Civil Societies in Singapore: The unique case of AWARE

A showdown that showed a unique side of activism in Singapore. The issue resolved without government intervention. Now AWARE finds itself with a large membership database and the challenge now is to continue to engage the new members the advocacy group has acquired through the AWARE Saga.

Televised coverage from News 5

 An interesting take by the magazine The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/13611576?story_id=13611576 

Challenges to our Earth

A Focus on Union Movements

2011 Semester 2: Videos on Trade/Labour unions: Refer to the worksheet that will facilitate your group discussion.

An Interview with a Harvard professor on union history and issues (more from a American context)

An example of the union fighting in Hollywood

A Union Facts produced ad on the lack of transparency when union members vote

How to print out your Diggo list for submission

Dear Geography students,

To print out your Diigo reading list, you must first create the reading list.

You can then start sorting your websites into your diigo reading list.

When you are ready to print it out, just select your reading list, and the page displaying your reading list has a print option on the left navigation column.

I hope I can make better instructions for you soon, in place of the missed lesson next week.

Regards,

Mrs Lim

GE4101 - Diigo lesson to prepare an essay outline on greying population

Dear students,

This lesson will stretch over 3 periods. For the first 2 periods we will be doing the following:

1. Go to www.diigo.com
2. Sign up for a diigo account
3. Download the diigolet onto your bookmark favourites bar. Saving it to the favourites bar is very important.
4. Take note of the essay question: To what extent does a greying population affect the development of a country? (12m)
5. You will need to critically evaluate websites that discuss greying population and store your highlights, sticky notes and bookmarks on your diigo account.
The research session should take about 30 to 35mins only

Use the next 45 mins to prepare an essay outline to the question. Do not write out an entire essay.

This concludes the first 2 periods of this lesson unit.

Next period: We will exchange essay outlines and critique our partner's essay outline. We will then discuss what are good ways to prepare essay outlines and also how important it is to substantiate our points with examples.

Answers to Video Comprehension for ASEAN Intro (Part 2)

Q1
Diplomacy - signing of ASEAN Charter
Strong leadership

Q2
someone able to command respect of the government leaders of the member countries. Patience, with strong diplomatic skills. Having good levels of energy to attend meetings.


Q3
Peace
ASEAN can help maintain peace and unite against piracy, terrorism and drug trafficking.

Prosperity
Economic collaborations, pooling of resources, networking of resources.
Job creation through leverage of production networks in the region

People
Bring about better education systems and opportunities in countries (like Singapore)
Increase human capital

Economic Competition
To put together the GDP and purchasing power of the 10 member countries.

Q4.
Governmental
Need specialised people in ASEAN affairs to explain the advantages of be identified with ASEAN to other government officials

Community level
People who are familiar or even pro-ASEAN to tell others about ASEAN

Barriers
Lack of a common language - different versions of Bahasa
Government officials do not know ASEAN comprehensively

Q5.
90% of wealth comes from profits of ASEAN SMEs - important sources of revenue
Localised firms are anchors of jobs in the region in the event of global recession

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!