e learning for 9 March 2011 lessons (Geography classes)

Dear Students,

I'm down with flu (sad) but good news, I think we can try a lesson of e learning. The handouts will be issued to you in class by a substitute teacher. The soft-copy of the "constructing a population pyramid" is also available in soft copy in the module workbin under assignments.

I will be available to chat enmass via msn madzious(AT)hotmail.com or gmail: madzious(AT)gmail.com or maddypaddy81 on meebo.com. Replace the (AT) with the conventional symbol. My online chat programs will be on during the lesson time. I will not advise video sessions yet as video is usually one-to-one and I can answer queries faster with many students via chat sessions. We can do voice chats and video chats over googlechat if need be, provided you are able to do so using the terminal/notebook you have.

Submit your soft copy assignment to the module workbin under student submission using the student submission folder.

File name format: MG_name_myfilename.doc or .xls

E.g. 405_Madeline_Chen_popnexe.doc

You can submit your assignment in doc format (cut and paste your pyramid over) or in excel format (format via print preview) that is formatted to print in A4 format. Remember to answer the questions on page 4 of the handout. This assignment is graded.

Kindly print out your assignment after today and submit the hard copy into my pigeon-hole by Friday 12pm.

Your first assignment will be returned today while the essay will be returned on Friday during morning assembly before House Carnival.

Alright, see you all online at the respective time slots today! Talk to me!

Malaria in Nigeria

Consider the factors that result in the people not having access to proper medical care

Combating HIV in Zambia

Consider how HIV affects the development of Zambia


When TB meets HIV

Videos to discuss in Class when considering ASEAN as an organization

What is ASEAN? Let's look at some of the videos from different perspectives and form our own opinions!

1. A view from Singapore:CNA

2. ASEAN Community by 2015: produced by ASEAN

3. Moving on from the cartoon version of understanding the integration journey towards ASEAN 2015. A CNA report on ASEAN 2015.

4. Possible solutions to better integrate ASEAN member countries

5. SMEs as a solution to improve ASEAN integration?

Web quest for 201 (27 August 2010)

Dear 201 students,

Please kindly take the 1 hour lesson time to construct the following glossary for your own use, together with suitable pictures and answer the following questions which will need to be handed in at the end of the lesson.

TASK A: Make your own weathering glossary

Prepare a glossary of weathering terms based on information from physicalgeography.net. Include pictures where applicable. Definitions should be phrased in a paragraph and be sequential in its explanation. This can be a group effort. Submit the soft copies to Mrs Lim at nhsczm@nus.edu.sg. Make sure your names are at the back of the glossary you made.

1. Weathering
2. Denudation
3. Scree
4. Talus
5. Physical weathering
6. Chemical weathering
7. Biological weathering
8. Frost shattering
9. Insolation weathering
10. Exfoliation
11. Sheeting
12. Solution
13. Carbonation
14. Hydrolysis
15. Oxidation
16. Reduction
17. Regolith

TASK B: Individual work

Answer the following questions on writing paper. Remember to indicate your name and mentor group.

1. Contrast and compare frost shattering and insolation weathering. (9m)

2. Explain how carbonation occurs and suggest 3 conditions that will lead to formation of limestone landforms. (8m)

Submit TASK B at the end of the lesson. The Geog Rep (Jason) should collect everyone's TASK B and submit to a teacher in charge or to Mrs Lim's pigeon-hole (no. 86).

Online resources:

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/chapter10.html

http://www.limestone-pavements.org.uk/geology.html

Mount Saint Helen

Here's some background and updated information on Mount Saint Helen.

First, background and update until 2007.

An a recent video uploaded to argue for more funding to continue monitoring Saint Helen. When people are asking for money, their videos are slightly more clear. :)

If Singapore had kept Christmas Island...

M10203 was looking at the map of South-east Asia and remembering the territories of ASEAN countries and was also briefly discussing what happens at boundaries. When we were talking very briefly about what would happen to Singapore territories if we had kept Christmas Island.

Well, then Indonesia would have this funny sea space (as illustrated by the red line) cutting through their sea space, and Singaporean sea space passing dangerously close to Jakarta area! The Indonesian fishermen from the Sumatra island will also find themselves suddenly cut off from the full access of the Java Sea and Singapore will suddenly own a part of the Java Sea!

Well, it is all my imagination. The yellow line is another ridiculous thought of MORE sea space if Indonesia allows this to happen. Wahaha. Well, this is in my own imagination.

Using the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea however, it will look more like this below, where Singapore will be made up of 2 red dots! well, at least it is one more red dot.