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January 2005

Spotlight

Dr Yeo Gee Kin - A choir, a broken foot and Breeze

When A/P Yeo Gee Kin embarked on a tour with the Baihe Ladies Singers, she would not have foreseen that it would lead her to using Breeze, a multimedia enhancement for PowerPoint.

IVLE

The Lesson Plan way to a clutter-free workspace

Heavy IVLE users might notice that their workspace tends to become an unreadable list. We show you how to reduce clutter on the workspace by employing the Lesson Plan.

E-Learning

E-Learning Snippets

Wiki. Podcasting. Furl. These may sound like terms out of a science-fiction movie, but they are actually three recent technological developments with promising e-learning applications. Along with these, we highlight MindManager software, Desktop Search tools and PhDblogs.net, a blog of interest.

Faculty Voice

Dr Andy Chiang shares his Camtasia experience

Dr Andy Chiang uses Camtasia, a software that produces video clips of computer monitor output. In this issue's Faculty Voice, Asst Prof Chiang tells IDEAS about his experience with and application of Camtasia.

News

Lecturer Aaron Tan Tuck Choy wins Students’ Choice Award 2004/2005

The students have voted, and their choice is Lecturer Aaron Tan Tuck Choy’s module website for CS1101 Programming Methodology, an introductory School of Computing module.

News

IVLE upgraded to version 7.5

NUS students and faculty may have noticed several changes to the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) during the semester break. These changes are part of an IVLE upgrade, from version 7.4 to 7.5 on 18 December 2004, which introduced a RSS feed reader and live Lecture Theatre feedback among other enhancements.

News

CIT to provide support for groundbreaking course

NUS' first postgraduate distance learning course will be facilitated by CIT's services. Read about our support for the Master of Science in Financial Engineering (by Distance Learning) degree, which takes in its first cohort of students in July 2005.