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Affirmation
2012-01-13 08:50
Mrs Frances Ess, a senior teacher who is on attachment with us, started attending my AAG233: Climate and Climate change class as part of her observation on how university lecturers teach. At the end of the session, I gave her a ride home as the class eneded at 1815. We chatted in the car and I...
Climate Change Education workshop
2012-01-10 09:09
I conducted a workshop on climate change education yesterday at Westwood Secondary School. It was O level results day so we could only spend 2 hours on the workshop. There was good initial feedback and I have been invited to go back to the school for an extention run so that we could deal with...
Oral Defence and grade anxiety
2011-10-31 08:42
Today marks the last group of oral defense for ACG321. This time I have decided to do individual oral defense of their unit plans. An interesting observation is that despite the numerous attempts at reassuing them that the oral defense to help them improve thier own understanding of the unit...
Is Testing the way to go?
2011-09-16 09:03
We administered a class test yesterday modelled after 3 O level questions for our teacher trainnes in ACG321 who are learning how to plan for instruction. As part of teesting their prior content knowledge, and as part of allowing the trainee teachers to understand where their gaps in...
New Term Starting
2011-08-08 10:57
A brand new exciting semester is starting today. Look out for new postings here on my reflections of my teaching epxereince this coming few months.
Less than 24 hr
2010-11-20 13:09
It's less than 24 hr to the conference trip and things are looking good.
Scaffolding field-based research
2010-06-17 14:18
I was just clearing up my office at the end of semester when I realise I had to deal with a thick pile of field reports. These were submitted by the students who went to the Hanoi fieldtrip with me in December 2009 and I must say I am very pleased with the academic quality of the reports. Perhaps I...
mATSI
2010-04-20 09:57
I recall a very engaging session at the AAG where Professor Sarah Bednarz and her team used the mATSI inventory to assess student attitudes to human Geography. I just read up on it and created a modified mATSI, sort of a mmASTI to study the attitudes of teachers using Web 2.0 for teaching and...
Photographs from Washington DC
2010-04-16 13:29
Here are some photographs from the past few days. Enjoy.
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AAG Meeting 2010
2010-04-15 19:26
I have finally presented my papers at the paper session on Mobile Devices and Fieldbased learning on Geography and the panel session on climate change education initiatives with the AAG. What's interesting is the networking rather than the paper presentations. Apparently, someone who...
News
Job Vacancy
2011-05-05 13:30
Research Assistant (1 year contract) at NIE
Details: http://www.nie.edu.sg/careers/vacancies/research-assistant-humanities-and-social-studies-education-academic-group-rs-111-cch
Climate Change Education in Singapore - Perception and Practices
2011-05-04 13:36
Dr Chang was awarded a Reserach Grant for the period May 2011 to April 2012. The project will examine the state of climate change education in Singapore. A sub-page on this research project will be created on this website for interested persons.
Workshop on Questioning
2011-03-22 14:49
I'll be conducting a workshop on Questioning for Humanities Teachers on 30 March 2011 at JJC. However this is a closed door session. If you are interested to have a similar workshop in your school, please email me for a discussion.
Roundup of Natural Disasters in 2010
2010-12-14 12:51
Dr. Chang has been interviewed on TV. Look out for the interview on Natural Disasaters in 2010. The programme will be on FOCUS this Thursday 16 December 2010 at 2230 hrs on MediaCorp Channel 8.
Tagboard feature added.
2010-12-14 10:28
A new tag board has been added to this webpage. Hi. This tag board is created fro me to interact with my visitors to my page. Please leave me a comment or messgae if you like. You will need to use the control box on the rightmost colum on this page to key in your short messages. It is really simple...
Climate Change Education
2010-12-03 12:14
Please do this survey if you are a singapore teacher. I am conducting a preliminary scan of teachers' perception on climate change education in Singapore.
http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=HLNELO_78ffa0c7
Please note the consent statements in the survey. Many thanks.
Off to SEAGA 2010
2010-11-19 08:38
I will be out of town for the conference until 27 Nov. You may want to read about the conference on the blog.
Read my article on preparing for storms!
2010-10-20 11:17
With Mega typhoon Megi landfall in Asia, maybe it is time to read the article I just published on preparing for storms....
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Super Typhoon Videos
2010-10-20 11:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYf2fWhcBNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2hpBk5zgwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNWllTFT2xs
Typhoon Megi/Juan
2010-10-20 10:56
Over the last weekend, there was a light haze over Singapore so my friends asked me why this was so. I took my god-brother's ipad and looked up the MSS haze monitoring website and showed them the hotspots. One of them who was planning to travel to Hong Kong this week, pointed out to a tropical...