CITations

Mr MindMap talks about nurturing creativity in this 14 minute video.

Hat tip to Stephen Downes.

Direct link to video page.

eXe is an application which allows educators to design, develop and publish online teaching and learning materials on their own. Recently, it has gone 1.0, meaning that it's ready for prime time. Congratulations to Dr Wayne Mackintosh and his team!

For a quick overview of eXe, watch Brent Simpson's short introduction.

Try it out for yourself! You can download it here for Windows, Mac or Linux.

Oh, just a quick note: you can install eXe on a thumbdrive and have it available whether you are on campus or at home.

• eXe Website
• eXe User Guide
• eXe Updates

Direct link to Introduction to eXe video.

Siva at Habitatnews, highlights three blogs by students from the Department of Biological Sciences.

Arthroplog is a blog about Arthropods. These consist of insects, arachnids (such as spiders), crustaceans and the like. Just one post at this point in time but the has great potential to grow.

The Chek Jawa Mortality and Recruitment Project, by Loh Kok Sheng, is a blog which reports on "the mass mortality and recruitment of macrofauna" at Chek Jawa. Kok Sheng intends to carry on this blog beyond the time-frame of his assignment.

Johora singaporensis is Daniel's honours year thesis project blog. He thinks out loud, shares observations and posts photos of this local crab species on his blog.

Some benefits of student blogs:

• easy way to keep track of students' progress, particularly with project work
• sharing information with and educating the world at large
• possibility of coming across people in similar areas of study/research