Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Dear DES TO2 (Oct 09 Blk 8) Students,

Greetings! A Warm Welcome to All of You! Its great to end the year 2009 and begin 2010 with a welcome note for all of you.

This subject Effective Internet Research (EIR) allows you to make use of Web 2.0 tools and resources for effective Internet research. EIR gives you the chance to establish your presence on the web by creating your own blog, twitter, chat on MSN, make more friends on Facebook and set up group Wikis and collaborate virtually.We look forward to a beneficial sharing and exchange of knowledge and skills over the course duration.

Our first class will begin on Wed 30 Dec 09 at 9am.

Have a great time, just like your seniors who have taken EIR!

Best regards,
Farida

Labels: Greetings and Welcome

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3:16 PM

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Dear Students,

Welcome to the EIR Blog!

EIR allows you to create your own Blog so that you can document and reflect on the lessons learnt and meaningful exciting experiences throughout your EIR journey.Weblogs or personal blogs is a simple online journal that contains stories, links and your commentary about topics of your choice. Weblogs are easy to design and maintain.

You will create a personal blog that provides information about yourself, including your academic and personal interests.

Here's how you can start :
1) use a free blog hosting service and follow the directions to develop your personal site.
2) briefly tell us about yourself (refer to the ice-breaker worksheet)
3) using any search facility, find 2 exciting websites that are particularly interesting to you.
4) add links to these websites in your Blog, together with a brief description and commentary.
5) once your blog is up and running, go to OLE. Post the URL for your weblog to enable your fellow classmates to visit and get to know you better.
6) remember to update your weblog after each day’s activities with additional links and commentary.

All the best in your Blogging experience!

Labels: Blogging is fun

{she was all that I needed} // and my eyes change accordingly.
3:10 PM

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Hi, pleased to meet you.

I’m Farida. I teach web design and effective internet research at Diploma in Interactive Media Informations at IIT School. I love to listen to music, read, swim and cycle.

I love listening to different types of music by various favourite singers like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Jay Shawn, Mickael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, just to name a few.

Some of my favourite songs include ‘Down’, ‘You Belong With Me’, ‘Fallen for You’, ‘Party in the USA’, ‘Halo’, ‘My Life Sucks Without You’, ‘Always on My Mind’, ‘Beat It’. I love these songs for their beautiful lyrics and rhythm that rocks.

I love cycling along the beach while marveling at the beautiful sights and sounds of nature. I love watching Mentalist, CSI, Criminal Minds and Fringe, as I learnt alot about life and people from these TV programmes. I also love to watch Winx Club, Hanna Montana, Ben10, Simpsons and Spongebob Square Pants on Octo channel as they help me to de-stress. Youtube, MTV and CNN are my favourite Internet sites as I love watching videos and reading latest news online.

One skill/hobby that I am passionate about is swimming. You need to get your breathing right first before you start swimming –inhale from the mouth and exhale from the nose. You also need to love the water and enjoy being underwater. Its really therapeutic.

Labels: Knowing Me and Knowing You -Ice -breaker

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3:06 PM

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

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To my EIR friends from Kazhakstan,

We have come to the end of our exciting 3-day EIR journey together from 7-9 Dec 2009. Its always hard to end something that you really enjoy. Even though we have just known one another for 3 days, I feel that we have known one another for 3 years. The warm friendship and bonding we share will be cherished for a long time to come.

Thank you for all your most enthusiastic participation in the EIR class activities. I really appreciate your kind patience in faithfully completing the class activities. We had fun using the numerous Web 2.0 social networking softwares to interact and engage us in our learning.

Remember how we tweeted before starting lessons to motivate one another to remain positive in doing our work well? I enjoy putting up those motivational quotes on EIRTweets to inspire you and myself too.

I am glad that we have made some new friends when we did the Facebook ice-breaking activity. We learnt useful values of virtually collaborating on Wiki space about our research topics.

