Showing posts with label Classroom Display. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classroom Display. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Photos of workshops and selected participants' work
Here are some of the Photograph taken at the workshops etc ... :
Here are some display ideas and selected participants' work:
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
If-others-need-me ... Gift Wrapping and Card Making etc ...
Lately, I suddenly received a numbers of enquiry on Gift Wrapping and Card Making Workshop.
If the request is for a half day (pm or am) course, I will usually propose a 3 to 3.5 hours crash course on Gift Wrapping as Christmas is in the seasons.
If the organization is able to set aside 3 days for staff training, I would think that a combined "Gift Wrapping and Card Making Workshop" should be beneficial to participants, especially the staff at the retail outlets who are required to do gift wrapping for customers. Yet, time is a big short for most to plan courses and workshop last minutes.
As the demand on courses and workshop I offer via INNO HANDS-ON, vary from one organisation to another, I think if they are short of time, a new 10 hours course which combine Gift Wrapping ideas with 3D and pop up card should be able to meet their needs without long hours of commitment.
Currently I am working on course outline for a few organisations, and after fulfilling their requirement, I will re-organize my thought an create some comprehensive course on Gift Wrapping and Card Making which takes only 10 hours, instead of 3 full day training workshop.
If the request is for a half day (pm or am) course, I will usually propose a 3 to 3.5 hours crash course on Gift Wrapping as Christmas is in the seasons.
If the organization is able to set aside 3 days for staff training, I would think that a combined "Gift Wrapping and Card Making Workshop" should be beneficial to participants, especially the staff at the retail outlets who are required to do gift wrapping for customers. Yet, time is a big short for most to plan courses and workshop last minutes.
As the demand on courses and workshop I offer via INNO HANDS-ON, vary from one organisation to another, I think if they are short of time, a new 10 hours course which combine Gift Wrapping ideas with 3D and pop up card should be able to meet their needs without long hours of commitment.
Currently I am working on course outline for a few organisations, and after fulfilling their requirement, I will re-organize my thought an create some comprehensive course on Gift Wrapping and Card Making which takes only 10 hours, instead of 3 full day training workshop.
Once I have course outline done to answer to general enquiry, I will post it on http://innoworkshop.blogspot.sg/
The 10 hours Gift Wrapping and Card Making Course can be 1.5 days or 3 half days i.e., 3.5 hours + 3.5 hours + 3 hours. It maybe held on week days or Saturday/Sunday.
I have conducted a 3 days course on Gift Wrapping and Card Making Course, just need some time to compress it.
As my commitment at LAS/WSQ and other training assignment keep me busy some months, I just treat my INNO HANDS-ON business as an extension of my personal hobby.
Hence, even I am doing course planning without actually conducting them in some cases, is still an enjoyable process. The process fulfils my joys in learning new ideas up to the level of being a trainer.
Hence, even I am doing course planning without actually conducting them in some cases, is still an enjoyable process. The process fulfils my joys in learning new ideas up to the level of being a trainer.
I am would said it is enjoyable to be able to do things this way! I am sure readers who enjoy art and craft work would understand the approach I took : "If-others-need-me" ... , and that is why, many friends I have who are great in their art and craft skills are not interested to commercialized them.
I am having IINNO HANDS-ON as a business to pursue my hobby. I do it the way most of my librarian friends would do in their work: "If-others-need-me ..." I will create something interesting for them to share the joys of my knowledge and impart the skills of art and craft.
I do not like to repeat ideas all the time, unless clients insist.
Hence, you may look at http://handicraftsguide.blogspot.sg/ of which I collected many workable ideas for future exploration and workshop.
Yet to adapt the ideas from youtube to a course for local groups, I need to look at materials used, logistic and other training setting... It becomes an administrative tasks and it is very demanding on my time and energy.
Presently, I just use the approach of "If-other-need-me in these kind of courses, I will make it happen at your request."
Having this approach, the world of art and craft I teach and library courses I conduct will be expanded and become bigger or endless and life will not be boring even I commercialized them.
I will post more course outline on my blog: http://innoworkshop.blogspot.sg/ next year!
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Friday, August 31, 2012
Display ideas for library and school
Here is a simple 3D display idea for Librarians and teachers to use in the library and classroom display.
It is ideal for creating awareness on sport collection or promoting the reading of certain section related to physical education.
If you like to learn the technique of 3D display ideas, here are some of the courses I offered:
Creative Bulletin Board & Innovative Displays
http://innoworkshop.blogspot.sg/2012/02/creative-bulletin-board-innovative.html
Designing 3D books etc...
Designing 3D books and making pop up cards for teachers, librarians and parents
http://innoworkshop.blogspot.sg/2012/02/designing-3d-books-etc.htmlPhotos of workshops and selected participants' work
http://innoworkshop.blogspot.sg/search/label/Workshop%20for%20Librarians
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Library and school display workshop
If you believe in something passionately, you will be able to create it!
