Many students. Three cities. One surgery. A bariatric surgical procedure to help a patient to reduce weight at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia was beamed live via Internet2 to Kyushu University Hospital staff in Fukuoka, Japan and NUS staff in the CIT Auditorium. This was the first time that the three countries were connected for teleconferencing by high-speed broadband instead of ISDN lines.
CIT upgraded IVLE to Version 7.7 during the semester break. This article features three new and important developments in 7.7: Module Website management integration, NETg online course integration and the introduction of My Communities for staff.
Professor Linda E. Patrik from Union College, New York, shares her insights about the effectiveness of blogs as a teaching tool. While her article focuses on philosophy, some of pedagogical aspects are applicable to educational technology efforts in other areas of study.
In this edition of Faculty Voice, Mr Aaron Tan Tuck Choy, Department of Computer Science, winner of the Students' Choice Award 04/05 & 05/06, shares his tips for an effective and engaging module website.
Tech-savvy students have been taking advantage of podcast lectures in NUS since Semester 1 AY 2005/2006. If your lectures are webcasted, they are turned into podcasts at the touch of a button.
As of January 2006, CIT has been ISO 9001:2000 certified for another three years. On a related note, CIT also came away with two prizes at the NUS Centennial Quality Service Day 2005/06. These reflect CIT's commitment to quality and continual improvement.
Mr Aaron Tan Tuck Choy's module website for Programming Methodology CS1101X has been chosen by the students as the best module website for the second year running. He becomes the first consecutive winner of the Students' Choice Award!
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