17: Archiving "Collaborative Projects on Internet"

Much has been written online about Collaborative Projects on Internet, and much has been lost through neglect and closure of websites. Thus it is important to archive the data. In this instance, YouTube has been very useful.
See this video, for example >>>.

16: Record of Teachers' IT-based Lesson Plans

During training in 1998-1999, the teachers were taught how to infuse IT in their lessons, using CD-ROMs.
Here' a record of their work >>>.

15: Facebook Connection with old Colleagues

Nowadays, Facebook provides the on-line connection for me to refresh ties and memories with a few of my old ETD colleagues who were Sritis (Sr IT Instructors).


(Click above to view enlarged picture.)

14: ETD Colleagues @ CNY Steamboat

Many years later, in 2008 in fact, previous ETD colleagues met for fellowship lunch during CNY at the 7th Storey Hotel, enjoying steamboat and catching-up with old times.

13: Judging a Website Design Competition

As Senior IT Instructor, I was invited by the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Associations to co-judge their Inaugural Website Design Competition.
Here's a photo of the winning team and me.

12: MOE Contact Newsletter Article about Me

Click on the picture above to read from a larger copy of it from the Ministry of Education newsletter "Contact" - Issue No.9 - May 1999 .

11: Ever Visited a Tamil Website?

Well, I did when as Sriti, I was invited to view the Tamil Language Websites at St Hilda's Primary School. Here's a photo of the occasion:

10: A Well-earned Lunch

As Sritis, occasionally we treated ourselves to a good lunch. Here's one in which we celebrated the Spring Festival.

9: Completion of Project OceanWave 2

(Above): Project OceanWave 2 was successfully concluded with a presentation for the crew of HMS Grafton and the two participating Singapore schools: Cedar Girls' Secondary School and Tampines Primary School.

(Above): Me having tea with the project particpants after the presentation at Cedar Girls' Sec School.

(Below): Students of the project schools being briefed on board the frigate HMS Grafton.

View details of the project >>>

8: Celebrating National Day

It was not all work as a Senior IT Instructor at ETD. We had time to celebrate occasions such as a successful training outcome of a school, the completion of an ICT seminar or conference and, in particular, National Day.

(Below): In lighter vein: A mischievous piece of digital art :-)

7: ON2IT - an MOE Publication

Much that was accomplished in the IT MasterPlan when we were Senior IT Instructors has been recorded in the MOE Educational Technology Division's publication "ON2IT".

(Below): I was interviewed regarding my role in the implementation of the IT MasterPlan by an ETD officer for "ON2IT". (Vide: Page 119, "Building an international montage" in "ON2IT".

6: Field Trips

We organized field trips to augment our training strategies for our Social Studies Cluster. Here's one in which we drove to West Malaysia to check out the fishing village and Kampong Laut of Kukup and developments at the southern-most tip of the Asian mainland, Tanjung Piai.

(Below): Checking out the oil palm fruit:

(Below): A Fruit Orchard

(Below): A Fishing Village

(Below): Tanjung Piai

5: In-house Training Workshops

When we were not training teachers, we kept ourselves busy by upgrading our skills and knowledge. For this purpose, ETD arranged for oversea experts in Educational Research, Methodology and Technology to conduct workshops for our benefit.

(Below): An "Advanced Training of Trainers" workshop conducted by Pam Robbins (18-20 Feb 1998). She also conducted a workshop on "Brain Compatible Teaching Strategies" (16-18 Feb 1998).

(Below): A workshop on "Brain-based Learning" conducted by Eric Jensen (30-31 Aug 1999):

(Below): A workshop on "Teaching for Transfer" by T Parry (13-16 Nov 1998):

(Below): A HyperStudio workshop conducted by its creator Roger Wagner:

4: CIP (Community Involvement Project)

As Sr IT Instructors, we contributed our share of CIP by refurbishing used computers at a secondary school zonal project. The benefiaries were needy senior citizens who would get a refurbished computer free of charge as donations from the zone.

3: Ed Tech Conference

At the EdTech Conference, I presented a paper on "Collaborative Project on Internet - Project OceanWave". This project involved students from Singapore collaborating with students from Birmingham, UK, as well as an aircraft-carrier HMS Illustrious on its way to Singapore. Here's a report of it on YouTube.

The picture below shows the event on HMS Illustrious when the project students met members of the crew from the Royal Navy:

To view a video of the above project, click here >>>

2: Collaborative Project on Internet

As Sr IT Instructor, I encouraged schools in Singapore to do a collaborative project on Internet involving schools in UK and the British Royal Navy through the collaboration of the British Council in Singapore.

The picture above shows Cedar Sec Girls and Tampines Pri pupils on board a Royal Navy frigate HMS Grafton as part of the project called "OceanWave 2".

To view a video of the project, click here >>>