How about turning what you believe into something real and tangible.
Let me know if I can help transforming your library or school's dream if it is something to do with:
* display in Libraries and Schools
* transforming 2D paper into pop-up or 3D format
* book making ideas
* recycling CD into green product
* origami project
* green project and green ideas
You may contact me at Hp: 96604692
email:
smho@e.ntu.edu.sg
or
dexterine@yahoo.com
How about turning what you believe into something real and tangible.
Let me know if I can help transforming your library or school's dream if it is something to do with:
* display in Libraries and Schools
* transforming 2D paper into pop-up or 3D format
* book making ideas
* recycling CD into green product
* origami project
* green project and green ideas
You may contact me at Hp: 96604692
email:
smho@e.ntu.edu.sg
or
dexterine@yahoo.com
Friday, September 16, 2005
A “light-hearted” write-up for LAS 50th Anniversary Souvenir publication
1955 --- 2005 = 50 years = LAS (Library Association of Singapore) in History 
1955 --- 1980 = 25 years = LAS’s history unknown to Dexterine
1981 --- 2005 = 25 years = Dexterine’s information path experience
Figure 1: LAS (1955 to 2005) and Dexterine’s Information Path (1981 – 2005)
As I know little about LAS before 1981, I look forward to reading other senior librarians’ write-ups to fill my knowledge gap about the first 25 years of LAS history.
If you would though like to take a glimpse into some personal experiences of Singapore Librarians after 1981, just read on and travel down memory lane with Dexterine.
You may find some simple facts and views about librarians and the state of development of librarianship and our professional association …
Q1: Why Dexterine became a librarian?
Answer 1:
Teaching was her first career prospect and Librarianship, her second. Since she could not become a teacher in the 1980s, she chose to become a librarian. To her, Librarians and teachers are all helping others to share the fruits of knowledge.
As a picture speaks a thousand words, let’s look at her first step into Librarianship: Study in Library School abroad.
Photograph in 1981: As a Student in Library School
From left to right: Dexterine Ho, Ms Hayati, a Malaysian classmate and Ms Foo Yan Chuin in College of Librarianship, University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1981
Q2: What is Dexterine doing now?
Answer 2.1:
Teaching the “Digital Literacy Skills” course for SM2/3 group in National Institute of Education (Since 2002)[1]. “Digital Literacy Skills” covers APA writing format, Powerpoint, mind mapping using Inspirations software, Internet and database searching as well as web page writing.[2] For a librarian, she is now a teacher too, thus fortunately blending her two career dreams.
Photograph in 2005: As a Lecturer (Teaching Digital Literacy Skills) in National Institute of Education (NIE)
From left to right: A group of SM3[3] students and Dexterine Ho in NIE campus, outside Lecture Hall 1 after their graduation ceremony in June 2005.
Answer 2.2:
Teaching Library and Classroom display courses (Since 1999) for Teacher and Student Librarians in Primary and Secondary Schools through INNO HANDS-ON (A business name registered in 1999)[4]. A few Librarians have dared to discover their entrepreneurial spirit and potential as consultants & independent “business people”. Dexterine too has found new innovative pathways using her experiences and capacities in different Singapore library settings.
Q3: What was Dexterine doing between now and then?
Answer 3.1:
NIE library: 1982 --- 1996
Photograph in 1995: With NIE colleagues
From left to right: Mrs Loo-Tan Wah Enn, Ms Chew-Lim Kwee Noi, Ms Chew-Ooi Lian Ping, Dexterine Ho, Ms Lam Siew Kim, Mrs Wong-Ko Yun Chin and Ms Yvonne Yin.
Photo taken outside a restaurant in Tiong Bahru Plaza.
Photograph in 2005: With some NIE and Ex-NIE colleagues 10 years later.
From left to right: Mrs Chew-Lim Kwee Noi, Mrs Wong-Ko Yun Chin, Ms Yvonne Yin and Dexterine Ho.
Photo taken in a restaurant at Lian Seah Street on 27 Aug 2005. Library colleagues now old friends and like family after 10 years.
Dexterine started as a cataloguer, then a serials librarian and finally became a reference librarian.
She also supervised the Reader Services unit in the 1990s, yet she enjoyed the job of Information retrieval most.
Performing and imparting the skills of searching to students and lecturers usually filled her days with joys.
Connecting to LAS in the 1980’s
After joining LAS for three years, Dexterine was elected as a council member of LAS for 1985/86.
She also served as a committee member of the LAS Interact Committee and as the secretary of the LAS Committee on Library Automation (COLA).