I am impressed by your EIR Web 2.0 group presentations and inspirational metaphors this afternoon. I am sure all of you have done your very best to put up such great work for EIR! Well done all!

I have had a fantastic and joyful experience interacting and teaching all of you and learning from one another. Our friendship does not have to end with the closure of EIR today.

We will meet up virtually on our EIR Network Facebook space, on Twitter (twitter.com/Eirtweets) and MSN (buddy-line@hotmail.com). See you there my dear friends.

As a final close to our EIR DES Oct09 chapter, I invite all of you to spend 1-minute of your time to autograph a meaningful & inspirational comment/remark about EIR in the comments column of this EIR blog.

Remember to use what you had learnt in EIR when you return to your schools in Kazhakstan. Till we meet again in other encounters, I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

Stay Happy Always!
Cheers!
Faridah
EIR Web 2.0 session
ICT Teaching and Learning Course, 7-9 Dec 09

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Чтобы мои друзья из ОДП Kazhakstan,

Мы подошли к концу нашего захватывающее путешествие на 3 дня ОДП вместе с 7-9 декабря 2009. Его всегда тяжело до конца то, что вам действительно нравится. Даже если мы просто знали друг друга в течение 3 дней, я чувствую, что мы знали друг друга в течение 3 лет. Теплая дружба и связи мы разделяем будет желанной для долгого времени. Спасибо вам за все ваши самые восторженные участие в деятельности ОДП класс. Я действительно ценю Ваше терпение в добросовестного завершения класс деятельности. Мы веселились помощью многочисленных Web 2.0 социальных сетей программное обеспечение для взаимодействия и вовлечь нас в наше обучение.

Помню, как мы чирикнул перед началом уроков, чтобы мотивировать друг друга, чтобы оставаться положительной в этом свою работу хорошо? Мне нравится положить до тех мотивационных котировки на EIRTweets чтобы вдохновить вас и себя тоже. Я рад, что мы внесли некоторые новые друзья, когда мы сделали лед Facebook-Breaking деятельности. Мы узнали полезного значения сотрудничает практически на вики-пространстве о нашей тематике исследований. Я впечатлен вашей ОДП Web 2.0 Презентация второй половине дня. Я уверен, что вы все сделали ваши самые лучшие терпеть такую большую работу для ОДП! Молодцы все! Я имел фантастический и радостный опыт взаимодействия и обучения всех вас и учиться друг у друга. Наша дружба не до конца с закрытием ОДП сегодня. Мы будем встретить практически на наших ОДП космической сети Facebook, на Twitter (twitter.com / Eirtweets) и MSN (buddy-line@hotmail.com).

Увидимся там мои дорогие друзья. В качестве последнего близки к нашим ОДП главы ДЕЗ Oct09, я приглашаю всех вас потратить 1 минуту вашего времени автографом значимые & Inspirational комментарий / замечание о ОДП в комментариях столбце этого блога ОДП. Помните, чтобы использовать то, что ты узнал в ОДП, когда вы вернетесь к вашей школы в Kazhakstan. До встречи в других встречах, я желаю вам всего наилучшего в вашей будущей работе.

Всегда оставаться счастливыми!
Ура! Faridah ОДП Web 2.0 сессии ИКТ в учебно-педагогический курс, 7-9 Dec 09

Labels: An Singapore-Kazhastan Working Relationship Begins

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4:12 PM

Monday, December 07, 2009

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Hi, I’m Farida.

I teach web design and effective internet research at Diploma in Interactive Media Informations at IIT School.

I love to listen to music, read, swim and cycle. My favourite singers are Elvis Presley and Mariah Carey.

My favourite songs are ‘Fallen for You’ by Colbie Caillat, ‘Halo’ by Beyonce, ‘Party in the USA’ by Miley Cyrus and ‘My Life Sucks Without You” by Kelly Clarkson – the beautiful lyrics and rhythm rocks.

