Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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The EIR Music that Never Ends
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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
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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
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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
