K12 Online Conference 2011!

K12 Online Conference is back! Really like this year’s theme ‘Purposeful Play’.

Time of the year to sit back, relax at home and start learning from educators all over the world

My Nominations for The 2011 Edublog Awards

This is my second time nominating educators for the The 2011 Edublog Awards.  My nominations are:

Best individual blog:  Learning with ‘e’s http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/
Best individual tweeter: @web20classroom
Best resource sharing blog: Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Best twitter hashtag: #edchat
Best teacher blog: On an e-journey with generation Y http://murcha.wordpress.com/
Best school administrator blog: A Principal’s Reflections http://esheninger.blogspot.com/
Best free web tool: Edmodo
Best educational use of visual: Open Source Physics Simulations by lookang http://weelookang.blogspot.com/
Best educational webinar series: K12 Online Conference http://k12onlineconference.org/
Best educational use of a social network: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Best use of a PLN: The Educator’s PLN http://edupln.ning.com/
Lifetime achievement: Another dot in the blogosphere? http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/

Bad choice of hashtag?

I find it strange that the official Ministry of Education (@MOEsg) Twitter account is using the #sgedu hashtag. While the #sgedu hashtag has a much larger following, it is widely used for satirical tweets. Take a look at my Tweetdeck screen shot of #edsg and #sgedu side by side.

I have sent a tweet to @MOEsg but sadly it has been ignored.

I’m not trying to advocate using #edsg but it seems @MOEsg is missing the point. What do you think?

Update: @MOEsg has started to use both hashtags together in a recent tweet.

Best of both worlds?

3 things I learned from the Adelyn Hosehbo saga

‘Adelyn Hosehbo’ is the infamous Singaporean teenage girl who became an instant Internet hit because she boasted slapping her mother on her Facebook. The whole incident went viral when local citizen journalist portal Stomp published it. The rest is history.

3 things I learned from this saga:

1. Cyber wellness, character and family education are very important for kids today.
2. Digital footprints travel at exponential speed in social media.
3. It’s a great teachable moment or resource. In fact I already noticed some of my students doing similar things. This incident amplified the reality.