I love cycling along the beach while marveling at the beautiful sights and sounds of nature. I love watching Mentalist, CSI, Criminal Minds and Fringe shown on Channel 5 in Singapore, as I learnt a lot about life and people from these TV programmes.

I also love to watch Winx Club, Hanna Montana, Ben10, Simpsons and Spongebob Square Pants on Octo channel as they help me to de-stress. Youtube, MTV and CNN are my favourite Internet sites as I love watching videos and reading latest news online.

One skill/hobby that I am passionate about is swimming. You need to get your breathing right first before you start swimming –inhale from the mouth and exhale from the nose. You also need to love the water and enjoy being underwater. Its really therapeutic.

Labels: Knowing Me and Knowing You -Ice -breaker

{she was all that I needed} // and my eyes change accordingly.
11:26 AM

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the EIR Blog!

EIR allows you to create your own Blog so that you can document and reflect on the lessons learnt and meaningful exciting experiences throughout your EIR journey.

Weblogs or personal blogs is a simple online journal that contains stories, links and your commentary about topics of your choice. Weblogs are easy to design and maintain.

You will create a personal blog that provides information about yourself, including your academic and personal interests.

Here's how you can start :
1) use a free blog hosting service and follow the directions to develop your personal site.
2) briefly tell us about yourself (refer to the ice-breaker worksheet)
3) using any search facility, find 2 exciting websites that are particularly interesting to you.
4) add links to these websites in your Blog, together with a brief description and commentary.
5) once your blog is up and running, go to the EIR wiki space at www.eir-rawkz.wetpaint.com. Post the URL for your weblog to enable your fellow participants to visit and get to know you better.
6) remember to update your weblog after each day’s activities with additional links and commentary.

All the best in your Blogging experience!

Cheers!
Farida

Labels: Welcome to the World of Blogging on EIR

{she was all that I needed} // and my eyes change accordingly.
9:08 AM

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Dear Friends,Warm Greetings from Singapore!

Welcome to Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic.

We hope you will have a fruitful and enjoyable time with us here.This subject Effective Internet Research (EIR) allows you to make use of Web 2.0 tools and resources for effective Internet research. EIR gives you the chance to establish your presence on the web by creating your own blog, twitter, chat on MSN, make more friends on Facebook and set up group Wikis and collaborate virtually.

We look forward to a beneficial sharing and exchange of knowledge and skills over the next few days.

Have a great time!

Best regards,Ms Farida

Labels: Welcome

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8:37 AM

Friday, December 04, 2009

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Today EIR subject Blog underwent another facelift. Its new look is amazing. Credit goes to EIR student Bernie Ong Aik Kwan for making this possible. Thank you Bernie for your gracious time and effort in helping to enhance the look and feel of this subject blog.

The previous facelift which was very catchy, refreshing and awesome was done by EIR DES T01 students Jason & Amanda. Thank you Jason & Amanda for your great efforts.

Such spirit of helpfulness amongst the EIR student community is commendable.
We really appreciate it!

Labels: EIR Blog With A Difference

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4:46 PM

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This week EIR students reflected on the effectiveness of using the incredible and intriguing Invisible Web (databases) by making comparisons with other search facilities like search engines, meta-search engines and subject directory. They did searches on TP's database TP spark and ITPRO. Indeed more relevant and extensive resources can be easily found in this invisible space of the web. It is a really a haven for Internet researches.

Labels: The Amazing Invisible Web

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4:36 PM

Thursday, December 03, 2009

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EIR students who are currently studying EIR on a semester mode will be completing Term 1 this week. They have completed their Class test 1 and Portfolio Part 1. Thus far, students have shown great enthusiasm and dedication to actively participate in EIR classes and do well in the test and assignment. Well done all! Continue to work hard as you all journey into the 2nd half of EIR next year.

Labels: Well Done EIR Semester students

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3:15 PM

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Labels: Happy with DESOct09(T01) students

{she was all that I needed} // and my eyes change accordingly.
2:41 PM