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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!

Temasek - Prim Perfect August Treasure Hunt

if you would like to win yourself a prize, do consider participating in this month's Treasure Hunt organised by Prim Perfect magazine :-)

there are twelve items waiting to be found, all over the grid.

one of the twelve is this orchid, designed and built by EmpressNever Rejected. it is somewhere in Temasek, and represents Singapore's national flower - the Vanda Miss Joaquim.

to participate in the Treasure Hunt, be sure to read the Prim Perfect blog regularly, for clues which will lead you to all twelve items. for each item, you need to discover its prim count. send the respective prim counts for as many items as you can find in the Hunt to [email protected] by 1 September, including your avatar name and an answer to the tie-breaker question (which you can find in the August issue on page 90). Mark the subject of your email as Treasure Hunt - August 2008.

best wishes with your entry :-)

Happy National Day, Singapore!

On behalf of the entire team behind Temasek, i would like to wish all Singaporeans a Happy 43rd National Day :-)

The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life

i would be remiss as a geographer if i did not draw your attention to this thoughtfully written piece by the good folks over at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life

an extract:

"Second Life is easy to dismiss as pure distraction and entertainment. Yet look under the lid and it contains one of the most powerful geographical data visualization kits available... Second Life represents a glimpse into the future of digital geography, visualization and collaboration in virtual space."

Technorati Tags: games, geography, maps, Second Life, Web 2.0, wiki

Second Announcement - New Dimensions in Humanities Education 2008

posting this on behalf of my colleagues at the Humanities & Social Studies Education (HSSE) Academic Group, National Institute of Education (NIE)

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New Dimensions in Humanities Education
18 to 19 November 2008

The HSSE Academic Group at the NIE is proud to present the New Dimensions in Humanities Education 2008 conference to teachers, scholars and policy makers in education who wish to learn about the ways in which humanities education has been adjusting to new challenges in primary, secondary and tertiary education. This conference is special because it brings together scholars and teachers to explore how the broadening scope of education at every level has challenged them to rethink teaching humanities in a fast changing learning environment in the digital age. The conference will focus on new developments in content permeating primary and secondary education and new strategies of teaching that emerge at times of rapid change but are slow to influence scholars engaged in substantive research and in tertiary education. We hope to converge these seemingly mutually exclusive groups and interests to explore new ways of teaching humanities from a learner-centred perspective, which would help us to produce innovative and empowered students who can face the future with confidence.

The conference will encompass three main areas of humanities (i.e. geography, history and social studies) and pedagogy in all three areas. The proposed programme will cover various aspects of humanities education and every panel will combine exploratory papers on new developments in content, pedagogy and methods of teaching. We endeavour to present challenging views in every area to stimulate a dialogue across the disciplinary boundaries against the background of rapidly converging strands of learning. Three international leading scholars in geography, history and social studies education will give keynote addresses and also present papers. We hope to present many leading local scholars and prominent teachers in various panels to make this conference academically exciting and useful for all participants.

Keynote Addresses:

Social Studies for a Globally Interconnected World
Merry Merryfield

History Education and Democratic Citizenship
Keith Barton

School Geography: Misheard or Misplaced?
David Lambert

Technorati Tags: education, geography, NDHE2008, Singapore

International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT) 2008

the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT) 2008 starts tomorrow.

taking a leaf out of Tuck Soon's blog, here's where you are most likely to find me if you come looking, over the next two days :-)

TUESDAY 5 AUGUST

0900 hrs Opening Address by Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence - Dr Ng Eng Hen
0930 hrs Keynote by Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Innovation in Teaching and Learning
1130 hrs MR203 Desmond Tan, David Toh and Eric Ng of Millennia Institute on Go Ogle the Earth: Developing the 'Geographical Eye' in Students

WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST

1100 hrs Ballroom 3 Leslie Conery, Deputy CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) on The Power of Virtual Worlds for Building Professional Learning Communities
1400 hrs Keynote by Cheryl Lemke on Mind Shift Culture Shift
1600 hrs Closing Plenary

Technorati Tags: education, iCTLT, Singapore