After teaching the LAS postgraduate course in 1986, she used her earnings from Dialog database teaching courses and upgraded her LAS membership to become a life member. To her, paying $500[5] to be a life member in 1986 was just a simple act of returning what she gained from LAS to LAS.
Being a bit absent-minded, she is also glad to have one thing less to remember each year. Converting an ordinary membership to life membership was just like purchasing a turnkey system to automate house-keeping jobs in library management.
The job of renewing her membership through annual payment was eliminated and she could enjoy attending LAS activities without the worry of paying membership fees, each year after 1986.
One Interesting event in the 1980s:
If you are like Dexterine who was absent-minded enough to lose her passport, yet fortunate enough to have it picked up by a Singapore Immigration Officer, you may have the passport returned very promptly if your occupation is “Librarian.”
In the late1980’s, Dexterine accidentally dropped her passport in Changi Airport and returned home without realising her loss. Thanks to the excellent service of a reference librarian at the National Library, the immigration officer was able to contact her within a couple of days.
Dexterine was surprised to have her passport returned as she was not aware that she had lost it in the first place.
Other library and teaching works in between then and now:
Answer 3.2: Temasek Polytechnic: 1996 --- 2000
Answer 3.3: NTU Library: 2001 – 2003
Answer 3.4: Some teaching tasks in Ngee Ann Polytechnic and National Library Board Institute.
A personal endnote from Dexterine:
It is a joy to look back through old photographs and past events that reflect 25 years of my librarianship and information path in Singapore and overseas.
As I do not like to take up too much printed space in this publication (helping to save some trees in one way or another), I would like to invite you to continue your reading at http://dexterine.blogspot.com/.
If you would like to communicate with me, just email me at dexterine@yahoo.com or smho@pmail.ntu.edu.sg
I hope you enjoyed reading this light-hearted write-up and are encouraged to continue your journey in sharing the fruits of knowledge through librarianship and our related professional family.
Notes:
[1] Ho, Dexterine Soo Miang. (2005). “Reciprocal peer tutoring in a digital literacy skills course.” in Teaching English to Chinese ESL students: classroom practices. Edited by Kwah Poh Foong, Michael Vallance (pp 167-173). Singapore: Pearson.
[2] For more details, visit “Dexterine’s NIE teaching webpage” at http://www.geocities.com/dexterine/
[3] SM3 students are those who have completed their third year of Senior Middle 3 high school in China. The scholars are granted scholarships by Ministry of Education, Singapore to study for their undergraduate degrees in Nanyang Technological University. They have to complete a six month Communication Skills Programme in NIE before they start their first year university course.
[4] INNO HANDS-ON stands for INNOvative HANDS-ON. Dexterine believes that with hands-on experience, one will discover innovative ways of doing information work. “INNOvative HANDS-ON, turns Innovative minds-on.” For more details, visit the web page at http://home.pacific.net.sg/~dexterine/
[5] In 1986, the annual LAS membership fee was $40 for all professional librarians. $500 Life membership was a big commitment for most Assistant Librarians since their salaries were just a few times more than that amount.
1955 --- 1980 = 25 years = LAS’s history unknown to Dexterine
1981 --- 2005 = 25 years = Dexterine’s information path experience
Figure 1: LAS (1955 to 2005) and Dexterine’s Information Path (1981 – 2005)
As I know little about LAS before 1981, I look forward to reading other senior librarians’ write-ups to fill my knowledge gap about the first 25 years of LAS history.
If you would though like to take a glimpse into some personal experiences of Singapore Librarians after 1981, just read on and travel down memory lane with Dexterine.
You may find some simple facts and views about librarians and the state of development of librarianship and our professional association …
Q1: Why Dexterine became a librarian?
Answer 1:
Teaching was her first career prospect and Librarianship, her second. Since she could not become a teacher in the 1980s, she chose to become a librarian. To her, Librarians and teachers are all helping others to share the fruits of knowledge.
As a picture speaks a thousand words, let’s look at her first step into Librarianship: Study in Library School abroad.
Photograph in 1981: As a Student in Library School
From left to right: Dexterine Ho, Ms Hayati, a Malaysian classmate and Ms Foo Yan Chuin in College of Librarianship, University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1981
Q2: What is Dexterine doing now?
Answer 2.1:
Teaching the “Digital Literacy Skills” course for SM2/3 group in National Institute of Education (Since 2002)[1]. “Digital Literacy Skills” covers APA writing format, Powerpoint, mind mapping using Inspirations software, Internet and database searching as well as web page writing.[2] For a librarian, she is now a teacher too, thus fortunately blending her two career dreams.
Photograph in 2005: As a Lecturer (Teaching Digital Literacy Skills) in National Institute of Education (NIE)From left to right: A group of SM3[3] students and Dexterine Ho in NIE campus, outside Lecture Hall 1 after their graduation ceremony in June 2005.
