voyeurism

EcoRangers® is granted its patent :-)

the one-hundred-and-fifty-seventh episode of ventriloquy tells the story of EcoRangers® - the multi-player handheld game that is jointly developed by Jason Wang and myself.

today, more than four years after EcoRangers® made its debut, Jason and i received the wonderful news that we have finally been granted our patent!

it's P-No. 124317, granted by the Registry of Patents, Singapore, in accordance with Section 35 of the Patents Act.

please join me in this 3.4 MB download, and please feel free to browse the story here.

to God be the glory!

Technorati Tags: EcoRangers, education, games, learning, podcast, Singapore, TLLM

God's grace :-) #13

through His grace alone, i have been offered an Assistant Professorship at the Learning Sciences & Technologies Academic Group, at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, with effect from next month.

:-)

da capo al fine

'nuff said :-)

pretty in pink

i collected my academic gown, hood and bonnet today, together with the invitation cards for the graduation ceremony, and the degree scroll.

the hood is technically 'crimson edged with gold', but it looks shockingly pink to me :-P

paper qualification

i received my transcript from the university today :-)

it was packaged with a letter letting me know that i should check here from April, for details on the July ceremony.

:-)

the gauntlet thrown

'Time' magazine's nomination of you as its Person of the Year serves as the inspiration behind the eighty-fourth episode of ventriloquy.

in this 4.3 MB download, i wonder aloud if schools will be one of the last to ponder, let alone understand, the implications of the writing on the media wall.

as this might also serve as my Christmas podcast, i'd just like to draw the attention of my Singaporean readers and subscribers that - after a two-month wait - the iPod nano [PRODUCT] RED is finally available, just in time for us to stuff our stockings with. A portion of the proceeds will go directly to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

[update: God had a wonderful gift in store for me today when i reached home. fifteen days' after it was first listed at amazon, i now have my doctoral thesis as a paperback :-) ]

Technorati Tags: education, learning, media, multiliteracies, Person of the Year, podcast, Singapore, Time, TLLM, Web 2.0

book the blog, bye the book

in this eighty-first episode of ventriloquy, i consider the relevance of Jay Lemke's thoughts on media, literacies and learning, in a time when we are now able to make books from blogs with a single click.

i briefly consider the implications of this new spin on desktop, and hyperlocal, publishing - in terms of the design and crafting of learning tasks - in this 3.5 MB download. what might such developments mean to the look-and-feel of books as we know them today? what would a book having its origins from a MySpace blog look like?

it would probably look a lot different from a stuffy academic tome, for sure - say, a stuffy academic tome such as that arising from a doctoral thesis on adolescent spatial cognition.

:-)

Show notes:
- Professor Jay L Lemke, University of Michigan
- flyer for Pictures in Place: Adolescent usage of multimedia messaging in the negotiation, construction and sharing of meaning about local environments

Technorati Tags: cognition, constructivism, discourse, education, geography, landmarks, learning, maps, multiliteracies, navigation, place, podcast, semiotics, Singapore, TLLM, Vygotsky, wayfinding, Web 2.0

from the Pro-Chancellor

today, i was officially conferred the doctorate.

all glory be to God.

:-)

google's top hit

w00t :-)

just for fun, i googled 'phd skypecast'.

(i'd done that just last week, in order to verify that the skypecast of my oral defence would indeed be the world's first)

to my utter (and, it must be said, very pleasant) surprise, it turns out that my skypecast is - for now, at least - the top hit, from among 10800 results!

thank You, God, for continuing to surprise me :-)

Technorati Tags: globalization, quantum classroom®, Singapore, skypecast

God's grace :-) #10 (a.k.a. viva voce) (part II)

here is the concluding part of this morning's recording of the oral defence of my doctoral thesis.

it brings you the question- and answer-session which followed my presentation to the panel of examiners.

this part of the episode is 16.1 MB in size and 34 minutes in duration.

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