesome
research endeavours!
Your friend,
Ms Faridah
EIR subject leader & tutor
17 April 2014
8:18 PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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Craft your Life Story - Be the Champion of Your Own Life
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Dearest all
EIR DPA 2014 Champs!
As you end your
EIR journey today and begin your new journey in your respective courses of
study, may I invite you to open up your hearts and minds to craft your unique
life story as Champions in your lives. Its
never easy to bid farewell so soon especially when we are about to get to know
one another better. Nevertheless let’s cherish the good times we had shared by
applying what we had learnt in EIR into our lives.
As I witness your daily
perseverance and diligence as you faithfully work on completing the Portfolio
assignments, I thank God for giving me the strength, passion and perseverance
to deliver this 7-day EIR workshop just after the Oct13 semester run of EIR. I
also thank God for the wonderful gift of awesome students like all of you.
Thank you for trusting me
to be your teacher, coach, mentor and friend throughout our EIR journey
together. Thank you also for keeping an open mind to enjoy learning and
experience growth as you actively interact and exchange views with the industry
partners and EIR Alumni over Google+Hangout and during the site visit to
iExperience. Your engaging sharing of research stories during the talk-shows, smiles
and laughter as you presented on interesting websites will be fondly
remembered.
Let me end this journey with a
metaphor of WATER. Imparting EIR skills and knowledge through my personal and
other motivational stories to inspire all of YOU is like adding WATER into your
life. Just like water is necessary to
sustain you physically, the EIR lessons provide you with the basic necessity to
sustain your academic and future professional lives by nourishing you
emotionally and psychologically while empowering and guiding you to unravel the
full meaning of your life.
Spread the good news of EIR by
writing an inspirational message to the next batch of EIR students by signing
the 1-minute autograph via this blog.
Your
Friend Always,
Ms Farida
25 March 2014
1:20 PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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DPA Mar 2014 – A Journey of Endless Discovery
:
To my
dearest DPA 2014 students!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome all of you to our most joyful EIR family.
Thank you for participating in this exciting journey of discovering the
wonderful world of the Internet. Wow! It
has been an amazing 7 years since we offer EIR to the 1st batch of
DPA students back in 2008. I have been
very privileged to be given this wonderful opportunity yet again to work with all
of you the awesome batch of DPA EIR students in 2014!
I am
truly excited and look forward to an exciting journey ahead with all of you. Together
we can make your EIR journey a meaningful and empowering one.
Just like
the ever-changing and dynamic Internet world, EIR has also evolved to suit the
changing needs of our students. This year 2014, we harness the power of social
media through collaborations with industry partners. I can’t wait to witness
the rich exchange of knowledge between all of you and several industry partners
as you virtually interview them on Google+Hangout to gather your research findings. You will promote awareness of your research topic
via Facebook and engage in active live sharing of peer feedback and comments via
Twitter during the final presentations. Oh yes, we will also learn beyond our
classroom via an exciting site visit cum education trip to
iExperience@Esplanade. There will also be engaging discussions and interactions
in class.
With the beginning of our EIR journey together, let us open up our hearts and
minds to enjoy learning and experience growth and development in our lives.
Allow me to be your teacher, coach, mentor and friend as I work to do my
best to develop the best potential in each one of you. Let the lessons learnt
fill up your hearts and minds like the drops of RAIN that fall on dry land to
turn it into a fertile land with green grass, trees and beautiful flowers and
fauna.
Check out
the inspirational quotations from your senior EIR students who have experienced
the joy of learning together with our warm EIR family during the October 2013
semester. Enjoy your exciting EIR
journey of awesome research endeavours!
Your friend,
Ms
Faridah
EIR subject leader & tutor
12 March 2014
2:48 PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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A Pinch of Salt to Savour the Taste of Life
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To my dearest and always awesome EIR students,
OMG! this Oct13 semester marks the 10th year anniversary of subject Effective Internet Research. Intimately called “EIR” now and previously known as UIR, this subject and all my wonderful EIR students and alumni has always been and will always be in my mind and heart. EIR will never be standing strong today for a decade now, without the awesome support of YOU all, my dearest EIR students. Afterall, what am I without all of YOU. I am nothing and won’t a lecturer for 10 years now, without the support of all of you who have spent quality time together with me on our fabulous EIR journey.
Thank you for giving me this chance to be your friend, tutor, mentor and coach throughout your EIR journey. As I read some of your heart-warming closure reflections and metaphor, tears swelled in my eyes as I thank God for granting me the wisdom, strengths and passion to add value and touch the lives of so many precious young people like all of YOU.
To me, imparting EIR skills and knowledge through my personal stories and other motivational stories to inspire all of YOU is like adding SALT into your life. Just like the humble salt gives taste to the food you eat to nourish you physically, the EIR lessons have added that taste in your life to help nourish you emotionally and psychologically while empowering and guiding you to savour the full meaning of your life.
As you end your EIR journey and continue with the journey of life, remember to allow the "Fireworks" inside you to be ignited as "Lighters" in your life as you "Hit the Lights" to develop your best potential to achieve your dreams!.
Be the SALT and LIGHT to others and spread the good news of EIR by writing an inspirational message to the next batch of EIR students by signing the 1-minute autograph here.
Stay Positive & Happy Always!
Your Friend Always,
Ms Farida
EIR Subject Leader and Lecturer
11 Feb 2014
12:14 PM
Monday, February 04, 2013
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End of EIR RED Maserati Ride
:
Dear awesome EIR students,
Our EIR RED Maserati Ride ends this week. Despite such a speedy ride over some bumpy roads and roller-coaster turns, we all have survived this journey. Hey, you all Made it! You all survived EIR despite your hectic workload in your respective Diplomas. Pat yourselves on the back. You are now equipped with the necessary research skills to embark on your new journey in your respective Diplomas. I trust that the research fireworks will continue to be ignited in each one of you. Let this fireworks continue to light up your life as you continue your study in TP and beyond.
Thank you for your warm friendship and participation in completing all EIR activities, despite your other commitments in your personal and academic life. I have had a fantastic and joyful experience interacting and teaching all of you and learning from one another. I will miss all of you especially your jokes and laughters.
Throughout our journey together, we have learnt a lot about Internet and issues related to our youths and society today like narcissism, depression, human trafficking, racial harmony, poverty and smoking, etc. Besides using the Internet for research purposes, you have used social media to communicate your ideas professionally via Facebook to virtually collaborate with new friends from USA and interactively engage the online community, worked closely with your group mates via Wiki and provided interesting feedback on your peers’ research findings presentations via Twitter and Tumblr.
I look forward to all your presentations and trust that you will do an epic-win presentation that will rock the house.
Our friendship does not have to end with the closure of EIR class this week. We will stay connected virtually on our EIR DPA Facebook, Twitter and email. As a final close to our EIR Oct 2012 semester, I invite all of you to spend 1-minute of your time to autograph a meaningful and inspirational comment/remark about EIR in the comments column of this EIR blog. Please also give us your feedback on EIR via OLIVE.
As you end your EIR journey and begin your new journey in your respective Diploma courses, remember to work hard to achieve your dreams. Be inspired by Elvis Presley & Celine Dion’s song “If I Can Dream” and Taylor Swift’s inspirational success story. You can achieve your dreams when you believe in yourself and work towards achieving your dreams.
Till we meet again in other encounters, I wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Stay Positive & Happy Always!
Ms Faridah
EIR Subject Leader and Tutor
4 February 2013
2:29 PM