Answer 2.2:
Teaching Library and Classroom display courses (Since 1999) for Teacher and Student Librarians in Primary and Secondary Schools through INNO HANDS-ON (A business name registered in 1999)[4]. A few Librarians have dared to discover their entrepreneurial spirit and potential as consultants & independent “business people”. Dexterine too has found new innovative pathways using her experiences and capacities in different Singapore library settings.
Q3: What was Dexterine doing between now and then?
Answer 3.1:
NIE library: 1982 --- 1996
Photograph in 1995: With NIE colleagues
From left to right: Mrs Loo-Tan Wah Enn, Ms Chew-Lim Kwee Noi, Ms Chew-Ooi Lian Ping, Dexterine Ho, Ms Lam Siew Kim, Mrs Wong-Ko Yun Chin and Ms Yvonne Yin.
Photo taken outside a restaurant in Tiong Bahru Plaza.
Photograph in 2005: With some NIE and Ex-NIE colleagues 10 years later.
From left to right: Mrs Chew-Lim Kwee Noi, Mrs Wong-Ko Yun Chin, Ms Yvonne Yin and Dexterine Ho.
Photo taken in a restaurant at Lian Seah Street on 27 Aug 2005. Library colleagues now old friends and like family after 10 years.
Dexterine started as a cataloguer, then a serials librarian and finally became a reference librarian.
She also supervised the Reader Services unit in the 1990s, yet she enjoyed the job of Information retrieval most.
Performing and imparting the skills of searching to students and lecturers usually filled her days with joys.
Connecting to LAS in the 1980’s
After joining LAS for three years, Dexterine was elected as a council member of LAS for 1985/86.
She also served as a committee member of the LAS Interact Committee and as the secretary of the LAS Committee on Library Automation (COLA).
After teaching the LAS postgraduate course in 1986, she used her earnings from Dialog database teaching courses and upgraded her LAS membership to become a life member. To her, paying $500[5] to be a life member in 1986 was just a simple act of returning what she gained from LAS to LAS.
Being a bit absent-minded, she is also glad to have one thing less to remember each year. Converting an ordinary membership to life membership was just like purchasing a turnkey system to automate house-keeping jobs in library management.
The job of renewing her membership through annual payment was eliminated and she could enjoy attending LAS activities without the worry of paying membership fees, each year after 1986.
One Interesting event in the 1980s:
If you are like Dexterine who was absent-minded enough to lose her passport, yet fortunate enough to have it picked up by a Singapore Immigration Officer, you may have the passport returned very promptly if your occupation is “Librarian.”
In the late1980’s, Dexterine accidentally dropped her passport in Changi Airport and returned home without realising her loss. Thanks to the excellent service of a reference librarian at the National Library, the immigration officer was able to contact her within a couple of days.
Dexterine was surprised to have her passport returned as she was not aware that she had lost it in the first place.
Other library and teaching works in between then and now:
Answer 3.2: Temasek Polytechnic: 1996 --- 2000
Answer 3.3: NTU Library: 2001 – 2003
Answer 3.4: Some teaching tasks in Ngee Ann Polytechnic and National Library Board Institute.
A personal endnote from Dexterine:
It is a joy to look back through old photographs and past events that reflect 25 years of my librarianship and information path in Singapore and overseas.
As I do not like to take up too much printed space in this publication (helping to save some trees in one way or another), I would like to invite you to continue your reading at http://dexterine.blogspot.com/.
If you would like to communicate with me, just email me at dexterine@yahoo.com or smho@pmail.ntu.edu.sg
I hope you enjoyed reading this light-hearted write-up and are encouraged to continue your journey in sharing the fruits of knowledge through librarianship and our related professional family.
Notes:
[1] Ho, Dexterine Soo Miang. (2005). “Reciprocal peer tutoring in a digital literacy skills course.” in Teaching English to Chinese ESL students: classroom practices. Edited by Kwah Poh Foong, Michael Vallance (pp 167-173). Singapore: Pearson.
[2] For more details, visit “Dexterine’s NIE teaching webpage” at http://www.geocities.com/dexterine/
[3] SM3 students are those who have completed their third year of Senior Middle 3 high school in China. The scholars are granted scholarships by Ministry of Education, Singapore to study for their undergraduate degrees in Nanyang Technological University. They have to complete a six month Communication Skills Programme in NIE before they start their first year university course.
[4] INNO HANDS-ON stands for INNOvative HANDS-ON. Dexterine believes that with hands-on experience, one will discover innovative ways of doing information work. “INNOvative HANDS-ON, turns Innovative minds-on.” For more details, visit the web page at http://home.pacific.net.sg/~dexterine/
[5] In 1986, the annual LAS membership fee was $40 for all professional librarians. $500 Life membership was a big commitment for most Assistant Librarians since their salaries were just a few times more than that amount.
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